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Venezuela flagIsaías Chango ✓
Venezuelan flag Hello everyone, Today, I want to talk about my country. Specifically, about my flag. My flag has three colours; yellow, blue and red. Yellow symbolizes the natural wealths from my country like gold; blue symbolizes our seas in the Caribean; and red represents the spilled blood for our national heros from the independence. In addition, venezuelan flag has eight starts which seven of them represents seven antique provinces. The other one was added by Chávez. Here you have a picture where you can see our current situation and a harmed but beatiful flag. Thanks for correcting me.

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Venezuelan flag

Hello everyone,

Today, I want to talk about my country -- specifically about my flag.

My flag has three colours: yellow, blue and red.

Yellow symbolizes the natural wealth (Wealth is an uncountable noun. Therefore, there is no "wealths".)  from my country such as gold; blue symbolizes our seas in the Caribbean; and red represents the spilled blood for of (We use the preposition "of" to indicate association. In this case, the blood is part of your national heroes) our national heroes for our independence. ("for" is used here to indicate a purpose. The reason for the spilled blood is to secure your country's independence.)

In addition, the Venezuelan flag (We use "the" to refer to proper nouns. Pronoun nouns refer to specific nouns. In your sentence, the flag represents a specific country -- Venezuela. "Venezuelan" is an example of a proper adjective because it refers to specific citizens from a specific country. Proper nouns and proper adjectives start with a capital letter.) has eight stars of which (The phrase "of which" is used as a genitive relative pronoun. Genitive means a noun belonging to another noun. The relative pronoun is the word "which". In your sentence, seven of the stars "belong" to the entire series of eight stars.)   seven of them represents  (Subject-verb agreement: You mentioned seven stars (plural nouns) which should be paired with a plural verb (represent).)seven original provinces. The other last one was added by Chávez.

Here you have is a picture where you can see our current situation and a harmed tattered but beautiful flag. (When a piece of cloth is torn and in bad condition, we can use the word "tattered". "Harmed" is an adjective to describe someone who is in danger and may sustain bodily injury.)

Hi Isaias, 

I have tried to explain as thoroughly as I can. I hope this helps you.

I like your flag; it looks very dignified.

Cheers, 
Lance

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Venezuelan flag

Hello everyone,


Today, I want to talk about my country; specifically, about my flag.

My flag has three colours; yellow, blue and red.

Yellow symbolizes the natural wealths from my country, like such as (<--"Such as" sounds better than "like" here.) gold; blue symbolizes our seas in the Caribbean; and red represents the spilled blood for of our national heroes from the fight for independence.

In addition, the Venezuelan flag has eight stars, which seven of them which represents seven antique original provinces. The other one was added by Hugo Chávez.

Here you we have a picture where you we can see our current situation and a harmed but beautiful flag.

Thanks for correcting me.

¡Buen trabajo, Isaias! Your English is strong. Please let me know if you have any questions. ¡Saludos! =)

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