Idiomatic English 3 - Lesson 5

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Mar 21, 2012 10:56
Lesson 5 - Exercise 10

1- My appointment's at 3, isn't it?
2- They took/did an X-Ray of his leg to see if it was broken.
3- How long has he had a temperature?
4- The nurse took the patient's pulse.
5- The doctor told her to breathe deeply.
6- I'm not going to guess any more, I give up.
7- My father has heart trouble, and an ulcer.
8- In this part of the country a lot of corn and wheat are grown.
9- It had been freezing cold in New York before we arrived.
10-I've been working very hard this summer.
floury
Thank you for your correction!
Mar 21, 2012 11:31
  • 1- My appointment is at 3:00, isn't?

  • 1- My appointment's at 3, isn't it?

    I'm telling you, we always use contractions :)

    Also, you don't normally put the ":00."

2 people think this correction is good.  
  • 2- They took an X-Ray of his leg to see if it was broken.

  • 2- They took/did an X-Ray of his leg to see if it was broken.

2 people think this correction is good.  
  • 3- How long has he had temperature?

  • 3- How long has he had a temperature?

1 people think this correction is good.  
  • 4- The nurse took the pulse of the patient.

  • 4- The nurse took the patient's pulse.

2 people think this correction is good.  
  • 5- The Doctor told her to breathe deeply.

  • 5- The doctor told her to breathe deeply.

2 people think this correction is good.  
  • 6- I won't guess any more, I give up.

  • 6- I'm not going to guess anymore, I give up.

    Or, I don't want to guess anymore... (and we'd pronounce it "I don't wanna...")

1 people think this correction is good.  
  • 7- My father has hearth trouble, and an ulcer.

  • 7- My father has heart trouble, and an ulcer.

2 people think this correction is good.  
  • 8- In this part of the country is grown a lot of corn and wheat.

  • 8- In this part of the country a lot of corn and wheat are grown.

    Or, to make it active, We grow a lot of corn and wheat in this part of the country.

2 people think this correction is good.  
  • 9- It had been so much frezeen in New York before we arrived.

  • 9- It had been freezing cold in New York before we arrived.

2 people think this correction is good.  

Great.

Mar 23, 2012 12:32 Esphiritu
Thanks floury
jaycee
Thank you for your correction!
Mar 21, 2012 12:18
  • 3- How long has he had temperature?

  • 3- How long has he had temperature? In colloquial English, this phrasing would be considered correct.

 

Except for the one addendum I have nothing to add to Floury's corrections which a very good.

Mar 21, 2012 23:51 floury
How interesting-- I'd never heard that before!

Mar 22, 2012 07:40 si.tuviera.fluidez
jaycee, what part of the US are you from? I've also never heard this. To me it sounds like something a Chinese or Japanese person who's learning English would say.

Mar 22, 2012 11:49 jaycee
I'm a New Yorker, and have lived here all of my 74 years. We've always said "do you have temperature?". Maybe that's just New Yorkese. Where are you from? Jaycee

Mar 22, 2012 22:10 si.tuviera.fluidez
Not too far... greater Philadelphia. Looking at it again I now imagine it with a thick Brooklyn accent :)

Mar 22, 2012 22:29 jaycee
Nope, grew up in the Bronx, have lived the last 50 plus years in Manhattan, graduated cum laude from Barnard college (Columbia U.), practiced for 30 years as a psychoanalyst. Jaycee

Mar 23, 2012 12:33 Esphiritu
Thanks Jaycee!
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