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Soprano Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Indirect object at the beginning?
Hi ! Can you help me?
My students had to answer the following question "What did you buy in the shops for yourself and your friends?
Most of my students started like this: For myself I bought XXXX and for my friends I bought XXXX.
I corrected to them all: "I bought XXX for myself and XXXX for my friends". But can the informally answer like this? Were their answers completely wrong ?
Thank you!
My students had to answer the following question "What did you buy in the shops for yourself and your friends?
Most of my students started like this: For myself I bought XXXX and for my friends I bought XXXX.
I corrected to them all: "I bought XXX for myself and XXXX for my friends". But can the informally answer like this? Were their answers completely wrong ?
Thank you!
Top answer
For myself I bought ... , and for my friends I bought .... -- Fine.
- For myself I bought ...
- , and for my friends I bought ....
- -- Fine.
- I bought ...
- for myself, and I bought ...
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For myself I bought ..., and for my friends I bought .... -- Fine.
I bought ... for myself, and I bought ... for my friends. -- Fine.
(You needn't have corrected them. Either way is good English grammar.)
CJ
I bought ... for myself, and I bought ... for my friends. -- Fine.
(You needn't have corrected them. Either way is good English grammar.)
CJ
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