Here is a tough grammar question I've been struggling with. Of the following 2 sentences, which one of them is correct?
1) Soccer is what the Europeans call "football".
2) "Football" is what the Europeans call soccer.
Here is a tough grammar question I've been struggling with. Of the following 2 sentences, which one of them is correct?
1) Soccer is what the Europeans call "football".
2) "Football" is what the Europeans call soccer.
Wow...not only do I suck at math but now apparently I suck at English too!! LOL I think both are correct...however, after careful examination...I don't that that starting a sentence with words in quotes is correct. I also think that in sentence number one football doesn't need to be in quotes. Personally I would change the sentence to read...In America is called Soccer and in Europe it's called football....then all your problems would be solved.
Thanks for the help, Silly. I'm still not totally sure. I think the problem is that the verb "call" actually has two different meanings. In the first sentence, it means "refer to as". In the second, it means "use as a term for". The difference is subtile, but it is there.
It's also passive voice and it's better to use the active voice.
Europeans refer to soccer as football.
That seems to work well.Originally Posted by heyang
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Americans refer to football as "soccer"
LOL - Brits started calling it soccer 1st!! http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/wor...all070110.html
All right then.
Anyway, what does the word soccer mean? Pronounced in my language it means sugar
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