I?ve been practising my English for fear that
I should lose fluency, vocabulary… :lol:
Would you mind correcting the following sentences
I?ve been writing this morning?
1.- I didn?t take the exams lest I should fail them.
2.- I didn?t repair the roof in case the strong wind
ripped it off once again.
3.- I always put some extra sugar in the coffee so that
it will taste sweeter/more sugary.
4.- Do you feel like a cup of tea?
5.- I didn?t say a single word so that nobody would
critize me.
6.- He wrote his last story under a pseudonym so that
his friends wouldn?t know who had written it.
7.- As you don?t remember how that happened,
tell me at least where it happened.
8.- My mobile phone rang while/when I was having a
bath. Could I use ‘as’ in this sentence as well?
9.- When I shut the door, a cat jump on my head.
10.- However hard you study, you will never pass
the test. Didn?t you know the candidates are
selected beforehand?
Hi Jesus, why do you want to be able to write and speak like a native speaker of English? What kind of native speaker are referring to? A college student, a professor of English, a marketing executive or a car mechanic?[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Well, I was just joking. ‘Really?’. Nope. :lol:
I would like to speak like a native speaker since
I really love languages. And I think nobody
speaks and knows better a mother tongue than
a native
speaker. Needless to say, he/she must be interested
in his/her own language, of course.
As for the ‘examples’ you gave me, Torsten,
I think I would go for ‘professor of English’, but,
honestly, as far I am concerned it doesn?t matter
what people do for a living in this case. I mean,
he/she can work as a mechanic and speak
English brilliantly, so… you know, I would like
to speak like him/her. As I said before, it?s
just a question of being interested in your
mother tongue or not. And a mechanic
can be, can?t he?
Have a nice week!
Jes?s
P.D I also think that someone who has been brought
up
in an English speaking country at an early age
( And I am not talking about one, two years old.
It could be five, six…)
can speak
English and write it perfectly as well. So, that
would be fine too.