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Latest post Sat, Sep 12 2009 4:18 PM by julielai. 4 replies.
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hotkid1980  +  878993 Sat, 29 Aug 09 06:52 PM
Many people have different kinds of responsibility in their lives. For example, parents have the responsibility to take care of their children. Teachers have the responsibility to teach their students and so on. Being an oldest one in family I was given a major responsibility of my younger brother and sister. There is one event that gave me a good understanding of the responsibility I had. This was when my little brother was hit by a long cylindrical shape "Metal Rod". This event made a major impact in my life.
It was a really nice sunny day and the temperature was very smoothing and comfortable. This was a great day for outdoor sports. Every one of my friend were out schools because of the summer break. Therefore we all decided to play a cricket game. A cricket is a game played with bat and balls by two teams. We were having a remarkable time playing the game. In the middle of game my younger brother came up to me and asks if he can play with us. He was very energetic and excited to play with my friends, but in back of my mind I was thinking that he can get hurt while playing with us because he was not old enough and getting embarrass in front of my friends. Also, I did not want him to get hurt, so I told him to play with kids of his age. When I said him that he gave me an angry looks and run away from me.
After he went away from the ground we finished our unfinished game which had to be delay by him. When the game was finished we all went to a shop to get drinks. We were very dehydrated from playing in the sun. As soon as I got back to the playground I went to check on my little brother that he was doing all right. For an instance I cannot believe what I was seeing with my eyes. I just shook my head and thinking in my head that this did not just happened. The thing was horrifying me was that my brother Jay face's was coved with blood. At moment I did not know what to do. Because of that I was in very dramatic shock. Then I asked him what just happen he replied in his weeping voice "someone threw the metal rod and it hit me on the face". Apparently, the metal rod had missed his right eye. If the rod had hit half an inch away from where it initial hit he could have loose his eye for ever. After he told me what happen I immediately tear up my tea-shirt to make gauze to stop the bleeding. The wound was very deeply cut and require immediate medical attention. When I was taking him to home our mother saw us on the road and ask in deeply scaring voice as she see jay's blooded face "son what just happen to you. Are you all right?" he replies "I am having too much pain in head please takes me to the hospital". She immediately called my uncle to take us to the hospital. On our ways to hospital I told her everything about accident. Her responded to my story was not good at all. In angry tone "it was your responsibility to keep your brother safe and how can you let this happened to him" my mother said. After listening to her response I did not reply to her because I was very shocked and did not spoke a single word till we come home.
After we came from the hospital I immediately went to my bedroom and lock myself. At that point I did not feel very good. There were so many thoughts going thru my head and I am thinking how this accident happened. Then I started to realize how could I let this happened to him. If I had let him play with us any of this could not have been occur. Being selfish to me and afraid of getting embarrass in front of my friends I told him to play somewhere else. The bad judgment I made and forgetting my responsibility toward him. He ended up getting hurt. After realizing my mistake I came up from the bedroom and straight went to him for an apology. When I told him that I made mistake letting you go play somewhere else he replied "brother it was an accident and try not to blame yourself". At the same moment I said sorry to my mother and I heard "from now wherever your brother comes with always take good care of him and bring him back safely" my mother said.
The accident had made a big impact towards my responsibility and my brother. One of the most important things I learn from it was once you have a responsibility of someone, always think of that person first then think about yourself. It also realized me the importance of responsibility. When we have a responsibility we need to try our best to fulfill it. Once we have fulfilled the responsibility it will always bring happiness in life. Now days when I do something, I always put responsibility then I and other people should do the same thing.
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benny777  +  896581 Fri, 11 Sep 09 08:35 AM
Hey there, I'm an English tutor and I've been helping people out on this forum in order to practice for my upcoming year of school. I would like to help you, but first I want you to answer a couple of questions for me.

The first question is are you supposed to have a title for your paper?

The second question... is this supposed to be a typical 5 paragraph essay?

Thanks.

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julielai  +  897947 Sat, 12 Sep 09 06:02 AM
Highlighted a few things for you to fix.

