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Vincent Teo Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

About the tenses 20

Are they correct?

(a) My best friend is a Chinese girl. She is Susan. We are studying in Tzu school and same class. Her father is a mechanic and her mother is a clerk.



(b) She likes to eat fried chicken and drink fruit juice. Her favourite colours are blue and pink. During the free time, we go to the library. we read as many books as we can in the library.



(c) Her ambition is to be a bank manager when she grows up.



(d) She has a big eyes, a pointed nose and a wide mouth.
  

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Vincent Teo Are they correct? (a) My best friend is a Chinese girl. She is Susan.

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  • Vincent Teo Are they correct?
  • (a) My best friend is a Chinese girl.
  • She is Susan.
  • We are studying in Tzu school and same class.
  • Her father is a mechanic and her mother is a clerk.
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Vincent TeoAre they correct?

(a) My best friend is a Chinese girl. She is Susan. We are studying in Tzu school and same class. Her father is a mechanic and her mother is a clerk.



(b) She likes to eat fried chicken and drink fruit juice. Her favourite colours are blue and pink. During the free time, we go to the library. we read as many books a
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Peaceblinkfriend
Vincent TeoAre they correct?

(a) My best friend is a Chinese girl. She is Susan. We are studying in Tzu school and same class. Her father is a mechanic and her mother is a clerk.



(b) She likes to eat fried chicken and drink fruit juice. Her favourite colours are blue and pink. During the free time, we g
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Spectacled-Girl
Peaceblinkfriend
Vincent Teo

(c) Her ambition is to be a bank manager when she grows up.


I gave you what I would say. It doesn't necessarily mean that you were wrong.
Hmm, I think you should add a 'would' in sentence (b).
Can you give me a re
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Spectacled-Girl

Hmm, I think you should add a 'would' in sentence (b).

I don't think 'would' shoud be put in the sentence here as my grammar book points out that 'would' and 'used to' can also be used to say that something happened regularly in the past but no longer does so. However, I am not sure if it will really look like '
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user="Peaceblinkfriend"
I don't think 'would' shoud be put in the sentence here as my grammar book points out that 'would' and 'used to' can also be used to say that something happened regularly in the past but no longer does so. However, I am not sure if it will really look like 'we' don't go to the library anymore if 'would' is used. PBF

Could we please elaborate on
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I don't think 'would' should be put in the sentence here as my grammar book points out that 'would' and 'used to' can also be used to say that something happened regularly in the past but no longer does so. However, I am not sure if it will really look like 'we' don't go to the library anymore if 'would' is used.
PBF
Could we please elaborate on the sentence in
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She likes fried chicken and juice. --- . In our free time, we would go to the library and read lots of books.

1) “She Likes”- is present, so the tense is established in the context.

2) If we talked about a particular kind of juice, we need to define it, i.e. apple juice or orange juice. If not defined, it should be expressed either in plu
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