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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Hello Teacher, I need assistance with lines from script

Hello Teachers,

Would you help me make these sound like it's from a native as it's in a script I'll be sending to England?

  • It's never happened that the timer reads 10 minutes and the subway gets here before that.
  • I don't know how long it take to go from Action town to Arsenal as I rarely take the subway to this part of the subway line. I don't come to this part of the subway line enough to know how long it takes.
  • The subway stops are sometimes shorter, sometimes longer in distance.
  • I can tell from the number of people getting on that we're already at Oxford station. (in script, the person is blindfolded on the subway)
  • I thought we were at station Aldgate east station. I was off by one. We were at Aldgate station . (blindfolded)
Hope It wasn't too much of a hassle.


  

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It's never happened that the timer reads 10 minutes and the subway gets here before that. It's never happened that the sign says the next train is 10 minutes away, and then it arrives before that. I don't know how long it takes to go from Action T own to Arsenal .

  • It's never happened that the timer reads 10 minutes and the subway gets here before that.
  • It's never happened that the sign says the next train is 10 minutes away, and then it arrives before that.
  • I don't know how long it takes to go from Action T own to Arsenal .
  • I rarely take the tube (the British dont say "subway", they say "the tube") to that p art of the line .
  • Your second sentence is redundant.
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  • It's never happened that the timer reads 10 minutes and the subway gets here before that.
  • It's never happened that the sign says the next train is 10 minutes away, and then it arrives before that.
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Thank you teacher

If I were to write this sentence, how would you write it?

I don't come to this part of the subway line enough to know how long it takes.

Ho would you write this?

The ditance between some station are longer than others.

The ditance between some station are s
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I don't use that section of the tube often enough to know how long it takes.

The ditance between some stations is further than others.

The ditance between some stations is closer than others.

John

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