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New2grammar Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

three balls into three containers

0You have to place these three tennis balls into the three containers. 02br
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0 01blockquote 01cite 10New2grammar12cite 10You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers. 12br 12br 12blockquote 10Yes. 02br 02br 00the sentence says you have to place at least one in each container.

— Inchoateknowledge

  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10New2grammar12cite 10You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers.
  • 12br 12br 12blockquote 10Yes.
  • 02br 02br 00the sentence says you have to place at least one in each container.
  • You can only do that in one way: 1-1-10-
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01cite10New2grammar12cite10You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers. 12br
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10Does this sentence mean one ball in each container or it can be in any order?12br
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10Yes. 02br
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01cite10New2grammar12cite10You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers. 12br
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10First I thought: one ball in each container. But when I read the sentence again and I saw 01i00the 02i00before three containers. Without 01i00the02i00
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01cite10Spinnaker12cite11blockquote
11cite20New2grammar22cite20You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers. 22br
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20First I thought: one ball in each container. But when I read the sentence again and I saw 11i10
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0As it specifies 'three' containers then you have to use all three. So, one ball in each.02br
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00If it just said 'containers' I suppose you could argue that you needn't use all of them, but logically you would.0-
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0Is the definite article incorrectly used? I could have used 'these' but thought 'the' sounds better. I could be wrong. I feel without the definite article, the sentence is incorrect. Maybe not incorrect but may not reflect my context well where I intend to tell a contestant to perform the action and only three containers are on the table.0-
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0What if it says 'these six tennis ***** into the three containers'?02br
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00Does it mean two ***** in each container?0-
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11cite20Spinnaker22cite21blockquote
21cite30New2grammar32cite30You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers. 32br
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30First I thought: one ball in each
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0 No, it just was obvious the first time as you had three ***** and three containers so one in each was the only possible arrangement. If you had other numbers of ***** and containers that did not match then this sentence doesn't carry any instruction that they need to be arranged equally. 0-
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0 Got it! Thanks!! 0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00You have to place these three tennis ***** into the three containers. 02font02br
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01font00Does this sentence mean one ball in each container or it can be in any order?02font02br
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00Instructions like this are often not precise. People
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