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Stevenukd Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

TIDY UP

Dear Teachers,



1) How often do you – wash your clothes?

- tidy up your house?

- go out for coffee with your friend?

- see the doctor/go to the doctor?

- write a letter to your parents?

- visit your relatives/Teachers?

- wash up/do the washing-up?

- go to church/go to pagoda?

- take your children out for weekend?

- Sometimes/not often/often/never/rarely/occasionally/once a day/once a week/once a month/once a year.



- Are these questions and answers natural to say?



2) Those lights/lamps make the room brighter.

- Is this natural?



Thanks a lot.



Stevenukd.

  

Top answer

# 1 and #2-- The grammar and structure are all natural, except for the final one in #1; it should read on the weekend . It would be more generous, however, to ask whether they go out for coffee with their friend s (in the plural). We don't normally visit teachers, do we?

— Mister Micawber

  • # 1 and #2-- The grammar and structure are all natural, except for the final one in #1; it should read on the weekend .
  • It would be more generous, however, to ask whether they go out for coffee with their friend s (in the plural).
  • We don't normally visit teachers, do we?
  • How about using visit the library ?
  • In English, go to pagoda is odd because so few westerners do so.
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# 1 and #2-- The grammar and structure are all natural, except for the final one in #1; it should read on the weekend.

It would be more generous, however, to ask whether they go out for coffee with their friends (in the plural).

We don't normally visit teachers, do we? How about using visit the library?

In English
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"Temple" is used by Reform Jews, but generally not by Conservative or Orthodox. If you want something all-inclusive, how about "How often do you go to religious services?"
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for weekend
As a supplement...

In British English, you can say "at the weekend":

1. "I took my children out at the weekend."

Or "for the weekend" where you mean "the entire weekend":

2. We went away for the weekend.

MrP
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