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Originally Posted by WindDancer1 I will be 35 years old. I think Leeds is too small. I hope this helps you.  |
This could be that in Chinese people don't use "be" before adjectives. For example, Chinese would say I sixteen, I very glad, I very tired. But if it is a noun, they have to use "be", like I am John, or I am a student. Since prepositional phrases function like an adjective, we can predict that Chinese students may make mistakes such as I in school instead of I am in school or he under the table instead of he is under the table. So probably you can just stress that in English "be" in the situation is necessary.