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Why is "In this letter is an invitation" not acceptable? Is = jest Adding "there" is ok, but seems unnecessary.
I would personally always write it with "there", but if you believe your answer should have been accepted, you can always report it.
Typically "there" would go at the beginning or the end of a sentence. Perhaps it is grammatically correct, but just awkward in terms of sentence structure.
From the best of my knowledge this case requires "there" and accepting "in this letter is an invitation" was a mistake. It's grammatically incorrect. Perhaps this is one of the common mistakes of native speakers on spoken English, but incorrect, specially on writing. However feel free to prove me wrong
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"in this letter (there) is an invitation" is correct but sounds quaint to me. "there is an invitation in this letter" is more natural I think.
True, it is indeed a strange sentence for the default one. Changed to your version, which translates exactly the same.
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I faithfully followed the hover hints and wrote "This letter includes an invitation" -- which Duo rejected (in favour of "In this letter is an invitation"!). So I'll try "There is an invitation in this letter" next time...
Well, mostly the fact that you started with 'an invitation', so effectively you put the whole sentence around.
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Well it's been awhile since I got this sentence and I thought it was a strange but creative themed party invitation so I entered: " In this leaf is an invitation. " Hahaha ..ah. Sigh ... (I know ...leaves (plural ) would have more accurate if it was going that direction.)
Well, it's close ;) If it was indeed one leaf, that would be "W tym liściu", if plural leaves, "W tych liściach".
No. The change of word order changes also the subject into object in the phrase.
In both sentences I see the subject "invitation". What is the difference between this and the main answer?
In "W tym liście jest zaproszenie", the existence of some invitation is a new piece of information for you - that's why the English sentence cannot use "the invitation", because that would mean you already knew about its existence.
It's not wrong, but it's quite different, don't you think? There is no equivalent of "W", you changed the verb from "to be" to "to contain"... Your sentence is "Ten list zawiera zaproszenie".
Well, yes, the words are different; but I fail to see how the meanings differ.
If I were translating from Russian, "This letter contains an invitation" would be the first translation to pop to my mind -- that's what actually happened when I was working on this lesson.
On the contrary, literal equivalent of "This letter contains an invitation" in Russian sounds pretentious and rather unnatural for everyday speech, in Russian I would say "There is an invitation in this letter".
Eh, I guess it won't hurt. I guess Polish "Ten list zawiera zaproszenie" isn't exactly everyday speech as well. OK, added.
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The only way I could see "with" working here would be if there is a letter and an invitation as two separate items that are delivered together. It's a bit pedantic, admittedly
With means accompanying So it could be in the envelope or as an attachment to an e mail
That's Arnold's explanation to my question to his question above, just written separately. Still, that's a different preposition and a different meaning, although at least I understand what he meant then.
