You somehow doesn't manage your scores well enough, so you can't move on to the next grade/term/year of study, and you have to spend another grade/term/year to achieve better scores (and that costs you time and money wastefully). So you ????
staying in same grade at school [which verb?]
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Thank for your answer
Fumiko:
I totally agree with Copyright's answer, but I would like to give you another example of how we might say it, using a specific grade:
"I flunked/failed 9th grade, so I have to take it over."
Keep in mind this is a less formal construction, but a valid one.
I totally agree with Copyright's answer, but I would like to give you another example of how we might say it, using a specific grade:
"I flunked/failed 9th grade, so I have to take it over."
Keep in mind this is a less formal construction, but a valid one.
That is pure AE! There is nothing wrong with that but it would not work in BE - is it AE that you want Fumiko Take?
Both are welcome. Thanks. Wow, it's taken nearly 2 days for this thread to get some other attention.
You submitted the question about 7 hours before natkretep posted his answer, and other people had already responded before he did.