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Native English Speakers Please Help
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20 Apr 2006 Thu 08:43 pm |
Re thread quoting 'may will be', you may like to point out the only time this could be correct is 'May will be warm this year'
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20 Apr 2006 Thu 08:44 pm |
Quoting erdinc: They drive me nuts. This is nightmare. I wish some natives would add a few commenst. These amateurs are crazy. |
I am a native English speaker and you are right Erdinc
You cannot say - 'may very wIll be' it is obviously a typo and should read 'may very wEll be'.
and as Etty points out in her post above you could only use 'wIll' in this way when describing the month of 'May'
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20 Apr 2006 Thu 08:44 pm |
Well Erdinc, just to help you out, I have joined the site mentioned and posted the definitive post putting an end to the discussion ( I hope)
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20 Apr 2006 Thu 09:09 pm |
Thank you all for your support.
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24 Apr 2006 Mon 10:45 am |
That guy's English is not up to scratch. Ignore him; his "informed" opinions about the evolution of a language that he has not yet mastered are of little use or value to anyone.
H.
PS We use Swan's book as a reference text in the teacher training programme at Bilkent hazırlık. As far as I am aware, no-one here is advocating the "let them make it up as they go along" approach to English usage...
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24 Apr 2006 Mon 01:09 pm |
'It may will be'
This is totally incorrect,it is not a phrase that can be found in the English language.
In using this type of phrase the correct way is to say
'it may very well be'
It may very well be that May will be hot.
Here endeth the lesson (biblical quote)
It may very well be, that, because I am English and studied English Language and English Literature at college, that I could be classed as an English native speaker.
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24 Apr 2006 Mon 01:19 pm |
Quoting cjstan:
Here endeth the lesson (biblical quote)
It may very well be, that, because I am English and studied English Language and English Literature at college, that I could be classed as an English native speaker. |
well said cjstan.....and i totally agree as i too study both english literature and language at college, those who agree with 'it may very will be' i doubt have learnt the english language very well. it may very well need tending to
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29 Apr 2006 Sat 06:03 am |
don't worry about it, u were right. i am a native speaker so i do know. and it definitely shouldn't of been 'may very will be' it was a typo and u were right. the other guy was wrong.
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29 Apr 2006 Sat 08:11 am |
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