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17 feb 2017
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Inglés (US)
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¿Esto suena natural? I'm worried about the decline in the population in Japan.
¿Esto suena natural? I'm worried about the decline in the population in Japan.
"the decline in the population in Japan" is OK??????
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17 feb 2017
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- Inglés (US)
Natural
I think it's better to say "population of Japan," but it's okay as is.
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- Inglés (US)
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I think it's better to say "population of Japan," but it's okay as is.
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- Japonés
@sgbowen I like "the population of Japan" much better than "the population in Japan". I felt weird about using "in" twice in the sentence! Thank you!
- Inglés (US)
Poco natural
Or “I'm worried about the decline in population in Japan.”
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- Japonés
@joshwhetstone WHAT? I don't need "the" before "population"? WH~~~~Y?
- Inglés (US)
Poco natural
Unfortunately I can't give you the grammatical answer for that. Many times you can drop articles before nouns.
However, you cannot say, “I'm worried about the increase in unemployment rate.” You must have the in front of that. However you could say, “...the increase in unemployment.” Some of these things you'll just have to memorize.
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- Japonés
@joshwhetstone OK. I'll memorize when "the" is necessary and when it's not. It seems like I have a long way to go! Arigato!
- Inglés (US)
Poco natural
I could say the same for my Japanese studies.
どういたしまして!
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