1) You didn’t see him, is it?
2) When you would like to go?
3) That man he is tall.
4) Her jewelleries were stolen.
5) I am understanding it now.
6) They two very good friends?
7) Sushila is extremely a lazy girl
8) When you leaving?
a) In this part of the task, I am to change the quotes above, and try to turn it into a more standard English.
- You didn’t see him, did you?
- When would you like to go?
- That man, he is tall / That man is tall/ He is tall.
- Her pieces of jewelry were stolen/ her jewelry was stolen.
- I understand it now.
- Those two, are they very good friends?/ Are they good friends, those two?
- Sushula is an extremely lazy girl.
- When are you leaving?
b) Here, I am to choose four of these sentences, and explain what is wrong in each one of them.
1) In the first sentence, the following question should consist of the same verb and subject that in the first part of the sentence. Or else, the reader gets a feeling that the follow-up question does not belong to the first part of the sentence.
2) The mistake in this sentence is the order of the words. You cannot say “when you would”, but it is much more successful to say “when would you”.
3) Here, we have two subjects after one another, making it less logical. This sentence can have two different alternatives for a right way to say it. Either “That man, he is tall”, “that man is tall” or ”He is tall”,. The first alternative emphasize on the point of the sentence, “that man, HE is tall”. The other two sentences are more general.
4) The fourth sentence has a word which does not exist in the standard, English vocabulary. Instead of saying “jewelleries”, which state that the writer is not an advanced user of English, one can say “pieces of jewelry”, which is more successful in this case. Another alternative is to simply say “her jewelry was stolen”, because jewelry is both simple and plural.
