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Anonymous

#447907 Thu, 29 Nov 07 06:33 PM

What is the correct option, please?

- My travel to a foreign country (or) my trip to a foreign country?

- People are very handsome (or) people are very nice?

- Is it Ok if I say: They've gone to China for a job (the idea here is that they've gone to China because they've got a good job there) ?

- Any mistake in: I hope you are very well / I hope to see you soon.

- "Advocate's office" and "Law firm" are they the same thing ?

- In spite of the nervous about the test, I feel that I can pass.

- If I pass on the exam, I'll travel to Canada.

- He laughed with me (or together with me ?) about that funny joke.

Thanks a lot,

Samara

Anonymous

Jokes

Feebs11

#447945 Thu, 29 Nov 07 08:29 PM

Anonymous wrote:
What is the correct option, please?

- My travel to a foreign country (or) my trip to a foreign country? "trip"

- People are very handsome (or) people are very nice? The first says they are good-looking; the second says they are pleasant by nature. Which do you want to use?

- Is it Ok if I say: They've gone to China for a job (the idea here is that they've gone to China because they've got a good job there) ? Yes

- Any mistake in: I hope you are very well / I hope to see you soon. No

- "Advocate's office" and "Law firm" are they the same thing ? Depends which country you are talking about. In Britain, a law firm might be a solicitor's office, only dealing with legal matters such as wills, house purchases, preparing legals documents, or it could be a barrister's office dealing with presenting cases in the lawcourts. An Advocate's office is the same as a barrister's office.

- In spite of the nervous about the test, I feel that I can pass. In spite of feeling nervous about the test

- If I pass on the exam, I'll travel to Canada. If I pass the exam [no preposition is needed]

- He laughed with me (or together with me ?) about that funny joke. "together" is not needed.

Thanks a lot,

Samara

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Prepositions, Jokes

Anonymous

#447994 Fri, 30 Nov 07 12:31 AM

Feebs 11,

Thank you very much for your answers. Concerning to the sentence : " People are very handsome", the intention is to say that people from a specific place are good-looking. So is it good/correct to use the word handsome? I've learned that we use the word handsome for men (e.g. He is a handsome boy) and pretty/beautiful for women (e.g. She is a pretty/beautiful woman).

Thanks again for your attention,

Samara

Anonymous

Feebs11

#448004 Fri, 30 Nov 07 01:16 AM

Yes, you can use the sentence to say that.

Feebs11

Anonymous

#448020 Fri, 30 Nov 07 02:21 AM

Thanks,

Samara

Anonymous

CalifJim

#448092 Fri, 30 Nov 07 06:11 AM

I've learned that we use the word handsome for men (e.g. He is a handsome boy) and pretty/beautiful for women (e.g. She is a pretty/beautiful woman).

If you want to be sure to avoid this gender problem, you can say any of these gender-neutral sentences instead.

People are very attractive.
People are very good-looking.
People are very nice-looking.

CJ