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Media huge change Time flies, the world has changed dramatically over the past few decades. In the early '90s, my father purchased a black-and-white TV set without a remote control, what's more, I used to change the channel by my hand. At that time, the TV was unique and not all of the families owned it. The most interesting thing was we sat together to watch plenty of HK TV dramas. It seemed to be funny! Right? When I was growing up, I was getting lost in some fiction printed on paper, particularly romance novels. Afterwards, I went to college far away from home, I called my parents using public telephone, so that goes way back. Nowadays, everything is digital. There are many kinds of media in the modern world. Information is everywhere. Modern communications media has totally changed my life. I read on my smartphone, my tablet, my notebook and desktop computer. I can carry lots of books on one small device. Right now, I've got several things to read on my tablet: English fairy tales, English learning program, newspapers and magazines with healthy recipes, furthermore, I could write and post my texts on demand media, which I can access anytime, anywhere. How convenient! What an amazing world! No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but we each have the power to control how we handle today. Cherish the present one.

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(Continuing from previous correction post)

All the sentences make perfect sense.

 

"At the time" is a set phrase. Example sentences: 1) At the time, I was listening to music so I couldn't hear the phone ring.  2) At the time, I was eating dinner so my mum didn't let me leave the dinner table. 3) I was driving at the time so I was not able to turn around and look.

 

"When I was growing up, I used to..." The phrase, "When I was growing up" should be followed with the modal verb "used to" because it talks about reapeated actions that happened in the past but no longer happen any more.  Other example of how to use "used to" are: 1) I used to make bread by hand but now I just buy it from the supermarket.  2) I used to have to go round to my friend's house in order to talk to him but now I just use the internet. 3) I used to drink a lot of coffee but now I don't drink it because my doctor advised me not to.

 

"Novel": This is 'fiction on paper', so to speak.

 

"using a public telephone": After the verb 'to use' when following it with a noun (e.g. telephone), you always need to use a definite or indefinite article or a possessive pronoun. For example: 1) I like to use the bus to go to work.  2) I use a mobile phone to talk to my parents. 3) I use my pencil case to keep my pens organised.

 

"I can write". I changed it to "can" from "could" because you're talking more in the present at this point.  When talking about an ability in the present, use the word "can". If you're talking about an ability in the past, use "could". For example: 1) I can speak English. 2) Two years, I could speak English 3) I can drive a manual car now. 4) Last year, I could only drive an automatic car.

 

The bits in green are more suggested changes to make it flow more/sound more English.

 

Hope these corrections help you!

Keep up the good work, your English level is very high and there is no problem with misunderstandings, just need to work on making it sound more like a native speaker now.

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Media huge change Huge Change in the Media

Time flies, and the world has changed dramatically over the past few decades. In the early '90s, my father purchased a black-and-white TV set without a remote control; what's more, I used to change the channel by with my hand. At that time, the TV was unique and not all of the families owned it one. The most interesting thing was when we sat together to watch plenty of HK TV dramas. It seemed to be funny! Right? When I was growing up, I was getting lost in some fiction printed on paper, particularly romance novels. Afterwards, I went to college far away from home, and I called my parents using public telephone, so that goes way back.

Nowadays, everything is digital. There are many kinds of media in the modern world. Information is everywhere. Modern communications media has totally changed my life. I read on my smartphone, my tablet, my notebook and desktop computer. I can carry lots of books on one small device. Right now, I've got I have several things to read on my tablet: English fairy tales, English learning program, newspapers and magazines with healthy recipes. Furthermore, I could write and post my texts on demand media We don't have this term in English, so I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe you could just say post texts online, which I can access anytime, anywhere. How convenient!

What an amazing world! No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but we each have the power to control how we handle today. Cherish the present one.


Great job! You're right, media really has changed in a very short time. My only tips are to pay attention to adding words like "and" in your sentences to connect them, which we use much more than in Chinese. 

Also, we do say "I've got" to mean "I have" often, but it's a little more oral, and sounded a little awkward in this notebook entry. But there was no problem grammatically! 

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Media's *1 huge change

Time flies, the world has changed dramatically over the past few decades. In the early '90s, my father purchased a black-and-white TV set without a remote control, what's more, I used to change the channel by my hand*2. At the time, owning a TV was unique and not every family had one. The most interesting thing was when we sat together to watch plenty of HK TV dramas. They were very/quite funny, right? When I was growing up, I used to getting lost in a novel, particularly romance novels. Afterwards, I went to college far away from home, I called my parents using a public telephone, so that goes way back.

Nowadays, everything is digital. There are many kinds of different forms of media in the modern world. Information is everywhere. Modern communications media has totally changed my life. I read on my smartphone, my tablet, my notebook and desktop computer. I can carry lots of books on one small device. Right now, I've got several things to read on my tablet: English fairy tales, English learning programmes, newspapers and magazines with healthy recipes.  Furthermore, I can write and post my texts on demand media, which I can access anytime, anywhere. How convenient!

What an amazing world we live in! No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but we each have the power to control how we handle live today. Cherish the present one.

 

*1 'Media' is a noun and so is 'change' therefore, becuause it is the change that media has undergone, the noun 'media' possesses that 'huge change' therefore you need to use the possessive " 's " here.

*2 The set phrase 'by hand' means something that is done using your hands. There is no need for the possessive pronoun (my, your, his/she/its etc.) For example, I made bread by hand. I wrote this essay by hand.  I used to have to change the television channel by hand. A

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Hi, Michael. Thanks for your great humorous comments on my post, which boost my confidence to learn English continuously. Thanks again. Have a nice day. Keep in touch.
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Kelly, for being in China, your writing is actually pretty good. I read the whole thing and could actually relate but from a different decade - the 1960's and 1970's. There really were only a couple of mistakes to the average english american reader. " It seemed to be funny! Right? " this small saying has kind of a chinenglish sound to it. In chinese that is exactly how a person would say that. In america, it would probably be something like "Looking back it seems pretty funny though. ". Asking the reader "Right ? " isn't really used. Unless maybe if you phrased it like " am i right ? " . Anyway, your still a good writer keep up the practice !

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