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Message from mohammad51 posted on 18-03-2023 at 10:22:27 (D | E | F)
Hello
The following questions are from the book ( practical grammar and composition by Thomas Wood)
The book is without answer key and no answer at all online.
I tried to get with the solutions myself, so please help and correct me.
Thank you in advance
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Correct the following sentences:
1. I admire Mary more than John. = correct
2. I think she is older than John. = correct
3. He should have succeeded in gaining the end he tried. = correct
4. I asked him to do what I should not have. My correction : I asked him to do what I could not have done.
5. I did what I ought not. My correction : ought not to do
6. We wish him better luck than Mary. I suggest : We wish him better luck than we wish to Marry.
7. We want to see him more than Henry. I suggest We want to visit him more than we want to visit Henry.
8. I should hate him worse than you. I suggest rewriting in the same way above
9. He wanted me to do what I didn't care to. = correct OR what I didn't want to do \ to have done ( past )
10. You may, as you please, do it or not. No suggestion, but I think, it is correct
11. She may go if she wishes or not. The same answer as the above
12. We think of you oftener than mother. = grammatically correct but ( insensitive or inappropriate)
Message from mohammad51 posted on 18-03-2023 at 10:22:27 (D | E | F)
Hello
The following questions are from the book ( practical grammar and composition by Thomas Wood)
The book is without answer key and no answer at all online.
I tried to get with the solutions myself, so please help and correct me.
Thank you in advance
------- ---
Correct the following sentences:
1. I admire Mary more than John. = correct
2. I think she is older than John. = correct
3. He should have succeeded in gaining the end he tried. = correct
4. I asked him to do what I should not have. My correction : I asked him to do what I could not have done.
5. I did what I ought not. My correction : ought not to do
6. We wish him better luck than Mary. I suggest : We wish him better luck than we wish to Marry.
7. We want to see him more than Henry. I suggest We want to visit him more than we want to visit Henry.
8. I should hate him worse than you. I suggest rewriting in the same way above
9. He wanted me to do what I didn't care to. = correct OR what I didn't want to do \ to have done ( past )
10. You may, as you please, do it or not. No suggestion, but I think, it is correct
11. She may go if she wishes or not. The same answer as the above
12. We think of you oftener than mother. = grammatically correct but ( insensitive or inappropriate)
Re: Correct / incorrect from gerondif, posted on 18-03-2023 at 12:20:36 (D | E)
Hello
1. I admire Mary more than John. = correct different meaning if : I admire Mary more than John does.
2. I think she is older than John. = correct
3. He should have succeeded in gaining the end he tried. = correct (meaning ????)
4. I asked him to do what I should not have. My correction : I asked him to do what I could not have done. ok
5. I did what I ought not. My correction : ought not to do /ought not to have done.
6. We wish him better luck than Mary. I suggest : We wish him better luck than we wish/do to Mary.
7. We want to see him more than Henry. I suggest We want to visit him more than we want to visit Henry. We want to see him more than we do Henry.
8. I should hate him worse than you (do). colloquial but not uncommon. I suggest rewriting in the same way above
9. He wanted me to do what I didn't care to do. = correct OR what I didn't want to do \ to have done ( past )
10. You may, as you please, do it or not. No suggestion, but I think, it is correct
11. She may go if she wishes or not. The same answer as the above (I have doubts but in cact, I don't know, I cant spot the mistake if any.
12. We think of you oftener (more often, two syllables, er is strange) than mother does. = grammatically correct but ( insensitive or inappropriate)
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