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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Natural Sentence

Could you confirm whether the following sentence sounds natural?

"You naughty child! You should be spanked when we go back home!"
  

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There is no reason to threaten if you are not threatening. You naughty child! You'll be spanked when we go back home!

— Mister Micawber

  • There is no reason to threaten if you are not threatening.
  • You naughty child!
  • You'll be spanked when we go back home!
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There is no reason to threaten if you are not threatening.

You naughty child! You'll be spanked when we go back home!
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lucas21cCould you confirm whether the following sentence sounds natural?
Not among the class of people I observe around here. Here it would be more like this:

You rotten kid! If you don't stop that, you're going to get a good spanking right here in front of everybody!

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