A board game Concept Kids Animals. I just bought a board game Concept Kids Animals. Basically, your child tells you what an animal looks like, what it can do, where it lives, what features it has, e

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A board game Concept Kids Animals. I just bought a board game Concept Kids Animals. Basically, your child tells you what an animal looks like, what it can do, where it lives, what features it has, etc., and then you guess what they are describing. I watched a playthough and noticed a grammar question. The sentences below come from two parts of the video. Parents: 1. They can live in THE rain forest or in THE savanna. Parents: 2. I wonder where they live.....Oh..they can live in wetlands, prairies, ponds and caves. Are they interchangeable? For example, could I say something like the sentences below? 3. They can live in rain forestS or in savannaS. 4. I wonder where they live.....Oh..they can live in THE wetland, THE prairie, THE pond and THE cave. Thank you very much. I have to say lessons about English articles are never-ending. :)

14 nov. 2022 04:58

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Yes, you are correct. 'The' rain forest refers to the concept of a rain forest rather than an actual one. Rain forestS refer to all the rain forests in the world. You could also say 'a' rain forest, which would refer to any rain forest in the world. Logically, these three sentences mean the same. It would sound a bit strange to use the the/concept structure for wetlands, prairies and ponds, however, as they're too common and we don't usually think about them as a concept. They would be more naturally interchangeable in sentences such as: The tiger is my favourite animal. Tigers are my favourite animal.

14 november 2022

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