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poki
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I need your help...
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Is is more correct to say: "Tell me more about you" or "Tell me more about yourself"?  I found both possibilities here on ESLprintables, though I would use the second option. I �m planning to make a wss with some simple questions (What �s your favourite colour?...) and I really don �t know which possibility to use!
Another thing I wanted to ask... Can anyone please help me with these sentences. I found them in some ws, but I �m not sure what the answers are...
Ben _______ (meet) Tim last week. They _______ (not see) each other since they ____ (go) to Linda �s party last year.
Maybe (met / haven �t seen / went)????
Thank you for your help!!!
Polona |
10 Feb 2010
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teachertonyinchina
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I would use tell me more about yourself.
Ben (met) Tim last week. They (haven �t seen) each other since they (went) to Linda �s party last year. |
10 Feb 2010
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anitarobi
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tell me more about yourself - definitely that!
As for the other one, I agree with teachertonyinchina, though I do believe it should be They hadn �t seen each other... because they did last week, so there �s no link to the present. (perhaps, just to make things even more clear, I �d even change Linda �s party last year to Linda �s party the year before... something is off there, a bit confusing...) But maybe I �m just complicating too much. Let �s hear other opinions! |
10 Feb 2010
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Spagman63
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Anita is right. It has to be hadn �t since haven �t is present tense.
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10 Feb 2010
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Zora
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Anita is correct and to add even more of a twist here since it does sound strange, I �d say that it sounds a bit better like this - or at least to me, it does:
Ben met Tim last week. They hadn �t seen each other since they had been to Linda �s party last year.
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10 Feb 2010
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yanogator
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I disagree with Zora. I think the best is "Ben met Tim last week. They hadn �t seen each other since they went to Linda �s party last year." It could also be, "They hadn �t seen each other since Linda �s party last year.", but that avoids the third verb, and this is a verb activity.
It must be "hadn �t seen each other", because, as I always tell my students, the past perfect is the past of the past, or things that happened before the past tense (went, in this case).
Bruce |
10 Feb 2010
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