Contracted form/help

Contracted form/help
Message from angrepa posted on 18-11-2012 at 15:59:08 (D | E | F)
Hello,

in exercise no. 95635 there is a sentence: "It´s a strange colour" .
They give as a correct answer
"It has a strange colour". I wrote "it is a strange colour".
Can my sentence be correct?
Thank you for your help.

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Edited by lucile83 on 20-11-2012 09:48

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Re: Contracted form/help from notrepere, posted on 18-11-2012 at 16:51:44 (D | E)
Hello

Yes, while I think either answer is OK, "it's" is usually a contraction of "it is" instead of "it has". A moderator will correct it soon.

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Re: Contracted form/help from may, posted on 20-11-2012 at 02:43:21 (D | E)
Hello,

It sounds strange either of them. I would say:
1. This is a strange colour or
2. This flower is beautiful. It has a strange color.

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Re: Contracted form/help from lucile83, posted on 20-11-2012 at 09:48:17 (D | E)
Hello,

Has is correct here.
If you read the exercise you'll see that the previous sentence is:
There's * a tortoise in the garden, ... (see the three dots?)
and the following sentence is about the tortoise that can't BE a strange colour but HAVE a strange colour.

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