Question to native British english speaking people
jr
correct and do they sound ok to a native British english speaking person?
They are made by my sons English teacher. (6th grade in Denmark/2nd year
english)
1. Go out and see if you can get an egg, some tea and a carrot. We will see
if they are ten.
4. Now we must go to mother to get some food. We must go for a walk too.
10 At home we only have sun from five to seven. One day I will have a house
with sun all day.
15. When he went into father's house tonight, he hit his foot on the door,
which he used to get in.
25. That man has a house himself. He is so tall, that he can reach all the
way to the top of his roof. In five years I am probably just as tall.
28. There the soft chairs are.
31......Those houses will take all the sun in my garden.
37.....She looks towards the clock and feels sorrow that I want to leave
again.
38. Go and see if that was the newspaper, which came right now. It sounded
as if. While I read it, you can make tea. There is bread right there, and
you can go to the baker's for cake, if you want.
Paul {Hamilton Rooney}
>The following are sentences used for dictation. Are they all gramatically
>correct and do they sound ok to a native British english speaking person?
>They are made by my sons English teacher. (6th grade in Denmark/2nd year
>english)
>
>1. Go out and see if you can get an egg, some tea and a carrot. We will see
>if they are ten.
No. 'We will see if they are ten' is not correct. I have no idea how to
correct it because I don't know what it is supposed to mean.
>
>4. Now we must go to mother to get some food. We must go for a walk too.
OK
>
>10 At home we only have sun from five to seven. One day I will have a house
>with sun all day.
OK. The position of 'only' is perfectly correct.
>15. When he went into father's house tonight, he hit his foot on the door,
>which he used to get in.
Most people would say 'the door that he used to get in'.
>
>25. That man has a house himself. He is so tall, that he can reach all the
>way to the top of his roof. In five years I am probably just as tall.
No. Should be 'I will probably be just as tall'.
>28. There the soft chairs are.
No. 'There are the soft chairs'.
>
>31......Those houses will take all the sun in my garden.
OK
>
>37.....She looks towards the clock and feels sorrow that I want to leave
>again.
OK
>
>38. Go and see if that was the newspaper, which came right now. It sounded
>as if. While I read it, you can make tea. There is bread right there, and
>you can go to the baker's for cake, if you want.
>
'just now' in Brit English. 'It sounded like it' (not 'as if', though you
could say 'it sounded as if it was'). Otherwise OK.
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Weatherlawyer
I don't think any Englishman with all his pennoies in his purse would
say any of the above except for No. 10.
> 1. Go out and see if you can get an egg, some tea and a carrot. We will see
> if they are ten.
Would be:
>
1. Go and see if you can get any eggs [or: get an egg], some tea and
carrots.
[new paragraph]
We will see if they are ten.
> 4. Now we must go to mother to get some food. We must go for a walk too.
mother's or: [my/our] mother's?
> 15. When he went into father's house tonight, he hit his foot on the door,
> which he used to get in.
this evening rather than tonight although most of the stuff so far is
grammatically correct.
> 25. That man has a house [to himself or his own house] himself. He is so tall, that he can reach all the way to the top of his roof. In five years I am [will probably be] probably just as tall.
> 28. There [are] the soft chairs are. [Or: The the soft chairs are there.]
>
> 31......Those houses will take [get/catch] all the sun in my garden.
>
> 37.....She looks towards [at] the clock and feels sorrow that I want to leave again.
Again? the problem with that s the tense. It sounds like it should be
in the past tense.
> 38. Go and see if that was the newspaper, which came right now. It sounded
> as if.
Wrong. That sounded like the newsper has just come. While I read it,
you can make tea. There is bread right there, and [or drop the word:
and] you can go to the baker's for [a/some] cake, if you want.
Barbara Bailey
<Weathe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Wouldn't this be correct as it stands if they need to ask Mother,
perhaps because the pantry is locked and Mother has the key?
>
>> 15. When he went into father's house tonight, he hit his foot on the door,
>> which he used to get in.
>
>this evening rather than tonight although most of the stuff so far is
>grammatically correct.
>
>> 25. That man has a house [to himself or his own house] himself. He is so tall, that he can reach all the way to the top of his roof. In five years I am [will probably be] probably just as tall.
>
>> 28. There [are] the soft chairs are. [Or: The the soft chairs are there.]
>>
>> 31......Those houses will take [get/catch] all the sun in my garden.
>>
>> 37.....She looks towards [at] the clock and feels sorrow that I want to leave again.
>
>Again? the problem with that s the tense. It sounds like it should be
>in the past tense.
>
>> 38. Go and see if that was the newspaper, which came right now. It sounded
>> as if.
>
>
>Wrong. That sounded like the newsper has just come. While I read it,
>you can make tea. There is bread right there, and [or drop the word:
>and] you can go to the baker's for [a/some] cake, if you want.
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Ted Sloan
wrote:
>way to the top of his roof. In five years I am probably just as tall.
>
>
think the word to be used here is " ceiling ".
>
>
>
Paul {Hamilton Rooney}
The top of the ceiling??