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Teachers Is the sentence underlined correct? Especilly look?

What about watching English movies, or reading English books? Maybe you could even make friends with native speaker of English. If you look hard enough, you'll find a good way to learn English better.

Thank you!:)
 

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Teachers Is the sentence underlined correct? Especilly look?

What about watching English movies, or reading English books? Maybe you could even make friends with native speaker of English. If you look hard enough, you'll find a good way to learn English better.

Thank you!:)
"look" is fine. but the "learn English better" part is odd, and it is not clear what you mean.
You can say something like 'If you.............., you'll find a good way to (learn better English)(learn English faster)(learn English more efficiently)(improve your English), depending on what you want to emphasize.

What do you want to say??
 

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"look" is fine. but the "learn English better" part is odd, and it is not clear what you mean.
You can say something like 'If you.............., you'll find a good way to (learn better English)(learn English faster)(learn English more efficiently)(improve your English), depending on what you want to emphasize.

What do you want to say??

Teacher 2006 Thank you very much!
This is an article about learning English. The title is Why don't you learn to sing English songs?

The sentence I asked is the last sentence of the last paragraph. Now I copy the last paragraphy and please give me more explaination. Thank you!

Have you heard of the BeiJing Speakers English program? If not, why don,t you find out about it? It suggests ways for Beijiners to take an interest in learning English. Besides singing ENglish songs. There are many other fun ways to learn English,What about watching English movies, or reading English books? Maybe you could even make friends with native speaker of English. If you look hard enough, you'll find a good way to learn English better.

And teacher 2006 , Why is look hard is fine and why not work hard? What does look hard mean? Thank you?
 

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Have you heard of the BeiJing Speakers English program? If not, why don't you find out about it? It suggests ways for Beijiners to take an interest in learning English. Besides singing English songs, there are many other fun ways to learn English. What about watching English movies, or reading English books? Maybe you could even make friends with a native speaker of English. If you look hard enough, you'll find a good way to learn English better.

And teacher 2006,why is look hard [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] fine? And why not work hard? What does look hard mean? Thank you.
Because if you want to find something, you have to look for it. You're not working hard; you're looking hard.

"look hard(adverb)" means to look with a lot of effort and dedication.
 

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teacher 2006 Thank you!

So Is the part learn English better OK?

By the way, Are the two sentences blow corrct?
Are there some books and apples on the desk?
Are there some books or apples on the desk?:)
 

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teacher 2006 Thank you!

So is [STRIKE]the part[/STRIKE] "learn English better" OK? It's just okay.

Use quotation marks, not underlining, when you want to ask about something you are quoting.

By the way, are the two sentences below correct?"are" does not start a sentence. Why did you capitalize it?

Are there some books and apples on the desk?:tick:
Are there some books or apples on the desk?:tick:
Of course they have different meanings.
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Thank you! Teacher 2006!

Are there some books and apples on the desk?
Are there some books or apples on the desk?

Just now, forgot to ask you if I have to change some into any?
 
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Thank you! Teacher 2006!

Are there some books and apples on the desk?
Are there some books or apples on the desk?

Just now, forgot to ask you if I have to change some into any?
No, both are possible.
 
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