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Vincent Teo Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Are they correct?
Can I say,
(a) He is a postman. His job is to deliver letter. / He needs to deliever
letters every day from house to house. / His work is to deliver...
(b) He knew the owner had away for travelling for 3 days.
He knew the owner was away for travelling. / ... was travelling away.
(c) One day, when he was on his way to deliver letters, he saw 2 strange
men climbing over the fence into the house.
(d) Susan ran to the telephone booth, and called the police. The police
arrived for about / about 20 minutes.
(a) He is a postman. His job is to deliver letter. / He needs to deliever
letters every day from house to house. / His work is to deliver...
(b) He knew the owner had away for travelling for 3 days.
He knew the owner was away for travelling. / ... was travelling away.
(c) One day, when he was on his way to deliver letters, he saw 2 strange
men climbing over the fence into the house.
(d) Susan ran to the telephone booth, and called the police. The police
arrived for about / about 20 minutes.
Top answer
(a) He is a postman. His job is to deliver letters . / He needs to deliver letters every day from house to house.
- (a) He is a postman.
- His job is to deliver letters .
- / He needs to deliver letters every day from house to house.
- / His work is to deliver...
- (b) He knew the owner had been away travelling for 3 days.
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(a) He is a postman. His job is to deliver letters. / He needs to deliver
letters every day from house to house. / His work is to deliver...
(b) He knew the owner had been away travelling for 3 days.
He knew the owner was away travelling. / ... was away.
(c) One day, when he was on his way to deliver letters, he saw
letters every day from house to house. / His work is to deliver...
(b) He knew the owner had been away travelling for 3 days.
He knew the owner was away travelling. / ... was away.
(c) One day, when he was on his way to deliver letters, he saw
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Why can't I put "comma" after "booth"? Why can't I say "for about / about / for 20
minutes"?
(d) Susan ran to the telephone booth, and called the police. The police
arrived for about / about 20 minutes.
minutes"?
(d) Susan ran to the telephone booth, and called the police. The police
arrived for about / about 20 minutes.
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You cannot put a comma after booth because it is a simple sentence with a compound predicate.
You cannot use for because it is a prepostion of duration (for 20 minutes, etc), but 'arrival' is an instantaneous event, which happened, I presume, at the end of 20 minutes (in 20 minutes, etc.)
You cannot use for because it is a prepostion of duration (for 20 minutes, etc), but 'arrival' is an instantaneous event, which happened, I presume, at the end of 20 minutes (in 20 minutes, etc.)
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The police did not arrive for just 20 minutes but it took the police 20 minutes to arrive.
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