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Tess21 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
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Hi there,
my Russian student really struggled with this sentence in our last lesson:
'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces'
He just couldn't understand 'people normally thought of as' was not people thinking about themselves, but rather, being thought about by different people. I really struggled myself to explain this!
Any help would be much appreciated. What grammatical structure am I looking at?
Thanks very much
my Russian student really struggled with this sentence in our last lesson:
'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces'
He just couldn't understand 'people normally thought of as' was not people thinking about themselves, but rather, being thought about by different people. I really struggled myself to explain this!
Any help would be much appreciated. What grammatical structure am I looking at?
Thanks very much
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Hi, my Russian student really struggled with this sentence in our last lesson: 'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces' He just couldn't understand 'people normally thought of as' was not people thinking about themselves, but rather, being thought about by different people. I really struggled myself to explain this! Any help would be much appreciated.
- Hi, my Russian student really struggled with this sentence in our last lesson: 'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces' He just couldn't understand 'people normally thought of as' was not people thinking about themselves, but rather, being thought about by different people.
- I really struggled myself to explain this!
- Any help would be much appreciated.
- What grammatical structure am I looking at?
- Think of it as a reduced form of this.
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Hi,
my Russian student really struggled with this sentence in our last lesson:
'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces'
He just couldn't understand 'people normally thought of as' was not people thinking about themselves, but rather, being thought about by different people. I really struggled m
my Russian student really struggled with this sentence in our last lesson:
'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces'
He just couldn't understand 'people normally thought of as' was not people thinking about themselves, but rather, being thought about by different people. I really struggled m
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Thanks Clive. Yes, that's how I tried to explain it to him. He understood it when I put it like that; when the verb 'to be' was added. However he couldn't see that it made sense without the 'who are' added in.
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Hi,
Ask him if everything said in Russian will make sense to people trying to learn Russian.
Clive
Ask him if everything said in Russian will make sense to people trying to learn Russian.
Clive
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tess21'This syndrome causes people normally thought of as attractive to see faults in their faces.'Is he mainly confuused by use of the passive voice. Does Russian have passive voice?
Did you rewrite the sentence in active voice and try to get him to understand the different grammars of the two? I think he
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You just have to practice with these reduced clauses. Give lots of examples.
It is common to omit the relative pronoun and "be" in these kinds of passive-voice relative clauses.
The bridges built in the 1970's are in need of repairs.
The student voted most popular in the high school graduating class went on be president of his company.
The Mars Rovers la
It is common to omit the relative pronoun and "be" in these kinds of passive-voice relative clauses.
The bridges built in the 1970's are in need of repairs.
The student voted most popular in the high school graduating class went on be president of his company.
The Mars Rovers la
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