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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 03-11-2014 12:06
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Hello.
In my English class I have to write a redaction about an airport.
I wrote this, but I don´t know if grammar is well written. Could you correct what is wrong?
Thanks
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The Tinkoff Airport is located in Moscow, Russia.
The airport it´s in the Guiness World Records Book for being the largest airport in the world and for being the public place with more visitors in a day.
The airport is 20 kilometres from the centre of Moscow and it´s crossed by a train and by an undergrund line.
In an average day, about 5 million people go across this airport and about 10,000 planes land and take off and they serve 4 million cups of coffee and tea, 5,5 million water bottles and 1 million sandwiches.
There are journeys to 200 different destinations, being New York the place where land the most planes.
There are 7 terminals, being Terminal 7 the largest. In Terminal 7 there are 3 chapels, 45 cafés, 12 restaurants and a lot of shops: duty free shops, book shops, electrical shops, newsagents´, an Apple Store, a Gucci shop...
Definitely, it´s a monstrous place!
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 12-11-2014 13:58
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 03-11-2014 12:15
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
Hello.
In my English class I have to write a redaction about an airport.
I wrote this, but I don´t know if grammar is well written. Could you correct what is wrong?
Thanks
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The Tinkoff Airport is located in Moscow, Russia.
The airport is in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the largest airport in the world and for being the public place with the most visitors per day.
The airport is located 20 kilometres from the centre of Moscow and it´s connected by a train and by an undergrund line.
on average, about 5 million people visit this airport every day. 10.000 Planes land and take off per day, and the shops at the airport serve 4 million cups of coffee and tea, 5,5 million water bottles and 1 million sandwiches, also on a daily basis this is.
There are journeys to 200 different destinations, New York being the most popular place to go.
There are 7 terminals, of which terminal 7 is the largest. In this terminal there are 3 chapels, 45 cafés, 12 restaurants and a lot of shops: tax free shops, book shops, electrical shops, newsagents´, an Apple Store, a Gucci shop and many more.
Definitely, it´s a monstrous place!
Bolded things were just wrong
Italic things weren't wrong, or I didn't understand the text properly
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Posted on 03-11-2014 12:16
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The airport is in the Guiness World Records Book for being the largest airport in the world and for being the public place with more visitors in a day.
it's > is
The airport is 20 kilometres from the centre of Moscow and is crossed by a train and by an underground line.
it's > is
undergrund > underground
In an average day about 5 million people go across this airport and about 10,000 planes land and takeoff. They serve 4 million cups of coffee and tea, 5,5 million water bottles and 1 million sandwiches.
removed the first comma
Full stop after takeof (one word), then new scentence
There are journeys to 200 different destinations, New York being the place where the most planes land.
Changed word order. Being moved to after New York. Land moved to end of scentece
There are 7 terminals, Terminal 7 being the largest. In Terminal 7 there are 3 chapels, 45 cafés, 12 restaurants and a lot of shops: duty free shops, book shops, electrical shops, newsagents´, an Apple Store, a Gucci shop...
Changed word order. Being move to after 7.
Next step is to understand what was wrong and why things changed 
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 03-11-2014 12:17
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Well, I wrote the redaction already... but now I see there are many things wrong...
Thanks fjhoekie and TMM
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 03-11-2014 12:18
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 03-11-2014 12:20
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Not everything was 100% wrong tbh, some things just looked weird, mainly your sentences were quite long, which isn't wrong on itself, but it makes the text hard to read. Word order is another thing, but I guess you can improve that quite easily.
Also ending with ... isn't nice to do, something like and many more, or etcetera looks cleaner.
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 03-11-2014 12:21
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OK, thanks.
Anyway, I´m improving my English thanks to PCM.daily, because when I started here my English was poor... now you can read me at least...
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Posted on 07-11-2014 00:23
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Hahahahahha.
Perhaps we need to open a "tutoring" thread. I'm sure the PCM.Daily school is filled with great professors........
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 13:59
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Hello.
How would you say the year "1000"? "One thousand" or "Ten hundred"?
