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cold and evil feeling
So... feel terrible. It hurts my throat and head. I also hate the catarrh. Does anyone of you is sick too and i feel as badly as I do?
1. "So... I feel terrible"
2. What hurts your throat and head? To be clearer, when you use a pronoun, make sure you include an antecedent.
3. What's catarrh?
4. "Are any of you sick too? Do any of you feel as bad as I do?"IMPORTANT: bad/badly; when you say "I feel bad," you are feeling a bad sensation or emotion (e.g. coughing, sick, in pain, unhappy, depressed, etc). When you say "I feel badly," you are doing a bad job at feeling, i.e. you are not very skilled at feeling.
0 votedSeptember 9, 20111<em>First notebook entry: Introducing myself</em>
<em>hi </em>
<em>I am from China. I want to make english speaking frends to improve my spoken english.I can help you to learn about China. we can help each other. And i am open-minded, we have many things to share ,like movie,music,health,faith,and so on .</em>Time for a crash course in grammar!
Spelling correction: friend, not frend.
Also, when you use commas it looks like this:<em>"However, I can't."
</em>Not like "<em>However ,I can't"</em> or "<em>However,I can't.</em>"English sentence construction is a lot more structured than Chinese – when you say "And I am open-minded, we have..." you need to use a conjunction. A conjunction is a word like <em>as, yet, but, and, so, for</em>, etc. and is used between clauses.
A clause is a chunk of words with a subject and a verb. A subject is the thing that does something – for example, in "The dog ate food," "dog" is the subject, and "ate" is the verb. So in "And I am open-minded," "I" is the subject and "am" is the verb. That is actually not a clause, however, because of the "And" at the beginning. When you have a clause that starts with words like and, because, since, unless, although, etc. it is not a clause, it is a phrase. It cannot stand on its own as a sentence.
So when you say, "And I am open-minded" and you also want to say "we have many things to share," you would write "And I am open-minded, and we have many things to share." However, it would be better to change that whole sentence to:
"Since I am open-minded, we can talk about many things like movies, music, health, faith, and so on."
I hope that wasn't too long or complicated. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me; 我会说一点点中文。
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