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Troubles with English? Thread to answer your doubts
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:29
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But, last year she told us 2 thousand in 2000!!!!!!!!
I´m really confused...
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| matt17br |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:30
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TheManxMissile wrote:
matt17br wrote:
Do you also use "Hundred" for the time? I often hear f.e. "Sixteen Hundred" to indicate 16.00 instead of using "16 o'clock"?
1600, as in military, would be Sixteen Hundred. But normal people would say just Four o'clock, perhaps adding PM to indicate the afternoon (no-one i've ever met of any age or nationality has ever read the 24hour clock time straight up because that would be stupid)
You're right haha, I'm just too stupid and Italian 
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:31
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
But, last year she told us 2 thousand in 2000!!!!!!!!
I´m really confused...
Because f*ck English! I told you the standard phrasing that English people use and is taught in english schools and in lessons to foreigners learning english
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:32
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So, finally, who is right? Me or the teacher?
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:35
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Well, MARS, if there is one thing I learned at school it is that sometimes teachers make their own rules, which seems to be the case now... I personally had never heard someone say ten hundred, and to me it doesn't make any sense either... It sounds wrongs, one thousand is much easier and therefore I would just use that.
My English teacher would say all synonyms of words we had to learn were wrong, even if they were more advanced words... Nothing to do about it really... Or you could try crying infront of her...
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 14:40
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Yeah, I know I won´t be able to make her change her opinion, and I´m not going to try.
Thank you anyway! If I am only wrong in that sentence, I will think I have a 10!
Another thing, is this thread a good idea?
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| Rin |
Posted on 12-11-2014 15:35
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There is a school thread for talks about school stuff like getting help for somethings or discussing about school related stuff.
https://pcmdaily.c...wstart=440
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 12-11-2014 15:39
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OK, Rin, but I thought it´d be good to have a thread to discuss about English, and to help people who needs it
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 19-11-2014 14:25
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Hello.
Is there a difference between "last" and "latest"?
Thanks
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| matt17br |
Posted on 19-11-2014 14:33
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
Hello.
Is there a difference between "last" and "latest"?
Thanks
There shouldn't be a big difference, I'll try to explain this with some examples:
When you ask someone "what is the latest book you've read?" you are in fact asking what is the most recent, up until now. This implies that you have read a number of books over some time and you are asking about the most recent.
When you ask someone "what is the last book you've read" well, to me at least, compared to "latest", implies that there hasn't been much reading previously.
2 more examples:
The last concert can mean the final concert - there will be no more, or it can mean the most recent concert.
The latest concert would usually mean the most recent concert.
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| jseadog1 |
Posted on 19-11-2014 14:33
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
Hello.
Is there a difference between "last" and "latest"?
Thanks
'last' is used when there are or will be no more, while 'latest' is used when there are presumably more to come. 'Latest' = 'most recent'.
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 19-11-2014 14:34
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Thanks jseadog1
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:03
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Another doubt.
Plural for "son" is "sons"?
I got a 9.8 in English  I put sons, and my teacher says it´s children... and the other fault was:
I had to write a question to ask for lemonade and I put: Can I have some lemonade? It was wrong because I forgot putting PLEASE in the finish
I´m really, really tired of getting high 9 in English, TIRED!
Spoiler Finally the teacher put "One thousand" 
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| matt17br |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:07
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MARSUPILAMI wrote:
Plural for "son" is "sons"?
I got a 9.8 in English I put sons, and my teacher says it´s children... and the other fault was:
I had to write a question to ask for lemonade and I put: Can I have some lemonade? It was wrong because I forgot putting PLEASE in the finish
IIRC you can say sons but I never heard people saying it, so I guess that children is more right?
I don't know about the 2nd sentence, but I wouldn't have marked it as an error tbh, even though I would have used could instead of can.
Edited by matt17br on 25-11-2014 14:14
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:09
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I have to say that in both sentences my teacher put me a "half right, half wrong". I hope you understand me.
In the "son" sentence, it was a possessive. I had to put:
Marcos´ children´s teeth
And I put
Marcos´ sons´ teeth
Great thanks, I learn a lot more with you than with my stupid teacher
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| Roextro |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:11
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Is this thread intentionally called troubles with english? It should be called trouble with english not troubles
Edited by Roextro on 25-11-2014 14:12
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:12
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Two sons should be alright if you ask me. Children would be sons + daughters.
Try googling ''I have two sons''. Plenty of results of people saying that 
Second one is debatable if you ask me, it would be more polite to add please. Or actually replacing 'can' by 'could' as well.
9.8 is nice though 
Edit:
Zabel'd and looking at the ''sons'' example you just gave, I'd say children looks better but unsure if son would be wrong in this case.
Double edit:
It would be son's instead of sons' I suppose
Edited by Jesleyh on 25-11-2014 14:15
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| OZrocker |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:22
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Same as above, "sons" is for only boys and children is for both boys and girls. It depends on what exactly the question was whether it should be acceptable, but children is also correct.
Jesley, I believe it actually is "sons'", if it is a plural possessive. If it's singular, then the apostrophe comes before the s.
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:24
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Thanks Jesleyh.
9.8 isn´t nice for me! (well, a bit...)
What´s the meaning of Zabel´d?
Son´s? It´s sons´... Plural finished in S + ´
Another thing. What´s more correct? ´ or ' ?
I always use ´ but I usually see ' here...
Edit: Thanks OZrocker! You help me being more upste with my teacher!!!!! But at least I know I now more than her 
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 25-11-2014 14:25
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 25-11-2014 14:28
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Oh of course Ozrocker, my fault, mixed stuff up I guess
' should be more correct I suppose.
Zabel'd is a forum joke you should know by now. If someone posts an essential thing(or exactly the same thing) before you post, without you noticing(so that your post is outdated)
It's called Zabel'd because of Erik Zabel celebrating too early in Milan San Remo once, so that someone else got the win.
Though for me, a 9,8 out of 10 would be an amazing mark
Your English teacher seems stupid indeed btw
Edited by Jesleyh on 25-11-2014 14:29
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