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Reading - basic
Thinking - advanced
A Nursery Rhyme FOR NON NATIVE SPEAKERS ONLY
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man
with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks, each sack
had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer?
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I continue to be impressed by your cleverness, Aliya. We would call you a 'smart cookie'. BTW "Only you WERE going to St Ives. I will now go and think of something else to test you. Как сказать по-русски 'outsmart'? Вот что я постараюь достигать!!
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Quizz_3
Reading - basicThinking - advanced
A Nursery Rhyme FOR NON NATIVE SPEAKERS ONLY
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man
with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks, each sack
had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer?
only you was going to St.Ives, so the answer is 1 man :)
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only you was going to St.Ives, so the answer is 1 man :)
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Sorry Nancy the answer is just ONE. First line = "I was going to St Ives" I met the others coming in the other direction.
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NANCY as a non-native speaker (as stipulated in line three) it is likely you are not aware that British nursery rhymes, having been around for centuries, have preserved a few archaisms (see Google) in their language. This rhyme is correct as it stands :)))
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