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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4080 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes  Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 409 of 812 21 May 2014 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If you want to keep improving English, at this stage three things come to mind.
1. Post on lang-8, for instance your post above. There are many mistakes. It helps if you write something which is corrected, and you go over the corrections in detail. 2, When you write, avoid contractions "I'll", "I'm". It will help you to avoid some mistakes. For instance: "I will ever will" "I am yet to get used to watching movies" 3. Massive reading input. Young adult fiction is fine (Three investigators, Famous five, Nancy Drew...). Dont let adult literature like O.Henry slow you down. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 410 of 812 21 May 2014 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have yet to get used to watching movies.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 411 of 812 21 May 2014 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think it's necessary to avoid contractions. It's a very specific mistake, borderline to a simple typo. A native speaker can make a similar mistake if they change their wording while writing. I don't see anything wrong with "I'm yet to get used", btw. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 412 of 812 21 May 2014 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Me neither. But I have is a bit nicer, I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4080 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 413 of 812 21 May 2014 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"I am yet to get used to" sounds wrong, I would have written "I have yet to get used
to". But perhaps this is more subtle than I thought. http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=10085 http://www.englishforums.com/English/Versus/djxxm/post.htm Combing with the implicit intention in the original sentence that the activity has started, "have" seems natural. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 414 of 812 21 May 2014 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think "have" would work better if Via_Diva was forced to learn English but didn't care. It emphasizes having no choice. Necessity rather than determination.
Since someone mentioned Jane Austen, I suppose "I'm yet to" is more common in British English too. edit: for example, one of the first examples in google is "I'm perfectly aware of what I'm yet to know". It's just a more eloquent way of saying "what I don't know" and very different from "what I have to know". It certainly implies a desire to learn more, but it focuses on the present situation and future plans. Edited by Serpent on 21 May 2014 at 4:48pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4080 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 415 of 812 21 May 2014 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"I'm yet to know" sounds perfectly fine. Thinking about it, the issue may be "watching",
ie. "ing" verb in the original sentence. "I am yet to get used to English movies" sounds perfectly fine "I am yet to get used to watching movies"...the "have" version sounds better. Someone page EMK. Edited by Gemuse on 21 May 2014 at 5:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 416 of 812 21 May 2014 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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But watching is a gerund, and it should be interchangeable with any noun here. If anything, the addition of "watching" makes me prefer "I'm" here, as it's better than "I've yet to get used", but with the full form of "have" there's too many auxiliary verbs in one sentence. It's not wrong but it feels clumsy, much like those sentences with the double perfect.
Also, have is short for "have got", and "I have got to get used" is even more awkward. Edited by Serpent on 21 May 2014 at 5:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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