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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Doomsday prophet

Please check out the following paragraph.

(1) Teacher Wang predicted that a magnitude 14 earthquake would strikeTaiwan.

(2) He said that the biggest quake in history would rip/tearTaiwaninto halves, causing a tsunami as high as 170 meters.

(3) His doomsday prophet drew a lot of attention, spread out (was circulated) and caused some people to get into panic.

(4) He and his followers set up hundreds of (freight) containers at Puli, believing that it would be safer to take shelter in the containers when tsunami hits.

(5) What was more, he collected (piled up) 27 tons of rice and necessities such as bottled water.

(6) It turned out that it was sheer nonsense.
  

Top answer

This seems generally a good paragraph. Here are my suggestions to improve it. Corrections are in boldface.

  • This seems generally a good paragraph.
  • Here are my suggestions to improve it.
  • Corrections are in boldface.
  • I also I took out some words and fixed some spacing.
  • (1) Teacher **** predicted that a magnitude 14 earthquake would strike Taiwan.
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This seems generally a good paragraph. Here are my suggestions to improve it. Corrections are in boldface. I also I took out some words and fixed some spacing.

(1) Teacher **** predicted that a magnitude 14 earthquake would strike Taiwan.

(2) He said that the biggest quake in history would rip/tearTaiwan in two/in half, causing a tsunami as high as 170 meters.

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