Message Area
Casually read the BBS message area using an easy to use interface. Messages are categorized exactly like they are on the BBS. You may post new messages or reply to existing messages!

You are not logged in. Login here for full access privileges.

Previous Message | Next Message | Back to English Tutoring for Students of...  <--  <--- Return to Home Page
   Networked Database  English Tutoring for Students of...   [799 / 900] RSS
 From   To   Subject   Date/Time 
Message   Paul Quinn    Alexander Koryagin   National Geographic   May 3, 2019
 8:48 PM *  

Hi! Alexander,

On 03 May 19 11:54, you wrote to Mike Powell:

 AK> [The lack of oxygen at this height saps power.]
 AK> "saps" is related to "lack" and oxygen doesn't make "lack"
 AK> uncountable.

IMHO: saps is related to power.  Power is the thing being sapped by a lack of
oxygen.

 AK> or an uncountable form:

 AK> [Their apparent lack of progress mean they are not doing their job
 AK> properly.]

IMHO: this is unnatural to a native speaker.  (I don't know where Mike got his
rule from, although it may be correct for 99.99% of cases in his locale.)  The
passage should read: "...lack of progress means they are not...".  It could be
countable, in either the case of there being many (persons) involved, or in the
 singular case of one person, when speaking of 'their'.  English can be
annoyingly imprecise at times.  8-)

Cheers,
Paul.

... finer temptress, Through the ages she's heading west,
--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130515
 * Origin: Quinn's Rock - Live from Paul's Xubuntu desktop! (3:640/1384)
  Show ANSI Codes | Hide BBCodes | Show Color Codes | Hide Encoding | Hide HTML Tags | Show Routing
Previous Message | Next Message | Back to English Tutoring for Students of...  <--  <--- Return to Home Page

VADV-PHP
Execution Time: 0.0818 seconds

If you experience any problems with this website or need help, contact the webmaster.
VADV-PHP Copyright © 2002-2024 Steve Winn, Aspect Technologies. All Rights Reserved.
Virtual Advanced Copyright © 1995-1997 Roland De Graaf.
v2.0.140505

Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_95hdp5p51v0okt1pnakq6uvbb1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: session_start(): open(c:\Sessions\sess_95hdp5p51v0okt1pnakq6uvbb1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in D:\wc5\http\public\VADV\include\common.inc.php on line 45 PHP Warning: Unknown: open(c:\Sessions\sess_95hdp5p51v0okt1pnakq6uvbb1, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (c:\Sessions) in Unknown on line 0