Mixed English Grammar Thread

It was common coin in Shakespeare's time to speak not only in double negations, but in double superlatives as well-:)

Wow,. good to know -

While I may scape,
I will preserve myself: and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape,
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast.

...or: This, the MOST UNKINDEST cut of all. (Hamlet Act II Scene I, if memory serves me correctly).

Check this exercise for 6th grade primary school.

I wonder if they did intend to smuggle such casual speech or there is a logical mistake in it which confused my students. See for yourself.

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Nothing 'casual', nothing unusual.

Your photo cuts off part way through the rubric. Does it explain that they have to change the form of the verb? Some course books do and some expect the teacher to make that clear.

I wouldn't use travel though when go is fine.

Really?? Look closer. :):):)


BS. Travel is OK. Casual usage is somewhere else.

BS. Travel is barely acceptable as a heuristic. A proficient user of the language would say go.

By 'casual' do you mean the rubric, and what exactly do you mean by casual? Is it wearing slacks and a polo shirt?

Stop obfuscating, darling, you are notorious to do it regularly when you have no idea. :):):)

I wasn`t asking about travel.

Your original post would make more sense if you were a bit clearer about what you're trying to say.

What do you mean by ''casual'?

I mean you troll and obfuscate on purpose when you have no idea. Simple. Then you should shut up and wait for a proper answer.

There isn't an idea, and there's nothing wrong in the photo.

And you still haven't said what you mean by 'casual'.

Really????

I won`t tell you now, I prefer to wait until sb more intelligent solves the issue. If they don`t, I will explain the matter which is haunting you to have such amasing meltdowns.

It doesn't work, you know. People are wise to your attempts at provocation.

And you still haven't made it clear what you mean by casual.

Darling, how about posting sth of value at last coz your whole activity today is trolling on my posts.

Can you move to other threads and post sth on Polish culture???

You're repeating yourself.

Perhaps black coffee, a good sleep and a visit to an AA meeting may be worth your while.

And you've still not said what you mean by casual. A nebulous term if ever there was one.

Exactly, coz I am delaying this moment until sb more intelligent tries to guess. Can`t you contain those furious meltdowns of yours and wait a little???

You have a curious (casual?) understanding of the term "furious meltdown".

And there are no issues with t(e language in the photos.

Is there no one else more intelligent to guess the issue????

where and visited don't match together.

I'm so used to awkward sentences in English books I barely notice anymore.... I did notice it but it's awkward, not 'casual'...

I'm also wondering about 3. and what kind of answer they're expecting.... "What did you play in the park?" I wouldn't expect a sport as an answer, I'd expect answers like 'We played the trombone.' or 'We played scrabble.'

Also 4. is different from the rest (which require "did (verb)" while that question is supposed to be something like "Where was she last night?"

For all we know pawian's really upset that the exercise used the word 'friend' and not 'friendess' or something like that....

Exactly!!! Alien, you provided the solution which jon couldn`t notice for half a day.
Indeed, saying where did you visit last year sounds very casual , if not awkward. Of course jon will claim it doesn`t but we are accustomed to his lies already

That is why I wrote:

The suspected logical mistake is that all questions are supposed to use the verb which appears in the answer. In case of visit which sounds strange with where, the question should be: Where did you go last week? to sound good.

It works. The question is: where did you visit last weekend?

Go is better than visited however the sentence isn't a problem. It is grammatically correct. And not especially awkward.


Because it's not an error and certainly not 'cadual'...

Of course we knew you would say so. While it doesn`t, darling. It isn`t normal English, especially in the light of other sentences which use travel instead of go and you even pointed to it before:


Are you aware you are contradicting yourself in such a stupid way.

What is your pathetic education??? You did GCSEs and went to work at 16 years old???????? :):):)

It does.

Think of context.


Like using travel rather than go, it's a heuristic device for children.

You know less than you think. It's always a mistake for someone to try to correct a person who is not only right but also way above them.

Non-native teachers sometimes make that mistake.

BS. You have lost and can`t accept it. Simple. Ha!!!

You're still wrong.

It's actually quite sad that someone earning a salary of sorts as a schoolteacher can't understand why didactic materials choose certain words and phrases.

BS. We don`t believe one word by notorious liars who can`t accept defeat.

Keep digging, Paw.

It's better for your liver than your other activity.

Actually, you are wrong again, darling. Beetroot juice is good for your liver. Ha!!!!

Very few foreign language textbooks think of context.... it's about model sentences and not about realistic usage. That's not a criticism, they kind of have to be that way though it is an argument for limiting textbook usage past a certain point.


Lots of teachers mistake heuristic devices for reality..... some Poles are stunned that concepts like 'second conditional' are just not part of English education for English speakers.