11-04-2011, 08:06 AM
Hello Peter,
How was your weekend? It was beautiful weather this weekend in the Netherlands! So we took a long walk, ate an ice-cream and we had a barbeque! (or as the Australians say: a barbie!) Also lots of studying, but in the sunshine <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />
I have studied the site properly! Hopefully, I will remember this information in the future! ;-)
How do you know I have a brother? I can't ask my brother anything about sports. He's as lazy as I am! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />
However, my father likes sport very much! He doesn't have a car at the moment and he uses his bike for everything!
Very environmentally!
What a funny story about Wednesday! Is it really true?
I haven't skated this week, because I don't have any protection yet.
But tomorrow I will get some protection from a collegue, so maybe I try to skate tomorrow.
I don't dare to skate without protection, I don't want a concussion again! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mellow.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mellow:' />
How is your knee doing?
Greetings Irene
[quote name='PeterJMelb' timestamp='1302083439' post='32852']
Hello Irene.
I am disappointed I cannot say why your "Did you saw . . ." is incorrect.
But look in this site for lots of examples:
[url="http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html"]http://www.englishpa...tenseintro.html[/url]
And also look here where the verb "To see" is conjugated:
[url="http://www.verb2verbe.com/conjugation/english-verb/see.aspx"]http://www.verb2verb...h-verb/see.aspx[/url]
Look in the Conjunctive Present. If you put "Did" in front of these, (Did I see, did he see, did you see. . .) then it will make sense, in every case. (Every person).
Note that "Did" in front of the Simple Present does not work in every case, so it cannot be that tense.
That's the best I can do.
Soccer is very popular here as well.
A "war" game is where each side lines up with every member of a team on the same side of center and opposing the other team.
A non war game is where the players line up against an opponent. For example Netball.
Ask your brother for more advice.
Irene I don't know why Wednesday has silent letters.
But many words are simply because many years ago someone wrote down a word after miss-hearing it, or simply miss-spelt it.
So the wrong spelling stuck!
How did the skating go?
Ciao Irene.
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How was your weekend? It was beautiful weather this weekend in the Netherlands! So we took a long walk, ate an ice-cream and we had a barbeque! (or as the Australians say: a barbie!) Also lots of studying, but in the sunshine <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />
I have studied the site properly! Hopefully, I will remember this information in the future! ;-)
How do you know I have a brother? I can't ask my brother anything about sports. He's as lazy as I am! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> However, my father likes sport very much! He doesn't have a car at the moment and he uses his bike for everything!
Very environmentally!
What a funny story about Wednesday! Is it really true?
I haven't skated this week, because I don't have any protection yet.
But tomorrow I will get some protection from a collegue, so maybe I try to skate tomorrow.
I don't dare to skate without protection, I don't want a concussion again! <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mellow.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mellow:' />
How is your knee doing?
Greetings Irene
[quote name='PeterJMelb' timestamp='1302083439' post='32852']
Hello Irene.
I am disappointed I cannot say why your "Did you saw . . ." is incorrect.
But look in this site for lots of examples:
[url="http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html"]http://www.englishpa...tenseintro.html[/url]
And also look here where the verb "To see" is conjugated:
[url="http://www.verb2verbe.com/conjugation/english-verb/see.aspx"]http://www.verb2verb...h-verb/see.aspx[/url]
Look in the Conjunctive Present. If you put "Did" in front of these, (Did I see, did he see, did you see. . .) then it will make sense, in every case. (Every person).
Note that "Did" in front of the Simple Present does not work in every case, so it cannot be that tense.
That's the best I can do.
Soccer is very popular here as well.
A "war" game is where each side lines up with every member of a team on the same side of center and opposing the other team.
A non war game is where the players line up against an opponent. For example Netball.
Ask your brother for more advice.
Irene I don't know why Wednesday has silent letters.
But many words are simply because many years ago someone wrote down a word after miss-hearing it, or simply miss-spelt it.
So the wrong spelling stuck!
How did the skating go?
Ciao Irene.
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