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    Correction/London and GB

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    Correction/London and GB
    Message de flashy posté le 01-11-2009 à 17:36:30 (S | E | F)

    Hello,
    voilà mon texte n'est pas parfait loin de là
    pouvez-vous corriger mes fautes svp s'il vous plaît?


    London located southeast of Great Britain, is the capital and largest city in the United Kingdom, it was also for centuries the capital of the British Empire .

    The London has 7 512 400 inhabitants It receives 27 million tourists per year [8] and has four sites listed on World Heritage and many emblematic buildings:

    the Palace of Westminster, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the Westminster Abbey, the Buckingham Palace but also institutions such as the British Museum or National Gallery.

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    Modifié par lucile83 le 01-11-2009 17:46
    + titre


    Réponse: Correction/London and GB de laure95, postée le 03-11-2009 à 10:40:27 (S | E)
    Bonjour, voici ce que tu dois corriger:
    London, located in the southeast of Great Britain, is the capital and largest city in the United Kingdom, (mettre 1 point)it was also for centuries (pas à la bonne place)the capital of the British Empire .

    The London has 7 512 400 inhabitants It receives 27 million tourists per year [8] and has four sites listed on World Heritage and many emblematic buildings:

    the Palace of Westminster, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the Westminster Abbey, the Buckingham Palace but also institutions such as the British Museum or National Gallery.



    Réponse: Correction/London and GB de lucile83, postée le 03-11-2009 à 10:47:41 (S | E)
    Hello,
    En complément de ce que laure95 a noté :
    the Palace of Westminster, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, the Westminster Abbey, the Buckingham Palace but also institutions such as the British Museum or ... National Gallery.
    Best wishes.


    Réponse: Correction/London and GB de cecil_ward, postée le 03-11-2009 à 15:39:18 (S | E)
    > The London
    is incorrect. It is simply "London". A few place names and countries do have the definite article in English ("The Hague", "The Netherlands", "The United States"), and these unfortunately have to be looked up individually.

    The Palace of Westminster - correct
    *The Tower Brige - incorrect
    Tower Brige - correct
    The Tower of London - correct
    *The Westminster Abbey - incorrect
    Westminster Abbey - correct
    *The Buckingham Palace -incorrect
    Buckingham Palace - correct
    The British Museum
    The National Gallery

    Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any obvious rule (you would expect "The Tower Bridge", but that's unacceptable!), and these famonames simply have to be looked up.


    Réponse: Correction/London and GB de cecil_ward, postée le 03-11-2009 à 15:43:56 (S | E)
    I don't like the word "emblematic". You could of course use the word "famous", or "well-known".

    In this case, the word "iconic" would be fine. This word has been much over-used in the press and on TV recently, and journalists seem to be turning it into something meaning simply "well-known"/"famous". Of course an icon is an image of something that is so well known and so easily recognised that it can stand for a whole category (example, "the Eiffel Tower" iconic symbol of Paris or even France). A picture of Tower Bridge or the Palace of Westminster could easily make people think of London as a whole, so the word "iconic" seems to be fine here. But it is being very much overused at the moment, so beware. :-)



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