Interesting discoveries Last week, our French teacher gave us a task of doing a project on the history of our families. She said that we would be amazed by how interesting our discoveries would be, an

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Sofia Panina

Interesting discoveries Last week, our French teacher gave us a task of doing a project on the history of our families. She said that we would be amazed by how interesting our discoveries would be, and she was right. I asked my mum if she could tell me something about my ascendants. One of the things that surprised me the most was the fact that my great-great-grandfather was actually polish. Another interesting thing for me was that a number of wooden buildings in my town were built by my great-grandfather. I have seen one of those buildings before I even knew that it was him who built it.

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Interesting Discoveries Capitalize all the words in a title except particles like "of", "and", or "the".

Last week, our French teacher gave us a the task of doing a project on the history of our families. We use "the" when we can answer the question "which one?" // "Which task?" "The task of doing a family-history project." //since you can answer the question "which one?", you should use "the".// You could also say the sentence this way: "Last week, our French teacher asked us to research our family histories." She said that we would be amazed by how interesting our discoveries would be, and she was right.
I asked my mum if she could tell me something about my ascendants ancestors. The opposite of "descendants" SHOULD be "ascendants", but English isn't very logical, so we say "ancestors" instead. One of the things that surprised me the most was the fact that my great-great-grandfather was actually Polish. Another interesting thing for me thing that interested me was that a number of wooden buildings in my town were built by my great-grandfather. I have seen saw/ had seen one of those buildings before I even knew that it was him who built it. You can use either past or past perfect in this sentence, but not present perfect.

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Hi there, here are my corrections. That was pretty much perfect by the way! If you have any questions about it let me know

Interesting discoveries

Last week, our French teacher gave us a task of doing to do (just sounds not so long)a project on the history of our families. She said that we would be amazed by how interesting our discoveries would be, and she was right.
I asked my mum if she could tell me something about my ascendants ancestors (ascendants is quite rare). One of the things that surprised me the most was the fact that my great-great-grandfather was actually Polish. Another interesting thing for me was that a number of wooden buildings in my town were built by my great-grandfather. I have had seen(In this sentence, the main story is the fact that it was 'him who built it', the first bit of the sentence is going back further into the past from that, so that is why it is best to use past perfect. It is possible to use past perfect at the beginning of the sentence if it is going back from the main story of the sentence) one of those buildings before I even knew that it was him who built it.

Interesting discoveries

Last week, our French teacher gave us athe task of doing a project on the history of our families. She said that we would be amazed by how interesting our discoveries would be, and she was right.
I asked my mum if she could tell me something about my ascendantsancestors. One of the things that surprised me the most was the fact that my great-great-grandfather was actually polish. Another interesting thing for me was that a number of wooden buildings in my town were built by my great-grandfather. I havehad seen one of those the buildings before I even knew that it was him who built it.

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