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K48 Posted 21 years ago
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0 1) I haven't *** or *** slightest idea? (yes I know it's superlative, but in some cases we may use an indefinite article with superlative degree) 02br
002) *a" nice weather or without any article? (yes I know it's uncountable, but there is a descriptive attribute "nice") 02br
003) "It's *** a five minutes' walk from here." - Do we always need the preposition in this case? 02br
004) Is "downtown" a word from American English? Can I say, e.g. "it's in the downtown of Chelyabinsk (a city in Russia)?" 02br
005) What word would you prefer: reduction or discount? Is there any difference in meaning or they are just synonyms? 0-
  

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0 >4) Is "downtown" a word from American English? g. " 02br 02br 00I mean, we always use "in the center of the city", but it's too long and moreover seems to be "Runglish", "Russian English".

— K48

  • 0 >4) Is "downtown" a word from American English?
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  • " 02br 02br 00I mean, we always use "in the center of the city", but it's too long and moreover seems to be "Runglish", "Russian English".
  • Is it better to use "downtown"?
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0 >4) Is "downtown" a word from American English? Can I say, e.g. "it's in the downtown of Chelyabinsk (a city in Russia)?" 02br
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00I mean, we always use "in the center of the city", but it's too long and moreover seems to be "Runglish", "Russian English". Is it better to use "downtown"? 0-
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01) I suppose it should be *** - in Google I've found some *** slightest ideas, but they are on translated sites - hardly can be trusted05002br
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002) I'd rather say just "Nice weather", I don't know in what context you could use *a nice ***, as far as a descriptive attribute goes, I think it must be an exclusion from the rule05102br
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0 My comments for 1) and 3): 02br
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001) I'd definitely say "I haven't THE slightest idea"... 02br
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003) ... and "it's a 5 minutes' walk", or "a 5 minute walk", without "in" 0-
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00>I don't know in what context you could use *a nice *** 02br
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00Well, e.g. "During our holidays we had a nice weather". So, no article? 02br
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00>may be "situated a 5 minutes walking distance from...to" 02br
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00Hmm... we've been taught that "situated" means something global
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0 >3) ... and "it's a 5 minutes' walk", or "a 5 minute walk", without "in" 02br
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00Even in a sentence like "The railways station is (in) a five minutes' walk from here" ? 0-
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0 I think sometimes you can say "it"s within walking distance...", but I don't like simply "in" there. 0-
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0 2) e.g. "During our holidays we had a nice weather". So, no article? 02br
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00i see what you mean. I don't know exactly, sounds as if both are possible here - but what do your teachers say? I'd rather leave the article alone, it's ?onfusing...05102br
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00I wouldn'
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0 >but what do your teachers say? 02br
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00Well she says it's without any article, but we can never trust her - many times I noticed her mistakes, and if I'm absolutely sure in the matter and try to argue, she just says "i'm a teacher, you're a student - when you'll be a teacher too, you may argue with me". Actually, she's just graduated and it's the first year she teac
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0 Don't be too hard on your teacher, K48. If you read the threads, you'll notice that even native speakers have different opinions someties - though not about this. She is definitely right that you don't use the indefinite article with 'a' with "nice weather". 02br
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00"Weather" is an uncountable noun; you can't say "a weather, two weathers" etc. 02br
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0 Hi, K48 - I would just say "it's in downtown Chelyabinsk." (Assuming Chelyabinsk is big enough to have some tall buildings and busy streets. If you say "downtown" about a small town with only two streets and three stores, it sounds sarcastic.) "Downtown" is used rather oddly, without a lot of prepositions: 02br
00Let's go downtown. 02br
00The restaurant is downtown.
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