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| Thread ID: 141898 | 2016-03-18 04:57:00 | Youse Guys Are Kidding - Right? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1417704 | 2016-03-18 04:57:00 | "Doc Martin" is running in living room and he's "sending a patient to hospital" . Which hospital? Doesn't a common noun require a definite article? Unless hospital is capitalized I cannot see how this is good King's Engrish . :confused: "I'm sending the patient to Hospital" . That would be correct although if one looks for a city named "Hospital" - one will likely as not find it anywhere . One can send someone to ChCh . One can send someone to France . One can send someone to Hawaii . One can send someone to THE hospital . One can send someone to St . Mary's Hospital . One can send someone to Fred's Hospital . But I don't know how one can send someone to hospital . It lacks something . Youse guys! Always jokers! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1417705 | 2016-03-18 05:06:00 | Jeez Joe, when I read this I thought. "Bugger me Joe, I'll just have to shoot through Blue an fix up the problem! Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1417706 | 2016-03-18 05:10:00 | Jeez Joe, when I read this I thought. "Bugger me Joe, I'll just have to shoot through Blue an fix up the problem! Ken :) That's Engrish - right? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1417707 | 2016-03-18 05:20:00 | That's Engrish - right? No, New Zilland Joe |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1417708 | 2016-03-18 05:25:00 | Nope, New Zilland Joe :) Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1417709 | 2016-03-18 05:27:00 | Double post aye . That was clever of me . I am constantly left amazed at my brilliance . Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1417710 | 2016-03-18 05:39:00 | Doc Martin, is he not from the United Kingdom? | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1417711 | 2016-03-18 05:53:00 | Maybe that's the difference between speaking English and speaking American. Sending a patient to hospital sounds perfectly acceptable to my English ear. Compare with; sending a felon to prison, sending a sailor to sea, sending an astronaut into space..................................... no definite articles needed right ? :clap | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1417712 | 2016-03-18 07:40:00 | The problem with "to" is that it can turn a noun into a verb. Highly unlikely that was the intention but you can not say it must have a definite, even an indefinite fits here. Cheers KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1417713 | 2016-03-18 07:45:00 | Just say the Zambucks trotted him off. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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