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[hanle]

Lesson 4
Contractions and auxiliaries
My mark: 81.5
**Wrong sentence:
2. Your cousin’s optimistic. He’s told you that he’d pass all his exams in June; he’d better study seriously, but he’d rather have fun with his friends.
Correct: would
Explanation: "He'd rather" = He would rather" expresses a wish, something which isn't realised at that moment, which is still unreal.
5. He’d hit me before I’d found the opportunity to punch him too
Correct: had hit me
Explanation: Here is a difficulty that you have to overcome. "Hit" may be either "the infinitive without to", or the preterite, or even the past participle. If we look at the end of the sentence closely, we'll find out that "hit" can here only be a past participle and a part of a past perfect. => "He had hit"
before I’d found = had found the opportunity to punch him too.
"Before I'd found" = "before I had found" => the contraction of "had", a part of the past perfect.

Lesson 5:
Do - don't - does - doesn't
My mark: 90
**Wrong sentence:
7. It is a really cheap restaurant, it don't cost much to eat there.
Correct: Doesn't
Explanation: verb form He/She/It +does

Lesson 6:
Do/does/did: affirmative, interrogative and negative forms
my mark: 77
**Wrong sentence:
1.Lucy likes chocolate and making chocolate cakes. She wants to make one with her mum.' don't I take six eggs out of the fridge?”
No Lucy, we don't wanna six eggs, but only four.”
Correct: do I take
Explanation:
Lucy wants to make a chocolate cake with her mum and offers to take eggs from the fridge: interrogative form of an "ordinary" (irregular) verb=> "Do I take...?"

5.“Well, Lucy, if you didn't ate the chocolate I bought yesterday, we would have enough…'
Correct: didn't eat
Explanation: "Yesterday I bought" implies the use of the negative auxiliary "didn't eat".

+“Err … Well Mum! I think we had bought more chocolate, then…”
Correct: Have to buy
Explanation: We have to buy" is the equivalent of the modal auxiliary "must", expressing an obligation.

[admin]

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The sentences you edited doesn't sound good yet. Since you get good marks, your problem is mainly in concentration. Try to devote more time to studying, don't hurry, proofread what you posted, use a capital letter for a new sentence. You can copy-paste a wrong sentence and search on it in Google, Context-Reverso or use Google Translate. This forum is not for competitions in quick writing, not for "words on the street". We fight for a perfect English here.

[hanle]

Lesson 7:
Do: Insistence - Contradiction - Confirmation
My mark: 80
**Wrong sentence
1)No, not really, but I'm sure you'll explain... = Confirmation
Correct: Insistence
Explanation: This is the emphatic form. When speaking, should stress the word; when writing, do it in italics.

2)'Oh dear, I liked this film...' 'I understand that, I do too! It's a great film!'
Correct: did
Explanation: the sentence was in the preterite, the auxiliary used will be in the preterite too.

8)She said she'd follow my advice and she does
Correct: Did
Explanation: "she would follow" has the structure of a conditional. Following the time sequence, we must turn the auxiliary in the preterite: "she did".

10)Lucy never tidies up her room, but Claire does every evening.-->Insistence.
Correct: Short form
Explanation: This avoid the repetition of the verb "to tidy up one's room" in the 3rd person singular.

Lesson 8:
Gone or been
My mark: 58.5

**Wrong sentence
3.Patrick has been to his friend’s for the night. He’ll be here tomorrow.
Correct: gone
Explanation: He isn't back from there, since he should spend the night with his friend.

5.'She’s went out for a few minutes. She’ll be back in ten minutes.
Correct: gone
Explanation: indicates that she left the house, but that she's going to come back.

8.'Have you already gone to an Australian restaurant?' 'I did and had kangaroo…'
Correct: been
Explanation: is a question about a fact. "Have you ? " or "haven't you ? " If he had been there, he would have been back.

9.Those days of affluence have been! We’re in a crisis now!
Correct: gone
Explanation: "Going, once, going twice, gone ! " are the words uttered by an auctioneer during a sale. The object for sale has gone and won't come back.

[hanle]

Sorry, I don't ignore your words, I just wanted to learn grammar tests for a few days. I will be back to corrections my old posts soon. Now, I still don't know how to correct my sentences.

[admin]

Here is the plan:
1.Use a big letter in the beginning of a new sentence and use a dot in the end of your sentence.
2.Pay attention to what you type.
3.Format and highlight your posts.

[hanle]

Lesson 9:
Link: Have you got / Do you have
My mark: 90
*Wrong sentence:
1.Mom, look! Tim's father have bought a brand-new car, a red one, this time.
Correct: has
Explanation: It's Present Perfect Tense.

Lesson10:
Link: He's or His
My mark: 100

[admin]

I see you started to correct posts. That's good, they look better now.
Also try to keep a symmetry and the same style everywhere.
"Correct", "Explanation", "Wrong sentence", "My mark" should be typed using a capital letter in the beginning everywhere.

[hanle]

Lesson 11:
Link: How to choose the right auxiliary
My mark: 76.5
Wrong sentence:
1.Don't worry, obviously, he hasn't[ tell lies in such circumstances.
Correct: wouldn't
Explanation: For the speaker, the fact is clear

3.I shall like to receive such a present.
Correct: Shouldn't
Explanation: <To like > is always followed by an infinitive when preceded by “would”.

