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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Can you make it more effective?

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01i00There are four members in my family and they are a father, a mother, a grandmother and me. 02i0-
  

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0This is a very odd sentence in English, but it seems to be a very common English formation by ESLs. 02br 02br 02i 00 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 0This is a very odd sentence in English, but it seems to be a very common English formation by ESLs.
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0This is a very odd sentence in English, but it seems to be a very common English formation by ESLs. I suppose that it suffers in translation.02br
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01i00I have a father and mother, and a grandmother.02br
00I live with my father and mother, and my grandmother.02br
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0Thank you.02br
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00Is the sentence "01i00I have four members in my family02i00." sounds odd and suffering somewhat with translation difficulty to you, MM?0-
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0Yes. 01i00There are four people in my family02i00.0-
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