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I'm going drinking with one of my friends from Lang-8 tonight. My English sucks so I'm not sure if we can communicate well but meeting new people makes our life richer and it makes my English skills better. Being able to use languages that are not my native one is important and makes things interesting. I haven't spoken English for a while so I think my English is getting worse and he also said that his Japanese sucks but still I think we can enjoy today.
By the way I often hear people use the word "suck", but this is a slang word, isn't it? I'm not sure how often this word is used, in what kind of situation this word should not be used, what people think of when they hear this word, or what image people have on this word.
Slang is always difficult to me. Can anyone tell me exactly how this word should be used?
By the way I often hear people use the word "suck", but this is a slang word, isn't it? I'm not sure how often this word is used, in what kind of situation this word should not be used, what people think of when they hear this word, or what image people have on this word.
Slang is always difficult to me. Can anyone tell me exactly how this word should be used?
My English sucks so I'm not sure if we can communicate well, but meeting new people makes our lives richer and it makes my English skills better.
Being able to use languages that are not my native one are important and makes things interesting.
I haven't spoken English for a while so I think my English is getting worse, and he also said that his Japanese sucks, but I still think we can enjoy today.
I'm not sure how often this word is used, what kind of situation this word should not be used, what people think of when they hear this word, or what image people have on this word.
I have a question about this sentence.
"Being able to use languages that are not my native one are important and makes things interesting."
I though "being able to use languages that are not my native one" was the subject of this sentence so I wrote "is" but you replaced it with "are". Could you explain why mine was considered as a mistake?
"Is" and "are" have almost the same meaning. "Are" is used for the plural form of words, while "is" is used for singular words.
Here is an example using the same sentence.
Being able to use a language that is not my native one is important and makes things interesting. (Language is singular, so you use "is")
Being able to use languages that are not my native one are important and makes things interesting. (Language is plural, so you use "are")
Let me know if this issue still confuses you. I will be more than happy to help make things more clear for you.
Yes, I know about singular and plural but I learned before that I should use singular form when gerund is used as a subject of a sentence, and I thought "being" is the subject of this sentence "Being able to use languages that are not my native one is important and makes things interesting."
I often see sentences like "Collecting stamps is my hobby", which is explained that "is" should be used because gerund(collecting) is used as a subject. I'm still not sure what is the difference between the two sentences above.
You didn't correct the way of using "makes", but if "makes" is correct, does it mean that singular form should be used in this sentence?
As for "makes", I made a mistake and failed to correct that. It should be "it makes" for both singular and plural versions of that sentence.
Being able to use languages that are not my native one are important, and it makes things interesting.
Being able to use a language that is not my native one is important, and it makes things more interesting.
Being able to use languages that are not my native one are important, and it makes things more interesting.
All of these work just fine for the sentence. I corrected them better. I apologize for the mistake, it is late here and I need sleep.
I'm going to drinking with one of my friends from Lang-8 tonight.your sentence is correct, this one just sounds better..^_^v
My English sucks so I'm not sure if we can communicate well, but meeting new people makes our lives life richer and it makes my English skills better.using 'it makes' is okay, but in constructing an English sentence we usually avoid redundancy..
I'm not sure how often this word is used, in what kind of situation this word should not be used, what people think of when they hear this word, or what image people have on this word?
I used "suck" tentatively here. I thought it was fine if all of the people who read this journal were my friends but I wanted to know what other people thought about this journal. Could you tell me what you thought of when you read this journal? Do you usually use "suck"? Did you think this journal rude?
and did you see my comment regarding gerunds? you were correct so don't be confused..
doitashimasite..;)
sorry I thought I wrote "f-word" like f**k.