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A disaster happened while I was starting an Italki discussion
A few days ago I started a discussion named "What's your favorite Latin-American country?" since I was curious about it. However this (that) is not the point of this entry. I want to tell you what was happening while I was doing that.
It happened last Sunday about twenty-two o'clock. My parents went to bed early since my mother had to wake up at 2am to travel. My sister went to bed early as well because she had school (the) next day. And the only person awake in the house was me! I closed my bedroom's door and I turned my music on. Two hours later, I ended up my discussion and I decided going to the bathroom..brushing my teeth and finally going to bed(<-- to go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and finally go to bed). Once I was done I went to bed. I was very con(m)fortable. (I was) Just about to sleep...and (when) the telephone rang! I ran to answer (it) and I got the bad news.
How to explain this convoluted happening(stance)...well, resuming the series of unfortunate incidents (events) that caused this disfortune; the parking basement of the residential compound where I live, flooded for unknown reasons. Therefore, the water turned our cars into useless pieces of tin late (tin late??). The water level was 1,50m, so we couldn't see the cars. But that's not all. If it were (wasn't) not enough, the lights went out (too).
The funniest part of the story is when my neighbors noticed the basement (had) started to flood, they came to our home to inform us, but the only person awake was too busy listening to music and discussing trivial matters.
Thanks in advance for reading and correcting this text!0 votedMarch 7, 20141My School
Our school lies in the south of Shanghai. It has a long history.
There are more than 20,000 students in our school. The four-storey building is our classroom building. There is a school hall, a library, a music room, a language lab, computer rooms and so on. In front of the building, there is a fountain and a garden. The playground is on the right of library. There is also a dormitory building and a canteen (cafeteria? Like place where you eat food?).
Our school is big and beautiful. We all enjoy our school life here very much.0 votedMarch 6, 20140- 'it rains' is the present tense, like 'When it rains, I use an umbrella'. 'it should rain' is when a person already knows it will rain, but there's still a small chance it won't. 'it will rain' means it definitely will rain. In this case, all of your sentences mean almost the same thing because of the 'in case' part. The first one sounds normal, the second more formal, the third a little awkward but more like the first. Sorry if this is confusing! I'm still getting used to explaining things.0 votedMarch 6, 20141
- 'in' is usually used when something is contained within something else, like "The fish is swimming in the water." 'on' is when something is put above something else (if that makes sense), like "The plates go on the table." The plates are just on the surface of the table, not inside of the table. 'at' is used to describe location, like "I'll be at the park" but can also be used for time, like "I'll be there at 12:00." Entiende mi explicación? Yo sabe un poco de español, entonces puedo tratar a Usted.0 votedMarch 5, 20141
