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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Could you please correct my thoughts on sentences?
Could you please help correct these sentences and which word yo use?
What I think is in bold.
- It takes as long to get home by bus as (by) train. by optional
- Do I get paid double on national holidays?
- I'll be fine when I've slept/ I sleep 9 hours. I've slept is better
- He makes a lot of noise when he breathes/when breathing. BOTH
- If you worked during the day and I at night, I would come home when you left for work/when you would leave for work. left for work
- Who are you making yourself pretty for? ok
- Don't act as if you're sick to make me feel sorry for you./so I feel sorry for you. both
Thank you
What I think is in bold.
- It takes as long to get home by bus as (by) train. by optional
- Do I get paid double on national holidays?
- I'll be fine when I've slept/ I sleep 9 hours. I've slept is better
- He makes a lot of noise when he breathes/when breathing. BOTH
- If you worked during the day and I at night, I would come home when you left for work/when you would leave for work. left for work
- Who are you making yourself pretty for? ok
- Don't act as if you're sick to make me feel sorry for you./so I feel sorry for you. both
Thank you
Top answer
It takes as long to get home by bus as (by) train. by optional. CORRECT - Do I get paid double on national holidays?
- It takes as long to get home by bus as (by) train.
- by optional.
- CORRECT - Do I get paid double on national holidays?
- - 1.
- It may be a national holiday, but we generally refer to them as “public holidays” - 2.
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It takes as long to get home by bus as (by) train. by optional. CORRECT
- Do I get paid double on national holidays?
- 1. It may be a national holiday, but we generally refer to them as “public holidays”
- 2. "for' instead of 'on' - you are being paid double for working on that day; whereas most people are out enjoying themselves on public holidays
- I'll be fine when
- Do I get paid double on national holidays?
- 1. It may be a national holiday, but we generally refer to them as “public holidays”
- 2. "for' instead of 'on' - you are being paid double for working on that day; whereas most people are out enjoying themselves on public holidays
- I'll be fine when
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***, I hate this word processor. The strike-through feature didn't work, and now, I don't have a menu to make certain words bold etc.
Hope you can understand it OK.
Hope you can understand it OK.
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