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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

gardening and cleaning

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0cleaning the 01b 00garden02b 02br 00Use MODELS from newspapers or books. You wouldn't find this error there. You need to learn the right patterns of the language.

— Marius Hancu

  • 0cleaning the 01b 00garden02b 02br 00Use MODELS from newspapers or books.
  • You wouldn't find this error there.
  • You need to learn the right patterns of the language.
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0cleaning the 01b00garden02b02br
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0Can Isay,02br
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00(A) John helps his father clean all the weeds. 02br
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00(b) She helps the gardening every Sunday. 02br
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00(c) She helps father to do gardening at the back of their house. / at her house. 0-
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0Are they correct? 0-
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0The verb 'clean' isn't used in relation to gardening. I suppose you could clean something specific in the garden - I'm going to clean the table, but not the garden in general.02br
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00You 01u00'clear' 02u00not clean weeds etc.0-
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0(A) John helps his father clean all the weeds. see previous post02br
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00(b) She helps the gardening every Sunday. gardening is a noun. Would you say 'she helps the car every Sunday'? No.02br
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00(c) She helps father to do gardening at the back of their house. / at her house. ok but 'the' gardening.0-
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