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Sentence correction: English is spoken in Australia. #1 (permalink) Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:26 am   Sentence correction: English is spoken in Australia.
 

Can someone please tell me if the following sentence is OK?

1) English is spoken in Australia.
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Sentence correction #2 (permalink) Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:18 am   Sentence correction
 

Hi,

It is fine. I'm curious as to why you should doubt its correctness.

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Sentence correction #3 (permalink) Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:07 am   Sentence correction
 

Alan,

On a normal day, I wouldn't have had an iota of doubt about the correctness of the sentence; it's as plain as they come.

It's the effect of Monday I guess, I just got swayed by my friend's words. He said that he'd read somewhere that the sentence was incorrect. So I had to ask.

Things like this happen, don't they? :)
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Sentence correction #4 (permalink) Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:19 am   Sentence correction
 

They certainly do. Incidentally Australian English is another kettle of fish. This (Australian) writer has it all sewn up:

Peters, Pam (2007) Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage. Cambridge University Press 905pp.

She has also written an interesting book called: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (2004)
- a book to which I always refer when I want a sensible answer to a language question.

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Sentence correction #5 (permalink) Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:45 am   Sentence correction
 

"kettle of fish"... sounds good. :) I've just learnt what it is. Thanks for that Alan.

As for Australian English, it sounds a wee bit funny to me -- may be because the only time I get to hear it is on a comedy show called Comedy Inc. :-)

Blokeman -- I don't work on sundays or me day off.

The above line is said by a guy on the show and the way he says it is downright funny. Is this the kind of English Ms.Peters covered in her book? :-)
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