mandag 23. mai 2011

Task about "New Englishes"

    Task 1 - answer both a) and b)
  1.  
  2. You didn't see him, is it?
  3. When you would like to go?
  4. That man he is tall.
  5. Her jewelleries were stolen.
  6. I am understanding it now.
  7. They two very good friends.
  8. Sushila is extremely a lazy girl .
  9. When you leaving?
  10. Rewritten sentences:
  11. You didin't see him, did you?
  12. When would you like to go?
  13. That man is tall.
  14. Her jewellery were stolen.
  15. I understand it now.
  16. They two are very good friends.
  17. Sushila is an extremely lazy girl.
  18. When are you leaving?
  19.  
  20. When looking at sentence number 4 we can see that jewellery is written jewelleries. The word jewellery is a term that can be used both in single and plural and doesn't need to be inflected to suite the sentence. The way I would write it: Her jewellery were stolen.
  21. In sentence number 6 the verb is missing before the explaining part of the sentence. I would write the sentence: They two are very good friends. However I believe I would actually remove the word "two" and write: "They are very good friends", since that makes more sense.
  22. Sentence number 7:"Sushila is extremely a lazy girl ". The indefinite article is misplaced.  The correct way of saying it would be: "Sushila is an extremely lazy girl. "
  23. Also in sentence number 8, we can se that the verb is missing before the object in the sentence. Correct way: "When are you leaving?".

1 kommentar:

  1. A little point on 4: "jewellery" is a singular noun. We would say "Her jewels were stolen" or "her jewellery was stolen".

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