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Kenta Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Would you correct my English? ( Sept. 4 )
Hello. I wrote two dialogues. Would you check them, please?
No. 1
M: I like to drink a lot.
F: Well, I'm a moderate drinker. How much do you drink every night?
M: Usually three cans of beer. Is it too many?
F: Ah ... you'd better stop drinking once a week.
No. 2
M: Don't worry about it so much. These things happen.
F: Thank you. But I feel a little depressed.
M: Don't let it get you down. t's not your fault.
Thank you. kenta
No. 1
M: I like to drink a lot.
F: Well, I'm a moderate drinker. How much do you drink every night?
M: Usually three cans of beer. Is it too many?
F: Ah ... you'd better stop drinking once a week.
No. 2
M: Don't worry about it so much. These things happen.
F: Thank you. But I feel a little depressed.
M: Don't let it get you down. t's not your fault.
Thank you. kenta
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M: I like to drink a lot. F: Well, I'm a moderate drinker. How much do you drink every night?
- M: I like to drink a lot.
- F: Well, I'm a moderate drinker.
- How much do you drink every night?
- M: Usually three cans of beer.
- Is it too many?
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M: I like to drink a lot.
F: Well, I'm a moderate drinker. How much do you drink every night?
M: Usually three cans of beer. Is it too many? (I prefer 'too much' here)
F: Ah ... you'd better stop drinking one day a week. (I suppose this is what you
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Thank you.
Do you come up with a good expression?
kenta
you'd better stop drinking one day a week.
I wanted to say, "you'd better have a 'holiday' for your liver in a week."Do you come up with a good expression?
kenta
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Now as I study on the sentence it looks there is something odd with the verb 'stop'.
'Stop' to me sounds like a permanent ceasure. But here we refer to break (of one day) in the middle of something
('drinikng')
Hence I think is ok: You'd better refrain from or aavoid drinking one day a week.
'Stop' to me sounds like a permanent ceasure. But here we refer to break (of one day) in the middle of something
('drinikng')
Hence I think is ok: You'd better refrain from or aavoid drinking one day a week.
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