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15-Jan-2008, 16:32
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Hi everybody,
I'm intending to ask a person who had test whether he had a good grade or not. However I'd like to know about the test itself.
Can I ask: "How the test was?"
Is this question correct?
Thanks,
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15-Jan-2008, 17:05
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| |  Re: help to devise a question
You can ask "How was the test?" (note the word order) but that asks about the test itself. Was it hard? Was it easy? It doesn't ask how the person did.
"How did you do on the test?" asks whether the person did well or not.
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15-Jan-2008, 18:06
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| | Re: help to devise a question
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Originally Posted by Falcon  Hi everybody,
I'm intending to ask a person who had test whether he had a good grade or not. However I'd like to know about the test itself.
Can I ask: "How the test was?"
Is this question correct?
Thanks,
Falcon | Hi, Falcon!
You can kill two birds with one stone by asking: "Was the test difficult and how did you do?"
Cheers,
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15-Jan-2008, 18:07
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| | Re: help to devise a question
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Originally Posted by Barb_D You can ask "How was the test?" (note the word order) but that asks about the test itself. Was it hard? Was it easy? It doesn't ask how the person did.
"How did you do on the test?" asks whether the person did well or not.
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Yep! It is the question!!
I was in doubt about how to use "was" in this question. So, the order is "was" coming first and NOT in the end of the sentence as I did.
Thank you for helping.
Falcon |
15-Jan-2008, 18:14
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| | Re: help to devise a question
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Originally Posted by amigos4 Hi, Falcon!
You can kill two birds with one stone by asking: "Was the test difficult and how did you do?"
Cheers,
Amigos4 | Yes, thanks.
Interesting the idiom you have used - " kill two birds with one stone". We have similar phrase around here (in Brazil). 
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15-Jan-2008, 18:30
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Originally Posted by Falcon Yes, thanks.
Interesting the idiom you have used - " kill two birds with one stone". We have similar phrase around here (in Brazil).
Falcon | Falcon,
What is the idiom that is used in Brazil?
Cheers,
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17-Jan-2008, 10:55
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| | Re: help to devise a question
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Originally Posted by amigos4 Falcon,
What is the idiom that is used in Brazil?
Cheers,
Amigos4 | I'm not sure if I going to say it correctly in English but I'll try... "kill two rabbits with only one baton"
Cheers
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17-Jan-2008, 18:37
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Originally Posted by Falcon I'm not sure if I going to say it correctly in English but I'll try... "kill two rabbits with only one baton"
Cheers
Falcon | Yes, Falcon! I understand the meaning of the idiom! You expressed it correctly!
Poor animals always seem to appear in idioms, don't they?
("The early bird catches the worm!" "That's a horse of a different color!")
Cheers,
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18-Jan-2008, 14:08
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| | Re: help to devise a question
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Originally Posted by amigos4 Yes, Falcon! I understand the meaning of the idiom! You expressed it correctly!
Poor animals always seem to appear in idioms, don't they?
("The early bird catches the worm!" "That's a horse of a different color!")
Cheers,
Amigos4 | Yeah...
"one swallow doens't make a summer", etc, ect... 
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