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Dining snails Well, now are the nine o'clock and my family and me are going to dinner out. Surely first option will be snails soup, or how we say "caracolitos". Other thing, there is a photo.

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Well, now are the it is (1) nine o'clock and my family and me I (2) are going out to dinner out. (3) Surely the (4) first option will be snails soup, or how we say "caracolitos," as we say (5). Other thing, Also, there (6) is a photo. 

 

1.  To say the time in English, use "it is":

It is five o'clock.

It is midday.

It is nighttime. 

It is 8:30PM.

 

2.  Common mistake, even for natives. Here's a trick. Cover up the other part of the subject:

My family and me are going out to dinner.

-> Me are going out to dinner. 

(Ignore the verb while doing this trick.)

You wouldn't say that, would you? You'd say instead:

I am going out to dinner. 

-> My family and I are going out to dinner.

Remember: "I" is the subject; "me" is the object of a verb or preposition. 


3. The phrase is "going out":

My family and I are going out.

My family and I are going out to dinner.

My family and I are going out to a bar.

My family and I are going out to the bowling alley. 

 

4.  Missing article. 

 

5.  I see "how we say" a lot with learners of English. I think it's a direct translation of a phrase in Spanish. In your sentence, though, it's "as we say." However, you can also say, "That's how we say it!" 

 

6. "There" usually implies something further away, but since the photo is in the post, it makes more sense to say "here."

 

Without all of the corrections:

Well, now it is nine o'clock and my family and I are going out to dinner. Surely the first option will be snail soup, or "caracolitos," as we say. Also, here is a photo.

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