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Sat Apr 22, 2006 18:05 pm Baked/baken |
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The second sentence is correct:
If I had known the recipe, I would have baked a cake.
The irregular past participle baken is unfamiliar to me. Maybe someone else can confirm whether it is good English. |
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Conchita Moderator
Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 2702 Location: Madrid, Spain
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 20:04 pm Bake |
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Hi Andreana,
I'm afraid you must be mistaken about baken perhaps you're thinking of taken I hope I haven't forsaken you.
Yours in sort of jest
Alan _________________ English as a Second Language You can read my ESL story Sea Expressions |
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Andreana I'm here quite often ;-)

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Sun Apr 23, 2006 0:40 am Drive me to school |
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| Yes, Andreana, both ways are correct: you can drive someone somewhere or take them somewhere in your car, which is the same, but takes longer to say. |
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Conchita Moderator
Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 2702 Location: Madrid, Spain
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Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:56 am If I had known the recipe I would have baked or baken a cake |
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"Can you take me to school by car tomorrow?" sounds like a circumlocution that foreigners would use if they didn't know how to say, "Can you drive me to school tomorrow?"
Grammatically, it's not wrong, but a native speaker would not say it unless he expected the person was planning to take him by airplane, helicopter, ricksha or some other conveyance instead. Some mistakes aren't grammar mistakes, but just involve the use of inappropriate word combinations. This is one of those mistakes.
By the way, in some American dialects they use the adjective boughten to mean something is "store-bought" and not homemade. |
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