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ltp-008
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 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: Two questions |
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One:most time he prefers staying at home to going out on the weekends.
Two:most of time he prefers staying at home rather than going out on weenkeds.
Are these two sentences natural?
Thanks a lot! |
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damon@English24/7
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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The proper way of saying the above sentences is: "most of the time he prefers staying at home rather than going out on weekends." However, in practice, many native speakers will not pronounce "of the" properly so, if you say the sentence quickly enough and half-speak the "of the," which are not important to understanding the sentence and don`t get emphasis, then you would probably sound fine. It will not pass in written English.
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| damon@English24/7 wrote: |
The proper way of saying the above sentences is: "most of the time he prefers staying at home rather than going out on weekends." However, in practice, many native speakers will not pronounce "of the" properly so, if you say the sentence quickly enough and half-speak the "of the," which are not important to understanding the sentence and don`t get emphasis, then you would probably sound fine. It will not pass in written English.
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Actually, I think (American English here) people pronounce things "properly"; they just reduce certain words and link others, so "most of the" no longer sounds like three seperate words, but more like "Mostethe" where "te" and "the" have a schwa sound (which is hard to reproduce with this font). |
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damon@English24/7
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,
That is what I meant, only put more succinctly. |
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