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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Correct this please.
Hi,
I am going to write a short description of a foreign-to-us person that I made up, can you correct the writing?
He has a tiny body frame and is green colored. He has short permed puple hair that is very shiny.He walks with a limp. He wears a taped-up eyeglasses that look out-of-balance. He has a humongously big nose with a red hue on the tip like he had too much of wine. He carries a huge, looks-too-big-for-him school bag that looks pitifully nerd looking (nerdly looking?). He is fourteen years old and has father, mother, an old grand mother, and no one else. His father works in a local school ten hours a week, not as a teacher, but as a janitor of a sort, cleaning and looking out the premise, and the other times, he runs a locksmith business. Everytime I see him I feel sorry for him.
I am going to write a short description of a foreign-to-us person that I made up, can you correct the writing?
He has a tiny body frame and is green colored. He has short permed puple hair that is very shiny.He walks with a limp. He wears a taped-up eyeglasses that look out-of-balance. He has a humongously big nose with a red hue on the tip like he had too much of wine. He carries a huge, looks-too-big-for-him school bag that looks pitifully nerd looking (nerdly looking?). He is fourteen years old and has father, mother, an old grand mother, and no one else. His father works in a local school ten hours a week, not as a teacher, but as a janitor of a sort, cleaning and looking out the premise, and the other times, he runs a locksmith business. Everytime I see him I feel sorry for him.
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This one is corrected purely for spelling and grammatic errors: He has a tiny body frame and is green colored. He has short, permed, purple hair that is very shiny. He walks with a limp.
- This one is corrected purely for spelling and grammatic errors: He has a tiny body frame and is green colored.
- He has short, permed, purple hair that is very shiny.
- He walks with a limp.
- He wears taped-up eyeglasses that look out-of-balance.
- He has a humongous, big nose with a red hue on the tip like he had too much wine.
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This one is corrected purely for spelling and grammatic errors:
He has a tiny body frame and is green colored. He has short, permed, purple hair that is very shiny. He walks with a limp. He wears taped-up eyeglasses that look out-of-balance. He has a humongous, big nose with a red hue on the tip like he had too much wine. He carries a huge, looks-too-big-for-him school bag that looks piti
He has a tiny body frame and is green colored. He has short, permed, purple hair that is very shiny. He walks with a limp. He wears taped-up eyeglasses that look out-of-balance. He has a humongous, big nose with a red hue on the tip like he had too much wine. He carries a huge, looks-too-big-for-him school bag that looks piti
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Thank you very much for the corrections. Much, much appreciated.
Few more questions? Between "a sort" and "sorts", how are they different in application?
Also, when you are listing the family members, do we say, " I have father, mother and a sister."
or "I have a father, a mother and a sister." I heard that for father and mother, an "a" is not needed or not recommended
Few more questions? Between "a sort" and "sorts", how are they different in application?
Also, when you are listing the family members, do we say, " I have father, mother and a sister."
or "I have a father, a mother and a sister." I heard that for father and mother, an "a" is not needed or not recommended
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1-- a sort is one sort and sorts are more than one sort. The use in your essay is idiomatic: of sorts or of a sort : of an inconsequential or mediocre quality <a poet of sorts> (Courtesy of M-W online dictionary)
2-- If sister has the article, then so should mother: I have a father, a mother and a sister OR
2-- If sister has the article, then so should mother: I have a father, a mother and a sister OR
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