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Bags of time is an idiom and means a lot of time.
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| Thu Dec 14, 2006 16:04 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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| Quote: | | There's no need to worry |
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If I am not mistaken, a full stop is required after "worry".
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| Thu Dec 14, 2006 16:19 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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Well yes Tom, if you like.
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| Sun May 11, 2008 14:30 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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Hi Alane,
in which other cases can I use the word bags with same meaning as here (a lot of, plenty of)? |
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| Sun May 11, 2008 15:00 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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| Alan wrote: | | Well yes Tom, if you like. |
Surely you agreed with Tom that a period/full stop (or some other form of punctuation) was necessary. Don't you think your response runs a high risk that ESL students will interpret it to mean that the sentence is also OK the way it is?
Why not just say something such as "Yes, Tom, you're right. We'll fix the typo in the test."
Sheesh. 
EDIT:
I see that a comma was added to the sentence after Tom's post.
Are you a fan of 'comma splice' sentences? Are comma splice sentences considered to be "correct" in British English?
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| Sun May 11, 2008 15:04 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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No need to start making a big fuss about this sentence too, Amy. In December 2006 we put a comma after 'worry'.
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| Sun May 11, 2008 15:07 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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| Torsten wrote: | | In December 2006 we put a comma after 'worry'. |
And thus turned it into a comma splice. (As I mentioned in my EDIT above.)
I've got a couple of questions for you Torsten:
Do you think your tests should be correct? Or is it OK for your tests to have errors?
Do you think it is OK to suggest that a sentence is correct when you know it is not?
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| Sun May 11, 2008 20:50 pm Idiom: "Bags of time" |
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Hi Casafon,
'Bags of time' is the most immediate one that comes to my mind but there are others. You could say of someone who always works hard as having 'bags of energy'/someone who is very rich as having 'bags of money'/someone who is always very keen as having 'bags of enthusiasm'. There are others I'm sure but that's all I can think of at the moment.
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