Vocabulary practice. #1
Hello everybody. I am using an app for learning and resiving vocabulary, but I thought it would be good to create small sentences to put the vocab in practice. If you could correct them for me that would be very helpful.
to cling
Cling your bag to yourself otherwise someone can try to steal it.
dull
It was such a dull movie that I felt asleep.
frantic
I got so frantic when I saw that horror movie.
to confine
The poor animal was confined in a small jail.
to foresee
I foreseed it was going to happen because it was so easy for me to see it. It was so predictable.
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Vocabulary practice. #1
Hello everybody. I am using an app for learning and receiving vocabulary, but I thought it would be good to create small sentences to put the vocab into practice. If you could correct them for me that would be very helpful.to cling
Cling your bag to yourself otherwise someone can try to steal it. The verb "to cling" doesn't fit in this sentence.
You could say, "Keep your bag to yourself otherwise someone could try to steal it."
It's possible to say "cling to your bag" but it sounds awkward.. a better example sentence would be: "The baby panda was clinging to its mother for dear life as the tiger walked by."
dull
It was such a dull movie that I felt asleep. Good sentence.
frantic
I got so frantic when I saw that horror movie.
It is okay but perhaps it would be better to say: "I was so scared/frightened when I saw that horror movie."
A more fitting usage of the word frantic would be: "The mother searched franticly for her son because she had lost sight of him."
to confine
The poor animal was confined in a small cage. Good sentence.
The word "jail" is not used when referring to animals.
to foresee
I had foreseen it happening because it was so easy for me to see it. It was so predictable.
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Vocabulary practice. #1
Hello everybody. I am using an app for learning and resiving vocabulary, but I thought it would be good to create small sentences to put the vocab in practice. If you could correct them for me that would be very helpful.to cling
Cling your bag to yourself otherwise someone can try to steal it.
In English we would say "Cling to your bag, otherwise..." no need for saying "to yourself" in this case because its implied. I might also say the socks cling to my sheets in the dryer. In that case I do use "cling to" something because the object is not clear.
dull
It was such a dull movie that I felt asleep.
Perfect.
frantic
I got so frantic when I saw that horror movie.
You can say this, although we would not say "I got frantic." I was frantic, perhaps. Usually frantic has to do with worry and its a pretty active word. For the horror movie we'd probably choose "afraid" or even "panicked." A lot of people would say "I got..." here but "I became... " would be more proper.
to confine
The poor animal was confined in a small jail.
Also perfect.
to foresee
I foreseed it was going to happen because it was so easy for me to see it. It was so predictable.
Okay, about this word "foresee." It is actually the English word "see" (Hello! I see you!) with a prefix on it. You would have to conjugate foresee in the past the same way you would conjugate the verb see in the past, which is "saw" I saw it, you saw it, he/she/it/we/they saw it.
Adding the prefix fore means you saw it before it happened... but it is the same conjugation. Therefore: I foresaw it because it was so predictable. (The part you put in the middle is really just restating "foresaw.")
Good job! Keep up the good work!
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