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| Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5316 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English | Message 1 of 16 31 August 2013 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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Greetings!
I wrote the following sentence and hesitated whether to include a preposition before the phrase "the same day": "It shows me that the transcript was printed on the 24th of August. So I assume they sent the transcript either the same day or on the 25th." So, will it be: a) the same day b) in the same day c) on the same day d) other What do you think folks?!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 16 31 August 2013 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
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d) other
It shows me that the transcript was printed on the 24th of August. I assume they sent it either the 24th or the 25th. Definitely not b). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4426 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 3 of 16 01 September 2013 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
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I agree, definitely not B. But i think that either A or C or the suggestion above work fine.
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4531 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 16 01 September 2013 at 9:21am | IP Logged |
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A or C.
A gives slightly more emphasis to the 24th, though I think grammatically the 'on' refers to both 24th and 25th. You also have two 'ons' on in front of the 24th and one in front of the 25th, which would emphasize the fact that it was definitely sent on one of those days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 5 of 16 01 September 2013 at 10:05am | IP Logged |
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I would take A here but I can see C working if you reconstruct the sentence a little bit.
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| Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5316 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English | Message 6 of 16 01 September 2013 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you everyone! Very helpful responses!!
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| Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5316 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English | Message 7 of 16 01 September 2013 at 1:20pm | IP Logged |
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I have read a road sign that says: Obey the Speed Limit
The expression looks strange to me; not sure why! Perhaps due to the use of the verb "obey". What do you think? P.S. I have seen this in a nonnative English-speaking country! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 8 of 16 01 September 2013 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
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It's correct.
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