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Such or such a?
Message de rad3007 posté le 15-04-2010 à 23:05:01 (S | E | F)
Bonsoir,
Je cherche la différence entre "such a" et "such"?
Merci d'avance
Message de rad3007 posté le 15-04-2010 à 23:05:01 (S | E | F)
Bonsoir,
Je cherche la différence entre "such a" et "such"?
Merci d'avance
Réponse: Such or such a? de notrepere, postée le 15-04-2010 à 23:34:14 (S | E)
Bonjour!Il y a beaucoup d'examples dans ce test:
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Bonne chance!
Réponse: Such or such a? de prescott, postée le 16-04-2010 à 09:48:51 (S | E)
Hello,
Le problème ne vient pas de "such" mais du nom qui vient après.
Selon qu' en anglais, ce nom prend un a/an ou pas, il faut le mettre ou non.
La première règle pratique est:
1. Such (se réfère à un sujet déjà mentionné, ou un fait étonnant ) + a/an + [nom comptable singulier]
Why did you make such an error?
2. Such (= idem) + [nom comptable pluriel ou non comptable]
Why did you make such errors?
We get such dirty water that one cannot make tea with it
She has got such lovely hair [en anglais, l'eau et la chevelure ne sont pas comptables]
3. Il y a quelques exceptions avec des exclamations "Such a shame" et des cas où même les natifs hésitent, par exemple:
Such a nice weather [sans doute par attraction avec "a nice day"] <== VS ==> Such nice weather (majoritaire et correct)
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Modifié par prescott le 17-04-2010 07:31
Edited to get my hair fixed and complexion whitened
Thanks to notrepere !
Réponse: Such or such a? de notrepere, postée le 16-04-2010 à 19:34:07 (S | E)
Hello prescott, did you really mean to write:She has got such lovely complexion
In U.S. English, we'd say:
She has got such a lovely complexion.
Réponse: Such or such a? de lucile83, postée le 16-04-2010 à 19:47:48 (S | E)
Hello,
I think both are acceptable:
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com‧plex‧ion
1 [countable]DCB the natural colour or appearance of the skin on your face:
Drinking water is good for the complexion.
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=
“Deepika is stunning. She has a good figure and has lovely complexion.”
Best wishes.
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Modifié par lucile83 le 16-04-2010 19:48
Réponse: Such or such a? de prescott, postée le 17-04-2010 à 04:03:12 (S | E)
Hello,
No kidding! I thought "such complexion" was more likely AE.
Actually, no, (shy red complexion
), I didn't mean to write that. Thanks to "copy/ pasting", I mixed it up! In my first draft, I wrote, [...] such a looovely place, such a loooovely face,[after such a lovely song, named Hotel California
as "countable" She has got such lovely hair as "non-countable".
And "weather" (and possibly "facial complexion") as "questionable", since Google finds 306 makeup advisors' pages for [face "such complexion"], most of which are in US (205), 29(UK) 1(AU)...
In fact, "such a complexion" remains far ahead in both AE and BE
5 210 pages [face "such a complexion"] 2 140 (US) 65(UK) 38(AU),
so I was supposed to drop it.
Thanks to both of you for your contribution
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