 

In the middle of game my younger brother came up to me and asks if he can play with us. He was very energetic and excited to play with my friends, but in back of my mind I was thinking that he can get hurt while playing with us because he was not old enough and getting embarrass in front of my friends. Also, I did not want him to get hurt, so I told him to play with kids of his age. When I said him that he gave me an angry looks and run away from me.


After he went away from the ground we finished our unfinished game which had to be delay by him. When the game was finished we all went to a shop to get drinks. We were very dehydrated from playing in the sun. As soon as I got back to the playground I went to check on my little brother that he was doing all right. For an instance I cannot believe what I was seeing with my eyes. I just shook my head and thinking in my head that this did not just happened. The thing was horrifying me was that my brother Jay face's was coved with blood. At moment I did not know what to do. Because of that I was in very dramatic shock. Then I asked him what just happen he replied in his weeping voice "someone threw the metal rod and it hit me on the face". Apparently, the metal rod had missed his right eye. If the rod had hit half an inch away from where it initial hit he could have loose his eye for ever.

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benny777  +  898038 Sat, 12 Sep 09 07:40 AM
Hello, I wrote down all of the notes I had for you on my whiteboard, and because I need to clear up room I'm just going to post what I have written down instead of erasing it and wasting it.

Practically every problem in your paper fits into 3 categories. The first has to do with Articles, a/an/the. The second problem has to do with maintaining the same verb tense, and the third problem is much simpler, just making sure you are pluralizing your nouns when you need to, and keeping them singular when you do not. Apart from these three main problems there are some other ones I will address at the end of this post. To make everything more organized, I am going to color-coordinate the three main problems so it's easier for you to follow. The first one with articles will be colored RED, the second one with verb tenses will be colored GREEN, and the last one with pluralization will be colored BLUE.

The job of an article is to identify a noun as either a specific or nonspecific noun. Other parts of speech like adjectives serve to modify what type of noun we are referring to, but articles are much more simple. If you use an adjective to tell us what type of noun you are referring to, the article that you use will come before the adjective. "The" is an article that we use to refer to a specific noun. "A/an" are the articles we use to a nonspecific noun, basically it could be any noun, whether or not it's a certain noun is irrelevant. Here are the areas in your paper that have either incorrect article usage, or no article at all when you need one:

"Being an oldest one in the family"- if you are the oldest one in your family, then "an" is incorrect, you are a specific person in your family, you are "the" oldest one.

A cricket, with bat- some type of words do not require articles. One of them are sports. Cricket is a sport, therefor you do not need the article "a" before cricket. The next problem in that sentence is "with bat", bat is the noun and you need to support that noun with an article. Ask yourself, are you referring to a specific bat, or are you referring to bats in general?

middle of game- support the noun with an article, let's see if you can do it on your own :)

but in back of my mind- remember, if you have an adjective that is being used to describe a noun, then the article goes before the description. back of is describing "where" in your mind, sot he article goes before back.

at moment- see if you can do it on your own.

about accident-

in angry tone-

I made mistakes-

That's it for articles...

Verb Tenses: It's very important to maintain the same verb tense consistency in your essay, otherwise it is confusing for the reader to have to jump back and forth from the past to the present without knowing why we are doing so. Many times in your essay you are using the wrong verb tense, so here they are:

asks- you said asks in the present tense, even though you are referring to a memory that happened in the past. So use the past tense form of the word ask... asked.

Can- I think you can figure this out on your own. Past tense of can.

embarass-past tense

run-past tense

delay-past tense

cannot- or could not?

happen-

loose-

tear-

ask-

speak-

am-

learn-

That's it with verb tenses.

This is much easier. Read through your essay and ask yourself if a certain noun needs to be pluralized or not. I think you can do this on your own.

Hope this helps..

julielai  +  898544 Sat, 12 Sep 09 04:18 PM
Hi Benny,

 

If you're dividing the types of probems into sections, I don't think there's a need to color-code. Just visually separate the sections and keep it short and sweet.


Just my humble opinion, of course!

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