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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / April 2005Is this question correct?
(e. g. if an employer prefers handsome people) "Does your decision always depends on how someone looks like?" TIA Hartmut >(e. g. if an employer prefers handsome people) > >"Does your decision always depends on how someone looks like?" No. In English we would say something like: "Do you always judge people by their appearance?" or "Are your decisions influenced by the appearance of the person proposing the idea?" or "Do you hire more on the basis of looks than ability?" Hartmut Mühlenbein wrote on 31 Jul 2004: > (e. g. if an employer prefers handsome people) > > "Does your decision always depends on how someone looks like?" While ther are other and better ways of expressing this (see John Ings's post), the structure of your sentence is incorrect. To be idiomatic and grammatically correct English, it would have to be either (A) "Does your decision always depend on how someone looks?" or (B) "Does your decision always depend on what someone looks like?"  SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor. For email, replace numbers with English alphabet. No! It is not correct. "Does your decision always depend on how someone looks like?" is the correct form. The auxiliary(does) is already in the third person form. Maria.G > (e. g. if an employer prefers handsome people) > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Hartmut > No! It is not correct. "Does your decision always depend on how someone > looks like?" is the correct form. The auxiliary(does) is already in the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >>"Does your decision always depends on how someone looks like?" It should be "what" not "how" ( a fairly typical error for Germans). the sentence should be "Does your decision always depend on what someone looks like?" Regards, Einde O'Callaghan >> No! It is not correct. "Does your decision always depend on how someone >> looks like?" is the correct form. The auxiliary(does) is already in the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > sentence should be "Does your decision always depend on what someone > looks like?" So "HOW someone looks like" is always wrong? What about "Yesterday I had a booze up with Steve, I wonder how he looked like this morning"? Hartmut Hartmut Mühlenbein wrote on 26 Apr 2005: >>> No! It is not correct. "Does your decision always depend on how >>> someone looks like?" is the correct form. The auxiliary(does) is [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > What about "Yesterday I had a booze up with Steve, I wonder how he > looked like this morning"? Wrong. It should be "how he looked" or "what he looked like" . This is standard English. both British and American. *"How he looked like" is always wrong because it's not at all idiomatic in native-speaker English. SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor For email, replace numbers with English alphabet. "You've got to get over this idea that there's a rule for everything." Professor John Lawler, U. Michigan ELT woes...easily confused questions. This tends to drill well, even with older groups: The six questions you alternate between are: How is she looking? Usually, a question regarding her appearance after an illness or other hardship. How does she look? A secondary form that most native speakers would consider interchangable with the first. The state verbs "look" and "feel" are funny that way when talking about the present. How is she? Usually an question regarding her health. What is she like? Tell me about her personality. What does she look like? Physical appearance. What does she like? Personal likes and dislikes A final point: when forming these questions, learners typically add too much rather than too little. Consequently, "How does she look like?" is a common problem, all the way up the advanced levels. ELT woes...easily confused questions. This tends to drill well, even with older groups: The six questions you alternate between are: How is she looking? Usually, a question regarding her appearance after an illness or other hardship. How does she look? A secondary form that most native speakers would consider interchangable with the first. The state verbs "look" and "feel" are funny that way when talking about the present. How is she? Usually a question regarding her health. What is she like? Tell me about her personality. What does she look like? Physical appearance. What does she like? Personal likes A final point: when forming these questions, learners typically add too much rather than too little. Consequently, "How does she look like?" is a common problem, all the way up to the advanced levels. >>> No! It is not correct. "Does your decision always depend on how someone >>> looks like?" is the correct form. The auxiliary(does) is already in the [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > What about "Yesterday I had a booze up with Steve, I wonder how he > looked like this morning"? It would be OK without the word "like", i.e. "I wonder how he looked this morning". I feel that there's a subtle difference between "how he looked" and "what he looked like", but I'm afraid I'm too tired at the moment to ztry to work out what it is. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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