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| Stay longer, will you? --- Correct |
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| Get a life go talk Korean and learn it instead of showing hoe Gooder u is at Ingles! |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: Stay longer, will you? SHOULD BE Stay longer; will you? TRUE |
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Stay longer, will you?
the above wa s in a Corean text book...
SHOULD BE
Stay longer; will you?
TRUE or false or are we free to use a comma for every thing...
This is in a KOREN text book - I think it is wrong... am I right?
Stay longer. (understood subject is "You" ) Therefore it is a complete clause thus requires a semi-colon ;;;;;;; right or no? AM I ENGLISH MASTER OF COREA or am I not ... I forgot my Grammmar and Korea is not helping ... I got Kteacher arguing about tiny /little and comparative adjectives with me ... LIKE I aint knowing compartives man these Coreans ... anyhow ahh text bok ok or dumb?
MMM I do not know... any other examples of errors you saw in textboooks I recall seeing another in plural agreement somewhere but I forgot it.... |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| The whole thing sounds awkward. It's like Yoda English. ROFL. Should read, "Will you stay longer?" |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| Who cares. |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: |
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The Korean textbook is correct.
When posting questions about grammar, please use some. |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: |
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Is it? Whenever I've seen "Will you," tacked on to a sentence to form a rhetorical request, it has always employed a comma. For example: "Hey Joe, pipe down, will you?"
I've never seen that written as "Pipe down; will you?" |
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Seon-bee
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:20 am Post subject: |
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I'm with Pink Freud.
Google tag question. |
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Tommy
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:27 am Post subject: |
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"Stay longer, will you?"
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No image posting - had to resort to ascii art, damnit! |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Seon-bee wrote: |
I'm with Pink Freud.
Google tag question. |
I did. I didn't see any semicolons in the wikipedia entry for tag question, nor the top 4 hits. |
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nate2008
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Tommy wrote: |
| "Stay longer, will you?" |
This is correct, no semi-colon needed. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| one of the above websites wrote: |
There is one exception to this guideline. When punctuating a list or series of elements in which one or more of the elements contains an internal comma, you should use semicolons instead of commas to separate the elements from one another:
Henry's mother believes three things: that every situation, no matter how grim, will be happily resolved; that no one knows more about human nature than she; and that Henry, who is thirty-five years old, will never be able to do his own laundry.
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There's a useful tidbit right there. And to think I came in here expecting to bash the semicolon. |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| one of the above websites wrote: |
There is one exception to this guideline. When punctuating a list or series of elements in which one or more of the elements contains an internal comma, you should use semicolons instead of commas to separate the elements from one another:
Henry's mother believes three things: that every situation, no matter how grim, will be happily resolved; that no one knows more about human nature than she; and that Henry, who is thirty-five years old, will never be able to do his own laundry.
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There's a useful tidbit right there. And to think I came in here expecting to bash the semicolon. |
I don't think information about using semicolons in a list or series is germane to the subject at hand. Tag questions are neither a list nor a series. |
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Starla
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| "Stay longer, will you?" is correct because every sentence needs a subject and verb. "Will you?" in "Stay longer; will you?," on its very own, contains no verb. Plus semicolons should separate complete sentences and not sentence fragments. |
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