MrPernickety  +  704945 Tue, 28 Apr 09 03:29 AM Hi,   Could you check this sentence for errors:   I measured (gauged ?) the vehicle's speed with a radar.   Thanks ! MrPernickety Joined on Sat, Oct 25 2008 Regular Member 747 Amendment XXX to the US Constitution: No man shall be held accountable for any promise he makes while drunk unless it was a bet. Sentences, Mistakes

	Avangi  +  704946 Tue, 28 Apr 09 03:33 AM It's not exactly uncommon, but I'd prefer the uncountable,  "with (by means of) radar" or the countable "with a radar device / gun."  (in the second case, "radar" is an adjective.) Radar as a thing ("a radar") is a bit low register. Of course, "a TV set" was eventually replaced by "a TV." And in the very distant past, a radio was "a radio set." It's just that radar is used in so many different ways. But when you see a cop sitting on his bike pointing a unit (radar gun) at you, it's unlikely you'd say, "He was pointing a radar at me."   - A. Avangi Joined on Mon, Nov 19 2007 Veteran Member 8,211 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier Adjectives

	MrPernickety  +  705151 Tue, 28 Apr 09 06:31 AM Thank you, Avangi I gotcha ! MrPernickety