Is this sentence correct?

[blacknomi]

I don't like him, as much as you do. I add a comma to the sentence.

[Casiopea]

I don't like him, as much as you do. I add a comma to the sentence.

Interesting. :) I read it with a pause, like this,

I don't like him, well, not in as much as you do.

[blacknomi]

Cas, do you mean it doesn't sound so right?


Another senetnce,
The machine is shut down automatically.
The machine shut down automatically.


I think this sentence is strange. 'Is' conveys a passive idea, but it seems to clash with the adverb 'automatically'.

[Casiopea]

Cas, do you mean it doesn't sound so right?


Another senetnce,
The machine is shut down automatically.
The machine shut down automatically.


I think this sentence is strange. 'Is' conveys a passive idea, but it seems to clash with the adverb 'automatically'.

The first one is OK if we add a time to express a fact, like this,

The machine is shut down automatically at 9:00.

The second one is OK.

There's also,

The machine was shut down automatically. (OK)

Also,

The machine was automatically shut down.
The machine is automatically shut down at 9:00.

[blacknomi]

Thank you, Cas.

[blacknomi]

The top left and bottom left of the book are all dog-eared.


Suppose this is a book, and you can view two pages here. I want to bent down the red parts. How should I say?

____ _____
|xooo|oooo|
|oooo|oooo|
|oooo|oooo|
|xooo|oooo|

[blacknomi]

Ron: I want to tell you what happened.
Mike: That's OK. I already know.

Question
Why present tense? Why not past tense? Mike has known something happened before Ron was going to tell him.

[blacknomi]

Someone wrote a sentence that goes like this:

Re:

• He drinks a cup of coffee twice a day.

It sounds funny. There is too much information in one sentence. I would rather split it into two.

• She drinks coffee twice a day. And she drinks one cup of coffee each time.

Does it make more sense? :wink:

[blacknomi]

How would you respond to this question:


Re:
How do you plan to do for this summer?


[Notice] If I change the question word 'How' to 'What', the answers would be slighly different. Right?

[Francois]

I already know

He still knows now what happened.

She drinks coffee twice a day. And she drinks one cup of coffee each time.
Does it make more sense?

Well, both make sense. Actually I prefer having one sentence, but I think the best is "She drinks two cups of coffee a day". Unless she can knock back two cups of coffee in 5 minutes, this is the same meaning.

FRC