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Help with some doubts
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WestHampstead
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Help with some doubts
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Hi! Could you please help me with some doubts?
Can you say:
She �s wearing high heels = She �s wearing high heeled shoes?
If a T-shirt has pictures of a duck, can you say a ducked T-shirt? I suppose it �s wrong I �ve never heard it, my students wrote it.
What �s the difference between an evening dress and a night dress? Evening dress is for a party anda night dress for sleeping? is that right?
what �s exactly the difference between stockings and tights? women wear tights with skirts and I know about the Xmas stocking.
The word pyjamas is it singular or plural? She �s wearing a pyjamas/pajamas.
If a t-shirt it �s by Tommy Hilfiger for example, you say a brand �s name T-shirt?
What �s the correct order of adjectives in English?
Thanks!!!
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31 Jan 2010
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tancredo
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1 - you can say : high-heeled shoes
a ten-year-old boy
a four-legged table
(they are adjectives )
I don �t think you can say a ducked T-shirt but let�s hope some native teacher is on the forum and tell us.
2 - I think you are right about the dress.
3 - stockings is different from tights. You put on two stockings - one on each leg and you put one one pair of tights - an entire item of clothes (with sort of panties)
4 - Pyjamas/pajamas - I think that the verb that follows is singular.
" Your pyjamas is on the bed"
5 - As for the T-shirt I think you can say : a T-shirt with a name.
Let �s wait for other and better opinions!
6 - You �ll find the correct order of adjectives in English in a good grammar. Sometimes it is a bit difficult to put them in the correct place!
Have a nice week. |
31 Jan 2010
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Nicola5052
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Hi
You can say either "she �s wearing high heels"or "she �s wearing high-heeled shoes".
Pyjamas is plural - your pyjamas are on the bed.
You most definitely can �t say a ducked T-shirt!
The Tommy T-shirt would be a brand-name shirt.
Hope that helps
Nicola |
31 Jan 2010
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WestHampstead
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Thanks! really useful!!!
One more question: pyjamas/pajamas Is one for American English and one British? |
31 Jan 2010
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yanogator
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Yes.
pyjamas - British
pajamas - US
Also, tights is the British word. In the US, we say panty-hose. Tights are something a little different. Stockings (the individual kind) are also called "hose" here.
Bruce |
31 Jan 2010
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dturner
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You would never say a ducked T-shirt. A duck T-Shirt is OK. or a T shirt with a duck on it.
We would usually say high heels, but if I said "high heeled shoes", it almost sounds as if I �m trying to emphasize the fact that they are high heels on a pair of shoes.
You are correct about evening and night dress. I would never say night dress. I would use night gown. We often say a night shirt to sleep in, especially worn by men.
I �m in Canada and would use pajamas, pyjamas.
Tights to me have a different feeling than panty hose. Panty hose are see-through or slightly opaque, like nylon stockings. Tights, to me are not see-through. I would wear tights when I went ice skating. They are often thicker than panty hose. But, these are perhaps cultural differences.
We would say a brand name t shirt. No S. Hope this helps. dt
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1 Feb 2010
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Monkena
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The ducked T-shirt: duck can only be used as a verb when talking about the act of ducking (to avoid a thrown object for example; or to push someone under water);
In the UK, tights will always refer to the two-legged form of panty hose, regardless of thickness; stockings are almost always the one legged type pulled to the top of the thigh.
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1 Feb 2010
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