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Hela Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Alternative answers 1

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00Would you please tell me if the alternatives I propose can be acceptable in the following exercises ? 02br
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01b00I/02b00 Mr Jeffries, I have decided against a prison sentence in your case. You may walk free from this court 01b001)02b00 ONLY IF you report to Chesham police every Friday for the next six months. 01b002) a)02b00 SHOULD / 01b00b)02b00 IF you fail to do so, you will be given one warning; and if you persist in failing to meet this obligation, you will return to this court for a harsher sentence. Unless you present good reason why you 01b003) a)02b00 WERE / 01b00b)02b00 ARE (?) unable to report to the station, you will find yourself in severe trouble. 01b004) a)02b00 IF / 01b00b)02b00 IN CASE / 01b00c)02b00 WHEN you are unable to attend because of illness, please note that a medical certificate must be produced, signed by your doctor, proving your state of health. You 01b005) a)02b00 SHOULD REALISE / 01b00b)02b00 MUST REALISE / 01b00c)02b00 HAVE TO REALISE (?) that but for your previous good conduct, I would have no hesitation in imposing a prison sentence. 02br
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01b001)02b00 Tom to his mother: ‘Please let me go to Sheila’s party next Saturday.’ 02br
00a) Tom asked his mother if she would let him go to Sheila’s party the following week. 02br
00b) Tom asked his mother to let him go to Sheila’s party… (CORRECT ? Same meaning ?) 02br
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01b002)02b00 Andrew: “I suggest you cancel all your engagements for today.” 02br
00a) Andrew suggested that I / he (should) cancel all my / his arrangements for that day. 02br
00b) Andrew suggested that I / he CANCELLED all his arrangements for that day. (WRONG ?) 02br
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00Many thanks, 02br
00Hela 02br
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0 Hello Hela! 02br 02br 00All fine, except: 02br 02br 004) a) IF ] best 02br 00b) IN CASE ] no; but you could say 'in the event that' 02br 00c) WHEN ] ok, but IF better 02br 02br 00c) HAVE TO REALISE] This has an air of putting the magistrate in the 'weaker' position, and so wouldn't be used here. 02br 02br 02br 00II/ Sentence transformations: 02br 02br 001) - fine!

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0 Hello Hela! 02br
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00All fine, except: 02br
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004) a) IF ] best 02br
00b) IN CASE ] no; but you could say 'in the event that' 02br
00c) WHEN ] ok, but IF better 02br
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00c) HAVE TO REALISE] This has an air of putting the magistrate in the 'weaker' position, and so wouldn't be used here. 02br
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0 Thank you Mr Pedantic, 02br
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00And what do you think of these other choices ? 02br
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01b00I/02b00 Mr Jeffries, I have decided against a prison sentence in your case. You 01b001) a)02b00 MAY / 01b00b)02b00 CAN walk free from this court 01b002) a)02b00 only if 
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0 Hello Hela, how are you? 02br
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00Sorry, I've only just seen your post: 02br
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00I/ Mr Jeffries, I have decided against a prison sentence in your case. You 02br
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001) a) MAY / b) CAN ] b) ok, but a) more likely. 02br
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00walk free from this court 02br
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0 Thank you MrP, 02br
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00What would you answer to exercise "sentence transformation" sentence #3 then ? 02br
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00Would you please have a look at my post "alternative answers 2"? 02br
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00Have a nice day, 02br
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0 Uh oh. I'm hopeless at these questions. How about: 02br
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00"How could you have seen Carla at the party? She's in Scotland!" 02br
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00But I don't expect very many marks for it... 02br
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0 PS: I've only just seen your AA2 post – will read it over and come back to it. 02br
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0 Good morning MrP, 02br
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00It's a real pleasure having you as a teacher. I presume that in July many of you, teachers an moderators, will take some holidays so you won't be online as often as you are now. 02br
00I'll have a break too, and the thing is that I don't have "le téléphone fixe" 01del00not the mobile02del00 (what do you c
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0 Hello Hela, 02br
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00Thank you! And it's a pleasure to answer your questions! 02br
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00Yes, I expect there'll be a few absences over the summer. But no doubt there'll also be fewer posts to answer, so we'll probably have to invent some for our own amusement... 02br
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00Pity about the internet connection. On the other hand,
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0 Dear MrP, 02br
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00I'm really ashamed of myself because despite all your expanations I don't understand why "IN CASE" and "SUPPOSING THAT" do not work 01del00or are not really appropriate02del00 in 01b002)02b00; 01b003)02b00 and 01b006)02b00. Would you please explain there use
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0 That's ok! I'll give it some more thought and reply tomorrow (my head is a little unclear at the moment). 02br
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