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luciaC
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 Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: Questions |
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Are they correct sentences?
1. The stock market had a sharp fall today.
2. The mayor of New York City used to be Juliani.
3. He is always ahead of me. This time I beat him.
4. The former mayor of New York was Juliani.
5. US Army has much more advanced weapons. Saddin Housin wasn�t its rival.
6. Don�t put too much pressure on yourself. You have to balance your life with some leisure activities.
7. Kids these days have busy schedules. They need to learn a second language, computer lessons, piano lesson, etc�.
8. I aim to win the game.
9. The pastor announced the couple was officially husband and wife.
10. I have to do my monthly home budget because I have mortgage to pay.
11. He had a such terrible accident that his insurance couldn�t cover all the expenses.
12. Let�s celebrate the New Year.
13. The legal square feet of this house is 1300. However, the owner and the inspector measured it 1400 square feet.
14. There are underage prostituting in some countries.
Thank you!
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LucentShade
Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Posts: 542
Location: Nebraska, USA
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:45 am Post subject: Re: Questions |
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| luciaC wrote: |
Are they correct sentences?
5. US Army has much more advanced weapons. Saddin Housin wasn�t its rival.
7. Kids these days have busy schedules. They need to learn a second language, computer lessons, piano lesson, etc�..
10. I have to do my monthly home budget because I have mortgage to pay.
11. He had a such terrible accident that his insurance couldn�t cover all the expenses.
13. The legal square feet of this house is 1300. However, the owner and the inspector measured it 1400 square feet.
14. There are underage prostituting in some countries.
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2 & 4 are fine, except that the name is "Giuliani."
#5: "The US Army" // "Saddam Hussein" is the spelling of the name.
7: I would change it to, "learn a second language, go to computer and piano lessons, etc. ..." The problem is that if you have "learn a second language, computer lessons...," it could be understood as, "learn a second language, learn computer lessons, learn piano lessons--when you have a list like this, the verb's meaning extend to the elements of the list, like:
I bought apples, candy, oranges, wine, milk, etc. --the verb "bought" applies to all the things in the list.
My edit to "go to computer and piano lessons" makes things a little simpler; it means "go to computer lessons and go to piano lessons."
#10: the only edit is: "have a mortgage to pay.
#11: change word order to "such a terrible accident"; the rest is fine.
13: "The official square footage of the house is 1300 square feet." For the second sentence, I might add, "measured it as 1400 square feet.
"Square footage" means, "the amount of square feet in an area." I changed "legal" because we don't need to determine if the square footage is legal or illegal--the phrase means that 1300 is a number that is recorded somewhere--1300 is what the house is supposed to be, so it is official. Compare: "The official start of winter is December 20th, although winter weather starts sooner in many places."
14: The most simple way to say this would be: "There is underage prostitution in some countries." I know that the ~ing words can be used as nouns, as in "There is gambling in Las Vegas," but "prostitution" is the word that is used to talk about the act in general. You could also say, "There are underaged girls (who are) prostituting themselves in many countries," but this sentence is longer than it needs to be. "Who are" is optional, and you can change "girls" to "boys" or "people" if you need to. |
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