In article <44fb1787$0$3481$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk>,
"jr" <jraahauge@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
I'm an American-English speaker, but I'm pretty sure these corrections
apply across the pond:
> The following are sentenses used for dictation. Are they all gramatically
> correct and do they sound ok to a native english speaking person?
"Sentences."
> 1. Go out and see if you can get an egg, some tea and a carrot. We will see
> if they are ten.
"Ten" what?
> 4. Now we must go to mother to get some food. We must go for a walk too.
"...for a walk, too."
> 10 At home we only have sun from five to seven. One day I will have a house
> with sun all day.
Ok, but more commonly used is: "some day, I will have..."
> 15. When he went into father's house tonight, he hit his foot on the door,
> which he used to get in.
This sentence is awkward.
> 25. That man has a house himself. He is so tall, that he can reach all the
> way to the top of his roof. In five years I am probably just as tall.
"In five years, I will probably be..."
> 28. There the soft chairs are.
>
> 31......Those houses will take all the sun in my garden.
"...Will block all the sun..."
> 37.....She looks towards the clock and feels sorrow that I want to leave
> again.
>
> 38. Go and see if that was the newspaper, which came right now. It sounded
> as if. While I read it, you can make tea. There is bread right there, and
> you can go to the baker's for cake, if you want.
"...The newspaper, which came just now. It sounded as if it may have
been. While I read it, you can make tea. There is bread right there, and
you can go to the baker's for cake, if you like" (or "...if you want
to.")
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