How tall are you grammar

Sign In. Start Your Free Trial. How Tall Are You? Mark Complete. Now Playing: Lesson Audio. Already a Member? Sign In Here. In each lesson of this part series, you'll encounter a common question that English learners come across, and then learn how to answer like a native speaker.

You'll learn how these key phrases works by breaking them down into each component. Then, through repetition and new vocabulary, you'll expand your understanding of the question, its answers, and any variations. Eric: Slow, by syllable how Becky: Listen again and repeat. Try to speak aloud as often as possible. Eric: How tall are you? Becky: "I'm six feet tall. Repeat the phrase. Eric: Slow I'm six feet tall. Becky: Here we just replace five feet five inches tall with five feet.

Becky: Now it's time for a quiz. What do you say? Respond to the question. Answer the speaker's question. Becky: Imagine you're five feet. How would you answer? Becky: Now you want to ask that person how tall they are. Ask the question. Hide All. Please Sign In to leave a comment. Leave a comment Enter your name. Sorry, please keep your comment under characters. Got a complicated question? Try asking your teacher using My Teacher Messenger. The name field will appear publicly next to your comment.

Please do not enter your email address there. Pinned Comment. Hello Gary, Thanks for taking the time to comment and share your new English language skills. How tall are you? I'm approximately cm tall. Hello Harsha, Thanks for taking the time to post and share. Hello Hai, Thank you for posting!

I hope you're enjoying your studies. Feel free to shoot through any questions you have throughout your studies. Pretty much everyone will say "as tall as him". I think it is also very misguided to post otherwise on a language forum, where non-English speakers come for advice on how to write and speak English as it is normally used, rather than on what is theoretically or used to be correct.

I agree with the above poster -- it's fine to use archaic constructions and make up arbitrary grammatical rules and spellings, if that's your thing, but presenting them as if they're standard English on a site used by people trying to learn the language just isn't very helpful.

In the United States we say "She's as tall as him" or "She's as tall as he is", completely interchangeably. Not one person in a million would say "She's as tall as he". I'm new to this forum and a little confused. I was the under the impression that at least some people use it for help with translating documents which requires correct English. Are the help requests differentiated by written and spoken language?

Perhaps I missed that. Since some people seem to think others are doing a disservice to Carlos by offering advice that is not useful, let me try to break it down as follows. She is as tall as him. She is as tall as he is. She is as tall as he. Also, in certain speaking contexts, its use might label the speaker as lacking in education.

Take your pick, Carlos! Brumble Member American English. UUBiker is exactly right. I'm under the impression that this forum is for all registers of language. This is exactly why it's important to indicate in any posting the context in which the phrase will appear. If you're writing an email to your friend, of course you're not going to use the same language as in an academic research paper.

Brumble said:. Dario de Kansas said:. In addition, I would argue that it's perfectly fine English to say "She is as tall as him" and probably incorrect to say "She is as tall as he. In this sentence "he" is not the subject. In this sentence, "he" is used as an object pronoun. SevenDays Senior Member Spanish. Hello It helps to provide both the standard formal use and the informal everyday use. And if Carlos wrote a book, wished to speak standard English who are we to tell him not to?

UUBiker said:. No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people? Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy?

Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly?

Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? Such or so? Towards or toward? Wait or wait for? Wake , wake up or awaken? Worth or worthwhile? Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together. Pronouns: possessive my , mine , your , yours , etc.

Pronouns: reflexive myself , themselves , etc. Pronouns: indefinite - body , - one , - thing , - where Pronouns: one , you , we , they Relative pronouns Questions: interrogative pronouns what , who Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That.

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Present perfect: typical errors Present simple I work Present simple or present continuous? Present: typical errors Present verb forms referring to the past. Finite and non-finite verbs Imperative clauses Be quiet! Infinitives with and without to Infinitive: active or passive? Perfect infinitive with to to have worked Verbs: basic forms Verbs: formation. Hate , like , love and prefer Hear , see , etc.

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Relative clauses Relative clauses referring to a whole sentence Relative clauses: defining and non-defining Relative clauses: typical errors. Neither, neither … nor and not … either Not. Questions: alternative questions Is it black or grey? Questions: two-step questions Questions: typical errors Questions: wh- questions Questions: yes-no questions Are you feeling cold? Questions: follow-up questions Questions: echo and checking questions Questions: short forms.

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