Hi native English speakers:

Could you please correct my sentences?

1. Miss Lin is younger than other teachers/ any other teacher at school.
2. No girl in her class is / No girls in her class are as/so noisy as Jessie (is).
3. Mandy can’t write as/so well as my sister.
4. She saw John himself.
5. Kitty saw Sandy herself. (Does herself here mean Sandy or Kitty?)
6. The machine works (by) itself.
7. The big shoes are better than the small ones./ This pair of the big shoes is better than that one/ that pair of the small shoes.
8. She is one of her great teachers. / She is a great teacher of hers.
9. Much of / A lot of the money was wasted.
10. Much of / A lot of the milk is fresh.
11. Many of / A lot of the boys are happy.
12. I only had one cup of coffee. Let’s have another. (They are sentences from one of my English textbooks. But shouldn’t they be “I only had one cup of coffee. Let me have another (one)?)
13. Here are three hats. One is orange, another (one) is blue, and the other (one) is white.

Question

Hi native English speakers:

Could you please correct my sentences?

1. Miss Lin is younger than other teachers/ any other teacher at school.
2. No girl in her class is / No girls in her class are as/so noisy as Jessie (is).
3. Mandy can’t write as/so well as my sister.
4. She saw John himself.
5. Kitty saw Sandy herself. (Does herself here mean Sandy or Kitty?)
6. The machine works (by) itself. 
7. The big shoes are better than the small ones./ This pair of the big shoes is better than that one/ that pair of the small shoes.
8. She is one of her great teachers. / She is a great teacher of hers.
9. Much of / A lot of the money was wasted.
10. Much of / A lot of the milk is fresh.
11. Many of / A lot of the boys are happy.
12. I only had one cup of coffee. Let’s have another. (They are sentences from one of my English textbooks. But shouldn’t they be “I only had one cup of coffee. Let me have another (one)?)
13. Here are three hats. One is orange, another (one) is blue, and the other (one) is white.

frechettestephen · Answer

2. Both versions are correct but the singular version is preferred.
4. This would only be used for emphasis.
5. Depends on the intonation, but usually Kitty.
6. Depends on the meaning, but for most meanings the "by" is required.
7. "This pair of the big shoes" doesn't make much sense, you can't use "the" here as you are picking one pair of big shoes out of all the big shoes, same goes for "the small shoes".  If you were saying "this pair of the big shoes is better than that pair of the big shoes" it would work.
9,10,11. "much" and "many" are rarely used outside of negatives or questions, but you could still use them this way.
12. This is fine assuming you are wanting to get another cup with someone else.

The rest are fine.

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