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a question to native speakers
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ueslteacher
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a question to native speakers
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What would you use? "I wonder if you have this in size 4", she said. Carol took the shoe and smiled the automatic smile she ____ for customers. 1) booked
2) reserved
3) held
4) stored My immediate choice was #2, however the presenter of a webinar said "held" was the correct option. Why? They say, "the choice is obvious here because "hold a smile" is an idiom"....  |
23 Mar 2016
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ninon100
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reserved, of course. errare humanum est :) |
23 Mar 2016
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redcamarocruiser
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I agree with you and ninon100. Reserved is the most logical and usual choice. If the clerk "held" her smile, that would sound like her smile is frozen on purpose, as one does for some photographs, in my opinion. |
23 Mar 2016
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yanogator
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I agree with my colleagues, although I would use the present rather than the past, since it is ongoing. That isn �t an option, though. Bruce |
23 Mar 2016
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yanogator
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I don �t know "hold a smile" as an idiom, and if it is, it �s meaning would be to keep a smile on your face, not to have one reserved for certain situations. Bruce |
23 Mar 2016
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alien boy
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Never heard of �held/hold � a smile.
2. �reserved � is the correct choice.
Bruce, I didn �t think that present tense would be in agreement with �smiled � (verb) as distint from �automatic smile � (adjective + noun).
Cheers,
AB |
23 Mar 2016
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yanogator
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AB, since she has it in reserve at all times, past, present and future, the simple present is correct as well as the simple past. Bruce |
23 Mar 2016
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alien boy
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Thanks for the clarification Bruce!
I �m struggling hard to improve my formal grammar knowledge, so I always welcome corrections & information on points of grammar.
Cheers,
AB |
23 Mar 2016
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