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apples

Thank you for your responses. Of course it is an unnatural reply to the question but you have to remember that sometimes students do give unnatural responses-many of them have been drilled to death a long time before they stroll into my classroom! 'My favourite fruit is apples'. however correct stil...

Do you think animals can be described as being violent? eg.The dog attacked the girl violently, it was a violent dog. I don't think I would descibe any animals (bar primates perhaps) this way but I don't know if this is just Illunga logic or shared. Having just read this it could be a silly question...

Let's assume the answer is apples. How would you answer this question in a whole sentence?

I think you can take after anyone who has had an influence on your life.

Thank you Andrew, I was teaching neither recently and came across this point, I told my students that both were acceptable but then couldn't back this up with an example from any of my grammar books, so withdrew my claim until I couild give them some evidence...was a little worried I had been wrong ...

I know which of these two are grammatically correct (is), but I regularly use the second option (are). Would you regard this as acceptable usage? It seems much more natural to me.

It is always a little irritating when a student with a good but basic grasp of the language insists that their grammatical knowledge outweighs the instinctive english of a native speaker. Have many of you come across this problem?

I'd usually go for the present perfect, I think most Brits would agree, those across the pond however can choose from either,that's the freedom of choice they enjoy.

Thanks for your responses. I will avoid the unnecessary paraphrase in future. As I said, I do not doubt her version to be correct and in fact agree that it sounds better than my original. My real question is: Was my version actually incorrect?( I accept its clumsiness etc.) Could you expand on the s...

I recently taught a class in which I wrote on the board: I think so - I believe it will happen I don't think so - I believe it won't happen One of my adult students immediately insisted I should have written I don't believe it will happen. I don't doubt her version was correct but believe my explana...