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Vincent Teo

#365102 Tue, 15 May 07 08:15 AM

(a) I'm very happy to have such a best friend.

(b) She helps her mother to do house work / housework.

(d) Although we are different, but we have same hobby, that is reading.

(e)She is very smart girl and often gets good results in her examination.

(f) We normally share our problems to each other to get good advice.

(g) When I was sad, she will tells me some jokes that make me laugh.

Vincent Teo

Joined on Sat, Mar 31 2007

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Marius Hancu

#365200 Tue, 15 May 07 02:30 PM

Hi:

Sorry, but do you really need to post each time such long lists?

I'd focus instead of your most important questions (otherwise to me, at least, it becomes a routine) and on reading more English-language authors in original.

Marius Hancu

Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006

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Grammar Geek

#365208 Tue, 15 May 07 03:01 PM

Vincent Teo wrote:

(a) I'm very happy to have such a best friend. Okay

(b) She helps her mother to do house work / housework. Okay, but you can also write this without the "to." I use "housework" as one word. You can also say "the housework."

(c) Her neighbour often praised her for being a filial girl / such a good girl. I have never seen "filial girl" together. Please don't post 18 citations from Google showing it exists. I'm just saying it's not common.

(d) Although we are different, ~~but~~ we have same hobby: ~~, that is~~ reading. Okay with changes. You can also keep the comma and use "which" instead of "that."

(e)She is a very smart girl and often gets good results in her examination. Okay with the "a." I would say "on her exams" not "in her exams" but that could be American.

(f) We normally share our problems to with each other to get good advice.

(g) When I was sad, she will tells me some jokes that make me laugh. These tenses don't go together. When I was sad, she would or When I am sad, she will tell or When I am sad, she tells