practice2.13

いつも、どれだけ間違えてるかドキドキしながら開けてます。ありがとうございました。

I've noticed an incredible improvement in your English writing ability, masakoさん. Your hard work and studying is beginning to pay off!

ありがとうございます。自分で防げるミスは避けようと思い、firefoxを使って文を作ってますが、昨日はspellingミスも沢山有り残念です。
名詞には必ず不定冠詞,冠詞,人称代名詞の所有格がつかないのですか？
A fine weather は間違えですか？それと、If 節の後ろには未来形は来まか？

いつも、ご親切に添削して頂いてるので私もお返しをしたいと思いますが、
Arisenさんのdiaryに気付いた時には、もうすでに多くの方が添削してあります。お返しができなくてすみません。貴方のpageにはもう春が来てますね。

Definite and indefinite articles in English can be very tricky. In this case, [weather] is an uncountable noun, so we can't use indefinite articles with it. That's why we can't say "a fine weather."

Uncountable nouns are concepts cannot be divided into separate parts - that's why we call them uncountable. "Weather" is the same way - it cannot be divided into parts, it's just one single concept. So, we don't need to use [a] or [an] with it. We can just say it by itself:

"It was fine weather today."

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In the case of this sentence:

"I feel that the time has passed in a flash but the spring is still so far away."

Actually, you should know that adding [the] before the word "spring" isn't wrong. Season of the year are one of the special cases in English; sometimes we add the definite article [the], and sometimes we don't. It's difficult for me to tell you when it sounds good to add [the] and when it doesn't, so please don't worry about whether you should use one in front of a season of the year or not.

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In this sentence:

"It's the middle of February now; I wonder if it will start getting warm in March."

Since we are talking about the future (things happening next month), we have to use the future tense after [if]. But, sometimes you will use an [if] statement about past events, too. For example:

"I wonder if he called his mother last week?"

In this case, we are talking about actions that happened in the past (last week). So, we use the past tense verb [called].

If we wanted to talk about the present moment (今), we would use the present participle form of the verb:

"I wonder if he is calling his mother right now?"

If we wanted to talk about actions in the future, then of course we use future tense:

"I wonder if he will call his mother tomorrow?"

I appreciate you wanting to return the favor, but it's not necessary. =) I'm glad to help you in any way that I can.

And yes, I've had enough winter for this year...spring has come early to my page!!! =P

花見-time!!

有難うございます。

If を使う時いつも大丈夫かなと、思って使ってます。