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OttoJ Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Get back to basics
These phrases are not good; can you suggest the best one to me?
-When we hear ‘if I were you’, some of us are always/constantly in doubt: why ‘if I were you’; why not ‘if I am you’? Before answering this question, we have to get back to basics/go back to square one/have to know some fundamentals of modern English. Referring to a hypothetical situation, talking about something unlikely to happen, you have to use the past tense: I am eating. If I was not, I would be doing something else.
I have to tell my friends the thing represented by the red words, but I don't think they are accurate English.
-When we hear ‘if I were you’, some of us are always/constantly in doubt: why ‘if I were you’; why not ‘if I am you’? Before answering this question, we have to get back to basics/go back to square one/have to know some fundamentals of modern English. Referring to a hypothetical situation, talking about something unlikely to happen, you have to use the past tense: I am eating. If I was not, I would be doing something else.
I have to tell my friends the thing represented by the red words, but I don't think they are accurate English.
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OttoJ the thing represented by the red words 'have to know some fundamentals' sounds all right to me, if you're trying to make a choice. The other two don't fit as well in the style of the passage. You might use 'need' instead of 'have to'.
- OttoJ the thing represented by the red words 'have to know some fundamentals' sounds all right to me, if you're trying to make a choice.
- The other two don't fit as well in the style of the passage.
- You might use 'need' instead of 'have to'.
- That would be my choice.
- CJ
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OttoJthe thing represented by the red words'have to know some fundamentals' sounds all right to me, if you're trying to make a choice. The other two don't fit as well in the style of the passage. You might use 'need' instead of 'have to'. That would be my choice.
CJ
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