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Originally Posted by chillrob
'This' doesn't work with 'threads'.
You could say "I love these life help threads".
The most frustrating thing, is when I know and understand it and am still doing it wrong. Clearly "this" is used only with singular.
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Originally Posted by golddog
Not sure if I missed somebody else mentioning it, but in the title English should be capitalized.
I've found this thread surprisingly interesting. While I can write and speak well enough to get my point across (a lot of the time), I've never been interested in the minutiae. Thank you for starting it.
Now, where's the "lapka teaches Russian to OOT" thread?
BTW, in the example of life help threads, I think you'd use "these" (like in chillrob's example) if you were enumerating specific threads. If you were just making a general statement, you'd write, "I love life help threads." For a single, you'd put in the "this", but then, of course, use the singular "thread".
Among the many topics about which nobody should listen to me is English grammar, though.
Yeahhhh..... I learned already in this thread: English is capitalized..... Tx for the explanation with general statement. To use on autopilot "this, that, those, these and articles" to convey the finer points is my weak point.
And like I said, if anyone needs help in Russian/German, Math/Physics just start a thread. I will try to do Lektor in this areas.
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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
I had this discussion with an American who works for me just last week.
They're only exceptions to the rule if they describe a "situation", not just a "location" - in other words, the place is being used for its normal/main purpose.
Here's some of the page about this in my teaching materials:
1) I work for a pizza delivery company and today I went to the hospital, the school and the church.
2) I was ill last week so I went to hospital and I didn’t go to school. I also didn’t go to church on Sunday.
The explanation (in Slovak) runs something like:
In 2) „I went to hospital“ means "I went to be a patient in the hospital.", whereas in 1) "I went to the hospital" just means "I went into/to the hospital building" (this time to deliver a pizza).
More examples:
I am at / I go to school, university (študovať, učiť sa)
I am at / I go to work (pracovať)
I am at / I go home (vo svojom domove)
I am in / I go to bed (spať alebo pred/po spánku)
I am in / I go to prison (sedieť vo väznici)
I am at / I go to church (modliť sa)
That is good and I understand it.
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Originally Posted by chopstick
If you provide a few examples of what you're looking for, we can certainly help. Are you looking for sentences that are technically incorrect, but only just barely? Or sentences that are obviously incorrect to educated native speakers, but not so obviously to either less educated and/or non native speakers? Something else?
Not exactly sure what you're looking for, so here is an assortment:
We all thought Didace knows what he was doing but he doesn't.
*what he is doing
El Diablo weared a hat yesterday.
*wore a hat
Howard Treesong took shoes off at his dentist last week.
I am not sure with this. Instinctively I would say: HT took off his shoes at dentist last week.
lapka call someone a butt each and every day before breakfast.
*calls
Does 57 On Red write his posts tomorrow?
*Will 57 On Red write his posts tomorrow?
Did the DoctorZangief show up for work yesterday?
* without "the". HA! I will get it one day.
gregorio make the sushis for us last night.
*gregorio made sushi for us last night. It sounds for me right to use sushi without any articles. Probably because sushi is uncountable.
When Rei asked to leave?
*When did Rei ask to leave?
I would prefer for ChipWrecked ate a steak sandwich.
*I would prefer ChipWrecked ate a steak sandwich.
de captain lives in a pink house on the end of the road.
* at the end of the road. *Imagining now Captain - a solid, serious, grown-up dude in a pink house.
Where did Very Josie come from out of nowhere?
* When did VJ come out from nowhere?
Did you saw Steve350 make a nice observation regarding the thread?
* Did you see Steve350 making .....
LektorAJ is teach everyone in this thread of proper English usage.
*Lektor is teaching everyone in this thread proper English usage.
Alobar be mad.
*Alobar is mad.