Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Corrections

As to inflatable swimming tube I mentioned, is a metaphor with viewing image.
--Should be, "The inflatable swimming tube metaphor is a visual image."

So the usage of metaphors must be worthy of being highly looked at.
--Should be, "The use of metaphors is highly worth looking at."

Even though it is only a general cleaning we do have a good time toghether and has an impressive memory.
--Should be, "Even though it is only a general cleaning, we do have a good time together. I remember these cleanings fondly."


Japanese one is always with the tragedy opeining and being optimistic and finally succeeds to attach the goal.
--Should be, "Japanese soap opera always have tragic openings. The tragic character is always optimistic, however. Eventually, the tragic character succeeds."

Note the difference between characterize/characterization


Time magagement is my stress where came from, too.
--Should be, "Time management is where my stress comes from, too."

Looked like me to say that why the game appeal to people.
--I'm not sure what this means. Perhaps, "This is my observation as to why the game appeals to people."


Note the difference between emphasis/emphasizing

To manage stress wisely can avoid the feeling of frustration.
--Should be, "Managing stress wisely can help us avoid the feeling of frustration."
(Turn the verb "to manage" into the verbal [noun] "managing".)

We live in rich lives, which indirectluy causes us have less ability to finish the hard work by ourselves because most of us still rely on our parents too much, including me.
--Should be, "We live comfortable lives. This indirectly causes us to have less ability to finish hard work by ourselves because most of us still rely on our parents too much, myself included."

("rich" sometimes means "fulfilling"; "we live rich lives" means "we live good lives," not "we are rich". Also, note the usage "myself incuded": this means, "I include myself in this observation.")

Using animals as metaphors are intuitively.
--Should be, "The use of animal metaphors is intuitive."

One way that you could understand my corrections more easily is to identify the sentence structures (subject, verb, object, dependent clause(s) and independent clause(s)) and the parts of speech for each word. You can look at my corrections as examples of idiomatic English; perhaps noticing the mistakes made in the original sentences will help your understanding as well. Notice in some examples that the writer tries to express too many ideas in one independent clause or sentence.

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