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Could you please, check if all the sentences below are correct ?

a) In the end of the week, my friend returned home;

b) After the visit, my friends told me that my country impressed them most;

c) The sport classes take me lots of time! (or:...take lots of my time) ?;

d)  Since my arrival in this city, I have been having a big number of experiences;

e) Listen! He has many interesting books to show to everybody; 

   Finally is it correct to say: She is loving this place, here. (the idea is that while the person spends some time in a city, she's enjoying it so much, that she's loving it).   

   Thanks in advance,

    Samara

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Could you please, check if all the sentences below are correct ? a) In the end of the week, my friend returned home; b) After the visit, my friends told me that my country impressed them most; c) The sport classes take me lots of time! (or:...take lots of my time) ?; d)  Since my arrival in this city, I have been having a big number of experiences; e) Listen! He has many interesting books to show to everybody;     Finally is it correct to say: She is loving this place, here. (the idea is that while the person spends some time in a city, she's enjoying it so much, that she's loving it).       Thanks in advance,

Hi Samara, CB already gave you his view, and am going to share my 2 cents toward the questions

Ok bear with me, I am going to be a little long-winded with your questions…

a) In the end of the week, my friend returned home. The tone doesn’t sound right. It’s past tense (returned) but there was no indication of which week but I presumed it’s last week. So I would rewrite is as “My friend came home last week”, in the past tone; period. But You can say “my friend will return home at / by the end of the week, not [in].

b) After the visit, my friends told me that my country impressed them most. When we use “most” in this context, we are making a contrast of things which impressed us, some more, some less and the “most”.   

c) The sport classes take me lots of time! (or:...take lots of my time) ?; “take up a lot of my time”

d)  Since my arrival in this city, I have been having a big number of experiences; I have experienced a lot of the city since my arrival

e) Listen! He has many interesting books to show everybody- [to] is superfluous in this context.

   Finally is it correct to say: She is loving this place, here.  It’s grammatically correct but idiomatically uncommon. McDonald says “I am loving it” which is used as a catch phrase because of it’s awkwardly uncommon sound, not because it’s correct.  We can cay “ she loves this city” which implies now, that’s how she feels. 

Sometimes, we just can’t explain why that is. We definitely can say to our friend “you are looking strikingly good” to accent the point.  But typically,  “ you look good today” will do the job.

Hope my answers don't confuse you more...

Hi, Feebs 11

Thanks a lot for helping me!

Best wishes,

Samara