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Alc24 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Can somebody please help me correct these questions?
I'm having trouble formulating these as I've translated them from another language. Could someone help me with the grammar?
1 I hate people whose gums show when they smile.
2 You'll save 50 dollars on 500./for every 500 you spend.
3 No one has told me as much as today how pretty I am.
4 The boss pays you overtime you've done in october in november.
5 Instead of having my best friend with me, I had her help me with it.
6 The more you wait before seeing him again, the more space he'll give you once you are friends with him again.
7 I was thinking back at/on/over the last two wonderful years I had here.
Thank you
1 I hate people whose gums show when they smile.
2 You'll save 50 dollars on 500./for every 500 you spend.
3 No one has told me as much as today how pretty I am.
4 The boss pays you overtime you've done in october in november.
5 Instead of having my best friend with me, I had her help me with it.
6 The more you wait before seeing him again, the more space he'll give you once you are friends with him again.
7 I was thinking back at/on/over the last two wonderful years I had here.
Thank you
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Hello Alc, 1. This is grammatical and prudent. 2.
- Hello Alc, 1.
- This is grammatical and prudent.
- 2.
- Only the 2nd option would work (in British English, at least).
- 3.
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Hello Alc,
1. This is grammatical and prudent.
2. Only the 2nd option would work (in British English, at least).
3. This is the first problematical example. On first reading, it implies that "today" has told you how pretty you are, i.e. "no one as much as today has told me...".
Can you think of another way of expressing the same idea?
1. This is grammatical and prudent.
2. Only the 2nd option would work (in British English, at least).
3. This is the first problematical example. On first reading, it implies that "today" has told you how pretty you are, i.e. "no one as much as today has told me...".
Can you think of another way of expressing the same idea?
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Hello Pedantic,
Now that I've reread it , I understand the meaning, but I wouldn't know how to rephrase it, could you help me?
Could you tell me what you think of the rest please as I'm not sure they are correct?
Thank you so much
Now that I've reread it , I understand the meaning, but I wouldn't know how to rephrase it, could you help me?
Could you tell me what you think of the rest please as I'm not sure they are correct?
Thank you so much
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alc24Now that I've reread it , I understand the meaning, but I wouldn't know how to rephrase it, could you help me?
I'm not altogether sure of the meaning you intended - did you mean that today you have been told how pretty you are several times by different people, or just once by one person, but very effusively?
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I'm trying to say "lots of people have come up and said I was pretty"
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So you want to say that never have so many people told you how pretty you are as today, I think.
Can you see how to use that in the first person singular?
Can you see how to use that in the first person singular?
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