a cable at each desk?

[Tack]

I'm writing an e-mail related to an IT project.

Are the lines below sounds fine/funny?

I am confused with how I should play with countable nouns.

1. In my office there are LAN cables for everybody.
2. Everyone has a LAN cable at their desk.
3. There is a LAN cable for each employee.
4. There is a LAN cable at each desk.

 

[bhaisahab]

I'm writing an e-mail related to an IT project.

Are the lines below sounds fine/funny?

I am confused with how I should play with countable nouns.

1. In my office there are LAN cables for everybody.
2. Everyone has a LAN cable at their desk.
3. There is a LAN cable for each employee.
4. There is a LAN cable at each desk.

All four are acceptable.

 

[5jj]

[STRIKE]Are[/STRIKE] do the lines below sound[STRIKE]s[/STRIKE] fine/funny?

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]Are[/STRIKE] Do the lines below sound[STRIKE]s[/STRIKE] fine/funny?

;-)

 

[Tack]

All four are acceptable.

That's a good news :-D

But look what's just been pointed out by other teachers. :lol:

 

[Tack]

;-)

[STRIKE]Are[/STRIKE] do the lines below sound[STRIKE]s[/STRIKE] fine/funny?

I can't believe how stupid I am...;-)

Thanks:up:

 

[5jj]

That's [STRIKE]a[/STRIKE] good news :-D
But look what's just been pointed out by other teachers. :lol:

And look what this one has just pointed out.

 

[Tack]

And look what this one has just pointed out.

I just have googled it.
"that's a good news" = > 9 million hits.. are they all written by non-native english speakers?:-(

"that's good news" => 18 million hits.

 

[SoothingDave]

"that's a good news" = > 9 million hits.. are they all written by non-native english speakers?

Either that, or taken out of context. Perusing the first page of Google hits shows that.

 

[5jj]

As we say so often in these forums, millions of google hits prove nothing at all about usage. The best places to check whether native speakers use a particular construction are corpora such as Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BYU-BNC).

Neither of these records 'what a good news' - not one single example.

 

[5jj]

Out of idle curiosity, I followed SoothingDave's lead and googled 'what a good news'. These four words do appear correctly sometimes in such examples as 'This was a good news report', in which the writer is talking about a news report that was good. It's 'a...report', not 'a...news'.

As we so often say, 'Context is vital'.

 

[Tack]

Out of idle curiosity, I followed SoothingDave's lead and googled 'what a good news'. These four words do appear correctly sometimes in such examples as 'This was a good news report', in which the writer is talking about a news report that was good. It's 'a...report', not 'a...news'.

As we so often say, 'Context is vital'.

Thanks for the comments.

By the way what I googled was 'That's a good news' with a double quotetion mark before and after the four wards ("that's a good news") to get exact muches.

I understand there are 'That's a good news cast' or something like that and understand that 'Context is vital'.

 

[Tack]

The best places to check whether native speakers use a particular construction are corpora such as Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BYU-BNC).

Neither of these records 'what a good news' - not one single example.

Thanks for the quality databases!!

It certainly boosts my appetite

However, I just searched for "That is a good news" on COCA, there is one example showed up.:?:

 

[5jj]

However, I just searched for "That is a good news" on COCA, there is one example showed up.:?:

Would you please quote the full sentence here.

 

[5jj]

Well, I have just tried 'what a good news' in Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) again, and got the message: “Sorry, there are no matching records.”

 

[Tack]

Well, I have just tried 'what a good news' in Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) again, and got the message: “Sorry, there are no matching records.”

The difference is;

You're searching for What a good news.
What I ve been asking is That is a good news.

"That is a good news" returns,

SPOK CBS_Early CHRIS-WRANGE:--it had nothing to do with partying.That is a good news and well tell you why Prince well --

Well, "that is good news" returns a lot more results and I understand this should be it.

 

[Tack]

All four are acceptable.

How about,

"There is a cabale for every body."

This sounds that there is only one cable available and people have to share it?

When I want to say that everyone gets one LAN cable, what should I say?

"Everyone gets a cable"?