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Kenta Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Would you correct my English?

Hello. I wrote two dialogues. Would you check them?

No. 1

M: How shall we go to the Diet Building? By car?

F: Umm...I don't think so. It's expensive to park around there.

M: Then let's take a taxi. A taxi is more expensive but we don't
[ It is more expensive to take a taxi but ]
need to pay for parking [ a parking lot ].

No. 2 At the lost and found

M: Excuse me, have you got a silver mobile phone? I left it on [ in ] the train

about half an hour ago.

F: I have some phones here. What color is the strap?

M: A purple one and the buttons are blue.

Thank you!
  

Top answer

The first dialogue is very good, but I would not use shall, that's an outdated usage (at least in the US). I would use should. In the second dialogue, the first question seems odd.

— Old Man Gordon

  • The first dialogue is very good, but I would not use shall, that's an outdated usage (at least in the US).
  • I would use should.
  • In the second dialogue, the first question seems odd.
  • " or "Purple, and"
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The first dialogue is very good, but I would not use shall, that's an outdated usage (at least in the US). I would use should.

In the second dialogue, the first question seems odd. Using got might be fine, but most people would say "Has anyone found (turned in) a ...)

The response at the end should be either "It's a purple one, ..." or "Purple, and"
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