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8 February
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English (US)
Question about English (US)
I am a graduate student and am doing research. If passible, I would like you to take a small test for the study.
If your first language is English, would you take that test?
You can start the test from the following link.
https://forms.gle/2gxzbGtMpHHVr192A
I am a graduate student and am doing research. If passible, I would like you to take a small test for the study.
If your first language is English, would you take that test?
You can start the test from the following link.
https://forms.gle/2gxzbGtMpHHVr192A
If your first language is English, would you take that test?
You can start the test from the following link.
https://forms.gle/2gxzbGtMpHHVr192A
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Done! Though I must say, it was quite difficult to answer some of those questions. There were times where the sentences were grammatically correct but were very unnatural or said things that were quite confusing.
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@Natitan I appreciate you doing that so much!
Your comment is really helpful!
If you don’t mind, I want to ask you why the sentences below are incorrect.
The teacher gave a lot of homework to her students.
Homework was collected at the beginning of the class.
Because of the heavy snow, trains did not move.
Many workers arrived late at companies.
Researchers looked
Your comment is really helpful!
If you don’t mind, I want to ask you why the sentences below are incorrect.
The teacher gave a lot of homework to her students.
Homework was collected at the beginning of the class.
Because of the heavy snow, trains did not move.
Many workers arrived late at companies.
Researchers looked
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- English (UK)
Okay, I will [mark] the parts of each sentence that I felt were either very unnatural or incorrect.
#1 "The teacher gave a lot of homework to her students.
[The] homework was collected at the beginning of the class."
#2 "Because of the heavy snow, [the] trains did not move."
#3 " Many workers [were] late [to their jobs]"
(The original sentence felt very unnatural to me.)
#4 "Researchers looked for dinosaur fossils.
Finally, [a] dinosaur fossil was discovered.
OR
Finally, the dinosaur fossil[s] were discovered.
Good luck with your research!
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@Natitan Thanks a lot!!!
May I ask one more question?
If you use ‘arrive’ in the sentence #3, how would you say?
May I ask one more question?
If you use ‘arrive’ in the sentence #3, how would you say?
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- English (UK)
@Tzyu Hmm, I would say "Many workers arrived late to their jobs." That sounds okay to me!
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