Greg Pyszczek
Member
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2021
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- Australia
- Current Location
- Japan
It is fun for me to swim in the sea.
It is interesting for me to write a letter.
It is exciting for me to play sport.
I'm seeing these types of sentences from my students more and more. I thought they were wrong at first but I'm starting to doubt myself due to the high number of sentences being written like this. Am I being overly fussy? I've had trouble finding a clear answer to my question elsewhere or any examples of this writing style for that matter.
My thoughts are that this is wrong because it mixes third person (it) with first person (me). I've been correcting the students by changing it to one or the other, for example:
It is fun [STRIKE]for me[/STRIKE] to swim in the sea.
I think it is fun to swim in the sea.
Or, swimming in the sea is fun for me.
By the way, I'm teaching ESL at a cram school in Japan so I need to keep it simple.
It is interesting for me to write a letter.
It is exciting for me to play sport.
I'm seeing these types of sentences from my students more and more. I thought they were wrong at first but I'm starting to doubt myself due to the high number of sentences being written like this. Am I being overly fussy? I've had trouble finding a clear answer to my question elsewhere or any examples of this writing style for that matter.
My thoughts are that this is wrong because it mixes third person (it) with first person (me). I've been correcting the students by changing it to one or the other, for example:
It is fun [STRIKE]for me[/STRIKE] to swim in the sea.
I think it is fun to swim in the sea.
Or, swimming in the sea is fun for me.
By the way, I'm teaching ESL at a cram school in Japan so I need to keep it simple.