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Check these sentences please
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carinita
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Check these sentences please
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Hello I rearranged a sentence so that it means the same Is the punctuation OK? Sentence from the book: In the 1500s people
in Poland lighted their street lamps with oil. My sentence:
In Poland, in the 1500s, street lamps burned oil to
produce light.
and... Is this question right?
Where did the French extracted oil from?
Expected answer is "
French people/The French excavated/extracted oil from sand." Thanks a bunch |
16 Feb 2013
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MoodyMoody
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The functional meaning of the two sentences are close enough, although I think the book should have used "lit" rather than "lighted." Maybe the regular form is acceptable now, but I learned the irregular form as a child.
The question, however, is not quite correct. I would say, "What did the French extract oil from?" More formally correct for the grammar police is "From what did the French extract oil?" Truly picky grammarians don �t like to end a sentence with a preposition. You need to use "what" instead of "where" because sand is a thing, not a place. And in English, for both the simple present and simple past, we use do as an auxiliary verb for negatives and questions, which you did. However, grammatical markers are attached to "do" and not to the main verb. As I like to tell my students, "Change the do, not the main verb." That is so counter-intuitive for most of them. |
16 Feb 2013
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carinita
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where... extracted....  I �ve been on holidays recently I �ll have to work hard to catch up this back-to-school season Have a nice weekend 
p.s precisely, I wasn�t sure were to place "from" Thanks!
p.s 2 how about:...What from did the French extract oil?
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16 Feb 2013
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Apodo
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p.s 2 how about:...What from did the French extract oil? - Not correct
From what .....? correct
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16 Feb 2013
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MoodyMoody
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The preposition always goes in front of the object of the preposition in English. What from just sounds wrong. |
16 Feb 2013
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