5.You shouldn't never eat so much ice cream now. You’ll be sick.
Correct: should
Explanation: <Should > is here the auxiliary expressing both a piece of advice and a reproach.

7.You wouldn't drive over 60 on that road; it’s too dangerous.
Correct: Mustn't
Explanation: “Mustn’t” here indicates an interdiction.

Lesson 12:
Link: Learn English: to be in present simple
My mark: 100

Lesson 13
Link: Passive-active
My mark: 30
Wrong sentence:
2)We shall miss her... ! She shall be missed
Correct: will be missed

4)Nobody had expected to be confined again! Being confined again had been expected
Correct: hadn't been expected

5)Children don't like this syrup at all! This syrup wasn't liked
Correct: isn't liked

6)Do you need any translator to understand what is said? was any translator needed
Correct: Is any translator needed

8)She should take her umbrella, it's raining! Her umbrella should been taken
Correct: should be taken

9)They were building a new school when we were there...A new school 's going to been built
Correct: was being built

10)They smoke herrings in the Northern Countries. Herrings were smoken
Correct: are smoked

*****Structure:
1)Present simple
Active: S + V(s/es) + O
Passive: S + am/is/are + P2

2)Present continuous:
Active: S + am/is/are + V-ing + O
Passive: S + am/is/are + being + P2

3)Present perfect:
Active: S + have/has + P2 + O
Passive: S + have/has + been + P2

4)Past simple:
Active: S + V(ed/Ps) + O
Passive: S + was/were + P2

5)Pass continuous:
Active: S + was/were + V-ing + O
Passive: S + was/were + being + P2

6)Past perfect:
Active: S + had + P2 + O
Passive: S + had + been + P2

7)Future
Active: S + will + V-infi + O
Passive: S + will + be + P2

8)Future perfect
Active: S + will + have + P2 + O
Passive: S + will + have + been + P2

9)Be going to
Active: S + am/is/are going to + V-infi + O
Passive: S + am/is/are going to + be + P2

10)Modal
Active: S + modal verb + V-infi + O
Passive: S + modal verb + be + P2

[hanle]

Lesson 14
Link: Question tags
My Mark: 90
***Wrong sentence
7. We have understood the lesson, haven't they
Correct: haven't we

Lesson 15
Link: Questions : how to ask them
My mark: 90
***Wrong sentence
10. Peter wrote a letter. Who did write a letter?
Correct: Who wrote a letter?

Link: Surprise; Contradiction; Short answers
My mark: 70
****Wrong sentences:
1.' Oh Mom, I was so hungry at lunch that I ate all my vegetables! ' 'Lucy, did you do?
Correct: did you ?

4.'You were so frightened that you shouted like mad!' 'No, I weren't'!
Correct: No, I didn't !'

10.'For a few years, women have been equal to men!' ' They've not'!
Correct: They're not !

[hanle]

Lesson 16
Link: There is/are, and other forms
My mark: 91.5
Wrong sentence:
9. There wasn't been any claim for the gold bracelet that was found yesterday.
Correct: There hasn't been

Lesson 17
Link: There, Their, They're
My Mark: 75
Wrong sentence:
1.They're so much work
Correct: There's

3.They're kids are great!
Correct: Their

that theirs now working like mad!
Correct: they're

4.and theirs stranded
Correct: they

Lesson 18
Link: TLE : To have
My mark: 100

[admin]

@hanle I still don't know how to correct my sentences.

You can find a sentence with the same structure or a beginning of a sentence. Use Context Reverso or Google search.

EXAMPLE

"However; after I read one page, I've written down quite lots vocabularies and the grammar in the sentence was quite strange to me."

I'm not sure this sentence is good, so I've searched on the beginning of the sentence "After".
https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-german/After
I found the sentence where "After" is in the beginning.

After going home, my illness improved everyday.

After+gerund, Past Indefinite
So, the correct sentence is
After reading one page, I wrote down lots of new words and the grammar in sentences was quite strange to me.
It's because we use a gerund with the word "After".

Also you can use Google Translate or ask me in Chat.
Use these tools for corrections.
At first try to make a sentence by yourself (a draft) and then do corrections. This is one of the powerful technique that I know.
Make a sentence by yourself => Do corrections by searching similar patterns in websites.
You have to do corrections by yourself. I'll help you in the end. Let me know when you are done with corrections and I'll do my final check.
Continue grammar tests and do corrections (1-5 sentences every day).

[admin]

Since you are a beginner, I recommend you to make simple sentences (4-7 words).
A simple sentence has the next structure
A pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, it), a main verb which shows that a pronoun does something (be, do, work, go, run).
I go, I work....
A complex sentence is difficult even for natives, since people speak and write using memorized patterns mostly. Still, it's a good idea to master complex sentences because you will see them in books and understand them.

[hanle]

1)It's a rain season now.
2)The weather is bad todays.
3)I have to wear a raincoat in autumn.
4)My raincoat is long.
5)Therefore, I don't wear a raincoat when I ride a motorbike.
6)I'm short sighted.
7)I cannot see people clear.
8)Rainwater enters into my eyes very often.
9)My eyes sting because of it.
10)Thus it's very difficult to drive in a rain season for me.
11)After a 10-minute trip I arrive at work.