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[Navid]

Hello All Teachers,
Let's get the questions straight.

1- Which tenses shall and can I use in the two following sentences:
A: He ....... at sea. (drown)
B: Two children ....... after falling into the river. (drown)

2- Please correct or rephrase my question by considering a situation

that you are chatting with someone on Internet and you want to ask him:
"Until which time ???????? will you chat in the room????

3- What do you mean by "LAZY MORE LIKE!"

4- Can I use the phrase "ON BEHALF OF" when I want to clarify Something

not a person?
e.g.: He should use the wrod "A" on behalf of the word "B"??
In the book "OXFORD ADVANCE LEARNER"S DICTIONARY", it was written that

we can use it when we want to refer to a person!!!!!!

Thanks in advance.
Navid

[obelix]

He was drowned at sea.
OR He drowned at sea
OR he was lost at sea.

Two children were drowned after falling in the river.
OR two children drowned after falling in the river.

All are correct, and there are other possibilities depending on the tense you want to use.

2. Until what time will you be on here?
Or, How long are you going to be chatting in this room?

You use the phrase "lazy, more like!" as follows:
Two people at work are chatting about their colleague who is always off work claiming to be sick.

IST PERSON: " Where's Bill?"

2ND PERSON: " He's off sick again."

IST PERSON: (incredulously) "Sick?... Lazy, more like!"

On behalf of means to do something in the interests of someone or some principle.
In your example you should use "instead of" or "in place of ".
Your sentence would read, He should use the word A instead of word B.

[LucentShade]

As a side note, the phrase " **** , more like!" is relatively informal, and will probably not be seen very much in writing.

Another example:

Person A: Don't worry about doing the laundry. I borrowed these towels from the hotel we stayed at last week.

Person B: Stole them, more like!

"borrowed" is sarcastic here, as it really means "took (away from)" Person B is reacting to this by saying "You didn't borrow them (and plan to return them), you stole them!