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 #2 (permalink) Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:24 am Visit the doctor annually |
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Richard,
Please take a look at the context: to visit the doctor's annually means you see the doctor once a year.
TOEIC listening, photographs: At the hospital |
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:08 am 's |
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If I could add a comment - the apostrophe is an indication that this is the surgery of the doctor as in the butcher's meaning the shop of the butcher.
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:09 am Ok |
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| I see now, so it works just as in: in "my mother's house" or at my mom's, right? |
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:32 am Saying |
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Absolutely. Incidentally a comment about the mantra that you use at the end of your messages should read:
I should have been born in the USA. I've got this thing about America.
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:13 am Done |
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| Corrected.. :lol: |
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| #7 (permalink) Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:59 am Visit the doctor annually |
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| Torsten wrote: |
Richard,
Please take a look at the context: to visit the doctor's annually means you see the doctor once a year. |
To be honest I also had to think about that structure until I could understand "the doctor's" is nothing else that the genetive which is allowed to use like "at the surgery's" and the "annually" is "nothing else" than an adverb of time which then is understandable to put it after "the doctor's" or at the end of the sentence.
Am I right Torsten? |
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| #9 (permalink) Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:44 am Saying |
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| Alan wrote: |
Absolutely. Incidentally a comment about the mantra that you use at the end of your messages should read:
I should have been born in the USA. I've got this thing about America. |
Hi Alan,
What this mantra mean by "I've got this thing about America"?What does he mean?
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| #10 (permalink) Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:28 pm Mantra |
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Hi,
Why don't you send him a note and ask him?
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| #11 (permalink) Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:08 pm 's |
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| Alan wrote: |
| If I could add a comment - the apostrophe is an indication that this is the surgery of the doctor as in the butcher's meaning the shop of the butcher. |
:lol: :lol:
The comparison isn't deliberate, is it? Still, it sounds as if you might have had a bad experience at the doctor's.
You don't have to answer this, Alan, as it's only a rhetorical question :) . |
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