Questions!

[rosalinda-143.livejournal.com]

Haven't had a question in a while... but now...

Which one(s) would be right?

1. I don't like this type of shoes
2. I don't like these type of shoes
3. I don't like these types of shoes
4. I don't like this type of shoe

The next one is easier done in an example:

When I asked Skye about that, she told me that they cut a hole in my trachea and actually inserted a tube into it because I wasn't breathing on my own, and I had a lot of blood in my throat (or esophagus so they couldn't put a tube down that way).

or

When I asked Skye about that, she told me that they cut a hole in my trachea and actually inserted a tube into it because I wasn't breathing on my own, and I had a lot of blood in my throat. (Or esophagus so they couldn't put a tube down that way.)

Or are they both right. Or does it depend on how the sentence is worded...?

Well, thanks for listening, and thanks in advanced!

peace.love.happiness.

~ J

Comments

[winter-tulip.livejournal.com]

4. I think. It's definitely "this type" because type is singular.

The first. You can't start a sentence with or. Although I'm not sure why anyone would think of inserting a tube into the oesophagus to aid breathing in the first place?

[captlychee.livejournal.com]

IN the first, 3 and 4 are correct. The article, 'this' or 'these' should agree with the noun 'type' or 'types' in number, so if you are talking about more than one type of shoes, it's 'these types of shoes'. 'Type of shoe' or types' of sheos' is a phrase treated as one noun.

In the second one, I presume you areusing 'eosphagus' as another word for 'throat', so in that case you would just put parentheses around the phrase 'or esophagus', thus:When I asked Skye about that, she told me that they cut a hole in my trachea and actually inserted a tube into it because I wasn't breathing on my own, and I had a lot of blood in my throat (or esophagus) so they couldn't put a tube down that way.

Of course, you might be saying that they couldn't put a tube down that way because 'that way' is called 'eosphagus', which would make your first use perfectly correct, as winter_tulip has said, though a bit obscure in meaning.

[mercury-hall.livejournal.com]

1 and 4 would both be correct, but I personally like the sound of 1 better.