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I need to write a short story for my GCSE and i'm having difficulty effectively configuring the last paragraph. My teacher says i need to build tension at the start of the paragraph and maybe generating a sympathetic response in the end..as well as i feel the last sentence's structure and...

Hi.From the perspective of a non-native speaker who's used to translate a lot (between German and English), I have a few things to add:While "somehow" and "barely" are not equivalents, neither semantic nor pragmatic, there are situations where cultural differences might make them look similar....

Anonymous wrote: Interesting you would take such a stand, when your signature quotation suggests otherwise. We're getting a little off-topic here, but when I am editing, my job is not just to correct out-and-out errors ("the man are") which are relatively rate, but also fix the wrong word...

A paragraph has sentences. A paragraph has a main theme. A paragraph has details that support this theme. A paragraph should have a topic sentence. The sentences above have NO variety. They are the same, over and over. No inverted word order, no dependent clauses - all simple sentences. It is...

You can eliminate one of the "beach"es by a bit change in the word order: The three-day holiday at the popular beach has been planned months before we set our feet on the popular beach. I think your paragraph is ok, but it's better to see what's the natives' take on it.

Hi Lazerte, would you believe you are writing about my home town here? Anyway, you need to work on your paragraphs as it is poor style to have so many 2 sentence paragraphs at the beginning; it looks more like a list than an essay. Good research though. I've highlighted any problem areas for you...

Hi again Freya, You are working hard on this. It's hard to give you general overall comments on this essay, because I know nothing about you, eg your age /level of education, level of English. I've highlighted again and made a few comments. Best wishes, Clive Life is like a box of...

Hi I've added some initial comments in red. Sort out the structure and post up another draft for help with the final version. Why are you using a capital I for the word incentives throughout? I write to you to apply for the study course "International Tourism Management". I look at this study as...

Would it be better if I changed word order like: Elements of numerous published definitions of this systematic socially-economic phenomena can be discerned from the already mentioned review.? Although, I think that perhaps I shouldn't change the word order because of the preceding paragraph...

Hi Chintu, welcome to the Forums, First of all, here is the wrong place for your post . Try to repost it to the writing section where it can get more attention from people who are interested in correcting others' writings. But here are a few hints: try to write your article using the Microsoft...