[Grammar] plz plzzzzzzz plz help me !! some qustions about grammar

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soso2010 said:

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ok i'll try


Discuss the questions whether the following sentences are ill-formed and if so, what the nature of the ill formedness ( pragmatic - syntactic - semantic...etc)

1- John's a living dead man (semantically ill-formed) cuz of the two negative ideas ( life&death)
2- This oats is of rather poor quality ? What are the grammatical numbers of 'this', 'oats', 'is'? What should they be?
3- I order you to know the answer ? Can you order somebody to get to know the answer right on the spot?
4- I eat much cereal for breakfast ?

just one :/

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The second question is,

discuss why the sentences below would be stigmatised by ( prescriptive grammarians) as involving 'bad grammar' and say how they would be corrected

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1- Answer either question 1 , or question 2, or question 3
Answer either question 1 , or question 2 You've changed too much. Now, the sentence is correct, but means something else.

2- hopefully, the weather will clear up by tomorrow
the weather will hopefully clear up by tomorrow I don't see why it should be wrong as it was. Save that 'hopefully' should be capitalized.
3- We had to come home early, due to bad weather
4- I ought to go there didn't I/ sholdn't I ?
don't I? What is the auxiliary verb here?
5- If I was you. I'd resign
If I were you How about the period?
6- Between you and I, him and her are quite good friends
he and she are quite good friends How about 'I'?



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