[General] Regarding the necklace, it's nice and I appreciate that you found time to look it up.

[jackson6612]

Hi,

Is John's reply grammatically correct and idiomatic? Thank you!

Jane: I wish you guys all the best. You should get this necklace for your girlfriend. I know it's a bit expensive but I think it's worth it.
John: Jane, thank you for your kind words. Regarding the necklace, it's nice and I appreciate that you found time to look it up...

 

[Rover_KE]

Please tell us the source and author of this dialogue.

If you wrote it yourself, in what context?

 

[jackson6612]

Please tell us the source and author of this dialogue.

If you wrote it yourself, in what context?

I wrote it myself.

The context is that John is going to celebrate two years of his relationship with his girlfriend. John is treating it as an anniversary. Jane is wishing John all the best and telling him to get a necklace for his girlfriend as an anniversary present. I hope it's clear now. Thanks.

 

[Rover_KE]

But is it a real-life situation or a fictional dialogue for a school assignment?

 

[jackson6612]

But is it a real-life situation or a fictional dialogue for a school assignment?

Fictional.

 

[emsr2d2]

But is it a real-life situation or a fictional dialogue for a school assignment?

Fictional.

When is the assignment due?

 

[jackson6612]

When is the assignment due?

Do you really think that this is some school assignment?! I just made it up and wanted to know if it's correct. But it looks like I was asking for too much help. Anyway, thanks.

 

[Rover_KE]

It certainly looks like it might be a school assignment. We're not mind readers, and unless you tell us, we have no idea why you're writing a fictional dialogue.

We have always got to be on the lookout for students trying to sneak assignment questions past us via a number of pretexts. Any student visiting the forum for the first time and reading your thread would conclude – if we corrected it without demur – that they'd been lucky enough to find free answers to homework questions.com.

Some members create a signature line in which they briefly summarise their reason for asking questions like this so they don't have to mention it in every new thread and we aren't put to the trouble of asking them for it.

See also post #2 in this thread. If you'd done that in post #1 of this thread, you'd have had your answer in post #2.

 

[emsr2d2]

You were specifically asked if it was a real-life situation or a fictional dialogue for a school assignment. You answered with "Fictional" leading us to believe that it was the latter. We can only work with the information you give us. We need context in order to work out whether any suggested text is correct and appropriate.