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Tenacious Learner Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Visited downtown (wrong, isn't it?)

Hi teachers,
The following sentence is wrong, isn't it? Is it because you can visit something or someone, but not somewhere?
They visited downtown the other day.

Thanks in advance.
  

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I'd say that you are right. I'd expect " the downtown area ", at least.

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I'd say that you are right. I'd expect "the downtown area", at least.
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Hi ennon,
Thanks for your reply. But it is right to say, 'I visited France las year'.
It is also right to say, 'I went/travel/fly/drive to France las year'.
Am I right?

TL
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Tenacious LearnerThey visited downtown the other day.
An unusual sentence. I would assume that the person (or persons) they visited is not mentioned, but that whoever they are, they live downtown.

They visited George downtown the other day.
They visited a few of their relatives downtown the other day.

CJ
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Tenacious LearnerHi ennon,Thanks for your reply. But it is right to say, 'I visited France las year'.It is also right to say, 'I went/travel/fly/drive to France las year'.Am I right?TL
It is perfectly fine to say that you visited France. You can also go, travel, fly and drive (if you are on the mainland of the Old World) to France.
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Tenacious Learnerright to say,
These are all correct.

I [went / traveled / flew / drove / walked / crawled] to France last year.
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for your reply.
The original sentence is, 'They ________ downtown the other other day'. The students have to fill in the blanks with an appropriate verb in past according to the context. One student wrote 'visited'. For me, two possible verbs are 'went' and 'walked', but not 'visited' of course. I just don't know which is the real reason for that. Could you tell me t
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Tenacious LearnerThey visited downtown the other day.
I’d say that’s possible, with downtown being a noun.
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Tenacious LearnerHi Jim,Thanks for your reply. The original sentence is, 'They ______ downtown the other other day'. The students have to fill in the blanks with an appropriate verb in past according to the context. One student wrote 'visited'. For me, two possible verbs are 'went' and 'walked', but not 'visited' of course. I just don't know which is the real reaso
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To me, visit signals that a noun is sure to follow, so visit downtown works for me. Home and outside don’t, though.
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Aspara Gus enoonbecause you try to interpret them as an adverb firstI don’t. To me, visit signals that a noun is sure to follow.
I agree that "I visited downtown yesterday" is possible, but I can't recommend it to a learner because "downtown" is not much of a noun. I hear adverb. You can't say "My favorite venue is downtown" and expect people not to think that
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