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The tyre of my car iis punctured.
My car suffered a puncture.

Are the above sentences correct?

Many thanks.

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tanguatlay wrote:

The tyre of my car iis punctured.
My car suffered a puncture.

Are the above sentences correct?

Many thanks.

yes...but....

My car's tyre is punctured

My car had a puncture

sound better. At least to me.

Doubtless there will be disagreement and other suggestions posted!

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So sad to see a tyre suffering.

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The tire on my car is punctured.

My tire has a puncture.

Cars don't get punctured.

(what is a "tyre" on a car?)

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sullyfish6 wrote:

The tire on my car is punctured.

My tire has a puncture.

Cars don't get punctured.

(what is a "tyre" on a car?)

Are you really that provincial?

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Drewdad wrote:

sullyfish6 wrote:
The tire on my car is punctured.

My tire has a puncture.

Cars don't get punctured.

(what is a "tyre" on a car?)

Are you really that provincial?

Sure sounds like it!

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sullyfish6 wrote:

Cars don't get punctured.

Car riddled with punctures

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"tyre" is not common American English.

You two need to get off your high horses. No one in these boards needs to be ridiculed for asking a question.

Instead of educating, you chose to belittle.

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sullyfish6 wrote:

"tyre" is not common American English.

You two need to get off your high horses. No one in these boards needs to be ridiculed for asking a question.

Instead of educating, you chose to belittle.

I choose not to use "common American English", in common with many posters here.
So you need to get off your soap-box. Instead of being smart, you chose to play dumb.

I consider it's okay to say "My car has a puncture", because it's understood it's the tyre which is affected.

I'll have to walk down there, because my car has a puncture at the moment.

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the gomma on my bike has a puncture, but my bike isn't punctured, it's my gomma.

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"tyre" is not common American English.

So what? American English is NOT the only form of English in the world, or even the most important, and those who think either of those things deserve all of the ridicule which will rightly be piled upon them.

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sullyfish6 wrote:

"tyre" is not common American English.

You two need to get off your high horses. No one in these boards needs to be ridiculed for asking a question.

Instead of educating, you chose to belittle.

I suppose it's possible that someone could be unfamiliar with BrE vocab/spellings.

While no dialect of English is more important than another dialect in a qualitative sense, there's no doubt that AmE is the most important in terms of dominance.

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While no dialect of English is more important than another dialect in a qualitative sense, there's no doubt that AmE is the most important in terms of dominance.

Sorry, JTT, but that's bollocks. There's plenty of doubt where I live. Many ESL learners wish to learn the BrE variety.

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contrex wrote:

While no dialect of English is more important than another dialect in a qualitative sense, there's no doubt that AmE is the most important in terms of dominance.

Sorry, JTT, but that's bollocks. There's plenty of doubt where I live. Many ESL learners wish to learn the BrE variety.

I didn't say that BrE isn't a viable and well respected dialect of English, Contrex, but "many" ESL learners is hardly the test. AmE isn't the best because it's the biggest, it isn't the best at all, it's just one of many but no one can deny the weight that's behind it.

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I think because of Microsoft programmes like Words, whose spelling default is AmE, many people tend to confuse the correct spellings of the words. Eg, when a user checks spelling for errors, a lot of words which are correctly spelled in BrE are highlighted as wrongly spelled. The user will tend to think that s/he has spelled the words wrongly and select 'change' to 'rectify' the spellinhg mistakes. Hence they mistakenly are influenced by AmE versions.

I think American movies also play a part. To make matters worse, some words which were once AmE spellings, can be found in BrE dictionaries and they have become the preferred versions.

I hope my opinion doesn't generate more arguments.

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