Please,need a grammar check
We both like bicycles and we ride them together. This is a sentence written by neighbor's kid for school. Teacher gave him B because of that line.Crashing the word "both" ,saying that its grammatically incorrect.
Can someone elaborate,please?
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Technically, all prepositions should be followed by objective pronouns. Tell your teacher to check on it because this native English speaker says your friend's sentence sounds right.
It could be a regional difference or technically incorrect grammar. I wouldn't make judgements until the teacher comments on why.
I am not a grammar expert but the sentence is very normal usage. I suspect that the teacher is thinking that the we is sufficient but I disagree. "We" can express two or twenty so the both qualifies the "we" as just being two.
I would say it exactly like the sentence presented.
The teacher may be looking for "Both of us like bicycles,.....
The sentence is very correct.Its common to hear "we both" or "we all" in contemporary English.
I don't understand.Teacher is not English native,alright.But to flank a grade because of that?And yet being grammatically correct ,on what grounds? Should i tell to neighbor to confront teacher about that?
Nothing wrong with ' both'. It would sound better to say ' we both like riding our bicycles together, or, we like bicycling together', but I can't see any reason whatsoever not to use ' both' . Ambos, los dos!
no me gustan la leche
Another factor to consider is where you are learning English.
What may be correct in the U.S. is not always so in Canada, the neighboring country.
This is common among English-speaking countries, where slight differences stick out like sore thumbs. I'm sure it's the same for U.K., Scotland, and Ireland, not to mention Australia and New Zealand, to name a few.
