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 Slam Juice

link 12.12.2006 6:02 
Subject: Check,please!
I'd like "to ask" Tom "to help" me with my math homework, but I hate "my" "bothering him" when he's working.
Where is the mistake here?

Learn personal safety techniques, but I urge you not to buy a gun. To have a gun in the house is dangerous and adds to the problem.

Does the second sentence sound all right to you?

Thanks in advance!

 Juliza

link 12.12.2006 6:07 
To have a gun -> Having a gun

 Juliza

link 12.12.2006 6:09 
but I hate bothering him
без "my", по-моему

 Slam Juice

link 12.12.2006 6:09 
One more thing if you don't mind...

Doctors are trying to set up a program that will allow everyone to get immunizations. At this point, no one is sure how they will go after it, but a spokesperson for the medical community said thye would figure it out.
Is go AFTER correct? Originally it was go ABOUT which I thought to be wrong.

 Slam Juice

link 12.12.2006 6:11 
Why should we use "having" here?

 Pooh

link 12.12.2006 6:13 
But I hate me bothering him - imho
Go about sounded ok to me (better than after) (but it's in my opinion). But I cannot figure out exactly what is meant here. How they're going to do it? Or how they'll feel about it?

 Slam Juice

link 12.12.2006 6:31 
According to this textbook objects pronouns are possible but more common for everyday speech, so I don't think it' s a mistake..

 Cinderella

link 12.12.2006 6:45 
Concerning the second sentence: I would use only two versions: either1)it is dangerous to have a gun; or 2) having a gun is dangerous

 Pooh

link 12.12.2006 7:01 
To have a gun won't work here because: to have a gun...adds to the problems - is incorrect.

 Pooh

link 12.12.2006 7:05 
one more correction of my first variant: The world as seen by the children.

 Pooh

link 12.12.2006 8:51 
Oops, it's from a different post, I don't know how it slipped in here.

 

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