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Vincent Teo Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
walks out of the bathroom
Can I say,
(a) He often forgets to turn off the water tap when he walks out of the bathroom.
(b) He always forgets to turn off the tap water that is running.
(a) He often forgets to turn off the water tap when he walks out of the bathroom.
(b) He always forgets to turn off the tap water that is running.
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(a) This is OK, but normally you would just say "tap" rather than "water tap". ) (b) I don't see any grammatical mistakes here, but it doesn't seem a terribly likely thing to say. Normally you would just say "He always forgets to turn off the tap".
- (a) This is OK, but normally you would just say "tap" rather than "water tap".
- ) (b) I don't see any grammatical mistakes here, but it doesn't seem a terribly likely thing to say.
- Normally you would just say "He always forgets to turn off the tap".
- This implies that tap water is running, and the additional verbosity is not really necessary.
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(a) This is OK, but normally you would just say "tap" rather than "water tap". (In fact, in real life you would often just say "He often forgets to turn off the bathroom tap" because it's fairly obvious that this means he leaves it running when he leaves the bathroom.)
(b) I don't see any grammatical mistakes here, but it doesn't seem a terribly likely thing to say. Normally you would jus
(b) I don't see any grammatical mistakes here, but it doesn't seem a terribly likely thing to say. Normally you would jus
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