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juliamontenegro
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Grammar question
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Is this construction correct???
"What would you advise someone to do who has a lot of stress at work?"
This is totally wrong in my opinion, but it may be possible, who knows???
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Julia |
18 Jun 2009
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Spagman63
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It �s not totally wrong, only slightly.The person just put the infinitive in the wrong place. It would sound better at the end of the sentence:"What would you advise someone who has a lot of stress at work to do?" The structure is good and the vocabulary is correct.
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18 Jun 2009
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juliamontenegro
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Alright,
I just want to know if I should correct this in my book (the teaching manual has this question) and in their final review.
In case I correct it and it�s right that way, then, if this appears in the students� final exam they will find it strange.
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18 Jun 2009
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Tere-arg
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I think it is wrong, as the relative clause (who has a lot of stress at work) should follow the noun it refers to (someone)
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18 Jun 2009
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Spagman63
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Actually, we use BOTH structures. Remember, books are not always correct. I find numerous mistakes in OUP/Cambridge books.
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18 Jun 2009
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Tere-arg
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....well-known grammar books are not correct?
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18 Jun 2009
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roneydirt
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Yes there are several well known grammar books with mistakes. One reason I always find it funny when individuals tell me that I have several grammar mistakes, but can �t point them out. You would be surprise the types of mistakes I have found in several well known TEFL instructor �s books and other education textbooks. One of my many jobs was at the end of a press looking over final print jobs and how many mistakes I would catch that came through. I should hang the flyer the Cambridge University sent to my school after one of it �s instructors stopped by to give a teacher conference in South Korea. |
18 Jun 2009
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juliamontenegro
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Yeah, I do believe that some books are printed with some mistakes, but, I need to know what to do about that sentence... Is it gramatically incorrect? |
18 Jun 2009
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Tere-arg
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I have never found a mistake in the grammar books I have been using.
Test books are a different subject.
Anyway, I do not look for the info in a grammar book to answer here.
The question was not "grammar books and their accuracy" but one very different...
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18 Jun 2009
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