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| matt17br |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:09
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
Hello.
How would you say the year "1000"? "One thousand" or "Ten hundred"?
One thousand.
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:16
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I put One thousand but my teacher says it´s Ten hundred.
Yesterday (the day before the exam) my teacher explained a bit how to say numbers, dates and those things. She said that years which finish with 00 are said with hundred (like 1400 = Fourteen hundred).
But last year she explained years better. She said that years which finish with 000 are said with thousand (like 2000 = Two thousand).
Today, after the exam I showed this, but she said that is hundred because 2000 is a "current year" and it´s different than 1000.
I´m really angry, because in 3 years I never got a 10 (in 0-10 scale) in an English exam with her, but at the same time my lowest mark in English (in 3 years) is 8.4 
Thanks matt17br
Edit: Alakagom, I mean 1000, I know that 1200 is said Twelve hundred...
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Posted on 12-11-2014 14:20
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There's a difference between numbers and years. Years are treated more as a proper noun. So the year 1800 would be "Eighteen Hundred" whilst the number 1800 would be "One thousand Eight hundred".
English, being the bitch it is, loves to mess with 1000 and 2000 years. Both would be "One thousand" and "Two thousand". But 1066 or 2012 are "Ten Sixty-Six" and "Twenty Twelve".
Basically f*ck English and it's regular irregularities
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:22
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Your teacher must be drunk as I really have never ever heard of ten hundred...
You should really show her this table:
| Number | Name | How Many | | 100 | one hundred | ten tens | | 1,000 | one thousand | ten hundreds | | 10,000 | ten thousand | ten thousands | | 100,000 | one hundred thousand | one hundred thousands | | 1,000,000 | one million | one thousand thousands |
EDIT: the WWW is funny:
https://www.pscinc.com/Portals/0/Publi...undred.pdf
Page 6, second paragraph shows years are ten hundred and twenty hundred, no matter how wrong it hears...
Edited by fjhoekie on 12-11-2014 14:25
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:23
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OK, TMM, But I only need to know the year 1000...
Please, don´t explain me the other years, only the year 1000.
I KNOW HOW TO SAY THE OTHER YEARS!
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| matt17br |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:24
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TheManxMissile wrote:
There's a difference between numbers and years. Years are treated more as a proper noun. So the year 1800 would be "Eighteen Hundred" whilst the number 1800 would be "One thousand Eight hundred".
English, being the bitch it is, loves to mess with 1000 and 2000 years. Both would be "One thousand" and "Two thousand". But 1066 or 2012 are "Ten Sixty-Six" and "Twenty Twelve".
Basically f*ck English and it's regular irregularities
Do you also use "Hundred" for the time? I often hear f.e. "Sixteen Hundred" to indicate 16.00 instead of using "16 o'clock"?
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Posted on 12-11-2014 14:25
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:26
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See my edit, your teacher seems to be correct...
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Posted on 12-11-2014 14:26
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
OK, TMM, But I only need to know the year 1000...
Simple Answer: The year One Thousand
Expanded Answer (the answer you should actually be interested in): 1000 = One Thousand. But 1020 =/= One Thousand and Twenty because f*ck English
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:27
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fjhoekie, so am I right?
Last year, I got a 9.8 in an exam, because I had to translate "Echoes of the past" to Spanish. I wrote "Hechos del pasado" and it was "Ecos del pasado". That time he was right...
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:28
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Nope your teacher is right, at least she seems to be... Someone decided to not use 'thousand' in years so we have ten hundred and even twenty hundred... Sounds so wrong, but hey...
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Posted on 12-11-2014 14:29
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matt17br wrote:
Do you also use "Hundred" for the time? I often hear f.e. "Sixteen Hundred" to indicate 16.00 instead of using "16 o'clock"?
1600, as in military, would be Sixteen Hundred. But normal people would say just Four o'clock, perhaps adding PM to indicate the afternoon (no-one i've ever met of any age or nationality has ever read the 24hour clock time straight up because that would be stupid)
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