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Here are my corrections to your sentences. I hope this is helpful, let me know if you have any questions about them!
Medical scientists have discovered (for medical discoveries we usually use 'have' - present perfect tense - when they are new discoveries which are being reported. For old discoveries we use normal past tense. 'Isaac Newton discovered gravity. Also 'discovered' is better than 'found out'. 'Found out is better for less important things or non academic/scientific things) found out that girls who are (comes from 'be physically active')physically active when they are teenagers generally live longer (this is the preferred way to say this phrase in my opinion. I have read many articles about health and living longer, and they all seem to prefer this phrase). extend their life span. The research was conducted on seventy five thousand women aged from forty to seventy. It was discovered that those girls who were doing a lot of exercises ('exercises' in plural talks about individual exercises, such as push-ups or squats. If you are talking about any physical activity in general, we just say 'exercise')during their adolescence suffered less from life threatening diseases such as cancer and a heart stroke. heart disease. (you may also want to say strokes here, heart disease and strokes are two different health problems)Even a short exercise of 15 minutes has a great and positive effect on their health.
0 votedMay 18, 20170Hi there! Here are my corrections to your text. I hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions about them!
Sweetly ('sweetly' is an adverb with describes 'how' you do something, e.g. 'He smiled sweetly'. Here you need to use sweet as an adjective to describe the taste of the cherries)cherries
Today we drove to Beizhai village to pick cherries with my elder sister and cute (adjectives of quality or opinion usually come before adjectives of size) little cute nephew. (always a space after a full-stop)What I have to say is that the way road / path to the top of the hill was (better to use the past tense here because your story is in the past) is so steep, (always a space after a comma)and many cars streamed past us. came in stream.
Excitedly The view from (must be 'view from' because you are looking away from the hill. If you are looking at the hill you would say 'view of the hill')of the hill was so beautiful, which was very exciting, and we were so lucky to breathe in the fresh air far away from the city! (always a space after an exclamation mark)So there's no reason to refuse the gift of nature, right?0 votedMay 14, 20171Hi there, here are my corrections to your writing. I hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions about them!
A particularly officious custom officer suspects(must be past tense because it is a story) suspected that the ('the' writer if we already know who the writer is)writer was trying to smuggle something through customs(we don't really use the word 'smuggler' as a noun anymore because it sounds quite old-fashioned. We prefer to use the verb 'smuggle' in some form) to be a smuggler unless he could and wanted to unlock his suitcasea to check it.for checking. With While ('while' is used to talk about something that happened during another continuing action)carefully searching the case, the ('the' officer because it is a noun and it needs something before it 'a'/'the'/'his'/'her' etc. 'The' is the one we need because we know who the officer is)officer spotted a tiny bottle, and with delight a face brimming with delight and he sarcastically asked the writer is that a if it was a bottle of perfume. (always a space after a full-stop)Although The writer explained that is this was his hair gel which he had made by himself, but the officer didn't believe that, and so he tried to smell the bottle with writer's permission. Finally, (always a space after a comma)he got the truth answer realized that the writer was telling the truth, and he let the writer him pass through.
0 votedMay 10, 20173Hi there, here are my corrections to your writing. I hope this is useful, let me know if you have any questions!
The writing is really good, but the next level is to start joining sentences together to help the writing flow better. A good way to join some sentences together is to use some phrases I have used in the corrections:
Diary, May 7th Sunday May 7th
I got up at 9 am and (joins two short sentences to help it flow)I slept well. (always a space after a full-stop) My husband made breakfast. His cooking is so good, (joins two short sentences to help it flow)and after breakfast (no comma needed) he made me coffee, which he really likes (joins two short sentences to help it flow)He likes coffee. I felt unwell around noon, so I (joins two short sentences to help it flow)went to bed again. (always a space after a full-stop) I have slept a lot today so I feel much better.In the evening (no comma needed) I went to shopping and then (joins two short sentences to help it flow)I made dinner. I made beef and burdock dishes and potato dishes, which (joins two short sentences to help it flow).They were easy to make and also tasty. I put the pictures of the dishes on Instagram. After I finished taking took a bath before doing(joins two short sentences to help it flow)I did 100 sit-ups. I am going to sleep soon.
