Oct 27, 2014 19:14
9 yrs ago
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English term
the arrival of an airport
Homework / test
English
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Tourism & Travel
The following is an excerpt from an English proofreading test about tourist resorts in Greece:
"Kamari there has several new and modern hotels which provide luxurious accommodation, but you may be equally happy renting an inexpensive room near the seaside, where the facilities are basic but comfortable.
Perissa beach is also a wonderful place in the south of the island. It is a fine stretch of coastline—it's famous black sand made up of tiny particles of sand and stone. Perissa has blue sea, black sand, and blue skies—a formula that attracts thousands of visitors every year.
However, some will lament the arrival of an airport large enough to handle big jets from all over the Continent."
My guess is that the last sentence deals with the discomfort of hearing noise from a nearby airport. Is there anything wrong with the phrase "the arrival of an airport"? Should it read "the arrivals of an airport" or "the arrivals to an airport"? It is a proofreading, and not an editing test.
"Kamari there has several new and modern hotels which provide luxurious accommodation, but you may be equally happy renting an inexpensive room near the seaside, where the facilities are basic but comfortable.
Perissa beach is also a wonderful place in the south of the island. It is a fine stretch of coastline—it's famous black sand made up of tiny particles of sand and stone. Perissa has blue sea, black sand, and blue skies—a formula that attracts thousands of visitors every year.
However, some will lament the arrival of an airport large enough to handle big jets from all over the Continent."
My guess is that the last sentence deals with the discomfort of hearing noise from a nearby airport. Is there anything wrong with the phrase "the arrival of an airport"? Should it read "the arrivals of an airport" or "the arrivals to an airport"? It is a proofreading, and not an editing test.
Responses
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1 day 2 hrs
Selected
the fact that an airport has been constructed
It's already there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini_(Thira)_National_Airp... and apparently handles Boeing 757, Boeing 737, Airbus 320 series, Avro RJ, Fokker 70, and ATR 72 planes, which all sounds rather noisy to me, especially the first three.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+5
3 mins
the future construction of an airport
This means that there are plans to build a larger airport, which will cause the cited lamentations. Nothing to do with actual flight arrivals.
Peer comment(s):
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Jack Doughty
17 mins
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agree |
Armorel Young
2 hrs
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agree |
Trudy Peters
4 hrs
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agree |
Arabic & More
7 hrs
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neutral |
Václav Pinkava
: see discussion
11 hrs
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agree |
dhsanjeev
: Text is correct. Its about the upcoming airport in that area.
3 days 6 hrs
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+3
8 mins
probably all right
If you are actually doing "proofreading" then you have text to compare this to and it is either right or wrong. However, I suspect you are really doing an editing job even though you say otherwise.
There may be better ways of putting this, but I can see a native speaker writing it.
There may be better ways of putting this, but I can see a native speaker writing it.
Peer comment(s):
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Helena Chavarria
: Reading between the lines, maybe the person who wrote the text was playing on words: 'the arrival of an airport', when it's more common to use 'arrival' when referring to planes and passengers, not the actual building!
4 mins
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Thanks Helena. Yes, it could well be that.
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Tony M
: Yes, I think it might be more elegant to say 'the advent of...', since something as motionless as an airport can hardly 'arrive' anywhere. / LOL! Me too!
22 mins
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Thanks Tony. I have a sttong preference for runways that stay where they are.
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B D Finch
: Yes, the text is OK as is.
1 day 2 hrs
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Thanks Barbara.
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Discussion
For it to mean what you suggest, it would need to have been worded something more like "Lament the lack of a larger airport".
I suppose that the use of "there" in the phrase "Kamari there has several new and modern hotels" in the first sentence is also correct.