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[hashroop]

Synthesis/Transformation


Need help in this:
Q: Miss Lim must raise her voice. Otherwise, the class will not hear her.
A: Unless Miss Lim raises her voice, the class will not be able to hear her.
Note: why can’t we use would iso will?
Extracted from past year paper.

Q: "Joy, I will celebrate my birthday next weekend," said David.
A: David told Joy that he would celebrate his birthday the following weekend.
Here would celebrate is used.
Can someone pls explain when to use will and when to use would .

Appreciate much

Jessy
Q:

[anneshirleygilbert]

Hello everyone,


Need help on this question, please.

1. "This problem concerns you and me." or
2. "This problem concerns you and I.

My daughter’s teacher says (2) is correct. What do you say?

Tks.

[coolit]

I thought it should be (1). If I take away the ‘you’, it will sound strange if it

is (2)

[smileplease]

anneshirleygilbert:

Hello everyone,


Need help on this question, please.

1. \"This problem concerns you and me.\" or
2. \"This problem concerns you and I.

My daughter's teacher says (2) is correct. What do you say?

Tks.

(2) is correct.

For \"you and me\", you use in this manner :
Example : This is between you and me.

The sentence must have the word \"between\".

[blitz]

mathsparks:

japhys:

Hi Mathsparks

Ans should be (2) I think...

I thought it should be ans2 as well. But son's cher said it should be ans1. When I googled, I found both are used frequently. So I suspect perhaps it has to do with UK/US Eng?? :?

Frankly speaking, most teachers mark according to the teachers' answer sheet, so even right answers sometimes are marked as wrong. If your child or you think it is right, you can argue for the score.

[ridcully]

hashroop:

Synthesis/Transformation


Need help in this:
Q: Miss Lim must raise her voice. Otherwise, the class will not hear her.
A: Unless Miss Lim raises her voice, the class will not be able to hear her.
Note: why can't we use would iso will?
Extracted from past year paper.

Q: \"Joy, I will celebrate my birthday next weekend,\" said David.
A: David told Joy that he would celebrate his birthday the following weekend.
Here would celebrate is used.
Can someone pls explain when to use will and when to use would .

Hi Jessy. There are several different uses for 'will' and 'would'. In the two questions you pose, we can think of 'will' as being the present tense and 'would' as being the past tense [of 'will'].

Your first question is an example of the first conditional. For first conditionals, the condition clause is written in the present tense so we use 'will' + base form of verb in the result clause.

Your second question is an example of rewriting from direct speech to indirect speech. We usually change the verbs from the present tense to the past tense; thus, 'will' becomes 'would'.

Hope that helps.
R

[Mdm Koh]

anneshirleygilbert:

Hello everyone,


Need help on this question, please.

1. \"This problem concerns you and me.\" or
2. \"This problem concerns you and I.

My daughter's teacher says (2) is correct. What do you say?

Tks.

This video will answer your question. http://www.engvid.com/common-english-errors-i-or-me-she-or-her/

This link will explain why your child's teacher thought that the answer was (2). http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/myself.html

[ridcully]

anneshirleygilbert:

1. \"This problem concerns you and me.\" or

2. \"This problem concerns you and I.

My daughter's teacher says (2) is correct. What do you say?

The teacher is wrong.

The verb 'concern' is transitive, that is it takes an object. In the sentence, the subject is 'problem' and the objects are 'you' and 'me'. You cannot use 'I' as it is a subject pronoun.

Rgds
R

[ridcully]

smileplease:

The sentence must have the word \"between\".

Hi smileplease. That's a different sentence structure employing a preposition. You are right though that prepositions as well as transitive verbs take object pronouns.


Rgds
R

[hashroop]

ridcully:

hashroop:

Synthesis/Transformation


Need help in this:
Q: Miss Lim must raise her voice. Otherwise, the class will not hear her.
A: Unless Miss Lim raises her voice, the class will not be able to hear her.
Note: why can't we use would iso will?
Extracted from past year paper.

Q: \"Joy, I will celebrate my birthday next weekend,\" said David.
A: David told Joy that he would celebrate his birthday the following weekend.
Here would celebrate is used.
Can someone pls explain when to use will and when to use would .

Hi Jessy. There are several different uses for 'will' and 'would'. In the two questions you pose, we can think of 'will' as being the present tense
and 'would' as being the past tense [of 'will'].


Thanks R for your help, really appreciate it.
Regards

Your first question is an example of the first conditional. For first conditionals, the condition clause is written in the present tense so we use 'will' + base form of verb in the result clause.

Your second question is an example of rewriting from direct speech to indirect speech. We usually change the verbs from the present tense to the past tense; thus, 'will' becomes 'would'.

Hope that helps.
R