Question

2785 1 On a beautiful day like today it's no use staying at home. On a beautiful day like today [[it's no use]] staying at home. there's no point in Use it's no use/good doing sth when you mean that a particular action will not help to deal with a need or difficulty: 'For spellings, it's no use looking in a grammar book. What you need is a dictionary.'When you mean that something has no useful purpose, use there's no point in doing sth: 'There's no point in having a dictionary if you never use it.'When you are talking about a present habit, use the present simple tense (NOT use to do ): 'I (usually) have two cups of coffee at breakfast.'

Accepted Answer

use ✗ On a beautiful day like today there's no point in staying at home. On a beautiful day like today [[there's no point in]] staying at home. there's no point in | it's no use

Idx	2785
Keyword	use
Sub Entry Number	1
Type of Sentence	✗
Error Sentence	On a beautiful day like today it's no use staying at home.
Correct Sentence	On a beautiful day like today there's no point in staying at home.
Cloze Error Sentence	On a beautiful day like today [[it's no use]] staying at home.
Cloze Sentence	On a beautiful day like today [[there's no point in]] staying at home.
Cloze Answer	there's no point in
Choices	there's no point in \| it's no use
Explanation	Use it's no use/good doing sth when you mean that a particular action will not help to deal with a need or difficulty: 'For spellings, it's no use looking in a grammar book. What you need is a dictionary.' When you mean that something has no useful purpose, use there's no point in doing sth: 'There's no point in having a dictionary if you never use it.' When you are talking about a present habit, use the present simple tense (NOT use to do ): 'I (usually) have two cups of coffee at breakfast.'

Point Beautiful Day Today Staying Home Sth Present