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Galina
Hi. Could you check these two sentences and correct the mistakes?
A (is the article “a” correct here?) perfume is more practical present in daily routine than a ticket to the cinema or theatre. I think that a perfume as a gift can last (is “last” correct here?) a long time, sometimes years, (do I need two commas here?) while tickets to the cinema or theatre a person can use only once/one time (is “one time” ok?).
19 maj 2024 15:57
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"Perfume" can be thought of as countable or uncountable. For example, you can say
"I gave my mother a perfume, her favorite one, for her birthday" (countable), or
"She is wearing too much perfume." (uncountable)
Your first sentence is almost correct. There are two easy ways to fix it:
"A perfume is a more practical present than a ticket."
"A perfume is more practical as a present than a ticket."
The reason your first sentence is wrong is that when you take away the modifiers (which don't really change anything) "more" and "practical", the sentence becomes
"A perfume is present"
and that is obviously wrong.
In your second sentence, the clause
"tickets to the cinema a person can use"
uses incorrect word order. The correct order is SUBJECT + VERB:
"a person can use tickets to the cinema only one time"
"Last" and "one time" are fine.
19 maja 2024
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"Perfume" is uncountable, so you shouldn't use "a" before it. To make it countable, you could say "a bottle of perfume."
19 maja 2024
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Galina
Znajomość języków
angielski, niemiecki, rosyjski
Język do nauczenia się
angielski, niemiecki
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