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espen15
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posted July 26, 2008 06:46 PM |
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And i know that i say unuseful not useless and that is wrong, but it doesn´t matter anyway because i´m not in english lesson.
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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
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posted July 28, 2008 12:10 AM |
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When do you say "of" and when do you say "off"?
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del_diablo
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Manifest
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posted July 28, 2008 01:35 AM |
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Is it possible to say "I have been sleeping for 7 hours", ( - I just have finished), or it means that I am still sleeping?
Have been is past time(what has happend, ages ago), so i guess it is after the sleeping part
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phoenixreborn
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Unicorn
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posted July 28, 2008 02:11 AM |
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I would say:
"I (just) slept for 7 hours"
you could say
"I was sleeping for 7 hours when..."
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Dagoth,
I think of 'off' in terms of a change:
"Turn the light off"
"Take your shirt off"
'of' is just a linking word:
The United States of America
I'm fond of cheese
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Moonlith
Bad-mannered
Supreme Hero
If all else fails, use Fiyah!
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posted July 28, 2008 12:17 PM |
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When do you say "of" and when do you say "off"?
Off is the opposite of On.
Off can also translate as "get away from" or something along that line, such as in the phrase "get off of me".
http://www.answers.com/off
http://www.answers.com/of
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radar
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posted July 28, 2008 12:27 PM |
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Quote:
Quote:
Is it possible to say "I have been sleeping for 7 hours", ( - I just have finished), or it means that I am still sleeping?
Have been is past time(what has happend, ages ago), so i guess it is after the sleeping part
Google 'Present Perfect Continuous'.
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DagothGares
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No gods or kings
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posted July 28, 2008 12:30 PM |
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Yup, that reminds me of that story of the divorced dutch woman. (tenses differ from english) She meets some guy in a bar and they talk and have a good time. The guy then asks whether she's single and she says: "I have been married for ten years." (instead of I had been married) The guy then picks up and leaves.
The woman doesn't know what went wrong.
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espen15
Famous Hero
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posted July 30, 2008 03:35 PM |
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When do you say "of" and when do you say "off"?
Of i go then and turn the lights offf.
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Moonlith
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posted July 30, 2008 05:31 PM |
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uhr, it's "off I go then", really
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emilsn
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posted August 15, 2008 07:50 PM |
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Warning: A revival - not a bad one
So would it be alright, if I asked for your help with an english Grammar assignment I have - It is a simple assignment - There are a number of sentences that I have to find the 1 mistake and then right why it is wrong and why it should the right thing. The problem here is: I speak great english and I have no idea why I say the things and do, which is my written english handicap
So can I ask for your help
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lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk
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mvassilev
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Undefeatable Hero
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posted August 15, 2008 08:01 PM |
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Moonlith
Bad-mannered
Supreme Hero
If all else fails, use Fiyah!
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posted August 16, 2008 09:37 AM |
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It's technically cheating but hey, as the teachers always say when you are letting someone else do your homework or such: it's yourself you are fooling in the end
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emilsn
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posted August 16, 2008 10:48 AM |
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No not at all, it is getting help and yesterday out teacher was actully saying what to look for -
Here are some sentences that makes no sense, where is the mistake, that is what we are looking for:
"The always flies when you are having fun"
-So what is the mistake, flies? - Only guess I got.
"The man knew, that is would be impossible to pain the house in one day"
-So again, a mystery to me, a simple human.
"She drove a terrible old car that smelled of gasoline and cigarettes."
-Here I am thinking it should be: "An old terrible car" - but that is my only guess.
That is those sentences that is making me wonder, I need to find the mistake and explain what the right is.
Thank you for your help 
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Don't walk behind me; I may not
lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk
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william
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Undefeatable Hero
LummoxLewis
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posted August 16, 2008 11:02 AM |
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Okay I think the mistakes are:
1. Time always flies when you are having fun. The always flies when you are having fun makes no sense.
2. The man knew, that this would be impossible to paint the house in one day.
3. Dunno.
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~Ticking away the moments that
make up a dull day, Fritter and
waste the hours in an off-hand
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keldorn
Promising
Known Hero
that casts green flames
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posted August 16, 2008 11:13 AM |
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I also have a question. I never knew the difference between 'either' and 'neither'
And what do these mean:
kinda
ain't
gotta etc. (words that sound strangely unenglish )
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Doomforge
Admirable
Undefeatable Hero
Retired Hero
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posted August 16, 2008 11:18 AM |
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I am not a native speaker but I guess I can help you with that 
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I also have a question. I never knew the difference between 'either' and 'neither'
Neither = either with negation
You can, for example, say "I want either this or that".. which means you want one thing or the other..
And you can say "I want neither this nor that.." meaning you don't want any of those.
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kinda
ain't
gotta etc. (words that sound strangely unenglish )
Kinda = 'shortened' kind of
Ain't = Universal inflection of "to be". You can say "I ain't", "you ain't", "he ain't".. I think it came from ebonics.
Gotta = "shortened" got to.
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Ecoris
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posted August 16, 2008 11:29 AM |
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Edited by Ecoris at 11:32, 16 Aug 2008.
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"The man knew that it would be impossible to paint the house in one day" (I also removed the comma).
EDIT: I wonder whether that is needed?
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"She drove a terrible old car that smelled of gasoline and cigarettes."
-Here I am thinking it should be: "An old terrible car" - but that is my only guess.
No. You only use an when the next word starts with a vowel-sound (e.g. an hour). If terrible is meant to refer to old it should be terribly instead. But perhaps the car is just old as well as terrible. In that case one could insert and in between.
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Doomforge
Admirable
Undefeatable Hero
Retired Hero
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posted August 16, 2008 11:32 AM |
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By the way guys..
Can you explain why the pronunciation is so random in English ?
For example, peasant.
I always thought you should pronounce the "pea" part of peasant as "pea".. like in "peach".. until I played baldurs gate and heard that you should actually pronounce it as "pe", like in, dunno, "perception". Wtf? Is there a hidden rule here that I don't know yet, or is it like that just because?
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Vexon
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posted August 16, 2008 11:39 AM |
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''Peasant'' is the same as in ''pleasant'', yet I have no idea why it differs. I'm not natively English, though.
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Cepheus
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Far-flung Keeper
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posted August 16, 2008 11:42 AM |
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"The man knew, that is would be impossible to pain the house in one day"
There's no need for the comma here. Is = it.
Pain is also not grammatically correct at all, though I guess that may have been a typo.
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