Thank you for your time Elaine
I am sorry, but it has to be a British Native. I pretty much came up with
the same changes, but my boys school teacher claims there is nothing wrong
with the sentences. This is material made by the school with the purpose of
teaching english to a 6th grade class in Denmark. It is Dictation material,
so the sentences don't necessarily have be connected even though they are
written together as I have listed.
"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@*your-pants*PlayNaked.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:Misc-85F493.18521403092006@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com...
> 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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