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Hi, could you check these sentences, please? 1) You must be Steve? 2) if you had made the reservation beforehand, we wouldn't need to overpay. 3) All the flights were postponed with regard to storm that started yesterday. 4) Some of the students get the hang of the school subjects easily while the other need to make big efforts to achieve the same level. 5) There were quite a few options in which area I can start my professional career. But i kept on going back and forth and couldn't make my mind.

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1) You must be Steve? Fine. Also as Rodrigo suggests is fine. 2) If you had made the reservation beforehand, we wouldn't need to overpay. - "overpay" usually means pay more than they ask, rather than more than usual, which is implied. If you had made the reservation beforehand, we wouldn't need to pay escess now. 3) All the flights were postponed with regard to storm that started yesterday. "the storm", or "a storm", if they don't know about the storm. Simpler is ... yesterday's storm ... Wouldn't naturally use "with regard" this way. because of, as a consequence of, due to 4) Some of the students get the hang of the school subjects easily while the others need to make big efforts to achieve the same level. others <-- plural "make a big effort", slightly more natural. Each makes an effort. "make an effort" is standard. "the school subjects" is unusual unless you are reffering to some specific ones. Otherwise just "the hang of school subjects" 5) There were quite a few options in which area I can start my professional career. But i kept on going back and forth and couldn't make my mind. "in which" gives trouble here. Tense inconsistent. "back and forth" is usually used for two. make up your mind. - make up one's mind, a phrasal verb 5) There were quite a few options of area in which I could have started my professional career. But I kept changing and couldn't make up my mind. Assuming you started and changed. Consider 5) There were quite a few areas in which I could have started my professional career, but I kept changing my mind. You ALWAYS get a capital for your personal pronoun "I".:)
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1) You must be Steve, RIGHT? 2) if you had made the reservation beforehand, we wouldn't need to overpay. 3) All the flights were postponed with regard to THE storm that started yesterday. 4) Some of the students get the hang of - school - easily while the other need to make big efforts to achieve the same level. 5) There were quite a few options WHERE I COULD'VE STARTED my professional career. But i kept on going back and forth and I couldn't make UP my mind. ANSWER THIS QUESTION Great effort ! The mistakes were minimum. in the last sentence, because of the second part of it that is written in past tense, I corrected the first part. Keep on the good work! Best of luck! Rodrigo You can check out my profile and I can help you improve your English.

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