Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gBCHT6X15924; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:29:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:29:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021212112010.00a55ec0@mail.etop.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Lorraine Dutton <lad-oh@etop.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8383] Re: Grammar question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1723 Lines: 55 Hi Andres, I agree that it doesn't matter as far as communication goes. But my student is a native speaker of English who is trying to improve her writing so she can enter graduate school, so it is important to her. And it is important to me to be able to explain to her what she can do to improve the way she expresses herself in writing. She asked me for ideas, so that's what I'm trying to find. Lorraine At 12:14 PM 12/12/02 -0500, you wrote: >you could say watching, or attending. You could also say to snow ski, to >water ski. > >You are still transitiong to a noun in one case, but not the other two. >However, who cares, and why drive students nuts, pondering these type of >grammar problems. They are trying to communicate in English, not become >linguists. > >Andres > > >>> criley@lowcountryliteracy.org 12/12/02 09:42AM >>> >"watching baseball games in the spring" > >******************** >Cindi Riley >Assistant Director >Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry >1403 Prince St. >Beaufort, SC 29902 >phone 843-525-6658 >fax 843-521-1945 >criley@lowcountryliteracy.org >www.lowcountryliteracy.org > >-----Original Message----- >From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Anna Silliman >Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:36 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8373] Re: Grammar question > >Grammatically you could make it parallel this way: > >The Bensons enjoy snow skiing in the winter, >sitting on benches in the spring, >and water skiing in the summer. > >But would make more sense to re-think the content >of what we want to say about the Bensons. >In other words, sticking with the parallelism >is trying to put a square peg in a round hole. > >--Anna
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