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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
The plants from Japan
Can I say,
(a) They saw some plants from Japan and Singapore.
(b) They went to Botanicla Garden. There also had some rare plants. They captured some photos in the garden.
(c) The Botanical Garden had many plants from Japan.
(d) They went into the garden. They were interested to see plants.
(a) They saw some plants from Japan and Singapore.
(b) They went to Botanicla Garden. There also had some rare plants. They captured some photos in the garden.
(c) The Botanical Garden had many plants from Japan.
(d) They went into the garden. They were interested to see plants.
Top answer
(a) They saw some plants from Japan and Singapore. -- OK (b) They went to the Botanical Garden , where there were some/many rare plants . They took some photos in the garden.
- (a) They saw some plants from Japan and Singapore.
- -- OK (b) They went to the Botanical Garden , where there were some/many rare plants .
- They took some photos in the garden.
- -- "also" means "in addition to something else", but you haven't mentioned anything else.
- " is ungrammatical in this sense.
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(a) They saw some plants from Japan and Singapore. -- OK
(b) They went to the Botanical Garden, where there were some/many rare plants. They took some photos in the garden. -- "also" means "in addition to something else", but you haven't mentioned anything else. "There had..." is ungrammatical in this sense. It's possible to "captu
(b) They went to the Botanical Garden, where there were some/many rare plants. They took some photos in the garden. -- "also" means "in addition to something else", but you haven't mentioned anything else. "There had..." is ungrammatical in this sense. It's possible to "captu
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Thanks, but can tell me why do we use "the"?Normally, after the capital words, like Botanical Garden, we don't use "the" in front of it, right?
They were interested to see the plants.
They were interested to see the plants.
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"They went to the Botanical Garden."
The use of "the" before proper names (capitalised words) is complicated and idiomatic. In fact, there hardly seems any logic to it at all. Often you just have to memorise individual patterns.
In this case, a plausible explanation is that "botanical" and "garden" are just ordinary descriptive English words. You could write "They
The use of "the" before proper names (capitalised words) is complicated and idiomatic. In fact, there hardly seems any logic to it at all. Often you just have to memorise individual patterns.
In this case, a plausible explanation is that "botanical" and "garden" are just ordinary descriptive English words. You could write "They
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