Visit the doctor annually

English as a Second Language English Teacher Explanations (ESL Tests)
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Test No. [color=blue]incompl/advan-27 “At the Doctors”, question 8

The treatment has proved very successful but to check progress he has to arrange to visit the doctor’s ….

(a) usually
(b) always
(c) principally
(d) annually

Test No. [color=blue]incompl/advan-27 “At the Doctors”, answer 8

The treatment has proved very successful but to check progress he has to arrange to visit the doctor’s annually.

Correct answer: (d) annually

Your answer was: [color=green]correct
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the doctor’s annually?
this 's here means?

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Richard,

Please take a look at the context: to visit the doctor’s annually means you see the doctor once a year.[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC listening, photographs: At the hospital[YSaerTTEW443543]

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If I could add a comment - the apostrophe is an indication that this is the surgery of the doctor as in the butcher’s meaning the shop of the butcher.

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I see now, so it works just as in: in “my mother’s house” or at my mom’s, right?

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Absolutely. Incidentally a comment about the mantra that you use at the end of your messages should read:

I should have been born in the USA. I’ve got this thing about America.

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Corrected… :lol:

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Yes you are.[YSaerTTEW443543]

TOEIC listening, photographs: Two people enjoying the sea[YSaerTTEW443543]

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Hi,

Why don’t you send him a note and ask him?

Alan

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:lol: :lol:
The comparison isn’t deliberate, is it? Still, it sounds as if you might have had a bad experience at the doctor’s.

You don’t have to answer this, Alan, as it’s only a rhetorical question :slight_smile: .