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Which is the proper way to say:

A. The next number of our program will be a song.
B. The next number on our program is a song.

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either is correct.

BBBBBBBBBBBB 4 me.

just don't sing then

no - I think the 'of' is correct

"A" Technically I guess....

b sounds better...but either would due.

Yup. Either works...Unless you're playing to an audience comprised of ultra-perdantic English teachers.... LOL

I go with B.

Is this a proper sentence?

"This cheese stinks very good"

tricky

i dont think its a proper sentance... i need the proper definition of stinks but ill go with inproper

Originally posted by WindDancer
Is this a proper sentence?

"This cheese stinks very good"

It concurs with the 'subject - verb - adverb - adjective' structure of grammatical correctness, so despite being almost oxymoronic and a little sonically clumsy, it is of sound grammatic structure and therefore a 'proper sentence'.

Actually, I'm not so sure about the construction of the sentences.

I've learned that the second sentence or the sentence B is the proper way to say.

The next number on the program is a song.

What's the difference between the two interrogative sentences below:

A. Where are you studying?
B. What school do you go to?

The rain in spain says mainly in the planes!("My fair lady"jm)

First of all, either of the original sentences is gramatically inept. 'Number' is being misued as a noun.

"This cheese stinks very good"

Clumsy and a bad use of 'good' and only possibly legal at all because of the exeption rule of 'good' with human senses, and in fact by using a pejorative verb you pretty much rule out the legal use of 'good'. Best avoided.

"A. Where are you studying?
B. What school do you go to?"

Define difference? I mean, there is an obvious difference that the second is only asking about a school, which you might well be a janitor at and need not be studying, whereas the first asks where you are studying, which need not be a school at all.

Although most people think of study as in "I'm studying for a test", study can also mean to learn. Since the school is the place of learning, then one would think "I study at (for example) Harvard" the same as "I go to Harvard University".

In short, they are the same.

As for your original question, I would personally use the "on" with the "will be a song". But either is correct.

But they aren't the same- the question does not ask the same thing, given in isolated context. You are assuming learning in B which the sentence itself does not show.

True, I wont deny that.

me lik inglish good i talk with it right and no the difrens btween wurds.

Have a gold star, BF!

Yay!

*Backs out of thread slowly*

How about answering a letter....

A. I'm sorry I didn't answer you earlier. I was busy since last week.
B. I'm sorry I didn't write to you earlier. I was busy since last week.

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
The rain in spain says mainly in the planes!("My fair lady"jm)

blowup

C: I'm sorry I didn't write to you earlier. I have been busy since last week.

"since" does not go with "was." It goes with "has been," or a derivative of it. You could get rid of "since" and just say "I was busy last week." but that wouldn't explain why you haven't replied this week. Hence, you've been busy up until now, including last week, and you couldn't make time to write a letter. You have been busy since last week.


Congratulations! You've learned from:
BullitNutz, University of Central Florida - Junior, BA: English Program.

Nice one, nutz!

That's what I am looking for. Those who can be able to identify wrong sentences.