Grammar/along with

Grammar/along with
Message from onlyenglish posted on 15-02-2013 at 14:27:51 (D | E | F)
Hello everyone,
this is my first post to this site, I'm interested to get help for learning in getting help to learn more complicated structures in English. Could you help me please?
Regards.

question: Plant disease, ........ ruined most of the corps.
1)along with a prolonged drought, has
2)together with a prolonged drought, has
3)with prolonged drought, have
4)along with prolonged drought, have

Can sb somebody give me a kind of explanation for this?
tnx Thanks.

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Edited by lucile83 on 15-02-2013 20:51

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Re: Grammar/along with from gerondif, posted on 15-02-2013 at 14:38:03 (D | E)
Hello,

Hello every one, this is my first post to this site, I'm interested in getting help (in order) to learn more complicated structures in English, regards.


question: Plant disease, ........ ruined most of the crops.

1)along with a prolonged drought, has
2)together with a prolonged drought, has
3)with prolonged drought, have
4)along with prolonged drought, have

You have to choose one of the four solutions and insert it in your sentence. The last two are plural and probably don't fit.

I found this on the internet: "What happens in a drought? What is the current situation? Information on water restrictions and what you can do if a drought occurs."

so drought can be countable! Consequently, I would choose 2)

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Re: Grammar/along with from notrepere, posted on 15-02-2013 at 17:28:33 (D | E)
Hello

I find 1 and 2 to be fine, but apparently they don't say "along with" in British English.

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Re: Grammar/along with from gerondif, posted on 15-02-2013 at 17:45:59 (D | E)
Hello np,

I didn't check "along with" versus "together with", I would have said that along with is fine with people whereas together with is more general, but that could just be a figment of my imagination.

dictionary on line:

along adv (accompanying) avec prép
When Joe goes to the shops, his sister likes to come along too.
Quand Joe va faire les magasins, sa sœur aime bien venir avec lui.

but it also says:
along with prep (together with ) avec prép

After all, we don't know how many entries are supposed to be correct in onlyenglish's exercise....

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Re: Grammar/along with from notrepere, posted on 15-02-2013 at 20:15:17 (D | E)
Hello gerondif

I found "along with" in one BE dictionary, but "together with" is more common. In AE, "together with" is only used in formal documents. It sounds a bit "stuffy" to me. For that reason, I suspect "2" is the intended answer.

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