Is this sentence correct?

[blacknomi]

I don't like him, as much as you do. I add a comma to the sentence.

 

[Casiopea]

I don't like him, as much as you do. I add a comma to the sentence.

Interesting. I read it with a pause, like this,

I don't like him, well, not in as much as you do.

 

[blacknomi]

Cas, do you mean it doesn't sound so right?


Another senetnce,
The machine is shut down automatically.
The machine shut down automatically.


I think this sentence is strange. 'Is' conveys a passive idea, but it seems to clash with the adverb 'automatically'. :?:

 

[Casiopea]

Cas, do you mean it doesn't sound so right?


Another senetnce,
The machine is shut down automatically.
The machine shut down automatically.


I think this sentence is strange. 'Is' conveys a passive idea, but it seems to clash with the adverb 'automatically'. :?:

The first one is OK if we add a time to express a fact, like this,

The machine is shut down automatically at 9:00.

The second one is OK.

There's also,

The machine was shut down automatically. (OK)

Also,

The machine was automatically shut down.
The machine is automatically shut down at 9:00.

 

[blacknomi]

Thank you, Cas.

 

[blacknomi]

The top left and bottom left of the book are all dog-eared.


Suppose this is a book, and you can view two pages here. I want to bent down the red parts. How should I say?

____ _____
|xooo|oooo|
|oooo|oooo|
|oooo|oooo|
|xooo|oooo|

 

[blacknomi]

Ron: I want to tell you what happened.
Mike: That's OK. I already know.

Question
Why present tense? Why not past tense? Mike has known something happened before Ron was going to tell him. :idea:

 

[blacknomi]

Someone wrote a sentence that goes like this:

Re:

• He drinks a cup of coffee twice a day.

It sounds funny. There is too much information in one sentence. I would rather split it into two.

• She drinks coffee twice a day. And she drinks one cup of coffee each time.

Does it make more sense? :wink:

 

[blacknomi]

How would you respond to this question:


Re:
How do you plan to do for this summer?


[Notice] If I change the question word 'How' to 'What', the answers would be slighly different. Right?

:?:

 

[Francois]

I already know

He still knows now what happened.

She drinks coffee twice a day. And she drinks one cup of coffee each time.
Does it make more sense?

Well, both make sense. Actually I prefer having one sentence, but I think the best is "She drinks two cups of coffee a day". Unless she can knock back two cups of coffee in 5 minutes, this is the same meaning.

FRC

 

[Casiopea]

The top left and bottom left of the book are all dog-eared.


Suppose this is a book, and you can view two pages here. I want to bent down the red parts. How should I say?

____ _____
|xooo|oooo|
|oooo|oooo|
|oooo|oooo|
|xooo|oooo|

Say, "Do this." Hehe, just kidding. Try,

Fold the top left corner downwards to the bottom left corner.

 

[Casiopea]

Ron: I want to tell you what happened.
Mike: That's OK. I already know.

Question
Why present tense? Why not past tense? Mike has known something happened before Ron was going to tell him. :idea:

At this moment in time, I already know (what happened).

 

[Casiopea]

How would you respond to this question:


Re:
How do you plan to do for this summer?


[Notice] If I change the question word 'How' to 'What', the answers would be slighly different. Right?

:?:

Q: How do you plan to spend/on spending your summer?
A: I plan to spend it/on spending it at the beach/camping in the mountains.

 

[blacknomi]

How would you respond to this question:


Re:
How do you plan to do for this summer?


[Notice] If I change the question word 'How' to 'What', the answers would be slighly different. Right?

:?:

Q: How do you plan to spend/on spending your summer?
A: I plan to spend it/on spending it at the beach/camping in the mountains.

Cas sensei, thanks for the help. Some doubts still remain in my mind. What if I change my question to "What do you plan to for this summer?"
Answer: I plan to spend my lovely summer at the beach.

So what's the difference between how and what in this case? You have to tell me or I'll kill myself.

 

[Casiopea]

How would you respond to this question:


Re:
How do you plan to do for this summer?


[Notice] If I change the question word 'How' to 'What', the answers would be slighly different. Right?

:?:

Q: How do you plan to spend/on spending your summer?
A: I plan to spend it/on spending it at the beach/camping in the mountains.

Cas sensei, thanks for the help. Some doubts still remain in my mind. What if I change my question to "What do you plan to for this summer?"
Answer: I plan to spend my lovely summer at the beach.

So what's the difference between how and what in this case? You have to tell me or I'll kill myself.

Try,

How do you plan on spending your summer?
I plan on spending it (swimming) at the beach.

What do you plan on doing this summer?
I plan on swimming at the beach.