Quote:
Quote Oden  Hi Sue,
Is my use of the term fine too? |
No.
Fine is only used in affirmative sentences, for example :
How are you?
I'm fine.But not :
*I'm not fine / *Are you fine? (The asterisk means it's not correct.)
So, a conversation might go :
Is that OK?
Yes, that's fine or
No, it's not OK
with
OK being used instead of
fine in interrogative/negative contexts.
So your use of
fine was wrong because you used it in an interrogative.
This is what is called
colligation - the tendency for a word to occur, or be restricted to, specific grammatical contexts. It happens quite a lot and is one of the things that makes language learning soooo difficult.