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yolprica
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help, please
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What would you say "It �s a nice place to live" or It �s a nice place for living"?
Thanks in advance for your help
Yolanda |
11 Jan 2010
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yolprica
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Thanks, Silke, it is what I thought but I am going to use a worksheet tomorrow in which the other sentence is used but it didn �t sound well to me.
Yolanda |
11 Jan 2010
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kons
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Hi,
what do you think of this?
It �s a nice place to live in. |
11 Jan 2010
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yolprica
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It sounds better. Thanks
Yolanda |
11 Jan 2010
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niacouto
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"It �s a nice place to live in." Hope it helps.
Hugs
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11 Jan 2010
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douglas
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"It �s a nice place to live." (not in) |
11 Jan 2010
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kons
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To my knowledge, we say,
I live in a big house(referring to a place). in this case the verb needs a preposition.
dear Douglas, do you mean the preposition in is optional or not used by NS in such case? |
11 Jan 2010
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eng789
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I second Douglas.
It �s a nice city/ country to live in. but It �s a nice place to live. |
11 Jan 2010
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aquarius_gr
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You could say "It�s a nice place to live" (acceptable in spoken English) but you must write "It�s a nice place to live in/at" (depending on what the place is).
Change the sentence around ..."I live a place" (wrong). The only thing you live without a preposition is your life ... I live a life, so "It �s a nice life to live".
If this were in a grammar test you �d definitely have both choices and plain "live" would be wrong.
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11 Jan 2010
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Mariethe House
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Thanks yolanda for my ws!
A nice place to live in ( In British English anyway! )
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11 Jan 2010
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