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OK, here are a few specific things I see that may be problems in the first few paragraphs. 1st paragraph - Is going to movies a social standard? Or is it an activity? Your first sentence is 3 lines long. It is difficult to read and needs to be shorter. You frequently use "that" when...

Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than one? If it is more than one, add an 's'....

Basically, I have been set a piece of coursework: to compare the aforementioned poems. I am going for an A* piece at GCSE level, there is no particular question, just to compare the four poems. I have almost completed My Last Duchess, mentioning all the themes I can think of and reading the...

(1) We only played one ... and it was four years ago. - You need to use the PAST SIMPLE here because you're talking about something which happened 4 years ago. (2) ...between his wife and the girls' coach... - you need the apostrophe after 'girls' because it's a possessive ...

Hi Collegebound, Welcome to the forums. Overall, you have a good essay. Stop worrying about your paragraphs. However, I 'm not sure what the topic was that Wisconsin asked for. Where did you put it? As vice president of my Catholic school’s multi-cultural student union, I have learned,...

Very good essay. The yellow highlights show parts you might like to re-word. The red highlight shows errors. You should also take a look at the structure of your essay, some of your sentences are just repeating what has already been said and other parts are disorganised. for example: you devote...

please help me with my essay and can you help finish it! thnx From the poems you have studied, show how the different poets portray different aspects of love. The love poems I have studied in class all represent different types of love, such as erotic meaning passionate,...