Hello, I am a new user here and I work at a middle school in Korea as an English teacher.
Since I am not a native speaker, I sometimes have difficulties to tell if some setences from students are right or wrong.
Please help me.
1. I am supposed to eat food.
2. I am supposed to do playing games.
These are sentences from my students. I'd like to know these are acceptable or unaaceptable.
Thank you in advance!
Unless your students are in the habit of eating things which aren't food, I find the last word of sentence 1 redundant. "I am supposed to eat".
With the second, "do playing games" is incorrect. "I am supposed to be playing games".
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
It is possible for someone to say "I am supposed to eat real food", meaning he/she was told to eat meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, etc, rather than candy, snacks, ice cream, etc. That would require some context.Originally Posted by amiable25
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Thank you so much! I understand that the question 1 isn't incorrect but sounds awkward and has a better option. Am I right? It was a reply to a question " What are you going to do after school?"
It's a very strange reply to the question "What are you going to do after school?" You might hear "I'm supposed to be going home to have dinner" or something but "I am supposed to be eating food after school" is definitely odd.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Oh, it's an odd answer. Thank you! ^^
Yes, but as I said, even if it wasn't an odd answer to that specific question, it is also unnatural to say "... supposed to be eating food". The last word is redundant and the whole thing would be better worded as "I am supposed to be having breakfast/lunch/dinner/tea/supper/a snack ...".
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Oh, I got it. Thank you very much!
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