Can you fix the English on this sign?
Welcome to our weekly challenge!
Can you fix the English?
This week’s English is from a sign is on a shop door.
Activity: Does this English need fixing?
Write in the comments what you think would be the correct English for this sentence.
WEEKLY CHALLENGE:
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When you go out, look around your city or town for English.
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If you see an English sign, take a photo of it and email it to me. Maybe your sign will have good English, but maybe not! That is part of the fun!
You don’t need a special camera. Use your mobile phone!
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All pictures sent to me will be put up on this site (one each week). Then we can challenge each other to FIX THIS ENGLISH!
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Send me some English from where you live soon!
If yes, can you fix the English?
Hi John,
I think, they should have written “inconvenience” or “trouble”
“inconvenient” means uncomfortable
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Hi Roberta
Your changes are good!
Inconvenient means “to trouble”
Inconvenient is a noun
Inconvenience is an adjective
John i think you made a mistake …
Inconvenient is an adjective and Inconvenience is a noun… : )
Yes, Mesalia – you are correct!
I must have mixed them up when I was typing them in (I can’t remember now – was a while ago!)
Many thanks for your cool comment!
Dear John,
The right sign should be ” The shop is closed until Monday the 3rd of March 09″
“Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Nearly correct Kemo.
The correct answer is: “Sorry for any inconvenience”
Also there is a spelling mistake. Can you find it?
WE ARE CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 23, 2009
SORRY FOR INCONVENIENCE
Nearly prefect Nafeesa, but you are missing the word ‘any’:
“Sorry for any inconvenience”
Hi John,
Thank you for the previous correction.
This week I am pretty sure about the answar and it should have written like this( We are closed until Monday 23th 2009)
Sorry for any inconvnience
Perfect Bader! Well done! You got it this time!
ANNOUNCEMENT
WE ARE CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 23, 2009
SORRY FOR THIS INCONVENIENCE
THANKS
Hi Bintang. You are VERY close!
Actually I think what you wrote is good English.
Usually we would use the word ‘any’:
“Sorry for any inconvenience”
I think is better like this
WE ARE CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 23rd, 2009
SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE
Prefect! Well done!
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sorry for any inconvenience…and spelling mistake…supposed to be until…
You got it dd!
Perfect answer!