italki - Exercises Help me to understand meanings or grammatical features about my questions. (I use 2 books

Нелли

Exercises Help me to understand meanings or grammatical features about my questions. (I use 2 books with exercises) 1) We are looking for more CDs with good music. - I should make this sentence Present Perfet - We have looked for more CDs. - I think, it's strange sentence. Don't you agree with me? I mean that better If I tell - We have found more CDs with good music. Or I am wrong? May be I confused with meanings? 2)The key to my test was - We have just talked about it. - I thiught that better if I say told. Is it big difference? Is it important? Is it mistake? 3) Tell me, why there is Present Perfect? - It has been impossible for her to feel at home here. Why not this - It is impossible for her to feel at home here. 4) In key was said that I should say - Have only had a peace of cake? - Why is wrong - Have you had only a piece of cake? 5) There is big confusing. Neutral sentence looks as - You (to go) to plant tomatoes this year? - Why is this Continous as in the key? I thought, that it is not ended period of time, that's why I should use Perfect. 6) I am having dinner with my friends at the moment. - Is there need an article "a" before "dinner"? why? 7) We've always had a dog and a cat. - Why Present Perfect? always - isn't it indicator of Present Simple? 8) And now they are sitting in the living room and talking about them. - Why them, not themselves? 9) Who - what should I use after - has or have? 10) Tell me, am I right when write this - I have just been at dantist and am filling myself much more better. - How to make this more natural? 11) Tell me, am I right when write this - Why isn't he having dinner? He is still talking with his friend by phone. - How to make this more natural? 12) Tell me, am I right when write this - Where has dissapeared that lazy cat? - How to make this more natural? 13) Dan has grown a beard. - Why "a beard", not "the"? Because in context author several times told us about beard of Dan. - Dan didn't have a beard before. Now he has a beard. Dan has grown a beard. 14) Why can't I say - Have you already found a place to live? - Why should I say - Have you found a place to live yet? 15) How is more natural and why? - (about newspaper) I haven't read it today! - or - I have not read one today. 16) How is more natural and why? - It hasn't snowed a lot this winter. - or - It hasn't snowed much this winter. Please tell me why it is going on? :))

Nov 29, 2015 9:34 PM

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I am not a teacher Нелли, but here are a few things that may help: 1) We are looking for more CDs with good music. = still looking We have looked for more CDs = finished looking? 2) We have just talked about it. - it was a conversation - "we talked" = more than one person ; I thought that it is better if I say "told". - but this would refer to only one person, one side of a conversation. 3) It has been impossible for her .. - this sounds like something that might have changed, maybe it is not impossible any more? 4) Have only had a piece of cake? - this seems to have a word missing, "you" - Have you had only a piece of cake? - put "have you only had" 6) I am having dinner ... - this is fine, also "I have been invited for dinner" 8) The context would need to identify who "they" and "them" refers to, for example it could be parents talking about their children. hence not "themselves" 9) who has (now)/ who will have (future)/ who did have (past) 10) I feel much better now that I have been to the dentist. (don't use ""more" with "much better". 11) Why isn't he having dinner? He is still talking with his friend on the phone. 12) Where has that lazy cat gone? 13) the generic term for the object is "a beard", he cannot grow more than one, and if it was false, then he might have a choice: "the long beard", "the bushy beard", "the white Santa beard" (maybe as part of a costume) 14) I would use both versions. If I knew that someone had been looking, but it had not been long, then the first seems appropriate, if it has been a while, then use the second version. Maybe the 'error' is not putting 'already' at the end of the sentence: "Have you found a place to live already? 15) the first applies to a single paper, the second to multiple papers. 16) I would use 'a lot' for one snowfall, and 'much' for a longer period of time. Does that help?

November 30, 2015

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