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.
2019年3月22日 06:02
回答 · 12
3
I would say both A and C sound very natural
2019年3月22日
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!
:)
2019年3月22日
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.
2019年3月22日
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
2019年3月22日
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".
2019年3月22日
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