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Onizo Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Wooshed like the wind

Would you ever say #2?

1. You wooshed like the wind.
2. You wooshed like wind.

Thank you.
  

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Neither is right (in US usage), and "wooshed" is misspelled. : sped past) like the wind. )

— Anonymous

  • Neither is right (in US usage), and "wooshed" is misspelled.
  • : sped past) like the wind.
  • )
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Neither is right (in US usage), and "wooshed" is misspelled. It should be "whooshed." 1 and 2 should be:

You whooshed by (i.e.: sped past) like the wind. ("By" and "the" are required in this situation.)
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Thank you.

Why would "the" be required?
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US English is very article-heavy. When in doubt as to whether or not to put in an article, put it in, even if you make an error, because an extraneous article in US English is considered less of an error than a left-out article.

For example, "I'm going to the college now.", is not right. It should be "I'm going to college now." But this is not as bad as: "I'm going to store." (This t
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Thank you.

Your explanation seemed sufficient enough to comprehend the problem, and then another sentence was thrown to puzzle me again.

1. An island is surrounded by water.
2. Whooshed by like the wind.

Can anyone explain what makes you want no the for the first one, but yes the for the second one? do the water and wind mean something different here from the abstr
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