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sheba
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Or how about the most widely used English?
Its no point teaching "Chinglish" if China is the only country in the world that uses it.... |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| sheba wrote: |
| joe_doufu wrote: |
Why all this debate about whether we should teach British or American English? |
The point to my question was - is this style of writing American English?
Because NZ uses British English and I was taught NEVER to start a sentence with these words (with the exception of very infomal writing, such as right here!) Our hagwon teaches American English so I was wondering if it was common practice. The kids write this way, the text books are written this way, and even the teachers think it is normal. I told them what I thought and said Id double check with some Americans about whether its ok.... |
Okay. I'm not an American, but I say it's rubbish. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| Bunnymonster wrote: |
| Remember American to be a superior language to English because you can make mistakes in neither spelling, grammar nor punctuation. |
LOL
Commonwealth idjits. |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| American English is really just Approximate English. |
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Zed
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| Because someone decided to write a bunch of rubbish I'll have to come forth and declare that there is absolutely nothing ungrammatical about starting a sentence with "because" or any preposition. It's simply a matter of where the subordinate clause is located in the sentence and there's nothing wrong with putting it first. |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Zed wrote: |
| Because someone decided to write a bunch of rubbish I'll have to come forth and declare that there is absolutely nothing ungrammatical about starting a sentence with "because" or any preposition. It's simply a matter of where the subordinate clause is located in the sentence and there's nothing wrong with putting it first. |
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