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Per chi è già ben avviato al livello elementary (A2)
Ecco la nuova frase:
Cosa fa qui la vecchia maestra di Storia di tuo fratello? Mi chiedo chi l’abbia invitata. Io no, di sicuro.
Buon divertimento!
What is your brother’s aged history teacher doing here’ ‘ I wonder who may have invited her. Sure, not me
Hi Carla. You can’t used “aged” in this context since it gives the idea of “invecchiato” which is not what we want. The most typical spoken form is like the Italian, simply “old”, with the implicit meaning of “ex”.
In the second part, “may” is totally unnecessary – the “doubt” is already present with the verb “wonder”. So, a simple past is quite sufficient: “I wonder who invited her.”
In the last part, you need something like, “Not me, for sure” or “I definitely didn’t” or “I didn’t, that’s for sure”.
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What’s your brother’s former History teacher doing here? I wonder who has invited her. I sure don’t.
A good effort here.
In conversational English, I would use “old” (as in Italian) rather than “former”, which is a bit more formal.
The cation of “inviting” is conceptually more “allora” than “finora” and so a past simple would probably be more appropriate.
“I sure don’t” doesn’t work, but you could say, “I sure didn’t.”
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What is doing here your brother’s old history teacher?
I wonder who invited her. Me no, for sure
You’ve got the Saxon genitive well organised, Luca but it needs to come after “is” and before “doing” – interrogative form!
“Me no” is not valid in English. You can say, “Not me, for sure.”
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What is your brother’s old history teacher doing here ?
I wonder who invited her. Not me, for sure.
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What’s your brother’s old teacher of history(old history teacher)doing here?
I wonder who invited her.
I didn’t, that’ s for sure.
Very good, Davide.
Definitely go for the “old history teacher” version – much neater! 🙂