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Kittixay Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Check my mistakes, please

1. When I was a child, I didn't learn swimming.
- I wish I had learnt swimming when I was a child.

2.When we were children, we used to live by the sea in Summer. If the weather had been nice,
we would have gotten up early and gone for a swim.

3. At the time you saw me when I got long hair, did you think who it was?
4. A: What are you eating?
B: Papaya salad, at least it is also one kind of food.

5. How do I have to renew my visa? And how much do I have to pay for the extension? Can
you suggest me?
  

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Hi, 1. When I was a child, I didn't learn swimming. - I wish I had learnt swimming when I was a child.

  • Hi, 1.
  • When I was a child, I didn't learn swimming.
  • - I wish I had learnt swimming when I was a child.
  • OK.
  • But 'to swim' is more natural than 'swimming' in this context.
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Hi,

1. When I was a child, I didn't learn swimming.
- I wish I had learnt swimming when I was a child.


OK. But 'to swim' is more natural than 'swimming' in this context.

2.When we were children, we used to live by the sea in (the) summer. If the weather had been nice,
we would have gotten up early and
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Clive
2.When we were children, we used to live by the sea in (the) summer. If the weather had been nice,
we would have gotten up early and gone for swims. The plural sounds better, because you are thinking of many occasions in the summer.
I wonder whether Kittixay ac

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