Subj : catt and dog
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Roy Witt
Date : Fri Jul 06 2018 22:01:02

Greetings alexander!

 ak> Hi, all!


 ak> http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30205410
 ak> -----Beginning of the citation-----
 ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cat or dog," said
 ak> Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection group SOS
 ak> Chats Noiraigue."
 ak> ----- The end of the citation -----

 ak> Should a reporter replay the errors of the person he interviewed?

Yes. The reporter should do this to show what the person interviewed had
actually said about it. In this way, the reporter does not interject his
own opinon to the interview.

 ak> Or
 ak> we can write "cat and dog" without any article?

Yes.

 ak> I would say:
 ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cats or dogs,"  said
 ak> Tomi Tomek,  founder and president  of  animal  protection  group
 ak> SOS  Chats Noiraigue."

That one sounds correct.

 ak> or at least:

 ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat the cat or dog,"
 ak> said Tomi Tomek,  founder and president  of  animal  protection
 ak> group  SOS Chats Noiraigue."

I like the first one best. What it says is that a percentage of Swiss
people eat cats or dogs (in a pluralty) as a group. With the edition of
the word 'the' the sentence, you're now talking about the cat and dog as a
singular entity.


    Have a day!

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