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Please correct my essay:) And give me any ideas and opinion!!
In my opinion, I agree that the Japanese government should do more to protect the environment. I have two opinions to support my opinion.First of all, the natural resources are not eternal. Particularly our lives depend on oil too much. For instance, when we use cars, aircrafts and machines in any factories. The government should find any alternate resources as steady as oil supply.
Secondly, a lot of species are faced with extinction. I have heard that recently the number of sparrows is decreasing.decrease. Because of changing housing style, they can not make nests and have offsprings a lot. This can cause a changing ecosystem in
Japan. And no one cares about forests, but they also affect the ecosystem.
For these reasons, I think that the
Japanese government have to do more diverse things to protect the environment.
"In my opinion" and "I agree" really say the same thing. I would use one or the other.
opinion -- here you could use "statement" -- that's a word that means something like opinion but with a different, stronger meaning.
aircrafts-- this word is always singular. Airplane can be plural.
any -- "Any" is used for questions or negative statements. For example:
The government should not find any alternate resources...
The government should find some alternate resources....
Should the government find any alternate resources...?
offspring is like aircraft -- uncountable
0 votedMay 9, 20181- (Or the Reaping Day) Katniss was a girl from District 12, one of the twelve areas that it was divided the North America after a series of disasters like drought, floods and war to grab resources. Actually, there districts were thirteen districts, but in the past they revolted againist Capital against the capital city, the city that ruled them. The revolt failed and the District 13 was destroyed. The capital Capital city, to punish them for the revolt, introduced The Hunger Games, a fight where 24 persons, the tributes, composed of a girl and a boy between twelve and eighteen years old, two from every district, drew lots. This person These people must fight until only one rest/stayed alive.0 votedMarch 22, 20183
- Leute sagt, ich bin fleißig nicht. Sie sagen, ich zu viel Musik höre und passt auf nicht in Chemie Unterricht. Aber gar nicht so einfach. Ich hart arbeiten Cello und karate. Wegen das, ich habe (little) Zeit für den Akademiker.
Leute sagen, dass ich nicht fleißig bin. Sie sagen, dass ich zu viel Musik höre und im Chemieunterricht nicht aufpasse. Aber das ist gar nicht so einfach. Bei Cello und Karate arbeite ich sehr hart. Deswegen habe ich wenig Zeit für die Schule.
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Die Sätze sind schon verständlich, aber nicht ganze Sätze. Die Sätze, wie sie jetzt stehen, sind kurze aber richtige Sätze.
Your sentences or understandable, but they are not complete sentences. The sentences in the second paragraph are short but complete sentences with subject, verb and objects.
"Akademiker" sind vielmehr die Personen.
"Academics" is more school or learning (das Lernen)
0 votedJanuary 23, 20181 This is part two:
After visiting the tourist attractions, I went back to the places connected with my personal history. I have found my kindergarten and school, the school where my parents worked, and finally the house where we lived. We moved to Chkalovsk in 1993 and enjoyed living there. My parents remember our first year there as one of the happiest in their life. The serious economical crisis that was developing in the mid-1990s turned the city to poverty and depression. In 1998, my father got an invitation to work in Peru and we left Chkalovsk forever. I like Chkalovsk mostly for its scenery, for its wild but picturesque river quays and beaches, for its quiet streets with wooden houses and front gardens, from which one can hear the sizzling of grasshoppers or the crowing of roosters. I was happy to realise that nothing has changed there during the 20 years of my absence, and my parents, affected by nostalgia, got the desire to buy a summer house on one of the Chkalovsk quays.
private -- personal -- There is a difference in meaning. Private is more "secret" or "confidential". Personal relates more to myself.
biography -- is more something written and usually after the end of milestone in the life of a person or organization or even after someone's death.
serious is a better word to go with crisis.
economical -- is actually a very different meaning. It is more like "efficient" or "inexpensive". For example: I drive an efficient, economical car.
economic -- relates to the economy
scenery -- is how nature looks -- mountain scenery, forest scenery, etc.
the sizzling of grasshoppers or the crowing of roosters -- you could also say: ...hear grasshoppers sizzling or roosters crowing...
That was a very interesting story and very well written. I enjoyed reading it. Thanks.
0 votedAugust 19, 20171Hi Vera,
Your text was long enough that I decided to divide my comments into two sections. Here's part one:
Notes about my summer days.
A couple of days ago my parents and I visited the place, where we lived when I was a child, and where we had not been since then. It is a little town located near to Nizhniy Novgorod, surrounded by forests and three rivers. Its population counts about 20 000 people, most of whom are employed at the shipbuilding and sewing factories. But it is mostly famous not for the industry, but for its most famous citizen, Valery Chkalov - a pilot who made the first non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver over the Northern Pole. The flight took place in 1937. A year after that, Chkalov tragically died testing a new model of planes. In his honor, his native town was named Chkalovsk, and Stalin ordered to build there a House of Culture in a shape of a plane to be built as a memorial. It remind me of the building of the Northern River station in Moscow. It also has a spire and monumental forms. These features are common for the Soviet architecture of the first decade after the Second World War. But in contrast to buildings of the late 1940s, the Chkalovsk House is not pompous and over decorated. It has strict proportions, square windows and laconic walls that make it close to the style of constructivism. The house where Chkalov was born is now a memorial museum, some of the planes he flew by are situated in a big hangar. They are available to the visitors and attractive for children, who can climb up the special ladder and glance into the cockpit of the very plane that traversed the North Pole in 1937."have never been" -- that would mean you still haven't been there, but earlier you said you "visited". So it's a small grammar point, but your writing is very good and I thought you would like to know that small difference.
