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Taka Posted 19 years ago
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0 01i00Word order is not so important as it is in English, and in many ways the language 01u00seems more 02u01font01u00consistent02u00 02font00than others, including English. That's the good news.02br
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02i00How do you interpret 'seems more consistent' above? My book says it's 'seems to have more regularity', but is it really so?02br
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00In my opinion, it's almost the same as 'seems semantically consistent (regardless of the word order), but I'm not sure on this one.0-
  

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1i 00That's a good news. 02i 02br 02br 01b 00Did you copy wrongly? "News" is not countable.

— Yoong Liat

  • 1i 00That's a good news.
  • 02i 02br 02br 01b 00Did you copy wrongly?
  • "News" is not countable.
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1i00That's a good news. 02i02br
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01b00Did you copy wrongly? "News" is not countable. So the sentence is incorrect.02b02br
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01b00I will leave the meaning to another member.02br
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01cite10Yoong Liat12cite11i10That's a good news. 12i12br
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11b10Did you copy wrongly? "News" is not countable. So the sentence is incorrect.12b12br
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11b10I will leave the meaning to another member.12br
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1i00That's the good news - is fine.02i02br
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01i00(Not 'a' good news, YL)02i02br
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01i00I'd say they just mean that there are fewer irregularities and exceptions to the rules. So verbs tend to be regular and there aren't all those awkward 'well the rule is X but in the case of Y just forget the rule and do somethi
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite11i10That's the good news - is fine.12i12br
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11i10(Not 'a' good news, YL)12i12br
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11i10I'd say they just mean that there are less irregularities and exceptions to the rules. So verbs tend to be regular and there aren't all thos
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite11i10(11b10Not 'a' good news12b10, YL)12i12br
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10The above phrase was written by Taka. I told him that he must have copied wrongly as 'news' is uncountable. And he corrected it. Just to clear the misunderstanding.0-
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