Singular or plural?
Thursday April 12, 2007
Sometimes the similarities between English and Spanish can be deceiving. But then, as one of this site's readers recently did, you run across a simple sentence such as this one that just doesn't sound right, even if you know what all the words mean: Se quitaron el sombrero for "They took off their hats." Why, you may wonder, is the singular noun sombero ussed here instead of the plural? Learn more...
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I find your lessons helpful and interesting but I absolutely HATE the way the pages are formatted so that I have to click on a link to see the whole article.
It just seems like a cheap tactic to force me to see even more adverts and demeans yourself, the site and the New York Times.