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Re: open cloze

Clive — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:52:58 GMT

Hi,

" Thanks to a patient and sympathetic boyfriend, who helped talk me out of thinking of it, the tragedy is in the past. ...?..........are not in the......?..........are, as you so rightly point out, the numerous causes of the problem: the common myths that women love rough men; that rape, or gang rape, is an act of virility; that girls who enjoy sex are promiscuous and therefore fair game to any sex-hungry man; that girls who dress attractively, or who are quite obviously fanciable, are flaunting themselves and therefore must be punished for it; the list is endless."

out, thinking, tragedy, ?, ? as, point, numerous, common, men, gang, act, that, sex, fair, dress, obviously, themselves, punished. All in respective order.

Now can you help me?? I'm sorry. I can't think of anything that fits here. Obviously, it seems that plural words are required, but without articles. That part of the sentence still seems wrong to me. Perhaps someone else can offer you good suggestions.

This is not an easy exercise, and I think you have done an excellent job on the rest of it.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Singular & plural words

Yoong Liat — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:15:29 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

what is the plural word for THE??

some singular nouns that stand plural nouns too

Many thank Teresa

Pieanne has already replied as follows earlier.

"The" is the definite article, and has the same form in the plural:

The boy, the boys / the girl, the girls / the table, the tables.

You can say that there are six the's in the above sentence.

Re: use of articles for words/phrases in parentheses

Clive — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:40:13 GMT

Hi,

Did I put the right article for the first example and make the right choice of not put articles in the second example?

1. ... to learn to learn more about them (eg, a 'gay' community').

2. He sites examples like family and groups people (eg. 'gay' community).

You have other errors here that I have high-lighted. In addition, it would be easier to comment if you supplied a complete sentence in each case.

However, generally speaking, if community is singular as in #1, it needs an article. In #2, it seems to me that you need the plural word 'communities', in which case your choices are 'no article' or 'the', depending on context.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Please help me to corrent my essay

Guest — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:15:55 GMT

Have you really lived in US for eight years? I only have one comment. Pay more attention on articles "a" and "the" also singular or plural words. Overall, that's a good essay.

Re: Plural forms only!

Elena — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:45:06 GMT

Yes, in Spanish is the same even more patent because we have plural form for the article , 'las tijeras' (the scissors)

And if I wanted to be fussy with the whims of real language I've could focused in 'cattle' rather than the other kind of plurals that , at least, have plural linguistic form as much they are expressing an only thing.

Curious thing: Greek have 'dual' form, so, to get common plural word (I don't know about the whims) they need more than two things. Do you know other languages with 'dual'?

Thanks for make me to stop my worry about this silly thing that was spinning in my mind.