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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
About a lazy boy
Can I say,
(a) John is a lazy boy. He did not like study. Sometimes, his teacher would scold / scolded him because he always forgot doing his homework.
(b) One day, he decided to play a truant in a shopping mall. He went / enjoyed roaming alone (in the mall).
(c) Suddenly, a policeman spotted him and took him to school. John's headmaster was angry and scolded him severely. He apologized to the headmaster and consent the headmaster not to do it again.
(a) John is a lazy boy. He did not like study. Sometimes, his teacher would scold / scolded him because he always forgot doing his homework.
(b) One day, he decided to play a truant in a shopping mall. He went / enjoyed roaming alone (in the mall).
(c) Suddenly, a policeman spotted him and took him to school. John's headmaster was angry and scolded him severely. He apologized to the headmaster and consent the headmaster not to do it again.
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(a) he did not like to study; scolded *; forgot to do (b) go truant; went (c) promised the headmaster *"Would" is often used to indicate repeated actions in the past. I try to discourage this when dealing with English learners because it is a key word in conditional sentences that may have nothing to do with repeated past actions.
- (a) he did not like to study; scolded *; forgot to do (b) go truant; went (c) promised the headmaster *"Would" is often used to indicate repeated actions in the past.
- I try to discourage this when dealing with English learners because it is a key word in conditional sentences that may have nothing to do with repeated past actions.
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(a) he did not like to study; scolded *; forgot to do
(b) go truant; went
(c) promised the headmaster
*"Would" is often used to indicate repeated actions in the past. I try to discourage this when dealing with English learners because it is a key word in conditional sentences that may have nothing to do with repeated past actions.
(b) go truant; went
(c) promised the headmaster
*"Would" is often used to indicate repeated actions in the past. I try to discourage this when dealing with English learners because it is a key word in conditional sentences that may have nothing to do with repeated past actions.
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a) the form of the verb after LIKE should be in the -ING form (we call this the gerond= a verb used as a noun. Here= it says WHAT he did not like). Concerning WOULD SCOLD vs SCOLDED. With the adverbs ( 'SOMETIMES & ALWAYS), the frequentive value of WOULD comes out clearly.
b) the line you underlined works with both verbs, however in the part "play truant" I would leave the article o
b) the line you underlined works with both verbs, however in the part "play truant" I would leave the article o
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