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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Various questions on grammar
Hello everyone! I'm an new user and I hope you can help me answer some questions I have. They sentences I am going to give you don't belong to a certain field of grammer. There are different grammatical issues in every sentence. I hope that's no problem. I'll give you a proposoal for a correction and I hope you can tell me if my corrections are correct or unnecessary. (Or maybe you can give me a good solution!)
I have never been there yet.
=> Is it OK to use never and yet in the same sentence? I'd either use "never" or "yet" but not both.
They told them not to meet each other.
=> I'd cross out "each other." What do you think?
Our football team was very successful in the last years.
=> I'd use HAS BEEN instead of WAS. What do you think?
They don't like the style of the other. (Here the writer wants to say that he doesn't like her style and she doesn't like his style.)
=> I'd say: They don't like each other's style. What do you think?
When I'm long abroad , I often get homesick.
=> Do you know if the when-part is correct? I think it's not. Does anyone know a version that is correct but still quite close to the original sentence?
He puts his old clothes in front of her window. (Here the writer wants to say that he puts the clothes on the ground of the garden of his girlfriend. She sees it from the first floor (UK first floor) of her house. She looks out of the window. Can you say IN FRONT OF here? What sentence would be better to make it clear?
I have never been there yet.
=> Is it OK to use never and yet in the same sentence? I'd either use "never" or "yet" but not both.
They told them not to meet each other.
=> I'd cross out "each other." What do you think?
Our football team was very successful in the last years.
=> I'd use HAS BEEN instead of WAS. What do you think?
They don't like the style of the other. (Here the writer wants to say that he doesn't like her style and she doesn't like his style.)
=> I'd say: They don't like each other's style. What do you think?
When I'm long abroad , I often get homesick.
=> Do you know if the when-part is correct? I think it's not. Does anyone know a version that is correct but still quite close to the original sentence?
He puts his old clothes in front of her window. (Here the writer wants to say that he puts the clothes on the ground of the garden of his girlfriend. She sees it from the first floor (UK first floor) of her house. She looks out of the window. Can you say IN FRONT OF here? What sentence would be better to make it clear?
Top answer
Is it OK to use never and yet in the same sentence? -- Yes. -- You can keep 'each other'.
- Is it OK to use never and yet in the same sentence?
- -- Yes.
- -- You can keep 'each other'.
- I'd use HAS BEEN instead of WAS.
- -- Both are possible.
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Is it OK to use never and yet in the same sentence? -- Yes.
I'd cross out "each other." What do you think?-- You can keep 'each other'.
I'd use HAS BEEN instead of WAS. What do you think?-- Both are possible.
I'd say: They don't like each other's style. What do you think?- I agree with you; the original is poor.
Do you know if
I'd cross out "each other." What do you think?-- You can keep 'each other'.
I'd use HAS BEEN instead of WAS. What do you think?-- Both are possible.
I'd say: They don't like each other's style. What do you think?- I agree with you; the original is poor.
Do you know if
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Thanks for your reply! However, I've got one more question:
When I'm long abroad, I'm often homesick.
Here I didn't want to know if you can use if instead of when. By when-part" I mea nt "when I'm long abroad". I don't like the position of "long". I'd say "When I'm abroad a long time...".
When I'm long abroad, I'm often homesick.
Here I didn't want to know if you can use if instead of when. By when-part" I mea nt "when I'm long abroad". I don't like the position of "long". I'd say "When I'm abroad a long time...".
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Both are fine.
'Long abroad' (somewhat literary) = abroad a long time (more informal).
'Long abroad' (somewhat literary) = abroad a long time (more informal).
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