Summer School Holidays (in Italy)
Having children, in Italy, during summer time it's not so easy! Are you wondering why?
It's simple: summer holiday are a nightmare for every Italian working mom (and dad).
The problem is that summer holidays are really very long (at least in Italy).
My oldest son (8 years old - attending elementary school) stays at home almost 3 months (from June 10th to September 15th). My 4 years old daughter is on holiday from the first day of July!
Me and my husband work all day; we have only two-three holidays' weeks so we have to find a way to let our children spend their free-time. They have attended a summer camp for three weeks (but they are very expensive) and (lucky us!) have spent some time with their grandparents in their countryside house.
Furthermore my son doesn't want to do his homework and he's forgetting everything he learnt at school!
[I posted the same text in the "discussion" section of the site but nobody answered ... So I copy it here, maybe someone would correct my mistakes]
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Summer School Holidays (in Italy)
To make the corrections very simple:
Having children in Italy during the summer time it's not so easy! Are you wondering why?It's simple: summer holidays are a nightmare for every Italian working mom (and dad). (In North America we say summer vacation for school children)
The problem is that summer holidays are really very long (at least in Italy).
My oldest son (8 years old - attending elementary school) stays at home almost 3 months (from June 10th to September 15th). My 4 year old daughter is on holiday from the first day of July!
My husband and I work all day; we have only two-three holiday weeks so we have to find a way to let our children spend their free-time. They have attended a summer camp for three weeks (but they are very expensive) and (lucky us!) have spent some time with their grandparents in their countryside house.
Furthermore, my son doesn't want to do his homework and he's forgetting everything he learned at school!
[I posted the same text in the "discussion" section of the site but nobody answered ... So I copy it here, maybe someone would correct my mistakes]
******The only biggest grammatical mistake you made is never start your sentence with the word ME.
To check yourself if you erase "my husband" from the sentence It would be "I work all day" and that is correct. If you used the word ME ...then it would read: "Me work all day" and you know that is incorrect.
Nice job! Keep up the good work. All other corrections are very small.
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Summer School Holidays (in Italy)
Having children, in Italy, during summer time it's not so easy! Are you wondering why?It's simple: summer holiday are a nightmare for every Italian working mom (and dad).
The problem is that summer holidays are really very long (at least in Italy).
My oldest son (8 years old - attending elementary school) stays at home almost 3 months (from June 10th to September 15th). My 4 years old daughter is on holiday from the first day of July!
Me and my husband work all day; we have only two-three holidays' weeks so we have to find a way to let our children spend their free-time. They have attended a summer camp for three weeks (but they are very expensive) and (lucky us!) have spent some time with their grandparents in their countryside house.
Furthermore my son doesn't want to do his homework and he's forgetting everything he learnt at school!
[I posted the same text in the "discussion" section of the site but nobody answered ... So I copy it here, maybe someone would correct my mistakes]
I would be delighted to do so. There are very few mistakes here, and one I'm not even sure was a mistake so much as a slip of the fingers on the keyboard.
1)This is almost right, but it should be 'holidays are'. From the quality of the rest of your work I assume this is a typo.
2) The actual rules that make this a mistake are tricky, but you can structure his sentence one of two ways. Either your 'daughter is two years old', or she is your 'two-year-old daughter'. The rules themselves are complicated and I'll try to explain them to you if you like, but that's one of the few cases you're likely to have to worry about it.
3) This one is simple, holiday can be both a noun and a verb, so it can either be a thing, or it can be used to describe a thing. In this case as it is placed immediately before the word 'week', it is an adjective and so doesn't not need the plural '-s' on the end of it. The plural '-s' only needs to go on the word 'week-s'
I hope that was helpful, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
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