lingling_94
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I'm having a problem in detecting what would grammarian consider it a mistake in these sentences
and before you read the sentences I wrote, I would like to ask how can I do this on my own? is there a book or something that tells what sentences grammarians consider as an ill-formed and what are their rules and how they are perspective?
1- I ought to go there,didn't i/shouldn't I?
I find the tag question here should be oughtn't I? but it still feels weird? is this what grammarians would say?
2- everyone loses their cool now and then
my answer: every now and then
but it's just my competence I'm not sure about my answers because I'm not a native speaker
3- hopefully, the weather will be clear up by tomorrow
I know that the answer is '' weather cannot be hopeful'' but why? can't a person be hopeful for something? is it abstract? I don't get it
4- it's me who gets the blame for everything
my answer: it's I who ...etc.
5- between you and I, him and here are quite good friends
my answer: between you and me ... but the rest of the sentence is still odd? does it meant to ask who is the better friend? or should I change the sentence syntactically?
6- if I was you, I would resign
I don't see anything wrong with it, maybe its ok in spoken language? but what would written language have as a substitute?
is there a certain rule for it to grammarians? like me to I or oughtn't?
I want to do this on my own, and I find it frustrating for me to not be able to solve it.
do native speakers have this? are they familiar with these rules? or is it just written rules for written language?
how can I detect the ill-formedness in sentences?
and before you read the sentences I wrote, I would like to ask how can I do this on my own? is there a book or something that tells what sentences grammarians consider as an ill-formed and what are their rules and how they are perspective?
1- I ought to go there,didn't i/shouldn't I?
I find the tag question here should be oughtn't I? but it still feels weird? is this what grammarians would say?
2- everyone loses their cool now and then
my answer: every now and then
but it's just my competence I'm not sure about my answers because I'm not a native speaker
3- hopefully, the weather will be clear up by tomorrow
I know that the answer is '' weather cannot be hopeful'' but why? can't a person be hopeful for something? is it abstract? I don't get it
4- it's me who gets the blame for everything
my answer: it's I who ...etc.
5- between you and I, him and here are quite good friends
my answer: between you and me ... but the rest of the sentence is still odd? does it meant to ask who is the better friend? or should I change the sentence syntactically?
6- if I was you, I would resign
I don't see anything wrong with it, maybe its ok in spoken language? but what would written language have as a substitute?
is there a certain rule for it to grammarians? like me to I or oughtn't?
I want to do this on my own, and I find it frustrating for me to not be able to solve it.
do native speakers have this? are they familiar with these rules? or is it just written rules for written language?
how can I detect the ill-formedness in sentences?
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