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Thread #173341   Message #4203247
Posted By: Charmion
01-Jun-24 - 01:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language: 'I forgot my glasses at home.'
Subject: RE: BS: Language: 'I forgot my glasses at home.'
To be fair to the ESL course designer, the pupils have probably been taught to say "I *left* my glasses at home." This is a case of poor test design; in a multiple-choice question, the list of answers should not include something that is correct, but not preferred.

It is dead wrong to teach ESL students that any idiomatic English phrase is "wrong" because it's almost always correct somewhere, sometime!