Is it important to see eye to eye with your friends?
As our friends we choose the people with whose we have a lot in common and we are on the same wavelength. But it doesn`t mean we`re agree with them in all the subjects. Important is, in what kind of discussions our opinions are different. If you`re arguing about the best football player of the year or about some book or film, it`s normal. If you prefer quite different ways of spending time or choose different places for holidays, you go to the all inclusive hotel and your best friend goes camping...etc. but in general your life rulles are the same - it`s also normal. But if you don`t see eye to eye with your friend in your vision of some moral standarts or in truly serious questions maybe you should think about why this person is my friend...
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Hi Anastasia! Thank you for submitting this notebook entry. Below is your text with my corrections. At the bottom, I have explained them in more detail for you. I hope this helps, if there is anything else, let me know!
Is it important to see eye to eye with your friends? Interesting subject! I also think it's very good that you used the expression 'seeing eye to eye', it shows that you're an advanced English speaker and you can understand figurative speech as well.
*Whom/whose. 'Whose' refers to possession, for example: "Whose book is that?" 'Whom' is the correct choice in this sentence. I added another 'with whom' between brackets, because the sentence may be easier to read if you repeat the object.
*In/on. The verb 'to agree' is used with 'on'.
*The/a/an/nothing. 'the' is used when you mean a specific thing. For example: 'Did you see the hotel at the end of the street?' If you don't mean a specific thing, you can use 'a/an', for example: 'My brother is a doctor' or 'I saw an elephant' and if you refer to multiple things that are not specific, you use nothing. In this sentence, you mean all subjects, so multiple things that are not specific.
*Indirect speech. In the last sentence, you give a person advice on what they should think about. You wan them to think: 'Why is this person my friend?' This is direct speech. In this sentence, however, you use indirect speech, so instead of 'my', you use 'your'. The person is not your friend, but your reader's friend.
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It's ok to be different and to have distinct points of view for trivial questions but as you grow older there comes a time when you need to restructure your relationships and goals. It's called mature. Personally, I lost a lot of friends because I felt trapped by his low vision of the world. For them everything in life was superficial, lacking in substance and I didn't want to be another X person. Fortunately, you can find new and better relations everywhere but also you need to work a lot with yourself, educate yourself, to be better, smarter, etc... although, at nightfall, everybody needs a good comrade to party hard. Seems to be a matter of convenience and weather.
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