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 #2 (permalink) Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:11 pm Usage of articles: Have you got a ruler that I can borrow? |
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| Penuel wrote: |
Hello!
Please check if the articles in this conversation are chosen correctly.
A: Have you got a ruler that I can borrow?
B: I've got a plastic one and a wooden one. But the wooden one is broken.
A: Well, lend me a plastic one then, please.
I have a doubt in the last sentence whether I had to use THE or A there.
Thanks a lot in advance. |
The preceding sentences are OK, but the last sentence needs a "the" article, i.e., the thing that you want to borrow is already identified.
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Harry_Ph
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Dec 11, 2009 14:26 pm Usage of articles: Have you got a ruler that I can borrow? |
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| Thanks again. I shouldn't make two posts about one topic I guess. Anyway, thanks a lot, and here is the same thing that made me confused which is the answer in the Grammar Spectrum 3 is A for the last sentence. Could it be a typing mistake? |
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 Penuel
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Dec 11, 2009 16:32 pm Usage of articles: Have you got a ruler that I can borrow? |
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| I agree with Harry. In this example, "a" in the last sentence would be right only if Mr. B had said "I've got plastic ones and wooden ones". |
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