Saturday, July 25, 2009

My bad listening comprehension #16

I heard the following sentence from a dialogue which I studied today.

There's a load of technical manuals tree.

I wondered what "manuals tree" was.
I imagined that it refers to the manuals which are gotten lined up systematically.

I checked the text book and it actually wasn't "tree", but "to read." Gah!

By the way, although "manuals" is plural, I wonder why it's "there's", not "there are." OK, I'll try asking it on Lang-8.

My hearing wrong of the past:
http://sandfriend.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-bad-listening-comprehension-15.html

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4 comments:

  1. Rick Cogley11:22 AM

    Hi Sand - it's because the "there's" is referring to the load, which is singular.

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  2. sand10:19 PM

    Rick-san,

    Thank you for your comment and answering my question!

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  3. larsmj4810:36 AM

    Hey thanks for the great picts and video of the eisa dancing. I have a friend who was in a group from Kawagoe. She never sends me picts because she is beating her drum, lol.
    If you have anymore pict of the dancers i would love to see them.
    thanks,
    Larry J.

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  4. sand4:11 AM

    Larry,

    Thank you for visiting my blog and putting the comment.
    Your friend performed Eisa there? Cool!
    Actually I didn't take any other photos. There were TOO many people so it's a bit hard to take pics. I took one photo and one vide just for my blog. I'm sorry.

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