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    Correct / incorrect
    Message from mohammad51 posted on 18-03-2023 at 10:22:27 (D | E | F)
    Hello

    The following questions are from the book ( practical grammar and composition by Thomas Wood)

    The book is without answer key and no answer at all online.

    I tried to get with the solutions myself, so please help and correct me.

    Thank you in advance
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    Correct the following sentences:
    1. I admire Mary more than John. = correct

    2. I think she is older than John. = correct

    3. He should have succeeded in gaining the end he tried. = correct

    4. I asked him to do what I should not have. My correction : I asked him to do what I could not have done.

    5. I did what I ought not. My correction : ought not to do

    6. We wish him better luck than Mary. I suggest : We wish him better luck than we wish to Marry.

    7. We want to see him more than Henry. I suggest We want to visit him more than we want to visit Henry.

    8. I should hate him worse than you. I suggest rewriting in the same way above

    9. He wanted me to do what I didn't care to. = correct OR what I didn't want to do \ to have done ( past )

    10. You may, as you please, do it or not. No suggestion, but I think, it is correct

    11. She may go if she wishes or not. The same answer as the above

    12. We think of you oftener than mother. = grammatically correct but ( insensitive or inappropriate)


    Re: Correct / incorrect from gerondif, posted on 18-03-2023 at 12:20:36 (D | E)
    Hello
    1. I admire Mary more than John. = correct different meaning if : I admire Mary more than John does.

    2. I think she is older than John. = correct

    3. He should have succeeded in gaining the end he tried. = correct (meaning ????)

    4. I asked him to do what I should not have. My correction : I asked him to do what I could not have done. ok

    5. I did what I ought not. My correction : ought not to do /ought not to have done.

    6. We wish him better luck than Mary. I suggest : We wish him better luck than we wish/do to Mary.

    7. We want to see him more than Henry. I suggest We want to visit him more than we want to visit Henry. We want to see him more than we do Henry.

    8. I should hate him worse than you (do). colloquial but not uncommon. I suggest rewriting in the same way above

    9. He wanted me to do what I didn't care to do. = correct OR what I didn't want to do \ to have done ( past )

    10. You may, as you please, do it or not. No suggestion, but I think, it is correct

    11. She may go if she wishes or not. The same answer as the above (I have doubts but in cact, I don't know, I cant spot the mistake if any.

    12. We think of you oftener (more often, two syllables, er is strange) than mother does. = grammatically correct but ( insensitive or inappropriate)




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