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[gloria_taipei]

Dear all,
I'm back with two more dialogs I wrote. I have doubts about the bold text. Please let me know if they are ok. Thank you so much.

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Tina: How many people are there in your family?
Sunny: There are six people in my family.
Tina: Who are they?
Sunny: They are my father, mother, sister, brother and I.

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Tina: How many days are there in a month?
Sunny: There are thirty or thirty-one days in a month.
Tina: In what months there are thirty-one days?
Sunny: In January, March, May, July, August, October, and December.
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[CP]

First one fine, except there are only five people mentioned, not six.

Second one, change "In what months there are" to "In what months are there." In the last sentence, you can omit "In."

Also, you didn't mention February, with its 28 days, 29 for leap year.
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[gloria_taipei]

Thank you, CP.

I'll rewrite the dialogs as follows, but I have two questions. They are in parentheses.

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Tina: How many people are there in your family?
Sunny: There are five people in my family.
Tina: Who are they?
Sunny: They are my father, mother, sister, brother and I.

(Can I change "and I" to "and me"?)

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Tina: How many days are there in a month?
Sunny: There are twenty-eight to thirty-one days in a month.

(Or should it be "There are twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, or thirty-one days in a month."?)

Tina: In what months are there thirty-one days?
Sunny: January, March, May, July, August, October, and December.

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[lotus]

Hi Gloria,

Stating the number of days in a month is tricky. I would say:

"There are thirty or thirty-one days in a month; with the exception of February, which has twenty-eight days."

"During a leap year, February has twenty-nine days."


--lotus

[gloria_taipei]

Thanks, lotus.