0 votedMay 7, 20171Hi There! Here are my corrections and some suggestions on how to phrase things differently, let me know if you have any questions about them!
Toxic Parents
I am reading a book called (you can add this if it is the first time that your readers have been introduced to the book)'Toxic Parents' and (maybe better to join the two sentences together here to make it flow better) the contents have (present perfect is best here because you are still reading the book. It changes to past simple tense when you finish reading it)shocked me. Did my parents see me in a negative light? give me negative judgment? Did the way in which my family was set up affect logistic effect my life? Have I been trapped in the education of my parentsby the way my parents have brought me up / by my parents' propaganda (this alternative is a lot stronger)? When we don't know what we should(switch to normal word order after 'we don't know what..') we do, how can we figure out what to can we do?0 votedMarch 8, 20172Hi there! Here are my corrections, let me know if you have any questions about them!
Today I ('I' is always a capital letter even in informal writing. Some people use a small I when writing informally, but it would still be considered incorrect)saw a video clip on Youtube which was recorded 2 years ago . Dr. Han, a Korean roboticist, explained that after the ('the' because people know about it)Fukushima nuclear accident, people realized that the development of humanoid robots was futile in reality because robots couldn't even go up the ladders to repair a nuclear generating station. People needed to put themselves in danger to get it fixed, one of them was exposed to radioactive rays which proved fatal / and he died as a result. it caused him to death. America's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) came up with an idea of holding the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). They set up some missions for the challenge, robots had to where robots should drive cars, open doors, go up the ladders and use tools to solve problems spontaneously in a catastrophic situation. Dr. Han had an interview on TV before they had the finals. They started with over 200 teams from all over the world and ranked finished 9th in the first round. While I was writing this, I started to wonder who won what the result of the challenge. I found out that the other team from Korea won the first prize and it got gave me goosebumps :0. I had (past perfect because this happened before you found out that a Korean team won. You are going further back into the past)expected the Japanese team to win the competitionmust have won this game. Anyway, Robots with advanced technology will keep us from doing the tasks that can spare humans from carrying out tasks that could possibly prove fatal, possibly take our life though there are pros and cons in to consider with this issue. Some worry that robots will take our jobs, but (we don't usually start sentences with 'but', better to put a comma here)did the jobs that we have now even exist 200 years ago? I think it's all a natural transformation of an ecosystem. We should make the strike a (we always use 'strike a balance')balance and prepare for dramatic change ahead as of us while technology develops at a dizzying pace. I am excited to see what will happen!
0 votedMarch 5, 20171- Hi there! In this case the first option is correct. When we use the present perfect tense (haven't) for any specific situation, just like your example, it means that the situation or the consequences of the situation are still the same: I have broken my arm (my arm is still broken) I have lost my keys (I still can't find them) I haven't seen him today (I still haven't seen him) If you use the past simple, it means that the situation is now different: I broke my arm (now it is better) I lost my keys (but now I have found them) I didn't see John until he came into the room (I have seen him now) If we apply the same rule to your sentence: Present perfect: Why haven't you told me earlier? (you still haven't told me) This doesn't make sense Past simple: Why didn't you tell me earlier? (you have told me now) This is the correct option Hope this helps!0 votedMarch 3, 20170
- Hi there! to 'get wet' is the process of becoming wet. to 'be wet' is the result. 'He is getting wet' - He is in the process of going from dry to wet 'He is wet' - The process is complete If we look at these 2 sentences: 'Don't go out in the rain because you will GET wet' 'Don't go out in the rain because you will BE wet' Here the first sentence is better because when you go out in the rain you won't BE wet immediately, you will first go through a process of becoming wet. This use of 'get + adjective' is very common in English, I always tell my students that it is a much better alternative to 'become'. I also always use this example: 'I enjoy getting drunk' - I enjoy the process of slowly drinking with all the different stages 'I enjoy being drunk' - I enjoy the final result Of course only use that example with adults ;) Hope this helps!0 votedMarch 2, 20171


