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I always feel more confident if I have practiced my lines before the audition.

What does it means by my lines in the sentence?
Are they some words that someone prepare for a presentation?
 
I always feel more confident if I have practiced my lines before the audition.

What does it means by my lines in the sentence?
An actor's lines are those parts of a play that his/her character has to speak.
 
I always feel more confident if I have practiced my lines before the audition.

What does it means by my lines in the sentence?
Are they some words that someone prepare for a presentation?
And if it's a speech or solo presentation, it means the words you have to say. While the words occur in temporal order during the actual speech, they are written in a spatial order, which, as you probably know, are arranged in lines. Your message has 3 lines. My reply also has 3 lines (on my screen).
 
Thank you. Now I understand it.
Another question about the word "line".
I found somewhere they wrote "What line are you in?"or"What line are you..................? or something like that which they intended to mean the word line as a kind of business or work.
Please give me a correct sentence.
 
Thank you. Now I understand it.
Another question about the word "line".
I found somewhere they wrote "What line are you in?"or"What line are you..................? or something like that which they intended to mean the word line as a kind of business or work.
Please give me a correct sentence.
If you want to use that line in a conversation, you should say, "What line of work are you in?"
 
I always feel more confident if I have practiced my lines before the audition.

What does it means by my lines in the sentence?
Are those some words that someone prepare for a presentation?



Now, I would like to correct some grammar mistakes in your post

I always feel more confident, if I practise my lines before the audition.

What does it mean by 'my lines' in the sentence?

Are these some words that someone prepare for a presentation?[/QUOTE]
 
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Now, I would like to correct some grammar mistakes in your post

1. I always feel more confident, if I practice my lines before the audition.

2. Are these some words that someone prepares for a presentation?
1. The original words are correct and natural:
"I always feel more confident if I have practiced my lines before the audition."
Your 'correction' is also correct, although it has a slightly different meaning.

Being British, I use 's' in the verb: - practise, but 'c' is correct in AmE.

Those is perhaps less natural than these, but is not incorrect. If prepare is present simple, it needs '-s'. A present perfect form has prepared or present progressive form is preparing would be more natural
 
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Is the "c" correct in the verb in AmE, or just commonly used?
 
Now, I would like to correct some grammar mistakes in your post

I always feel more confident, if I practice my lines before the audition.
Yours is correct, but I prefer the original.
"I always feel good in the morning if I've had a good night's sleep:

What does it mean by 'my lines' in the sentence?
"What does "my lines" mean in this sentence?"

Are these some words that someone prepare for a presentation?
Are they [some] words that someone [has] prepared for a presentation?
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I hope you don't mind me correcting your corrections.
 
Thanks to everyone.
 
While we keep the verb/noun distinction in some words, like advise/advice, for practice, it's just practice -- no practise in American English.
 
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