Title: help with English today please
created on 27 Jul 09

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1. polenta wrote:
 Could an American or British person help me? I need to know (don't go to dictionaries, just your native knowledge of the language)Which one is correct are are both a and b correct?
2. polenta wrote:
 1 a)I ask some questions to Mary. b)I ask Mary some questions. 2 a)I can change some money for Mary. b) I can change Mary some money. 3 a)My boss cashes the checks for me. b) My boss cashes me the checks
3. paulie wrote:
 1 b 2 a 3 a
4. Angela wrote:
 you fot it already. :]
5. sheftali52 wrote:
 Paulie is definitely correct.
6. Normal wrote:
 Right! Word order and use of Dative and Accusative is really confusing in English.
7. Normal wrote:
 By the way, "native speakers" often get it wrong.
8. polenta wrote:
 THANKS TO EVERYBODY. I needed it for an exercise. By the way, NORMAL, you seem to know a lot of grammar. I usually use direct object for accusative and indirect object for dative. You are right that "native speakers" are wrong... but I would add... almos
9. polenta wrote:
 almost never. 99,99 right. The problem is that native speakers are very demanding. It happens to me in Spanish. We discover the minimum mistake. Thanks again to everybody
10. Login wrote:
 Agree Paulie is right. You probably already know that we spell cheques differently in UK.
11. Normal wrote:
 You haven't heard the native ENglish speakers I encounter frequently in this "neck of the woods." Our cases are relatively simple compared the the German and Polish ones I've wrestled with. Rules seem more complex in an easterly direction!
12. polenta wrote:
 You're all very kind and it's always good to have people to ask about doubts.

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