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Expression: " Students are permitted..."



 
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Expression: " Students are permitted..." #1 (permalink) Mon Jul 24, 2006 20:41 pm   Expression: " Students are permitted..."
 

Hi

At the top of one English paper the following line was written:

" Students are permitted to use dictionary."

I suppose it should be a dictionary since it is no newspaper heading.

What do you think???

Tom
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Expression: " Students are permitted..." #2 (permalink) Mon Jul 24, 2006 22:39 pm   Expression: " Students are permitted..."
 

Tom wrote:
" Students are permitted to use dictionary."

I suppose it should be a dictionary since it is no newspaper heading.


Quite. It should read either: "Students are permitted to use a dictionary" or "(...) permitted to use dictionaries".
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Expression: " Students are permitted..." #3 (permalink) Tue Jul 25, 2006 13:41 pm   Expression: " Students are permitted..."
 

Thanks, Conchita!

Could you please explain the use of the following?

Conchita wrote:
Quite.


and
Conchita wrote:
(...)


Thanks again

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Expression: " Students are permitted..." #4 (permalink) Tue Jul 25, 2006 13:54 pm   Expression: " Students are permitted..."
 

'Quite' can be said to show that you agree, like 'exactly' or 'that's right'.

(...): suspension points indicate that the sentence or text is incomplete.
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Expression: " Students are permitted..." #5 (permalink) Tue Jul 25, 2006 20:08 pm   Expression: " Students are permitted..."
 

Thanks again, Conchita!

Last question about theis thread.

So could we use quite in this sense in spoken English?

A- "I think we should not go out tonight?"
B- "Quite!"

It it correct?

About my sceond question in the abaove colums, why did you write the incomplete sentence. In other words, why did you drop students and write "...".Any particular reason?
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Expression: " Students are permitted..." #6 (permalink) Tue Jul 25, 2006 22:19 pm   Expression: " Students are permitted..."
 

Tom wrote:
So could we use quite in this sense in spoken English?

A- "I think we should not go out tonight?"
B- "Quite!"

It it correct?


Somehow, 'quite' sounds a bit awkward after a suggestion, especially if it's a question. You wouldn't say 'exactly' in this case either, I think. I would only use it in place of terms like ‘you’re quite right’, ‘absolutely’, ‘exactly’ or 'that's right'.


Tom wrote:
About my sceond question in the abaove colums, why did you write the incomplete sentence. In other words, why did you drop students and write "...".Any particular reason?


Try to guess first Smile . Why do people do that: write three little dots instead of repeating words or having to write a whole text that is not important?
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