[Grammar] correct grammar usage

[lineker1976]

Hello,
I would like to know what is wrong with these sentences:

1. There is always a heavy traffic in the city centre

2. After lunch we went to shopping

Hope anyone can help me Thanks!

[mamen]

Originally Posted by lineker1976

Hello,
I would like to know what is wrong with these sentences:

1. There is always a heavy traffic in the city center.

2. After lunch we went to shopping.

Hope anyone can help me Thanks!

I think it should be "...we went shopping.

[lineker1976]

Originally Posted by mamen

I think it should be "...we went shopping.

can we say after lunch we went for shopping?

[ABootleian]

I am not a teacher, but I am English, and have lived in England all my life and I would suggest that the two sentences would be, as follows:

1. There is always a heavy traffic in the city centre
This should be There is always heavy traffic, in the city centre.
2. After lunch we went to shopping
This sould be: After lunch, we went shopping.

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by lineker1976

Hello,
I would like to know what is wrong with these sentences:

1. There is always a heavy traffic in the city centre

2. After lunch we went to shopping

Hope anyone can help me Thanks!

1. There is always a heavy traffic in the city centre
2. After lunch we went to shopping. (we went shopping; we went dancing; we went fishing ...)

I would not add any commas.
Although it's common to add a comma after an adverbial phrase (sentence 2), this sentence is too short to bother doing that.
In sentence 1, there is simply no indication for one. You don't put a comma before a prepositional phrase.

[Soup]

Hello lineker1976

Here is why they are wrong.

1. *There is always a heavy traffic in the city centre.

traffic is a mass noun. It doesn't require a determiner; e.g., traffic, not *a traffic.

2. *After lunch we went to shopping.

Go to <a place>; e.g., went to the shops
Go <do something>; e.g., go shopping

[lineker1976]

i think i understand now the correct grammar in those sentences, thanks very much.. appreciate it!