It's just a different style of story-telling. You can use either one, as long as you're consistent. For example, do not say, "A horse walks into a bar, and the barman said, "why the long face?" "walks".... "said" are different tenses. This is a common mistake that even native speakers will make

By looking at the rest of the rest sentence. You have to base it on context. For example, look at this headline. http://financefeeds.com/breaking-news-worldpay-sanctioned-by-french-government-for-processing-payments-from-israeli-fraudsters-takes-banks-to-court/ You can tell that it means "crack down on" because Worldpay did something bad. It would make no sense for the French government to "approve" of fraudulent behavior.

Hi guys! Can you correct my writing please:)

We live in the a World where everyone tries to earn a lot of money. Some people think that only wealthy people are successful. I disagree with this point of view. It is possible to be a successful person successful without earning huge amounts of money. I have great examples to prove it.

The first reason is, when you love your job you are successful. You can hear a lot of stories about people who make more money, but it is a fact that most of them do not like their job. In On the other hand you can have a job that you love, make less money but still be successful. In my experience, I had a job in an accounting and I was successful. But I hated to woke waking up everyday and went going to a place that I hate. Finally, I changed my job and now I am earning less money but I am satisfied and successful at in this field.

The second reason is, people who are successful at their job, are unhappy in their private life most of the time.  successful people at job most of the time unhappy in their private life. Nowadays a job takes huge amount of time. You can not moderate your work time and family time. In my opinion success at with your family it is more important. Family includes people who care about you, support you, and make your life better and complete. For example, if you spent all the your time at your job and do did not care about family, finally family can your family might eventually leave you. If it that will happens, you can not continue to work anymore because you do not have people who inspire you.

In conclusion, success is does not depends on how much money you get. It depends on how do much you love a the job that you do and how you happy happy you are in your private life.

today

Today is Friday.  

The weather in Changsha is cold and rainy.

OR

Changsha is cold and rainy right now.

OR

It's cold and raining in Changsha right now.

... but I'm in a very good mood

I want to find a language exchange partner.

Hope that helps, Anna!

Either way is correct. Adding "the" will put a little more emphasis on the next word "curiosity." However, adding "the" will often make your sentence wrong / sound unusual if not used correctly. It depends on the previous sentence.

Hi Shellmy, great question! There is no plural form of "curiosity." "Curiosities" is not a real word in English. You cannot count curiosity. "1 curiosity" also does not make sense. So, "...their curiosity helps them to create and innovate." is correct. "Talent" is trickier, because there are two ways to use the word "talent." 1. Talent can mean "an ability." For example, "I have a special talent." "He has many talents." "My two talents are playing guitar and doing backflips." 2. Talent can also mean "skill level" or "ability level." When used this way, talent is never plural. (Same as curiosity). For example, "I have no talent." "He has so much talent." "I wish I had more talent." "He was born with talent." I don't fully understand you sentence but I think you're probably trying to use the 2nd version of talent, which cannot be plural. Hope that helps!

はじめまして

はじめまして, 私 の 名前 は和 円エンリクエ絵 です。