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"Question to anyone who speaks English !"

Yesterday was my English exam, and there was a question that I disagreed on with all the English teachers in the school, so in order to know the exact correct answer, the best thing to do is to ask British people (I am Egyptian by the way). This is the question:

Begin the following phrase with the word "Books", so that it would give the same meaning:
-People still read books.

My answer: Books are still being read by people.
The teachers' answer: Books are still read by people.

There are only 2 students in the school that wrote my answer: Me and my friend, and we're both the best English students in the school. And I mean the BEST, there is no one else in the school that can be compared to us. While on the other hand, all 3 English teachers in the school say that the correct answer is the other one, so ?

Tagline wrote:
> homosh wrote:
> Yes, but on a limited basis. I can speak it freely now.
>
> so you spoke limited English most of your life? and nothing else?

Is there supposed to be something else ? You mean education ? My parents put me in a school that uses English as the main language, is that what you mean ?

egypt has camels

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I'm too slow!

Super Kev wrote:
> I dont spoke England. I nose this so doesnt worry to speaking or
> thoughting about them. I isnt a people you needed to asked there
> topic in. Buy by.

homosh wrote:
> Yes, but on a limited basis. I can speak it freely now.

so you spoke limited English most of your life? and nothing else?

Yes, but on a limited basis. I can speak it freely now.

homosh wrote:
> Tagline wrote:
> yet you speak it like someone who has only been speaking it a few
> years
>
> Well offcourse. I got internet and PS1 only in 1999, I got my VCR in
> 1998, I saw Star Wars in 1997, and I got cable last year. Before all
> these I only watched cartoons and a few U.S movies on Egyptian TV.

but you said it was your native tongue. which means you should of been speaking it since before then

Tagline wrote:
> yet you speak it like someone who has only been speaking it a few
> years

Well offcourse. I got internet and PS1 only in 1999, I got my VCR in 1998, I saw Star Wars in 1997, and I got cable last year. Before all these I only watched cartoons and a few U.S movies on Egyptian TV.

homosh wrote:
> RastaBillySkank wrote:
> homosh wrote:
> English.
>
> Then why are you being tested on it in the style of a foreign
> language?
>
> To other Egyptians it's foreign, to me it's my native language.

yet you speak it like someone who has only been speaking it a few years

SHEEPY wrote:
> Try living in Britain, mate.
>
> You have pyramids, sand and sun.

Yep.
Egypt has pyramids, the UK has....Scotland.


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