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- Hello friends! Tomorrow we will have a lecture by [the] famous writer Stephen King. The lecture will be held on Tuesday at 10 a.m. The lecture will be about Stephen’s [Mr King's] new book, and after that everyone will be able to take a photo signing [have the opportunity for a photo signing]. Waiting for you. Hope this helps, Walter I have January discounts on now for new students!0 votedJanuary 15, 20181
Essay
As the title itself suggests, The Enigma by John Fowles is a short story that is surrounded by cloaked in mystery. The author tells us a story about the disappearance of a rather important person - a Member of Parliament. The disappearance of Mr Fielding contravened all social and statistical probability, and this fact made me, as a reader, keep interested kept my interest / kept me hooked in the plot until the end [of the book].
The author starts with a description of a missing person. Marcus Fielding, a Conservative Member of Parliament, was an example of a typical middle-ranking British politician. He was in his late 50s fifties, rich wealthy, happily married, devoted to his wife and family, with not even the slightest evidence of infidelity. The family members might have had some conflicts or misunderstandings but nevertheless they tried to keep up appearances.
Mr Fielding was a responsible and reliable person with a good reputation. The His fellow politicians gave the impression that he was a better man than any kind of them the best of all of them - a top-class rural constituency member, sound party man, always well-briefed when he spoke; all in all a very pleasant fellow.
He was a man who, if there were an--arium ?? of living human stereotypes, would have done very well as a model of his kind he was the classic archetype of his kind / he was the paragon of his kind: a successful City man (on the board of several City companies) who was also a country land-owner. He used to be a good landlord, who liked to be consulted on everything; and everything had to be decided “on accountancy grounds”. On the one hand, he was ruthless in running the farm for maximum profit, and on the other hand, he was “very pleasant socially, very understanding”.
As for his career ambitions, he had accepted that he lacked the single-minded drive and special talents of ministerial material. He was not good at the cut-and-thrust side of parliamentary debate. He was little ambitious and didn't try to be a candidate He lacked raw ambition and did not put himself forward for any Downing Street list. Everybody believed, he had a feeling that he had done his stint and he wasn't politically disappointed. It was generally assumed that he had done his stint and was not politically unsastisfied.
To sum up, a typical middle-ranking politician is a person who sets himself very high standards, who wants to be both: “a rich man on the grab” and a pillar of the community.Hi Bepa,
I have included mistakes in red and my suggestions in blue. As you can see, very very few mistakes. My suggestions mean that what you wrote is grammatically and linguistically perfectly good but could be polished. Hope I have helped.
Walter
BTW - it's a new year and I am looking for new students, January discounts on!
0 votedJanuary 4, 20181I can think of many amazing books which were turned into average to crap movies, but not vice versa. Some recent examples:
Love in the Time of Cholera - DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!
The End of the Affair - I didn't like the book and can't say the movie was much worse if at all.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!
I generally think there's no harm in watching a movie of a book you love, but maybe I'm having doubts about that. Sometimes the movie can ruin your memory of the book.
0 votedJanuary 3, 20180- "to become activists for possible ecological changes to their immediate environment" This sentence would generally be understood to be positive. The key word is the preposition 'for', which is generally understood to be positive and in opposition to 'against', which is negative. The word 'possible' makes the sentence more ambiguous, however. If you wanted the sentence to be neutral, you could say "to become activists with regards to possible ecological changes to their immediate environment". Hope this helps. Walter0 votedJanuary 3, 20180
- -- Against the backdrop of global economic growth, the [symbol of the] bridge has gained some new implications for the Hangzhou Summit. It demonstrates [a general] aspiration for the G20 to become a bridge in [the] global economy[;] a bridge that promotes international cooperation to achieve [a] win-win scenario in the future. [The] lines of the bridge, which [resemble] fiber-optic cables, [convey] a highly relevant [reference to] the connectivity [which has] resulted from IT development. It is our hope that the G20 will serve as a bridge through which all countries will build closer links [between each other - not necessary] and forge a brighter future for global economy. -- This is very good! It is highly advanced English as you are discribing the symbolic meaning of a logo and hence there is some very specific vocabulary for this sort of language. Verbs such as 'convey', 'symbolise', 'epitomise' and many more.0 votedJanuary 1, 20180
- Hi, this is a very good text with only very minor corrections. -- Hangzhou, the capital city of China`s Zhejiang province, is known for its beautiful scenery and innovative vitality. The logo of the G20 Hangzhou Summit [depicts] a bridge [made up of] 20 lines, supplemented by the English [text] "G20 in the year of 2016" and the Chinese for "China" in a traditional seal style. [The] [b]ridge bears a special meaning [for the] G20.The summit [symbolises] historical progress as it offers a mechanism for all countries, be [they] developed or develping, to take [an] equal part in global [economic] governance, which was once totally controlled by developed countries. In this sense[,] the G20 is a bridge [in its own right], linking not only the past and the future but also the developed and the developing. -- I've included my edits in [square brackets]. Also, before and after punctuation (commas , and quotation marks "") you omitted a space. Let me know what you think! Walter :)0 votedJanuary 1, 20181
