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How Good is Your English? / Re: Can we reproduce the practice tests posted in the forum?

« on: February 01, 2013, 12:37:03 PM »

Many thanks, sir.

I appreciate your full and complete answer.  I will look this over properly when I'm not swamped with work.

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Use and Misuse / Re: Can and could

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:43:42 AM »

Present tense: “If you leave that camera with us now, we will fix it as fast as we could.”

That sounds incorrect to me.  It seems better to say, "If you leave that camera with us now, we will fix it as fast as we can." 

I'd probably only use 'could' if the sentence had been "If you had left that camera with us then, we would have fixed it as fast as we could."

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Badly Written, Badly Spoken / Re: McDonald’s new ad in UK skewered for inaccurate English usage

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:28:11 AM »

Yes, well, I'm fortunate to have missed the ad, but the ESTABLISHMENT gives me the creeps whenever I see it.  Period.

And their in-store birthday promo videos!  UGGHHHH!!!

The arcade and their prizes are nice, their food is all right, and they're clean, but their advertisement and presentation are simply TERRIBLE.

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How Good is Your English? / Re: Can we reproduce the practice tests posted in the forum?

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:12:24 AM »

I have just stumbled on this forum, and took the practice test posted at <http://josecarilloforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=388.0>. (G-TELP LEVEL 2 SAMPLE TEST #1:  GRAMMAR SECTION)

Got 19 out of 20 in the first practice test.  Not being able to reply in that post, I'd like to state that even after looking at the correct answer, I would still choose my answer, which I think is still the best choice.

(I just don't like being wrong, I admit it.)

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In Question 11, I answered (a).  I would actually have chosen "had," if that were an option.
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Anyway, this is just a diversion from my work.  I'm still arguing with my boss, who just received instructions from the administration to change the tarpaulin we're making for the school.  Among other things, they want to correct "Admissions for S.Y. 2013-2014 are ongoing" to "Admission for S.Y. 2013-2014 is ongoing."  I want to scream.