Anonymous
07-08-2004, 04:15 AM
Hi,
Please check these sentences and correct them.
1. Get down. & Get yourself down. [If both are correct, is there any difference in meaning?]
2. Most translators get specialist training, but I don't know what (the) specialist qualification is called (for).
3. John is (sitting) at the piano, playing beautifully.
4. He was seen/witnessed [to steal, stealing] a wallet in the tube/train.
5. The documentary is going (to be) on (the) air tonight at 10 o'clock.
6. He has two daughters, (who are) both very athletic, just like their mother. It runs in the family.
7. His step-mother raised him since he was seven, but when he was twenty, he looked for his real mother and has lived with her up to now. Blood is thicker than water, you know.
Thanks a million.
Ann
Please check these sentences and correct them.
1. Get down. & Get yourself down. [If both are correct, is there any difference in meaning?]
2. Most translators get specialist training, but I don't know what (the) specialist qualification is called (for).
3. John is (sitting) at the piano, playing beautifully.
4. He was seen/witnessed [to steal, stealing] a wallet in the tube/train.
5. The documentary is going (to be) on (the) air tonight at 10 o'clock.
6. He has two daughters, (who are) both very athletic, just like their mother. It runs in the family.
7. His step-mother raised him since he was seven, but when he was twenty, he looked for his real mother and has lived with her up to now. Blood is thicker than water, you know.
Thanks a million.
Ann