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What is the correct answer ?
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miss noor
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What is the correct answer ?
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Hello everybody,
How do you do ?
What is the correct answer of this question ?
Who write the lesson ?
Me or I
I think me
Is it right ?
The question is easy but I confuse |
3 Mar 2009
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poisson
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Speaking correctly grammatically- I, though, if it is colloqual speech, it is - me. |
3 Mar 2009
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domnitza
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Dear miss noor,
before giving an answer to your question, I must correct the sentence first. There are two sentences in this situation:
Who writes the lesson? (I do.)
Who is writing the lesson? (I am)
We usually use the auxiliary when answering a question, so it depends on the tense used.
I consider "me" too informal (and incorrect, too)
Domnitza |
3 Mar 2009
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miss noor
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Me is informal ?
Tell me please |
3 Mar 2009
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domnitza
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That is how I consider it. I always advise my students not to use informal forms or contractions in an essay/examination and to try to have a formal way of expressing themselves.
But maybe there are teachers who do not think the same. I will search for more information. |
3 Mar 2009
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domnitza
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Now, how should I write?
ME AGAIN? or
IT IS I AGAIN?
Check this link, you will find it interesting:
I read something: we don �t speak the way we write. So maybe it �s me and It is I are both correct; it only depends where they are used. |
3 Mar 2009
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Olindalima ( F )
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Hello, Miss Noor
As Domnitza has already pointed out, the first thing to say is that there is a grammar mistake in the question. Questions with WHO must be in third person singular.
So, Who writes , who comes, who knows ....
I would say a common answer would be
" I do " or
She does
Who wrote ... ?
I did
When the pronoun WHO is both the question word and the subject of the
sentence/ question, there is no auxiliary verb in the question, ( do / does / did ) but you must give
the answer with it.
In the following sentences there is an auxilioary for the tense, so, you use it in the answer.
Who is writing .. ?
I am
Who was writing ...
I was
Remember, I am non -native.
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3 Mar 2009
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goodnesses
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Hi, all.
I think that Olindalima ( F ) and domnitza are right as far as the response to the question is concerned.
But I can"t feel this question in the present simple regarding the usage of this tense. I agree it is all right in the present progressive or the past simple.
That �s just a point of view
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3 Mar 2009
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libertybelle
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I write
you write
he, she, it writes
We write
You (all) write
They write.
Practice makes perfect Miss Noor.
Writing your questions correctly are imperative for answering correctly.
To Goodnessess
You wrote:
But I can"t feel this question in the present simple regarding the usage of this tense.
We can only answer the questions which are posted. If Miss Noor meant
Who is writing the lessons , then that �s what she must write.
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3 Mar 2009
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miss noor
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O �k
the question is
Who is writing the lesson ? |
3 Mar 2009
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goodnesses
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Hi, libertybelle
I think sometimes some grammatical points involve we deal with some other so as to make the former more clear.
Now miss noor the answer is clear. It is definitely "I am. She/He is. We are...."
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3 Mar 2009
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