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ADverb, pls correct

achu.j — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:32:52 GMT

Adverb Questions

Eg: Laura is a graceful dancer
      Laura dances gracefully

1. His was a hurried visit
   He has visited hurriedly

2. Sachin's was a perfect game
    Sachin play game perfectly

3. My country has a slow progress
    My country progresses slowly

4. There was a heavy rain
    It was raining heavily

5. The engineer is an honest worker
     The engineer work honestly

6. The teacher shouted in an angry voice
     The teacher shouted in an angryly voice

7. The children worked in a noisy manner
    The children worked in a noisly manner

8. He walked away with a sad expression
    He was walking away with a sad expression

Fill up the blanks using the following adverbs ( Always , frequently, harly, often, rarely/seldom, never, already ,sometimes

1. Although rahul is happy, he often misses his family.
2. Of late he has .. been coming to school with his books.
3. Rohini frequently watches cricket matches
4. He seldom eats his dinner at his friend's house.
5. Let's leave. The Deols have already left
6. YOu can never catch her at home. She is always out.
7. Mary was so busy, she hardly ate anything.

Answer questions.

Eg: how often do you visit ur grandparents?
      Very rarely.

1. Do you ever eat meal?
    Yes, hardly eat.

2. Does your friend visit you daily?
    No , rarely ( Or sometimes)

3. Do you play tennis regularly?
Yes, always

4. Does your teacher give you homework often
   yes, daily

5. Does ur mother fall ill often
     No rarely ( or sometimes)

6. How often does ur partner fight with u ?
    Very rarely

7. How many times have you been to Hong kong?
Never

8. Does ur dad's car break down everyday?
Yes, sometimes.

Write 2 things u and ur brother can do

1. I know how to swim. My brother also know how to swim.
2. I know how to play tennis. My brother also know how to play tennis.

Please correct the above answers . Thanks in advance

Re: Please edit this for me!

Mister Micawber — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:06:40 GMT

Hi Ashish.

All my school life,.. What's the problem?-- Many of my Japanese students try the same phrasing-- but it's not a natural phrase; we do not normally use 'my school/work/single/etc life' in English. Try 'While in school'.

By the way, the expression 'Test Match' is not wrong. It's one of the many forms of 'Cricket'.-- I know 'test match'... but it should not be capitalized.

Re: Please edit this for me!

Goodman — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:16:12 GMT

Hi Ashish Tiwari,
Mister Micawber already gave you his opinions but I thought I would offer you a couple advices just so that you understand the courtesy concept. When the volunteers help the learners,
we may give them our personal view of their writing. Some may interprete it differntly and corrected it. Sometimes the terms you used are not mainstream English and so it's pointed out to you.
If you still like to continue receiving help, I suggest that you be less arugmentatively inquistive. "In all the sports we know in the US, there is no "test match" that I know of. Perhaps, qualifying match, semi-final, or Elimination match.
<<<<By the way, the expression 'Test Match' is not wrong. It's one of the many forms of 'Cricket">>>>

Re: Please edit this for me!

Ashish Tiwari — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:51:57 GMT

Thank you very much, Mister Micawber!

I understood all but one mistake (or mistakes, please tell). Could you kindly clarify exactly what is wrong with the following and suggest corrections for it?

All my school life,.. What's the problem? Please correct it as well!

By the way, the expression 'Test Match' is not wrong. It's one of the many forms of 'Cricket'.

Thanks once again!

Re: "percent of (the or without the) Nation people": a mystery in Google hi

Cool Breeze — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:44:52 GMT

Hi Teleostomi

I suggest you forget all about Google. Since there are millions of German people, Australian people etc., you don't need the article when you refer to them all in a general sense:

German people are said to be hard-working. (I would prefer: Germans are said...)

If the reference is to a specific group, the is usually needed. In the following sentence the relative clause is the grammatical reason for the:

The German people who were interviewed hadn't seen the accident. (Again also: The Germans who were...)

You do need the article if you use an adjective as a plural noun:

The Chinese eat a lot of rice.
The British like watching cricket.

Cf. The rich like money.

It has become acceptable to use an adjective like Chinese without an article (and the word people) in expressions such as:
We saw a lot of Chinese [people] there.

