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Which of these is the correct way of saying what we mean? |
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I have the eyes brown, as my parents. |
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I have the same brown eyes as my parents. |
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I have brown eyes, like my parents. |
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I have eyes brown, like the eyes of my parents. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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We are living about 100km from the capital. |
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We live about 60 miles from the capital. |
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We are living about 60 miles from the capital. |
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We live about 100 km from the capital. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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My sister is about 1m57 tall and weights just under 65kg. |
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My sister is about 5 feet 2 inches high and weighs just under 65kg. |
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My sister stands about 1m57 and weighs just under 10 stone. |
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My sister is about 5 feet 2 inches and weighs just under 10 stone. |
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Which of these is the best way of saying it? |
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I like playing cricket in the summer, and football during the winter months. |
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I like playing at cricket in the summer, and at football during the winter months. |
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I like to play at the cricket in the summer, and at the football during the winter months. |
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I like to play at the cricket in summer, and at the football during winter months. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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Usually he is wearing the smart tee-shirt and a jean blue. |
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Usually he is wearing a smart tee-shirt and a blue jean. |
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Usually he wears the smart tee-shirt and the blue jean. |
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Usually he wears a smart tee-shirt and blue jeans. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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He is only in his twenties but sometimes he behaves like an old funny man. |
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He is only in his twenties but sometimes he behaves like a funny old man. |
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He is in his twenties only but sometimes he behaves like an old funny man. |
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He is in his twenties only but sometimes he behaves like a funny old man. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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They play on the drums a bit, but none of them is really a musician. |
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They play a bit of the drums, but no-one of them is really musician. |
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They are playing a bit at the drums, but no-one of them is really musical. |
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They play the drums a bit, but none of them is really a musician. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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My neighbour is handsome, dark and tall but often he does much noise at the weekends and in the evenings. |
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My neighbour is tall, dark and handsome but often he makes a lot of noise at the weekends and in the evenings. |
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My neighbour is tall, dark and handsome but often he does a lot of noise at weekends and in the evenings. |
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My neighbour is handsome, tall and dark but often he does many noise at weekends and in evenings. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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My boyfriend loves travelling, but unfortunately her ears are very sensible to strong sunlight. |
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My boyfriend loves travelling, but unfortunately his ears are very sensible to strong sunlight. |
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My boyfriend loves travelling, but unfortunately his eyes are very sensitive to strong sunlight. |
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My boyfriend loves travelling, but fortunately his eyes are very sensitive to strong sunlight. |
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Which of these would make clearest sense to an English person? |
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His grandfather is retired farmer who always love British beautiful landscape. |
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His grandfather is the retired farmer who always loves British beautiful landscape. |
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His grandfather is a retired farmer who still loves beautiful British landscape. |
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His grandfather is a retired farmer who still loves the beautiful British landscape. |
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Your eyes are very likely to look like your parents' eyes ... but they can't actually be the very same eyes, can they? (Your parents have their own eyes, and you have yours!)