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savvinka
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Dear colleages,
May I ask you to correct my question,please : Does the cinema or the theatre play more important part in the entertainment of an average Englishman ?
I �m not sure that I �m right. Can we ask the same question in some other ways?
Thank you
Olga
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5 Jun 2010
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banska bystrica
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Hello Olga,
I think your sentence is Ok, although I �m not sure if I exactly understand what you want to say. Is your intention to compare those two ( the cinema and theatre?) If you �re interested in another ways of saying that, I would suggest:
Speaking about the (ways of) entertainment of an average Englishman, which do you think play more important part - the cinema or the theatre?
Is it the cinema or the theatre that plays more important part in the....?
I hope I �m not mistaken, let �s wait for another opinions,
regards, zuzana
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5 Jun 2010
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savvinka
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Zuzana,thanks a lot!
I wanted to compare and yr sentence Is it the cinema or the theatre that plays more important part in the... sounds great. Now I �ve understood my mistake.
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5 Jun 2010
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banska bystrica
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It was my pleasure to help, Olga, btw, your original sentence is very similar to our Slovakian way of saying it, I suppose it �s common for all Slavic languages, that is why I was confused a bit (lost somewhere between Slovak and English :))
z.
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5 Jun 2010
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savvinka
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Yes, yes, Zuzana, I feel the same sometimes...
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5 Jun 2010
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yanogator
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I �d like to make one small correction to both of you. It should be "a more important part". That �s easy for a Russian to overlook, since you don �t have "a" (I �m talking about the article, not the letter) in your language. Slovak probably doesn �t, either, but I don �t know anything about Zuzana �s language.
Bruce |
5 Jun 2010
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banska bystrica
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Bruce, hello! thanks for the correction, honestly, I was thinking of adding "a" before "part", but I wasn �t totally sure, since this word is my weakness  And yes, you �re right, in Slovak we have no articles ( I guess it �s a common feature for all Slavic languages)
z.
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5 Jun 2010
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fifey
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Hi Bruce you are correct, the article �a � would be required.
I �m just going to c+p the original sentence here.
Does the cinema or the theatre play more important part in the entertainment of an average Englishman ?
This is how i would write it.
Does the cinema, or the theatre, play a more important role in an average, Englishman �s entertainment?
Word order seems to be the problem. Hope this helps.
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6 Jun 2010
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