Re: Correct or Not

Eimai_Anglos — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:42:56 GMT

"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !)

In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a possessive pronoun and mixed up the word order.

"Why was his reply late?"

"Why was the reply late?"

Re: Sv.: This Translation.

Nick147 — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:51:19 GMT

Hi Diddy,

Here is the piece with errors corrected, and a couple of amendments made to make the style better. All in all it looked very good, there are a couple of expressions in which the correct preposition is not obvious, you just have to know these I'm afraid! One point is that King or Queen should always be spelled with a capital letter. There are a few places where the word order or verb tense needed changing, it would be best if you talk about these with your teacher if you don't understand any of the changes I have suggested.

Happy studying!

Nick

The battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and what happened at Culloden in 1746, are two of the bloodiest battles ever fought between Scotland and England. The first one ended [up is not necessary] with a glorious victory for Robert Bruce and his Scottish partisans, while the second one was a crushing defeat for âBonnie Prince Charlieâ and his claim to the Scottish throne. Robert Bruce was crowned [as is not necessary] King of Scotland in 1306. At this time it was custom[delete,] that the Scottish Kings were crowned in Scone and for 500 years they had sat on âthe stone of sconeâ during the coronation ceremony. The English King Edward I had in the meantime removed the stone during one of his campaigns, and placed it in Westminster Abbey, where it has remained for the last 700 years. The present English Queen was crowned on exactly this old â[delete the] stone of destinyâ.

Bruceâs crowning was dramatic: he murdered his rival, âthe Red Comynâ, in the church in Dumfries and afterwards rode in a hurry to Scone to take over the crown. Comyn was one of the vassals whom King Edward had installed in his attempt to make Scotland English territory and the killing formed part of the Scottish fight for freedom which had started under Sir William Wallace.

Wallace beat the well trained English forces at Stirling Bridge, though the same English forces did for Bruce 17 years later at Bannockburn. The English army was in both cases far bigger than the one the Scots could muster, but even the feared archers, who had been Englandâs trump card in the 100 years war against France, had to yield before Bruceâs spearmen, who fought with desperate courage.

Wallace was unfortunately betrayed by his own men and he did not survive the fight for freedom, but Bruce and James Douglas did. These 2 national heroes continued the resistance stubbornly until only 14 years after Bannockburn, Edward III gave up all claims to Scottish territory and Bruce was recognised as the lawful King of Scotland.

Re: About paragraph

nona the brit — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:45:23 GMT

Hello,

In recent ten years, Choose either In recent years, or the last decade or the last ten years.

few people in taiwan Taiwan. This is a proper noun and needs a capital letter.

overly have been felling trees, have been felling too many trees, or have been over-harvesting trees, or have been intensively/overly logging trees. The problem is really the word order.

such as padauk,mangrove paduak and mangrove.

for the sake of earning their private profits could be re-phrased a little but is ok.

that have ruined the luxuriant forest once. 'That have' presumably applies to the profits. If not, you will need to re-phrase. I think you mean the 'once luxuriant forest' (the forest used to be luxuriant but is not now) rather than 'ruined the luxuriant forest once' (which means that they ruined the forest on one occasion only).

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