Re: Is that right?

Salvatore Volatile wrote:
> Big Al, (Iso Allo) wrote:
>> I have some sentences, but I'am not sure; is they right,
>> so check it, please:
>>
>> - Only strong (when talking some person) can be survive.
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Only a strong person can
> survive; only the strong can survive?
>
I mean exactly "person" (human or animal).

>> - I allways put two pieces of sugar in my tea.
>
> always
>
> That's grammatical, but not idiomatic -- one doesn't generally speak
> of "pieces of sugar". In informal AmE you can say "two sugars",
> where a "sugar" is some unit of sugar (e.g. a teaspoon, packet [= BrE
> "parcelette"?], or a conventionally-sized sugar cube).
>
Actually, I mean "lump of sugar", but I don't know it, before today.

>> - Some years ago, happens a terrible car accident.
>
> Some years ago a terrible car accident happened.
>
Is a "happened" gone tense?

> The ringed seal (?) is an endangered species and is protected.
>
In my dictionary, word "ringed seal" is in Finnish "saimaannorppa".

>> - I put some time ago Christmas lights top on my room window.
>
> A while ago I put Christmas lights on the top of my window.
>
While? I must next time say it: "some days ago, I put Christmas..."
because Christmas lights are top of my window at least three days.

Big Al (my nickname)

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