Both sentences are good!Hello everyone, please help me.
Is it right to say: She used to wear long hair.
Or shouldtoI say: She used to have long hair.
That's EXACTLY my AE reaction.Welcome to the forums, ongap!
I'm with Gwan - the options, for me, would be "she used to have long hair" and "she used to wear her hair long".
It's a bit confusing to me that some sentences sound natural to some native speakers, but bizarre to some other native speakers. You could imagine how difficult it is for someone with English as a second language to understand such sentences."She used to wear long hair" sounds bizarre to me - like she hung it on her body or something...
I don't mind "She used to wear her hair long", on the other hand.
What I am saying about confusing is that people making comments at this forum may have based on their own knowledge, level and feeling. Every language has it's ambiguities. I would suggest that native speakers provide more inputs on general understanding of a saying, and in the meanwhile give warnings that it may be misunderstood by some listeners, and ways to eliminate such misunderstanding. "Follow a course or a teacher" is not the way to improve in this respect, as one teacher may give you more misleading.Of course, that is true.
The present examples are not about grammar rules, so much as about style and interpretation. Unfortunately, there are also disagreements about grammar.
The key is to work with what you yourself understand. Follow a course or a teacher, add to that what you work out in your own mind, and learn the rest by practice, listening and reading.
Perhaps what you can take from this specific discussion is that there is some disagreement about one phrase, but people seem to agree that the other options are okay. So the safest thing to do yourself would be to use the phrases everyone agrees on, but you also have that knowledge that you might hear "she wears long hair" from some people.What I am saying about confusing is that people making comments at this forum may have based on their own knowledge, level and feeling. Every language has it's ambiguities. I would suggest that native speakers provide more inputs on general understanding of a saying, and in the meanwhile give warnings that it may be misunderstood by some listeners, and ways to eliminate such misunderstanding. "Follow a course or a teacher" is not the way to improve in this respect, as one teacher may give you more misleading.
Maybe "She's keep her hair long"? I don't know. I also want to know.If a girl with short hair is no longer about to cut her hair so that she can have long hair, can I say that she is about to wear long hair/wear her hair long?
No. "About to do something" suggests the immediate future. It will be a long time before her hair is long. She is about to wear a hat. The hat is in her hand and she is going to put it on. Hair doesn't work like that.If a girl with short hair is no longer about to cut her hair so that she can have long hair, can I say that she is about to wear long hair/wear her hair long?