One more essay. Is progress is always good or not?
Whether используется в косвенных предложениях, а не в вопросах. Например:
In my article, I am looking at the question whether progress is always good or not.
Actually, progress is always good because this word literally means - the 'moving towards the best'. So, a bad progress is an oxymoron, in my opinion.
Со словом progress не употребляется артикль a, потому что прогрессы нельзя посчитать (нельзя сказать "один прогресс", "два прогресса", "много прогрессов", бывает только "хороший прогресс", "нет прогресса"). "a progress" как раз значило бы "один прогресс" - a всегда можно мысленно заменить на one без изменения смысла.
Therefore, I can provide at least three reasons why progress is always good. These are new technologies there are ведь of preventing pollution of environment, a progress in healthcare, and culture progress.
First of all, I would like to mention pollution of the environment. Окружающая среда у нас единственная и неповторимая, значит, надо the: как в the Sun, the sky и пр. Lots of people relate this problem with technical progress, but I think that technical progress helps to preserve the environment, because we can use new technology for cleaning nowadays. One modern car, for example, pollutes the environment in one hundred times less фразы типа "в X раз больше/меньше" идут без предлога - увы, только запомнить than the first car in the twentieth century.
Порядковые числительные (the first, the second, the 234th) всегда идут с артиклем the.
Secondly, technical progress helps people to survive after accidences, disasters and deathly disease. Some years ago people could not imagine that they could have a chance to live after infection of AIDS, for example. Now it is possible, and these people live longer and longer. We can also mention artificial limbs, that help people to move, or the wheelchair with electric engine whereby disabled people can move like others and feel themselves like fully abled people.
Finally, culture progress have a great meaning in our life. What does it mean? I think, today, thanks to culture progress, we try to find common points and agreement between different religions. Earlier, Christians had religious wars, but now we cannot picture it in the modern world. Therefore, I believe, it is a consequence of the culture progress. A, потому что могут быть и другие последствия. In addition, progress develops an art. Не какое-то конкретное искусство, а вообще искусство. For example, computer games and 3D movie are parts of this kind of progress.
In conclusion, based on the argument explored above, I would like to say, that progress, in my opinion, is always good. It helps us to prevent of pollution of the environment, to develop healthcare, and teaches people to be more tolerant and peaceful.
Отличная заметка, хорошо написана. Не расстраивайтесь из-за артиклей - нет такого русского, кто не делал бы в них ошибки. Ведь в нашем языке артиклей нет вовсе.
