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Tram Nguyen
Which is correct? A or The? I encountered this sentence in my textbook. Question: Which is correct? (Choose one from each group) A. There are 1.23 dollars to a euro B. There are 1.23 dollars for a euro. C. There are 1.23 dollars to the euro. I chose A. But the correct answer is C. Could you clarify why "the euro" is correct? I think that "a", which is an indefinite article, is used to describe something not specific. In this sentence, "euro" is considered as "general" currency. I'm not sure why I should use "the" instead of "a". Thank you in advance for your kind help.
22 mar 2019 06:02
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3
I would say both A and C sound very natural
22 marzo 2019
2
I would say both A and C are correct, depending on the context, and my answer would have been A (if we were talking about currencies in general). So, really, this is just a bad question - nothing more than that! :)
22 marzo 2019
2
'The' becAuse you are talking about 'the euro', not any old euro in general, but a specific currency with specific attributes. The Cdn dollar, the US dollar, the british pound - all refer to a currency, not a piece of currency in your pocket. You can often replace 'one' with 'a' or 'an' to get a better idea of which article makes more sense in a given context . Just to confuse things however, Colloquially, the two (a or the) in this case would likely be interchangeable in spoken language.
22 marzo 2019
2
B is definitely wrong, as you correctly deduced. Both A and C are good acceptable English. Just highlights the problem of multiple choice questions
22 marzo 2019
1
There are 1.23 dollars to a euro Because there's no "the" before "dollars" so there's also no "the" before "euros", just an "a".
22 marzo 2019
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Tram Nguyen
Competenze linguistiche
Inglese, Coreano, Vietnamita
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese, Coreano
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