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Mosja Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Is this conversation natural?

Teacher was telling the student to write she said "......Deligert. Gert like gate"

A: Gate? Delegate and gate are completely different. It has nothing to do with "gate"

B: She say that to prevent us get it wrong. //the propose that the teacher said that is to prevent the students write incorrectly//

is it

Even in the slashes. I'm not certain with my writing whether it's natural or not.

"to prevent the students write incorrectly"

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"to prevent the students spell incorrectly"

  

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A. org/dictionary/learner-english/delegate_1 . The teacher was being nice and tried to give a hint.

— Nel0506

  • A.
  • org/dictionary/learner-english/delegate_1 .
  • The teacher was being nice and tried to give a hint.
  • Delegate (verb) sounds like -gate at the end, but the noun is not pronounced the same.
  • B.
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A. The word 'delegate' is pronounced differently when it is a https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/delegate_2 and when it is a https://dictionary

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