English Grammer for Writting

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1. a fish out of water

It is a fish out of water.

At the conference, I was a fish out of water. All the speeches
were in French, a language I never studied.

The old man who had been used to working from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m was
like a fish out of water when his firm pensioned him off.

 

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2. all but ...

I am all but ready.

He is all but dead.

The child was all but run over by the train.

The skaters on the pond all but broke through the ice.

All but John, the whole class pass the examination.

I enjoy all but the last one of her novels.

 

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3. all ...not

All of the students do not speak Chinese.

All of them do not speak Chinese.= Not all of them speak Chinese.

Everyone can not be successful.

I can not select both of the schemes.

None of them speak Chinese.

I can select neither of the two schemes.

 

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4. and that

You must leave her a message, and that immediately.

You must pay attention to your behavior, and that very often.

Everyone seeks for a happy family, and that without any exception.

He used to take drugs and that when when he was young.

 

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5. anything but

That little bridge is anything but safe.

In short, he is likely to attend to anybody's business but his own.

Someone will wrangle for freedom: write for it;fight for it; anything but die for it.

I enjoy anything but amusement.

 

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6.as if (as though )

I was (as cold)as if we were on the iceberg.

She nodded her head sharply as if she wanted to say "yes".

Why don't they buy me a drink? It isn't as if they had no money!

He talks as if/as though he knew where she was.

He talks about Beijing as if he had been there himself.=He talked as if he had been there himself.

 

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7. as it is

If I had enough money, I would like to buy the furniture. As it is, I can do nothing.

I thought thing would get worse, but as it is they are getting better.

Leave him as he is.

China as she is, is very different from China as she was ten years ago.

 

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8. as it were

He became, as it were, a kind of hero from a strange land.

He was, as it were, introxicated by the soft air and sunshine of spring.

He is my best friend, my second self, as it were.

A good teacher is, as it were, the intellectual father of his pupils.

He is, so to speak, a live dictionary.= He is, as it were, a live dictionary.

 

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9. as long as

I will attend the meeting as long as the manager is absent.

As long as I were you, I would punish the boy.

If I were you, I would punish the boy.

You can borrow this book as long as you promise to give it back.

You can go out, so lone as you promise to be back before 11 o'clock.

As long as you are up, get me a drink.

As long as you are going, I'll go too.

 

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10. as much (many)

It had been five months since the husband left for Beijing, but they seemed as many years to his wife.

There are six grammar mistakes in as many sentences.

There are as many minds as there are men.

Natural resources have affected the history of the United States as much as the means of communication.

 

[1784]

nice

 

[Alucard]

good,thx

 

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11. as soon as

As soon as he arrived in Guangzhou, he gave me a telephone.

As soon as he arrived in Guangzhou, he gave me a call.= He gave me a call as soon as he arrived in Guangzhou.

The performance had hardly begun when the lights went out.

He had no sooner drunk the coffee than he began to feel drowsy.

Hardly had the performance began when the lights went out.= No sooner had he drunk the coffee than he began to feel drowly.

 

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12. as well as

She can paint as well as sing.

He has experience as well as scholarship.

Jane, as well as her sisters, is very beautiful.

All accident offen cause internal injures as well as cuts and wounds.

We shall travel by night as well as by day.

 

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13. at (the) most

She is at most 25 years old.

I can pay only fifty dollars at (the) most.

To repair your car will cost you one hundred yuan, at the most.

The food wasn't good, but at least it was cheap.

He has never been abroad, nor yet finished college, but he knows at least eight languages.