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Kenta Posted 18 years ago
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Would you correct my English? (Dec.5)
Hello. Would you check my English?
No. 1
M: This restaurant is quite reasonable. The pizza is [ costs ( me ) ] only 380 yen!
F: Yes, and for [ with ] 100 yen more you can have coffee with it.
( Can't I say,"for more 100 yen"?)
M: How nice! Then I'll have it with coffee.
No. 2
M: I hear you played the clarinet at the concert. How was it?
F: It was great, but my boyfriend, Kenji didn't come.
M: Really? That's an awful shame! [ How disappointing! ]
Thank you!
No. 1
M: This restaurant is quite reasonable. The pizza is [ costs ( me ) ] only 380 yen!
F: Yes, and for [ with ] 100 yen more you can have coffee with it.
( Can't I say,"for more 100 yen"?)
M: How nice! Then I'll have it with coffee.
No. 2
M: I hear you played the clarinet at the concert. How was it?
F: It was great, but my boyfriend, Kenji didn't come.
M: Really? That's an awful shame! [ How disappointing! ]
Thank you!
Top answer
Hi Kenta, These are all very good. "For a few dollars more, you can etc" is a fixed expression. "For more 100 yen" would mean nothing to a native speaker.
- Hi Kenta, These are all very good.
- "For a few dollars more, you can etc" is a fixed expression.
- "For more 100 yen" would mean nothing to a native speaker.
- " Best regards, - A.
- Edit.
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Hi Kenta,
These are all very good.
"For a few dollars more, you can etc" is a fixed expression. "For more 100 yen" would mean nothing to a native speaker. You might say "For more than 100 yen, the waiter will sing for you." This would mean "in excess of 100 yen." Your original means "100 yen beyond (besides - in addition to) the 380."
Best regards, - A.
Ed
These are all very good.
"For a few dollars more, you can etc" is a fixed expression. "For more 100 yen" would mean nothing to a native speaker. You might say "For more than 100 yen, the waiter will sing for you." This would mean "in excess of 100 yen." Your original means "100 yen beyond (besides - in addition to) the 380."
Best regards, - A.
Ed
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My opinion
No1.
you can say for more than 100 yen. but in that sentense I don't think the for is suitable.
I would say, with more than 100 yen you can have coffee. but this could not meet the situation here, cos you want to say the price is cheap. so it is better say with no more than 110 or about 100, and something like that.
No.2
because it was gre
No1.
you can say for more than 100 yen. but in that sentense I don't think the for is suitable.
I would say, with more than 100 yen you can have coffee. but this could not meet the situation here, cos you want to say the price is cheap. so it is better say with no more than 110 or about 100, and something like that.
No.2
because it was gre
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I don't think it would mean she has more than one boyfriend without a comma following. It means her boyfriend and another guy named Kenji.
And without no commas at all would make sense to me, because when it comes to boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe most of us, I don't know who would think in a different way) would take it one for everyone.
And also, we can say in th
And without no commas at all would make sense to me, because when it comes to boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe most of us, I don't know who would think in a different way) would take it one for everyone.
And also, we can say in th
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If she mean two guys, her boyfriend and Kenji, the commas doesn't needed. But clearly, here it means Kenji, the boyfriend of hers so a commas is necessary.
But i think the two commas in between can be omitted, coz talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe it is most of us, i don't know who would think in the other way) would take it one for everyone.
And also,
But i think the two commas in between can be omitted, coz talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe it is most of us, i don't know who would think in the other way) would take it one for everyone.
And also,
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If she mean two guys, her boyfriend and Kenji, the commas doesn't needed. But clearly, here it means Kenji, the boyfriend of hers so a commas is necessary.
But i think the two commas in between can be omitted, coz talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe it is most of us, i don't know who would think in the other way) would take it one for everyone.
And also,
But i think the two commas in between can be omitted, coz talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe it is most of us, i don't know who would think in the other way) would take it one for everyone.
And also,
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If she mean two guys, her boyfriend and Kenji, the commas doesn't needed. But clearly, here it means Kenji, the boyfriend of hers so a commas is necessary.
But i think the two commas in between can be omitted, coz talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe it is most of us, i don't know who would think in the other way) would take it one for everyone.
And also,
But i think the two commas in between can be omitted, coz talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, all of us ( maybe it is most of us, i don't know who would think in the other way) would take it one for everyone.
And also,
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Been there; done that!
Re the concert, << because it was great, that could not be an awful shame. was she disappointed? I don't think that, coz great is better than good, so in somehow, she was satisfied. >>
Her friend asks, "How was it?" The antecedent of "it" could be the whole experience, or only the clarinet playing. If the clarinet playing were great, i
Re the concert, << because it was great, that could not be an awful shame. was she disappointed? I don't think that, coz great is better than good, so in somehow, she was satisfied. >>
Her friend asks, "How was it?" The antecedent of "it" could be the whole experience, or only the clarinet playing. If the clarinet playing were great, i
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