Complain- IELTS Exercise

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

Write a letter to complain about a situation in which some adolescents let their dogs run wildly causing dangerous.

You should write at least 150 words.

You do NOT need to write your own address.
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Dear Sir,

I am writing to express my concern for some adolescents behavior in my neighborhood.

The adolescents allow their dogs to run widely in public street which causing dangerous   (you must use a substantiv) for our families. Yesterday, I am sorry to tell you report  (I don't think "tell you" is wrong but report is better) that one of these dogs attacked my niece during  along her way to the supermarket. She is thirteen years old. The dog followed her and she run a way till one of neighbors hit the dog by stone.

This behavior from adolescents made our neighborhood unsafe for our children. Most of the dogs are big (you might look up a few synonyms for big; it's not wrong but range of vocabulary is important) and vicious.

Perhaps, it would be useful to arrest  capture the dogs by police (I would remove by the police. It's not always the police who handles dangerous animals.).  The police should insist that the dangerous dogs owners pledge to keep them away from the public streets.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Hasan Ali

Prepositions are really hard. I still have some doubts from time to time.

C2 tests are difficult. Reading and listening took me from B2 to the level I am now. I am not a full "C2" but I am getting there. It's frustrating. It seemed I was always an upper-intermediate student. 

TOEFL ESSAY

Hello! I'm practicing for Toefl (actually the day is getting close). I will appreciate if someone could help me in the correction. Wish you all the best. Carol.

Topic - Why go to university?

A few decades ago, higher education was not so usual. People used to have more possibilities to find a job after finishing high school. However, nowadays things have changed. Competition has increased in global level; hence employees need to be more qualified in order to fulfill the company’s requirements, which are getting much more challenging and difficult to achieve.
In this case, university is the key point to a person’s development. Firstly, the student will get more knowledge, and he/she will be able to apply the theory in a business routine whatever the field. Secondly, living in a campus life will allow students to be close to professors who might have a lot of experience in the practical aspect, which it makes possible to learn under the perspective of different situations as well. Also, college or university is good place to make friends and raise your networking.
Finally, if you want to become a specific professional, for example an engineer or a doctor, you need to take a degree to prove you have studied and have the right knowledge, which is not in the basics education. Furthermore, after you will have finished higher education, the probability to get a good job with a reasonable payment will increase. Today’s companies normally require specific labor and staff, and many of them only contract people with higher education on resume.
Going to a college or university is very important to gain more knowledge, experience passed by the professors and make different contacts and friends. Consequently, you will be more likely to become a better person, to get a better job and develop a career compared to those who had basics education only.

Hi, I highlighted the mistakes I found. Probably there is more. You can look here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/623/1/ to understand the problem with the sentences highlighted in green. You can check a collation dictionary and/or a learner's dictionary. They really help in finding the right word. 

In the previous paragraph, many points are made showing that Foster displays "conspicuous consumption". In the paragraph of the sentence in question, a series of other luxury items are mentioned as belonging to other characters. There is no negative before nor after, so the sentence simply means: Foster isn't alone in his display of conspicuous consumption. So, "nor" is only negating the sentence.

Help (please)

Hi, everyone

Could you help me with two questions?

1) In a game, a man says to another about a third one "Gauchos on this guy".. What does it mean?

Reference: Webster unabridged - this word comes from Spanish/Portuguese. Pampas is a region in South Brazil, Uruguay and Argentine. Search Google Images.

:  a cowboy or herdsman of the pampas usually of mixed Spanish and American Indian descent<<em>gauchos</em> … wearing loose trousers with tight cuffs at the ankles, soft hats, and long wool ponchos — Natalie Raymond>

2) In a movie, I heard this: See, we got warning lights going off in our car all the time.
Why going off and not "on"?

No idea.

3)Do you sit in or on the back seat?

in the back seat

Thank you very much!