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Taka Posted 14 years ago
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Do these sentences sound OK and have the same meaning?
·When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently as/because I am influenced by the way they speak.
·When I teach English in the class for beginners, as/because I am influenced by the way they speak, I often find myself not speaking English fluently.
·When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently, influenced by the way they speak.
·When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently as/because I am influenced by the way they speak.
·When I teach English in the class for beginners, as/because I am influenced by the way they speak, I often find myself not speaking English fluently.
·When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently, influenced by the way they speak.
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When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently as/because I am influenced by the way they speak. correct When I teach English in the class for beginners, as/because I am influenced by the way they speak, I often find myself not speaking English fluently. correct When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently, influenced by the way they speak.
- When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently as/because I am influenced by the way they speak.
- correct When I teach English in the class for beginners, as/because I am influenced by the way they speak, I often find myself not speaking English fluently.
- correct When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently, influenced by the way they speak.
- not correct to me
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When I teach English in the class for beginners, I often find myself not speaking English fluently as/because I am influenced by the way they speak. correct
When I teach English in the class for beginners, as/because I am influenced by the way they speak, I often find myself not speaking English fluently.
When I teach English in the class for beginners, as/because I am influenced by the way they speak, I often find myself not speaking English fluently.
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They are quite understandable, and more or less correct grammatically, except for the third one, which is very awkward. However, none of the sentences is really fluent - the word "they" is awkwardly positioned in all of them and might be considered rather ambiguous. I would revise them all to be:
I teach a beginning English class and find myself unconsciously influenced by the halting w
I teach a beginning English class and find myself unconsciously influenced by the halting w
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TakaDo these sentences sound OK and have the same meaning?They all have the same meaning, but only the first one sounds OK (naturally phrased) to me.
CJ
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Interesting, Jim. You don't think the second one sounds right.
Could you tell me why?
Could you tell me why?
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It has a misplaced "because" clause. The reason why (the "because") normally goes after the situation you're giving an explanation for. Thus, the second sentence risks saying:
I teach English in the class for beginners because I am influenced by the way they speak.
CJ
I teach English in the class for beginners because I am influenced by the way they speak.
CJ
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