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    How to report a Shipping Claim

    I am writing you regarding <s>to</s> the shipment with number 3321K.Not only we received it one day late but also there was damage inside the package. Some pieces arrived broken and other squashed.

    When it arrived at my factory, there was no damage to the packaging and the pallet seemed to be in a good condition - that´s why we signed the receipt.

    I am not sure if it was damaged during transit or at transport company store.

    We have just placed a new order for the damaged materials . As the pieces are so heavy and they cannot be sent by air freight ,we would need you to hire a vehicle and send them to Spain directly and as soon as possible.

    Please let us know if there is any problem sending them via direct transport to Spain.

    Thank you in advance
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    May 17, 2020
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    It doesn't fit in that context. It would normally be for example: "The people have no freedom of expression, they are voiceless" In other words, they have no voice, not a bad voice.
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    May 13, 2020
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    Pls correct it! :)

    City tours, but not as you know them

    A different kind of tourism appears to be helping people to understand how others live. It is often called a "slum tour". These tours involve trips to the poorest areas of the cities and they seem to gain traction all over the world as many tourists attend. Visitors who go on such a tour could learn about the challenges that people who live there face, as well as discover the positive elements that exist, such as creativity and innovation. Some tour guides tend to employ people from the settlements so the community can benefit, and as people become more aware of the life in these communities, they might will help more. This tourism is by no means without controversy however - it is believed to exploit residents of the settlement. Tourists are said <s>to not being interested</s> not to be interested in helping residents but just might want to satisfy a curiosity, and that only the tour guides benefit

    All good, just some subtle points

    You have to have however in the first part of the sentence, if it's in the second it's like you're contradicting the thing you've just said.

    It's always said to not + infinitive

    Only - just sounds a more natural order. What you said still makes sense.

    Hope that helps
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    May 7, 2020
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    What do we say? (Who is for people) We can say both and they mean the same thing.
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    May 6, 2020
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    Tenants and landlords

    Letting / renting out a spare flat is a widespread way of earning in my country. For instance, my parents have three flats housing tenants. I think this rent is profitable but everything's dependent on the situation, by inference, on the tenant and the landlord. There are pretty subtle matters such as unfixed house utensils or substandard furniture and bathroom facilities. Some tenants may fix it themselves, some may live and dispense with level-a home comforts, some may demand that a landlord fixes everything which causes troubles. It's the same thing with landlords. He or she may claim nothing from tenants, may prohibit smoking on the premises, may repair things, may insist on leaving everything as it is. My parents do everything to keep their flats spick and span. Yet every now and again, they complain about the need to fix any broken thing there, because it's been quite a while since flats have been repaired. I reckon if a flat is old it's more profitable to sell it. But if you've got children the houses /flats that are let may become a steady source of income for the following generations.
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    May 4, 2020
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    I am not a hero(please help me to correct this essay)

    <font style="background-color: yellow;">I have been slept by one of my comfortableregion of my brain for ages  </font>.I <strike>have</strike> realised that I missed many things when I woke up.And I for one don,t want to see any my brothers and sisters lose their precious things any more.How could I live without any anxiety when my family need me to help them out?Maybe I,m not the one who was expected to be a hero for my family ,but I can,t just leave them alone<font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> .If I can do like that ,there must be no regrets for being a hero.
    </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> For myself:</font>
    sincerely :AKBAR


    These two sentences do not make sense, maybe you could try to rephrase them.

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    July 18, 2016
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    One mountain called "La Mola"

    I'm sitting here, in my garden staring at this beautiful mountain! It's only 1020 metres high, and it's in a natural Park called Sant Llorenç del Munt, in Catalonia. La Mola has lovely places where you can go without much effort. At the top of the mountain there is a restaurant! I have been there a lot of times. I usually have a walk around discovering new paths. People in summer walk up at night and have dinner at the restaurant or in the picnic area. The view is incredible, you can see Barcelona, and sometimes the sea. I love walking around this park with my dog!

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    August 19, 2015
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    St. Petersburg

     

    It’s been a while since I stopped writing here. The reason is my recent trip to St. Petersburg. It was my first visit to St. Petersburg in my life and it turned out to be wonderful! I’m going to share some thoughts and impressions about my journey with you. I’d like to begin with description of my way of travelling. Firstly, I prefer to travel alone, without any tourist group or company. It’s not a problem nowadays to get any information about any object you like. Also you can take as much time as you want to enjoy the interesting place. Secondly, I like walking. If it’s a possible to get to some sights without using transport, I seize this the opportunity with great pleasure. On my way to the right place I can (ok but could is better here )come across something much more interesting. Also it’s the best way to get to know the city better, in my opinion. So I was walking around the Petersburg and visiting museums, palaces, parks, squares and other interesting places the whole last week. Of course, it’s impossible to visit everything interesting in this city, but I managed to get to every place (no comma here) I’d intended, and even more. I’ve been I went to Hermitage, Peter and Paul Fortress, Petergof, Tsarskoye selo, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral and some other not so well-known places. To be honest, some of the most popular places disappointed me a lot. Not only because of huge queues and crowds of people, but because of its uninformative of the lack of information / they were uniformative. I’m going to describe some of them in my following piece of writing. At the same time I was absolutely fascinated by some not popular or internationally known places like Lyceum Museum, where Alexander Pushkin (great Russian poet) had been studying, or The Apartment Museum of Alexander Pushkin, where he had died. Actually I got much more interested in his life and work after my journey. In conclusion, I’d like to say that I think everyone can find something in St. Petersburg of his own interests to interest them though be it were art, music, history, religion, etc. It seems to me that you could just walk in there and enjoy the appearances of the buildings, because any one of them has some interesting history or architectural feature.

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    August 19, 2015
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    Hometown.

    It hasn't been long since I last left my hometown last time. However, living with Mum and Dad, I seldom come go back. But  with the feeling of intimate familiarity, every time when I'm back I always feel free and safe. The feeling I can't get in Shenzhen or other places, although I nearly grew up in Shenzhen. It's Is it that the sense of belonging? Cyan mountain, green water, cool air, bule sky.

     

    I would say:

     

    "It hasn't been long since I last left my hometown although living with Mum and Dad I seldom go back. However, with a feeling of familiarity, every time I'm back I always feel free and safe."

     

    'I nearly grew up in Shenzhen' - do you mean ' I grew up nearby to Shenzhen' or 'I spent alot of time in Shenzhen when I was growing up' 

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    August 19, 2015
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