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Hai!

Happy Halloween!

I was listening to BBC news just now, the below words are the words that I learnt just now.

Could anybody correct the two sentences below for me?

Blurt out:

A person of good English proficiency can blurt out his ideas in English easily.

hoax:

The promosion of buying a modem at one hundred Ringgit off by signing a contact about using the line of the company for two years is just a hoax.

Many Thanks in Advance.

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

To "blurt something out" means to just say it without much (or any) thought.

A hoax is a lie or false situation that is intended to fool the public.

Lucus Ong · Answer

Thanks,

However, do I use them in a wrong ways?

Do my sentences grammatically correct?

Do my sentences idiomatic?

Could anybody help me with them?

Lucus

BarbaraPA · Answer

Lucus Ong
Blurt out:

A person of good English proficiency can blurt out his ideas in English easily.

hoax:

The promosion of buying a modem at one hundred Ringgit off by signing a contact about using the line of the company for two years is just a hoax.

This would be better:

You know you have achieved proficiency in English when you can just blurt something out without stopping to think about whether it's right.

Usually we just say things. The idea of "blurting" is saying something short and suddenly. In a normal conversation, we generally don't "blurt."

Your second one might be right - promotion. But I'm not sure what the promotion is suppsed to mean.

The "balloon boy" was a hoax by the boy's parents. Sometimes you'll get an e-mail that says Microsoft is holding a contest and if you forward the e-mail to X number of people in a certain time, you'll get a free computer, or something silly like that. Of course those are hoaxes.

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