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[حسن خليل]

اقتباس: المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة أيوان عمار الهيتي     another note there is a difference between early advice and late advice *You look pale . You should go to the doctor. (this is early advice) * You looked pale yesterday. You should have gone to the doctor. (this is late advice ) a speaker should not mix between these two expressions using the expression "should +verb for early advice using the expression "should +have +verb 3 for late advice

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Misuse of the gerund to expres purpose.

Don’t say: I come here for learning English.

Say: I come here to learn English.

Express purpose by using the infinitive, not the gerund.

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Question: Didn’t you see the game?

Answer:
Yes, - that is, I saw it.
No, - that is, I didn’t see it.

In answering negative questions, say Yes if the answer is an affirmation, and No if it’s negative. That is, answer without any regard to the negative form of the question.

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Using a double negative.

Don’t say: She says she’s not afraid of anybody.

Say: She says she’s afraid of nobody?

In English, two negatives are equal to an affirmative statement. You should avoid using two negative words in the same clause: when not is used, none changes to any, nothing to anything, nobody to anybody, no one to anyone, nowhere to anywhere, neither …. Nor to either … or.

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اقتباس: المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة حسن خليل     Using a double negative. Don’t say: She says she’s not afraid of anybody. Say: She says she’s afraid of nobody? In English, two negatives are equal to an affirmative statement. You should avoid using two negative words in the same clause: when not is used, none changes to any, nothing to anything, nobody to anybody, no one to anyone, nowhere to anywhere, neither …. Nor to either … or.

ur absoultly right
bUT
in some dialects of English ,Afro-American English for example,double negation is VERY frequently used to mean the negative not the affirmative
that's one of the prominent features of Afro-Anerican English or the language of the BLACKS
thanks again fro ur valuable notes dear

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اقتباس: المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة أيوان عمار الهيتي     ur absoultly right bUT in some dialects of English ,Afro-American English for example,double negation is VERY frequently used to mean the negative not the affirmative that's one of the prominent features of Afro-Anerican English or the language of the BLACKS thanks again fro ur valuable notes dear

Thanks a lot for your comments Ewan

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Using one time or two times instead of once or twice.

Don’t say: I was absent one time or two times.

Say: I was absent once or twice?

use once and twice instead of one time and two times.

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Using a day, etc, instead of one day, etc.

Don’t say: A day they went sight-seeing in Florence.

Say: one day they went sight-seeing in Florence.

use one (not a or an with day, night, morning, afternoon and evening. When the one means on a certain ….

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following ur lessons

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اقتباس: المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة Simplicity     following ur lessons

Don't go far away

Thanks a lot Simplicity

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