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Onizo Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Watch/play an app

A. I want to play with an app called Robot Lab on the ipad.
1. Let's play Robot Lab.
2. Let's play the robot lab.
3. Let's play with the robot lab.
4. Let's watch (the) Robot Lab.
Which is correct?

B. I can't remember the name of this app.
1. Let's play robot.
2. Let's play the robot.
3. Let's watch the robot.
4. Let's watch the robot with the strange lab.
Which is correct?
  

Top answer

A. I want to play with game called Robot Lab on the ipad. Let's play Robot Lab.

  • A.
  • I want to play with game called Robot Lab on the ipad.
  • Let's play Robot Lab.
  • B.
  • There is a lego-type game that has all kinds of parts to construct robots.
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A. I want to play with game called Robot Lab on the ipad.
Let's play Robot Lab.

B. There is a lego-type game that has all kinds of parts to construct robots. The name of this game is Robot Lab.
Let's play with the Robot Lab.

C. There is a TV program called Robot Lab. Robots escape from a laboratory and cause all kinds of problems.
Let's watch Robot Lab.

B.
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AlpheccaStarsB. I can't remember the name of this app.Let's open the app in my Games folder. I can't remember its name.
Thank you, AlpheccaStars.

What I want to know more about is whether the definite article would be used for the D case.
In my own language, I would have said, "let's watch (the) robot (thing)", if I didn't know the name, but if w
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1. My game has robot characters. They have different colors.
Watch the red robot! A robot can appear suddenly.

A robot is a thing. Use articles.

2. My game has robot characters. They are named by their colors, Red Robot, Blue Robot, Green Robot.
Red Robot is tricky. Blue Robot will give you things you need. Ask Blue Robot for weapons.

When you
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Thank you AlpheccaStars,

That cleared a lot.
But let me go over one more as I am not sure if we in the same frame of image.

You and your friend have watched a program Miles, which is about a boy exporing space, several times already. One day you two together sitting in front of the tv, looking for what to watch. Then you say to the other, not remembering the name of the sho
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onizoOne day you two are together sitting in front of the TV looking for something to watch.
onizo"Let's watch the boy in space; let's watch the planets; let's watch Miles (referring to the boy's name not the title of the show)."
OK, as above.

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