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I'm french, could you tell me if my sentence is typically english

"I have not been to school for a long time, please could you do me favour?"

"As nobody had noticed my bright smile i had to stay in my own home"

Thank you

2007-11-24 23:37:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

4 answers

first sentence:
"I haven't been to school for a long time. Could you please do me a favor?"
(use contractions: haven't instead of have not)
(use modern spelling: favor instead of favour)
Put please in a more appropriate place in the sentence.

second sentence:
"Since nobody noticed my bright smile, decided to stay home."

Using "decided to" instead of "had to" makes it clearer why you stayed home - it was a personal decision of yours, not a course of conduct you were compelled to do.

Here's some help with english tenses (all 32 of them):
TO WALK – 32 tenses of English verbs

I WALK
I DO WALK
I AM WALKING

I WALKED
I DID WALK
I WAS WALKING
I USED TO WALK
I USED TO BE WALKING
I HAVE WALKED
I HAD WALKED
I HAVE BEEN WALKING
I HAD BEEN WALKING

I WILL WALK
I WILL BE WALKING
I WILL HAVE WALKED
I WILL HAVE BEEN WALKING

I WOULD WALK
I WOULD BE WALKING
I WOULD HAVE WALKED
I WOULD HAVE BEEN WALKING

I SHOULD WALK
I SHOULD BE WALKING
I SHOULD HAVE WALKED
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN WALKING

I MIGHT WALK
I MIGHT BE WALKING
I MIGHT HAVE WALKED
I MIGHT HAVE BEEN WALKING

I MAY WALK
I MAY BE WALKING
I MAY HAVE WALKED
I MAY HAVE BEEN WALKING

2007-11-25 02:48:03 · answer #1 · answered by polldiva 3 · 0 5

"I have not been to school for a long time; (note punctuation) could you please do me a favour?"

As nobody hand noticed my bright smile, (comma) I had to stay in my own home. (period)

The second sentence is very strange; why would a person need to stay home because no one noticed his/her smile?

2007-11-25 01:26:36 · answer #2 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0 0

I have not been at school .....
Since nobody noticed my bright smile, i had to stay at home.

2007-11-24 23:41:35 · answer #3 · answered by Rain 7 · 0 0

The first sentence needs to read 'do me a favour'. The second sentence, though gramatically correct, makes no sense.Sorry I can't be more help.

2007-11-24 23:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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