Are they grammatically correct and do they sound natural? Thank you.

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I will catch up with school work this weekend.

I can't eat any kind of nuts. Suppose I am allergic to all kinds of nuts. Peanuts, hazelnuts and such like.

I can't stand this any more/longer.

I don't know how you should pronounce this word. Or should it be 'I don't know how should you pronounce this word' ?

He was trying to understand what they are doing.

Could you please tell me whether these sentences are grammatical and natural?

Thank you so much.

Best wishes,

PBF

Jadarite · Accepted Answer

"I will catch up with school work this weekend."

Fine, but I would say "have to" instead. "I have to catch up on school work this weekend"

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"I can't eat any kind of nuts. Suppose I am allergic to all kinds of nuts. Peanuts, hazelnuts and such like."

I think "any kinds" is more correct. Take these sentences for example:

"I can't drink just any kind of tea. It has to be green tea".
"What kind of movie are you watching?"

I think "kind" would be used more often when the speaker wants to single out one thing from a group. In your example you are talking about all nuts.

If you say you are allergic to "all" kinds of nuts, you don't need to list examples. If I talk about outdoor sports (like baseball, soccer, and golf), I am not talking about all sports (like gymnastics, which is an indoor sport). You only need to give examples if you are including a division.

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"I don't know how you should pronounce this word. Or should it be 'I don't know how should you pronounce this word' ?"

I don't know how you should pronounce this word.

If you use the other, it becomes both a statement and a question (I don't know. How should you pronounce this word?")

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"He was trying to understand what they are doing."

He was trying to understand what they WERE doing.

Are they grammatically correct and do they sound natural? Thank you.

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