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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

5 questions need help with please???

Could you help me with these sentences please?

1 You're a low life as it is, so at least make yourself presentable when you go see your parents ever once in a while.

2 JOHN: The reflection of the light blinded me. SARAH: The reflection of what/which light?
3 We lost the cops./shook the cops. (driving)
4 I know how to get you off on a DUI charge./I can get you off on a DUI. (how would you say this?)
5 While I was on my way up to see him, he was on his way down.

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, you are really saying, you're a low-life person . I assume the sense of the sentence is that the person is not normally presentable. The sentence would be better rewritten thus: I know you're a real low-life, but please make yourself presentable when you go to see our parents.

— Jason.oconal

  • , you are really saying, you're a low-life person .
  • I assume the sense of the sentence is that the person is not normally presentable.
  • The sentence would be better rewritten thus: I know you're a real low-life, but please make yourself presentable when you go to see our parents.
  • , if the speaker was asking what light?
  • and meaning -- where is the light?
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(1) The word 'low life' ought to have a hyphen in it as you are using it as a substantive adjective (an adjective without the noun it qualifies), i.e., you are really saying, you're a low-life person. I assume the sense of the sentence is that the person is not normally presentable. The sentence would be better rewritten thus: I know you're a real low-life, but please make yourself pres
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