CB

Re: Expression: "He scored a duck."

MrPedantic — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:01:58 GMT

Hello Mr T.,

If the context is cricket, yes, that's ok. You can also say "he got a duck" and "he made a duck"; but perhaps the most common version is "he was out for a duck".

MrP

Re: difference between the meaning of these sentences: I used to play...cri

Jeka — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:23:52 GMT

Yankee wrote:
Jackson6612 wrote:

Question 2:

Both Philip and Yankee said:

I am used to playing cricket in my spare time.

I was told that after to simple Present Tense form is used but playing is not simple Present Tense form of play. What would you say on this?
Most of the time you will find the base form (infinitive) of the verb after the word 'to'. However, certain expressions require the '-ing form'. Some examples of these are:

- be used to doing
- be accustomed to doing
- look forward to doing
- admit to doing
- object to doing

As far as I know 'to' is a preposition here (it is not a part of infinitive). So, you cannot use anything else after a preposition but a noun or gerund (-ing form). Hope it helps.

Re: difference between the meaning of these sentences: I used to play...cri

Yankee — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:21:24 GMT

Jackson6612 wrote:
Question 1:
Yankee said:

1: Do I used to play cricket in my spare time? Did I use to play ...?

As far as I know, 'did (not) ... use to' is still considered to be the correct form in negative and interrogative sentences. However, I'm also aware that some people disagree with this.

There is a usage note here that supports my view:
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/065.html

Question 2:

Both Philip and Yankee said:

I am used to playing cricket in my spare time.

I was told that after to simple Present Tense form is used but playing is not simple Present Tense form of play. What would you say on this?
Most of the time you will find the base form (infinitive) of the verb after the word 'to'. However, certain expressions require the '-ing form'. Some examples of these are:

- be used to doing
- be accustomed to doing
- look forward to doing
- admit to doing
- object to doing

Question 3:

1: I used to play cricket in my spare time. I did this regularly in the past, but don't do it now..

2: I was used to playing cricket in my spare time. Playing cricket in my spare time didn't feel unusual to me because I did it often.

What is difference between the meaning of above sentences?

Re: DIFFERENCE?

Fleder_m@u_S — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:20:47 GMT

Hi Redkiddy,

1. No one was to give her the present
No one was to have given her the present. What is the difference? What do they mean?

I have to admit that I 've never seen these expressions before,so I have no idea what they both mean or if there's any difference. I use the construction "ABC is to do ~." to imply that I use "ABC" in order to do something. It's not suitable to what your mean, or seem to mean here. I guess you want to say: "No one gave her a present."
You shouldn't say "the present" in this context, because there's not any present given to her. So "present" can't be definite.

2. I remember you giving her the present
I remember you having give her the present

I dont think it's ok to say so. If I were you, I would say, eg. " I remember that you gave/ have given her the present." or "I remember that you are the one (who) gave/ has given her the present."

3. The little girl was hit by a car
The little girl was hit with a car

I would go with the 1st sentence in this case. Using "to be hit by X" or "to be hit with X" depend on if X is the person or thing does the action "hitting" on you. For examples:
- The little girl was hit by a car. ===> Means, the car hit her.
- I was hit with a cricket bat. ===> Means, someone hit me with a cricket bat.

I hope this post is useful for you. And looking forward to any correction if I was wrong.

Re: right off the bat

MrPedantic — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:52:52 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

Hi,

I wondered about this myself recently. I wasn't able to find an authoritative definition for its origin and meaning, but my conclusion was as follows.

Cricket and Baseball shared a common heritage, until Baseball branched off to become what it is today. For this reason the expression probably refers to both games. Both games require that each team not only has to bat but also has to field. If a team goes into bat and runs up a score that is almost impossible to beat, it could be safely said that they won the game "right off the bat".

Now, until someone offers a better explanation than that, it is what I am sticking with. It may transpire (as is often with idioms) that the English isn't logical anyway, and that bat means something totally other than a sports implement. If that's the case we'll have to wait for a University professor to dig out some old volume and give us the final word.

Chris

But how do we get from "running up a score that is impossible to beat" to the meaning of the phrase?

MrP