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Paweł Piotr Stawski
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:19 am
Post subject: Teachers go to "the" school |
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Do teachers go to "the or -" school?
Or simply work at school.
Because students go to school. It's obvious. On the contrary, teachers work,
not study there so the school?
Pawel
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:30 am
Post subject: Re: Teachers go to "the" school |
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At 22:19:19 on Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Paweł Piotr Stawski
<english@stawski.pl> wrote in
<4069b$43a08c5d$d4ba586d$19302@news.chello.pl>:
| Quote: | Do teachers go to "the or -" school?
Or simply work at school.
Because students go to school. It's obvious. On the contrary, teachers work,
not study there so the school?
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"Going to the school" means the building. "Going to school" means the
educational process which goes on inside it. You get the same
distinction with, for example, "I'm going to hospital" (to be seen by a
doctor) and "I'm going to the hospital" (probably to visit a patient),
or "I'm going to church" (to worship) or "I'm going to the church" (for
some other purpose).
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Pawel Piotr Stawski
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:38 am
Post subject: teachers/the school then |
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Uzytkownik "Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@mollymockford.me.uk> napisal w
wiadomosci news:towT25yR0JoDFwgM@molly.mockford...
| Quote: | At 22:19:19 on Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Paweł Piotr Stawski <english@stawski.pl
wrote in <4069b$43a08c5d$d4ba586d$19302@news.chello.pl>:
Do teachers go to "the or -" school?
Or simply work at school.
Because students go to school. It's obvious. On the contrary, teachers
work,
not study there so the school?
"Going to the school" means the building. "Going to school" means the
educational process which goes on inside it. You get the same distinction
with, for example, "I'm going to hospital" (to be seen by a doctor) and
"I'm going to the hospital" (probably to visit a patient), or "I'm going
to church" (to worship) or "I'm going to the church" (for some other
purpose).
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)
the same is with: |
gaol
hospital
market
prison
school
sea
bed
church
college
court
I know, but I am interested in teachers. You know, this funny aspect. As
they take part in education my students insisted that perphaps Ts should
also go to the school.
The distinction between church and the church is clear for me. Thanks for
your help, but I meant only school and teachers.
Regards,
Pawel
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Molly Mockford
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:07 am
Post subject: Re: teachers/the school then |
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At 23:38:27 on Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Pawel Piotr Stawski
<english@stawski.pl> wrote in
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| Quote: | Thanks for
your help, but I meant only school and teachers.
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It might be worth asking some teachers, then. But I suspect they would
say "I'm going to work".
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Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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Mike Stevens
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:59 am
Post subject: Re: teachers/the school then |
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Molly Mockford wrote:
| Quote: | At 23:38:27 on Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Pawel Piotr Stawski
english@stawski.pl> wrote in
51b0f$43a09ee9$d4ba586d$23016@news.chello.pl>:
Thanks for
your help, but I meant only school and teachers.
It might be worth asking some teachers, then. But I suspect they
would say "I'm going to work".
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As somebody who spent most of my working life as a teacher, I think I
usually said "I'm going to school", whether this was for a normal working
day or for some other purpose out of term time. Later I worked as a
teachers' trade union official and cause to visit many schools. In that
mode I'd normally name the school, but often in an abbreviated form, missing
out the word "school" as in "I'm going to Plumstead Primary this morning and
Blackheath Girls' High this afternoon."
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Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus II - Felis Catus III real soon now!
Web site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
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