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Old 07-24-2004, 10:53 PM   #1
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Do English-speaking people often use the sentence:That'all right.Thank you all the same.Could you please lend me 2 dollars?Sorry i don't know.and so on...Is there any short words to replace them?
Those are pretty basic sentences. It would be hard to make them shorter and still be acceptable WRITTEN English.
When speaking, we often use fragments or incomplete sentences, if it's a commonly used phrase. BUT, there is no way your teacher would accept that in an English class.
Is your teacher Chinese or foreign?
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Old 07-25-2004, 12:17 AM   #2
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Those are pretty basic sentences. It would be hard to make them shorter and still be acceptable WRITTEN English.
When speaking, we often use fragments or incomplete sentences, if it's a commonly used phrase. BUT, there is no way your teacher would accept that in an English class.
Is your teacher Chinese or foreign?
I remembered my English teacher on junior high school(2000~2003).She's Northeasterner,her pronunciation is very interesting,not only in English but also in Chinese mandarin! I don't know how she become a English teacher...
But most students don't follow her pronunciation ,just learn grammar and other things from her...

Now my English teacher is still a Chinese(most English teachers are Chinese),i once found an foreigner in my school(in fact there are a few foreign teachers),but now i can't see any more.

In my city,some schools have a lot of foreign teachers,they teaches English and even other subjects.
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Old 07-25-2004, 11:14 AM   #3
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My first 2 years of french classes were with a teacher with a heavy Boston accent.... and a huge comb-over that would escape and hang down past his shoulder on the wrong side. He had a good sense of humor about it all though.
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