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Hi Teachers,
"A plane made an emergency landing on water".
VS
"A plane made an emergency landing on the water".
Is either grammatical dependant on the context? For example, "landing on water" (no article) suggests that the person being informed might not know there was water in this context. But landing "on the water" suggests that the listener/reader knows there was water to land on (maybe it was previously identified that the plane was flying over the Atlantic Ocean so it was obviously the water of that ocean below).
Did I get it?
I ran a books search, and "landing on water" (no article) seems to have grammatical usage.
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on water: on some water, any water, it doesn't matter which water on the water: on that water (body of water) which has already been mentioned in the conversation anonymous Did I get it? Yup! CJ
- on water: on some water, any water, it doesn't matter which water on the water: on that water (body of water) which has already been mentioned in the conversation anonymous Did I get it?
- Yup!
- CJ
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on water: on some water, any water, it doesn't matter which water
on the water: on that water (body of water) which has already been mentioned in the conversation
anonymousDid I get it?
Yup!
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