On Aug 23, 3:13=A0pm, Bob Cunningham <exw6...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> =A0On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:11:20 +0200, Einde O'Callaghan
>
> <einde.ocallag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >little_cat wrote:
> >> Can I say "I don't want to do homework now, but I will do it for
> >> compensation tomorrow"? Does it sound naturally in English? Thanks in
> >> advance.
>
> >No - I think you mean "I don't want to do any homework now; I'll do it
> >tomorrow instead."
>
> Seems to me your suggestion fails to cover the tone of making amends
> connoted by the word "compensation".
>
> How about "I don't want to do homework now, but to make amends I'll do
> it tomorrow"?
>
> Incidentally, Little Cat's "naturally" is a typical example of the
> "-ly" hypercorrection that leads people to say erroneously "I feel
> badly" when they mean "I feel bad". =A0In "Does it sound natural",
> "natural" is an adjective describing the sound, not an adverb
> describing the manner in which the sound is made.
> --
> Bob Cunningham
> Greater Los Angeles, California, USofA
> Western American English
Thanks a lot. I often make mistakes like "it sounds naturally"
although I knew that it should be "it sounds natural".
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