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Could someone correct these for me please?

1 The kitchen is the place I like to have the cleanest at all times. Since I moved out and have been living on my own, cleanliness has been a big part of my everyday life as opposed to when I lived with a roommate and didn't care how the place looked. (how would you correct this?)

2 If you don't need your salary in your case your unemployment benefits then you're more likely to forget to even ask for what's due to you.

3 How long do you have to cook the past for?/ How long does the pasta have to cook for? (whats the difference?)

4 Run the pasta under cold water once in the seive or else the pasta will keep cooking. (does this male sense? and is the word RUN?)

thank you

Jemaasjr · Accepted Answer

alc24Could someone correct these for me please?

1 The kitchen is the place I like to have the cleanest at all times. Since I moved out and have been living on my own, cleanliness has been a big part of my everyday life, as opposed to when I lived with a roommate and didn't care how the place looked. (how would you correct this?)

Not the best but it can be understood. I added a comma for clarity.

2 If you don't need your salary in your case your unemployment benefits then you're more likely to forget to even ask for what's due to you.

A real mess. Perhaps, "If in your case you unemployment benifits are big enough, then you don't need you salary and you are more likely to forget to even ask ~~for~~ what is due to you. (??)

3 How long do you have to cook the pasta? ~~for~~?/ How long does the pasta have to cook ~~for~~? (whats the difference?)

Put the "for" in front if you want to use it. One could understand the second sentence as asking how much longer to cook pasta that has aready started cooking.

4 Run the pasta under cold water once in the seive or else the pasta will keep cooking. (does this male sense? and is the word RUN?)

thank you

Alc24 · Answer

1 The kitchen is the place I like to have the cleanest at all times. Since I moved out and have been living on my own, cleanliness has been a big part of my everyday life, as opposed to when I lived with a roommate and didn't care how the place looked.

I'm having trouble with the bold bits?

2 If you don't need your salary, in your case your unemployment benefits, then you're more likely to forget to even ask for what's due to you.

I'd leave the TO, isn't it WHAT'S DUE TO YOU and not "DUE YOU"?

and the bold bit can be left as a subordinate clause, OPTIONAL? right?

thank you

Chiliblossom · Answer

I think your first two sentences are too cluttered. Try to simplify them and they will be clearer. I would have written the first one like this:

The kitchen is the place I like to keep the cleanest. When I lived with a roommate, I didn't care how the place looked. Since I moved out and have been living on my own, however, cleanliness has been a big part of my ~~everyday~~ life. Or "[...] a big part of my everyday routine."

2. {there are too many "yours" in this sentence. Decide which ones you can eliminate}
If you don't need a salary or unemployment benefits ~~in your case~~, you're more likely to forget to ask for {how about using "claim"?} what is due to you.

Jemaasjr · Answer

alc241 The kitchen is the place I like to have the cleanest at all times. Since I moved out and have been living on my own, cleanliness has been a big part of my everyday life, as opposed to when I lived with a roommate and didn't care how the place looked.

I'm having trouble with the bold bits?
The kitchen is the place (Perfectly good sentence all by itself)

[that] I like to have the cleanest at all times. A little awkward because we do not know what is less clean, but okay I guess.

Since I moved out and have been living on my own, An opening subordinate clause, okay with the ","

cleanliness has been a big part of my everyday life, A sentence all by itself. (If has been is a linking verb (I think it is), then the rest is the predicate complement, okay?)

as opposed to=in comparasion with) when I lived with a roommate and didn't care how the place looked. An okay subordinate clause.

2 If you don't need your salary, in your case your unemployment benefits, then you're more likely to forget to even ask for what's due to you.

I'd leave the TO, isn't it WHAT'S DUE TO YOU and not "DUE YOU"?

and the bold bit can be left as a subordinate clause, OPTIONAL? right?

thank you

I am not sure what is going on in 2., maybe you are confusing unemployment benifits with salary, but in truth, #2 reads like ****, all over the place. Because the "you don't need" already singles out the person (the you) the "in you case" is redundant, completely unnecessary. "your unemployment benifits" does not fit in with "If you don't need your salary," and then you cut it off with the comma. The result is that it doesn't fit anywere. Remember you have an "if" and a "then." If you choose to use these words you have to organize your sentence around them.

"If you don't need your salary, then your unemployment benifits... is a start. What must follow is why the unemployment benifits are relevant to not having a salary. Otherwise it is just an odd ball comment that does not fit in. Most likely the best would be to make it two different sentences with you stating more completely what it is you are trying to say.

As for DUE YOU and DUE TO YOU. "Due Sam $100"., means Sam has $100 coming, or we owe it to him. "Due to Sam", means he caused something to happen, or perhaps moral guilt of some sort. "Because of Sam" is more or less the same thing.

4 Run the pasta under cold water once in the seive or else the pasta will keep cooking. (does this male sense? and is the word RUN?)

When you want to describe doing someting, normally you put it in the order that you do it. As, "Put the pasta in a seive and under cold running water, or else it will keep cooking."

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