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Bassa Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Which one is correct in American English language?

Which on is correct in American English LanguagWe?Why?

a)I'm at church.

b)I'm at the church.

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) Similarly, you would say "I'm at school" if you were going to classes, but "I'm at the school" if you were there to pick up your child, attend a meeting, or something else.

— Khoff

  • ) Similarly, you would say "I'm at school" if you were going to classes, but "I'm at the school" if you were there to pick up your child, attend a meeting, or something else.
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Usually, people would say "I'm at church" if they were there for a religious service, and "I'm at the church" if they just happened to be there for some other reason (delivering the mail, repairing the roof, etc.) Similarly, you would say "I'm at school" if you were going to classes, but "I'm at the school" if you were there to pick up your child, attend a meeting, or something else.
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Thanks Emotion: smile

Why we don't put (a) before choice in this sentence:I'm not childless by choince.
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There are hundreds of idioms in English that consist of a preposition and a noun with no intervening article. It seems to me that you just have to learn these as special expressions. It may help to think of "by choice" (and other structures like it) as a single unit of meaning rather than as two separate words.

It's also worth noting that in more than 95% of these cases, the noun is an
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Jim, could you please use all of those in a sentence? (All in one sentence, please.) Emotion: it wasnt me
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khoffJim, could you please use all of those in a sentence? (All in one sentence, please.)
You anticipate my thoughts. I am working on that very task as we speak, and I'll get back to you on it when I've finished.

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