Pick up errors in these sentences.

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i want some one to pick up errors in these sentences and let me know the grammar rule for them.
1. You take my rubber yesterday.
2. There are cold in life underground.
3. In mountains there is very cold.
4. There is less plants.
5. There are no man.
6. In the sea small fishes is eaten by the big fish.
need help with these.
Asma

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Hello, Asma—and welcome to English Forums.

I have underlined the problem areas. Please try to correct them and post your answers here. I have given you some hints in parentheses:

1. You take my rubber yesterday. (verb tense)
2. There are cold in life underground. (actually, none of this makes sense, so I don't know what the error is supposed to be!)
3. In mountains there is very cold. (There are two errors here.)
4. There is less plants. (There are two errors here, too, regarding verb agreement and countability.)
5. There are no man.-- (verb agreement)
6. In the sea small fishes is eaten by the big fish. (There is at least one error here of verb agreement and another probable style error.)

Anonymous · Answer

1. You took my rubber yesterday2.  There is cold in life underground3,  On the mountains there is very cold4.  There are few plants.5. There is on man6.  In the sea small fishes are eaten by the big fish.reply by pankaj sir from dightfor about pankaj sirtype "dight of pankaj sir" in google

Clive · Answer

Hi,

1. You took my rubber yesterday

Note this.
In British English, the word 'rubber' refers to what Americans call an 'eraser'.
In American English, a 'rubber' is slang meaning a 'condom'.

Clive

Fivejedjon · Answer

Anonymous 2. There is cold in life underground3, On the mountains there is very cold 5. There is on man6. In the sea small fishes are eaten by the big fish

Unfortunately these are not correct/natural.

Avidlearner · Answer

Really?

Khoff · Answer

Yes, really.

Avidlearner · Answer

Was it for you?

Anonymous · Answer

It's hard to enumerate each grammar rule. Some of them need to be rephrased and use a different word choice. Eg:
1. You took my rubber yesterday. (past tense of take)
2. (Did you mean "dead" when you wrote "cold life") I don't understand actually.
3. It's very cold in the mountains. (rephrased because of wrong word order and use of "There" is not necessary)
4. There are few plants. (plural form)
5. There is nobody. / There is no one. (word choice)
6. In the sea small fishes are eaten by the big fish. (be-verb)

Hope this helps.

Asma Raza Shah · Answer

Hello Mr Micawber,
Thank you for the prompt reply. What i want you to tell me are the exact errros and the rule of grammar that applies to these two sentences. Please if you would give examples and explain I would be grateful.

In mountains there is very cold. (There are two errors here.) Which errors are these exactly.

In the sea small fishes is eaten by the big fish. In this sentence you said its the subject verb agreement and the probable style. I dont understand probable style. Kindly if you would explain with examples.
Waiting for your reply.
Asma Raza Shah.

Mister Micawber · Answer

In mountains there is very cold. (There are two errors here.) Which errors are these exactly.-- 'In the mountains it is very cold.' In referring generally to mountainous areas, 'the' is needed. With weather, introductory 'it' is required.

In the sea small fishes is eaten by the big fish. In this sentence you said its the subject verb agreement and the probable style.-- 'In the sea, small fish are eaten by big fish.' 'Fish' is plural so the verb 'be' must be plural. Using 2 forms of the plural (fish/fishes) in the same text is poor style, as is using the specific 'the' for one but not the other.

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