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Anonymous  #331601  Wed, 21 Feb 07 03:32 AM

hi there,

I want to talk about teenagers like to go the shopping malls and parks when they go out on dates with their partners. Are the following sentences correctly mean that?

1. Teenagers like to go out on dates in shopping malls and parks.

2. Shopping malls and parks become places for teenagers to go on dates.

Simon

  
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Grammar Geek  #331616  Wed, 21 Feb 07 04:29 AM

1. Teenagers like to go on dates to shopping malls and parks sounds a little more natural to me. "out on" is a little redundant, and you go on a date TO somewhere, usually.

2. Using "become" in this sentence is a little puzzling. When do they become this? On the weekends, shopping malls become the place that teenagers hang out, for example shows that it happens every weekend. Do you mean that five years ago, they went on dates somewhere else? Then it's "have become."

  
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Anonymous  #331647  Wed, 21 Feb 07 05:38 AM

Hi Grammar Geek,

Thanks  a lot. Then how about this?

Shopping malls and parks have become places for teenagers dating?

and

Library is also a good place for teenagers dating.

( I want to say that teenagers like to stay at the library not for studying, but for talking and chatting with each other)

thanks in advance

Simon

  
Marius Hancu  #331736  Wed, 21 Feb 07 12:13 PM
( I want to say that teenagers like to stay at the library not for studying, but for talking and chatting with each other).

Perhaps:

Libraries have increasingly become places where teenagers socialize (by talking, chatting or dating), not just study.
  
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nona the brit  #331793  Wed, 21 Feb 07 04:11 PM
I can't imagine anyone going on a date to a library. A date is an arranged social outing between two people who are romantically interested. Even if a couple were 'dating' I don't think they'd count a trip to the library as a 'date'?
  
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