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#2 (permalink) Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:39 am Once a week/ Twice a month etc... Heeeeeeeeeelp! Urgent! |
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| Detlef wrote: |
Hi there
Is it ok to say the following sentences
I visited him once a week. or twice a day Both fine. I visited her three times a month. Fine. I only saw my father once a year Fine. How many episodes did the 'Dynasty' crew produce a week? Better: "how many episodes a week did the..."; "a week" should be as close as possible to the word that expresses the number of times, which is "how many" here.
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#3 (permalink) Mon Dec 07, 2009 16:41 pm Thanks Cerberus |
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Hi Cerberus,
So the following question would also be fine:
How many times a day did you visit her? How many times a week did you see him?
Somehow I knew I was right except for that last sentence, so that would be
How many episodes a week did the 'Dynasty' crew produce?
How much wine a day did he drink? Is that fine too? (Sounds a bit odd, I would rather say: How many bottles/glasses of wine a day did he drink?/ Sound odd too.)
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#4 (permalink) Mon Dec 07, 2009 18:38 pm Thanks Cerberus |
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| On second thought, "a week" doesn't need to be close to the number of times; it just sounded better in that sentence (I don't know why), although the position you gave it was fine as well. All of your sentences are fine, including "how much wine a day did he drink?". In fact, "how much wine did he drink a day?" sounds slightly better perhaps, but it doesn't really matter. |
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