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Dear Teachers,1) What’s your favoutrite sports/sport?- My favourite sports/sport is:- Wind-surfing/ figure skating / bodybuilding / aesthetic exercising / roller-skating / bungee jumping / parachuting / horseracing / boat-racing / bicycle-racing / car-racing / motorcycle/motorbike-racing / archery / shooting / shot-putting / javelin-throwing / running marathon / shuttle cock-kicking / jumping rope / skipping / long-jumping / bowling.- Are these ok to say?2) Could you please let me know the differences about “sometime”, “some time”, “ some times”, “sometimes”? And can you give me some examples?3) Who loves you best/most/the most in your family? - Nobody/no one loves me.- My parents love me best/most/the most in my family.- Everybody/Everyone loves me best/most/the most in my family.* Are these natural?-Thanks very much to Teachers.                   Stevenukd.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

1-- favorite; sports/sport are/is. Some of your 'sports' are too odd to include; I would keep--

Wind-surfing / figure skating / bodybuilding / roller-skating / bungee jumping / parachuting / horseracing / boat-racing / bicycle-racing / car-racing / motorcycle- or motorbike-racing / archery / shooting / running marathon / bowling--

and add aerobics / baseball / basketball / volleyball / footsal / tennis / soccer / surfboarding.

Please check (again) which should be two words, which one word, and which hyphenated.

2--

sometime = at some indefinite time in the future: I will go to Tokyo sometime next week.
sometimes = occasionally: I sometimes go bowling/bungee-jumping.
some time = an unspecified amount of time: It took some time to learn to bungee-jump.
some times = various time periods: Some times are auspicious for liberal views, and other times are not.

3-- Yes.

Clive · Answer

Hi,

I'll deal with your first question. All these sports sound OK except

aesthetic exercising I'm not sure what this is.

boat-racing We usually speak of 'sailing' and 'regattas'.

shot-putting We usually say 'putting the shot'

running marathons

shuttle ***-kicking I've never hear of this. Shuttlecocks are just used for badminton. Do you know the sport called hacky-sack, where you use your feet to try to keep a little bag in the air?

jumping rope / skipping These terms mean the same thing, NAmE vs.BrE

Best wishes, Clive

CalifJim · Answer

Re: some time(s) sometime(s) - See:

Mister Micawber · Answer

Thanks, Jim-- I missed the some time when I'm not busy one.

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