How can I improve my writing skill?
I want to write some good sentences when I use English.
The problem is writing is difficult even in my language so when I ask native speaker about my writing , sometimes they say there is no error my grammar and vocabulary. What I want is using better writing to use good expression.
I can just write anything but I want to write good sentences which I don't know. Using new vocabulary but not too much difficult one. I want to write simple and precise but make people to understand my writing well.
Maybe I should've learnt how to write a essay or a journey.
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How can I improve my writing skills?
I want to write some good sentences when I use English.The problem is that writing is difficult even in my language, so when I ask native speakers about my writing, , sometimes they say there are no errors my grammar and vocabulary. What I want is to use better writing to better express myself in English (I think).
I could just write things as best I can, but I want to write better sentences than I already know how to. I would like to use new vocabulary that is not too much difficult one. I want to write simply and precisely, and to make people to understand my writing well.
Maybe I should have learnt* how to write essays or journals.
* "Writing skill" is acceptable here, but more common usage is "writing skills" or "skill at writing."
* "Some" is implied by "good sentences."
* Punctuation comes before a space.
* While "is no error" means the same as "are no errors," the plural is the more common usage.
* Another more common usage.
* Since "simple" and "precise" are modifying the verb "to write," they need to be in their adverbial forms.
* Writing simply and precisely and making people understand your writing well are ideas that coordinate more than they contrast, so "and" is more appropriate here than "but."
* What do you want to do? You "want... ...to make people to understand my writing well." How will you know if you've succeeded? You will see that "people understand" your writing well. (Let me know if this isn't clear enough.)
* This would be commonly expressed as "should've" in all but very formal speech, but is almost always expressed as "should have" when written down. (The exception is when the writer wishes to deliberately express great informality.)
* My understanding is that "learnt" is used in British English, but "learned" is strongly preferred for the past and past particle in American English.
* This would commonly be expressed in the plural.
Please let me know if I can make something clearer, or help more in some other way.
"...writing is difficult even in my language so when I ask native speakers about my writing , sometimes they say there is no error my grammar and vocabulary"
I'm not sure what you mean here - could you explain this a little more?
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How can I improve my writing skills?
I want to write good sentences in English.The problem is that writing is difficult even in my language so when I ask a native speaker about my writing , sometimes they say there is no error in my grammar and vocabulary. What I want is to use better phrases.
I can just write anything but I want to write good sentences which I don't know, using new vocabulary which isn't too difficult. I want to write simple and precise but make people understand my writing well.
Maybe I should've learnt how to write a essay or a journey.
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On quotes within text:
almost all American style guides call for double quotes when using quotations within text, e.g., "practice makes perfect" (this seems to be different, and more complicated, for British English). However, a great deal of current usage in the US, especially on the internet, uses single quotes for short quotations of just a few words, e.g., 'practice makes perfect.' This may be the sort of fluidity that will lead to a change in the expected style, or maybe everyone will eventually go back to the old way of using double quotes. In the meantime, it's something worth being aware of.
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Correction for Tin:
I also want to improve my writing skills *as* you are doing right now. I have *asked* some of my friends who *are* fluent in English about this topic*,* (or use a period and start a new sentence) and they *advised me* (or simply "told me," or "suggested") that I should read more in English to get *a better knowledge of* sentence structure as well as ( "to increase my vocabulary," or "an increased vocabulary"). They also emphasized that 'practice makes perfect*,*' so *I* need to write as much as possible, *and* then get someone to correct it.
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Olive and Tin -
Tin's friend gave good advice - even if that advice won't alway be easy to follow. :) You might also look into vocabulary building exercises for native speakers, like the online dictionaries that will email you every day with a "vocabulary word of the day."
Both of you are at the level where you're beginning to exceed the science of language learning and enter into the art of verbal expression. (For which, Congratulations! That is a supreme accomplishment, well beyond what I even hope for in a second language.)
To illustrate that idea, this sentence is grammatically correct, in accord with common usage, and has no stylistic problems:
"Rain fell from the sky."
But this sentence, while giving you only slightly more information, paints a much more vivid picture:
"Bitterly cold raindrops plummeted down from the sodden gray clouds."
To do this sort of "picture-painting", you need good language mechanics, which you both already have for the most part, and the wide vocabulary and grasp of style already mentioned. Also, the better you can create this sort of imagery in your first language, the better you will be able to create it in a second language.
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