Please edit this for me!

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Very good.  I have underlined problem areas and stricken out words not needed:

 

This is a blog post that I wrote a couple of months back on wordpress.com! I was wondering if somebody could point out my mistakes so that I can improve the next time! Thamks in advance!

 

Hello!

I couldn’t log into wordpress in the last fifteen days because of my exams. Now that they are over, I am revelling in my regained freedom. All my school life, I have always celebrated the end of my exams by playing or watching cricket and so it was this time around as well. Fortunately, I got the rare oppurtunity to watch an India-Pakistan Test Match for the full five days without being nagged by my mother to get back to studies after a fairly long time. And I haven’t squandered it.

The first Test Match at Delhi has proved to be an excitingly unpredictable affair. Both sides have shown a queer inability to assert themselves when they have been in advantageous positions in the match. Consequently, we have had a fairly interesting, low-scoring match full of twists and turns. Unlike the usual scenes of bowlers being taken to the cleaners, the bowler-friendly pitch and conditions have presented before us an evenly contested encounter between bat and ball which is a refreshing change. Kumble once again proved his dominance on Indian tracks. I wonder why he is still viewed as somebody who is just not good enough to be openly accorded the status of a legend.

Well, India have batted well in the second innings so far and are all set to take the lead in the three match series, with only twenty-five runs to chase tomorrow. That’s the way I want things to happen so that I can celebrate after bungling up my exams!

Cheers!

 

 Hi Ashish Tiwari,
 Mister Micawber already gave you his opinions but I thought I would offer you a couple advices just so that you understand the courtesy concept. When the volunteers help the learners,
 we may give them our personal view of their writing. Some may interprete it differntly and corrected it. Sometimes the terms you used are not mainstream English and so it's pointed out to you.
 If you still like to continue receiving help, I suggest that you be less arugmentatively inquistive. "In all the sports we know in the US, there is no "test match" that I know of. Perhaps, qualifying match, semi-final, or Elimination match.
<<<<By the way, the expression 'Test Match' is not wrong. It's one of the many forms of 'Cricket">>>>

Hello Goodman!

I do not know what you found so very offending about the post. I am sorry if I sounded discourteous, but I did not intend to. I guess you thought that I was being argumentative when I asked what the problem was with 'school life'. All I wanted to know was that what could be the possible alternatives to express the same meaning so that I am not at a loss of words the next time I need to refer to my life at school. I was not trying to question his authority or anything, but simply to know more. 

Perhaps you did not notice, but I am really very new to this website. So thanks for introducing me to some of the dos and don'ts of the website, but you could have been a bit less harsh and certainly a lot less sarcastic in offering the advice.

 When the volunteers help the learners, we may give them our personal view of their writing. Some may interprete it differntly and corrected it.

I did not know that it is considered discourteous to ask for explanations and alternatives, but I do know now and I'll make it a point to not to do so in the future. I have visited other 'learning' websites where experts help volunteers and didn't notice anything like that there. But I guess 'different place, different rules'!   

 If you still like to continue receiving help, I suggest that you be less arugmentatively inquistive.

I would 'still' like to receive help for sure. Once again, I can't understand what made you think that I was being 'argumentatively inquisitive'.

Sometimes the terms you used are not mainstream English and so it's pointed out to you.

Okay, got the point! I did not think that anybody would read so much into that passing remark. Yes, that's what it was - a passing remark. Surely, it wouldn't hurt anybody's pride to know about a game? Anyway, if it did sound disrespectful, I apologize. 

In all the sports we know in the US, there is no "test match" that I know of. Perhaps, qualifying match, semi-final, or Elimination match.

The US is not the world. Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world after Football and Test Matches is the oldest form of the many forms of the game!

Once again, I have tried not to sound argumentative, discourteous or anything of that sort in this post as well. But I am not a native speaker of the language and cannot know what shades of meaning my seemingly innocuous sentences carry! I apologize if do sound like any of those.

 Thanks once again!

Hi Ashish,

This is for my curiosity.  Must all national cricket teams participate in the Test matches before they can take part in the 'first-class cricket' tournament? Can they get a by?

I my country, Vietnam, soccer is the most popular game. Teams have to compete all year around through various stages. At each stage, some teams do get a by if they rank among the top few. I, however, do not know if we officially name the matches between teams. Sometimes,  we call a match by the name of the biggest sponsor. I like the name Test though - it is about competency instead of commercial orientation.