You can use either "close to" or "near", but not "near to"
occupied -- can suggest that they are not paid, but rather just "kept busy". For example, "On holidays we occupied ourselves with reading and hiking and just sitting around."
examining -- would be more if the plane was on the ground and being looked at. I am sure he was in the air and flying it.
laconic -- that's not a very common word and probably not for architecture. In fact, I had to look up the meaning myself. I'd use something like "simple" as a contrast to pompous for architecture.
0 votedAugust 19, 20170Hi Akram,
May I suggest the following improvements to your text. I've included a few reasons after the suggestions.
The CO2 emissions or what we could call "cars' smoke" lead to air pollution. I think our society shouldn't allow citizens to buy and sell older cars. This would help conserve the atmosphere. Fortunately, we are able to build electric cars to reduce pollution. Pollution is a phenomona which increases despite of the efforts of responsible partners in many initiatives. To sum up, I'm speaking to responsible people – our environment is a treasure. We have to work very hard to keep it clean, great and make sure the following generations can live normally like we are living now.emission of CO2 – the more common way to combine this thought it "CO2 emissions"
I think: "As I see it" OR "In my opinion" OR "If you ask me" – these might be some nice alternatives to simply saying "I think..."
cars in order to preserve the atmosphere's purity– In English we don't usually talk about purity for the atmosphere. We do, however, often say "conserve OR preserve OR save the atmosphere"
This last is a – I think you can repeat "pollution" in the next sentence to make it clear and stronger.
despite of -- There are two expressions that mean the same thing and they often get mixed up: "in spite of" OR "despite" Here you could also say, "... in spite of the efforts...."
responsibles of many partnerships – In English we don't really simply use "responsibles" to refer to people in responsible positions. Therefore, I changed it a bit.You could add it again in the next sentence to call your readers to be responsible people when thinking about CO2 emissions.
0 votedAugust 19, 20171- You are right. The two sentences are very similar. Because of the word "recently", both of those forms make sense. The slight difference would be that the second version emphasizes the activity (reading). If you want to talk about a habit, you might want to use the simple present form: " I read a lot of books." If you want to talk about a new habit, you might want to say: "I have started reading a lot of books recently."0 votedAugust 15, 20170
Deutsche Übungssätze 28/7/17
die Verzweiflung (n) = despair, desperation / begehen (v) = to commit
Der Selbstmord (n) = suicide
• Aus Verzweiflung hat er Selbstmord begangen.
(verzweifeln (v) = to despair)
"aus" wird oft für Gefühle benutzt: aus Freude, aus Angst, aus Langeweile, aus Hoffnungslosigkeit, usw.bedauern (v) / das Bedauern -s (n) = to regret, regret
• Am Ende meines Lebens frage ich mich oft, ob ich Bedauerns haben würde.Ich frage mich oft, ob ich am Ende meines Lebens vieles bedauern werde.
• Du wirst das bald bedauern!
Selten habe ich Bedauern als Substantiv gehört, ausser bei Beileid.
Die Enttäuschung (n) / enttäuschen (v) = disappointment, to disappoint / die Torte –n (n) = cake (?)
Der Kuchen (n) = cake / die Bäckerei -en (n) = Bakery
• Manchmal bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob ich in den Augen meines Vaters eine Enttäuschung bin, oder nicht.• Die Damen wurden sehr enttäuscht, dass die Bäckerei keine Kuchen mehr hatte.
Angeblich (adj / adv) = alleged, allegedly / der Attentäter (n) = assassin (die Attentäter -- Mehrzahl)
(das Attentat - e (n) = assassination / der Mörder = murderer)
• Lee Harvey Oswald wurde angeblich der Attentäter von JFK.Oder: Lee Harvey Oswald sei der Attentäter JFKs.
"sei" ist hier die Form für "indirekte Rede" – Dadurch taucht "angeblich" gleich in der Grammatik auf und man distanziert sich von der Aussage wie mit "angeblich" oder "allegedly.
der Attentäter JFKs -- ist Genitiv. Der Genitiv ist wichtig, wird aber mittlerweile weniger verwendet.
weitere Beispiele: Das ist das Haus meiner Frau ODER Das ist das Haus meines Mannes.
• Die Polizei sind sich nicht sicher, ob das Alibi des angeblichen Mörders wahr ist.
vorsätzlich (adj / adv) = deliberate, deliberately / Die Feuerwehr (n) = Fire brigade
Das Feuer = fire
absichtlich ODER bewusst werden öfters als vorsätzlich verwendet.
• Die Feuerwehr glaubt, dass das Feuer vorsätzlich angezundert worden war.
einsam = lonely (adj / adv) = lonely / das Pflegeheim (n) = Care home / Der Rentner (n) = Pensioner
• Leider sind viele Rentner in den Pflegeheimen sehr einsam.ODER ...im Pflegeheim -- es geht um Einzahl oder Mehrzahl. Beide wären möglich.
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