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Lcchang Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Grammar practice
Did you have a good reason? You lied to your teacher.
=> __________________________ for ______________?
What I am asked to do is use a preposition to convert the two
sentences on the first line into one.
So, I put::
Did you have a good reason for lying to your teacher?
And my classmate did something like this:
Did you lie to your teacher for a good reason?
Whose answer is better? Please help.
=> __________________________ for ______________?
What I am asked to do is use a preposition to convert the two
sentences on the first line into one.
So, I put::
Did you have a good reason for lying to your teacher?
And my classmate did something like this:
Did you lie to your teacher for a good reason?
Whose answer is better? Please help.
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Lcchang Whose answer is better? It depends how you look at it. You can look at it in the context of the grammar exercise itself, or you can look at it in terms of spoken English in the world at large.
- Lcchang Whose answer is better?
- It depends how you look at it.
- You can look at it in the context of the grammar exercise itself, or you can look at it in terms of spoken English in the world at large.
- In the context of the exercise, it seems to me that the point of the exercise is to drill the concept that prepositions (like for ) are followed by verb in the -ing form, so yours is the "correct" answer, so yours is better within this narrow context.
- In the larger context, either sentence is fine.
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LcchangWhose answer is better?It depends how you look at it. You can look at it in the context of the grammar exercise itself, or you can look at it in terms of spoken English in the world at large.
In the context of the exercise, it seems to me that the point of the exercise is to drill the concept that prepositions (like for) are followed
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