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Marc92 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Need help with gramatical explanation.
First of all English is not my mother tonque, so excuse any spelling mistakes.
I am having an English task in school, where we have to find errors in different sentences. There is in specific one that i'm having problems with.
"How is the educational system in your country like?"
My first thoughts was that "how" should be replaced with "what", and "like" should be moved in before "in your country". I just don't have any excellent explenation of why it should be like that.
That is why I am asking for your help. Please enlighten me, with a good grammatical explanation of why it should be like I stated above (if those changes are even correct).
//Marc
I am having an English task in school, where we have to find errors in different sentences. There is in specific one that i'm having problems with.
"How is the educational system in your country like?"
My first thoughts was that "how" should be replaced with "what", and "like" should be moved in before "in your country". I just don't have any excellent explenation of why it should be like that.
That is why I am asking for your help. Please enlighten me, with a good grammatical explanation of why it should be like I stated above (if those changes are even correct).
//Marc
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Welcom to the Forums, Marc! I think you'll like it here. Best: What is the educational system in your country like?
- Welcom to the Forums, Marc!
- I think you'll like it here.
- Best: What is the educational system in your country like?
- It's a fixed phrase: what's the weather like in Canada?
- what's the food like at your school?
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Welcom to the Forums, Marc! I think you'll like it here.
Best: What is the educational system in your country like?
It's a fixed phrase: what's the weather like in Canada? what's the food like at your school?
Best: What is the educational system in your country like?
It's a fixed phrase: what's the weather like in Canada? what's the food like at your school?
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Thank you very much, I appreciate the quick answer, though I am wondering why, grammatical speaking, I should use "what" instead of "how".
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
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Marc92Thank you very much, I appreciate the quick answer, though I am wondering why, grammatical speaking, I should use "what" instead of "how".Thank you in advance.For these examples, you could use 'how is the food' or 'what is the food like'. Not 'how...like'.
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