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OrcaDeen Posted 18 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Hope it is English

1b00 Hi again,02b02br
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01b00I want to make sure that the following piece sounds English; and if not, please give me a helpful feedback.02b02br
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01b00Another important request is that I guess you can partly determine by now what are my mistakes in writting through the topics I write in this forum.So, if you knew some, please let me know them.02b02br
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01b00" 02b00 00In the morning, the villagers knew that she fled with the miller's boy leaving her kids with the butcher.00 As a reaction, some people said: "Old habits die hard!" and others said: "Fie on her! She has no sense of belongingness. How could she sacrifice her kids for the sake of her whims?" But, their eyes neither witnessed her kissing the kids nor eating nothing but tear-wetted morsels while roaming different places to earn livelihood with the miller's boy. The villagers also did not raise a few eyebrows at watching the butcher holding his tongue and going constantly to the mosque to pray regularly.01b00 "02b00 0-
  

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" 11u 10O12u 10thers said: "Fie on her! She has no sense of 11font 10belongingness12font 10. " But11del 10,12del 10 their eyes neither witnessed her kissing the kids nor eating nothing but tear-wetted morsels while roaming different places to earn 11b 11u 10a living12u 12b 10 with the miller's boy.

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  • " 11u 10O12u 10thers said: "Fie on her!
  • She has no sense of 11font 10belongingness12font 10.
  • " But11del 10,12del 10 their eyes neither witnessed her kissing the kids nor eating nothing but tear-wetted morsels while roaming different places to earn 11b 11u 10a living12u 12b 10 with the miller's boy.
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11b10" 12b10 10In the morning, the villagers knew that she fled with the miller's boy11b11u10,12u12b10 leaving her kids with the butcher.10 As a reaction, some people said: "Old habits die hard!" 11u10O12u10thers said: "Fie
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0Thank you so much for your controbution02br
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00But I have some inquiries:02br
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001- why do you disagree on the word"belongingness"? 02br
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002- I checked the idiom, to ""raise a few eyebrows at"" and found that it means " to be surprised". But I inquire why you chose to insert "their" and delete "a few"? And why you deleted
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01cite10OrcaDeen12cite101- why do you disagree on the word"belongingness"? 12br
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102- I checked the idiom, to ""raise a few eyebrows at"" and found that it means " to be surprised". But I inquire why you chose to insert "their" and delete "a few"? And why you deleted the preposition "at" although it is part of the idiom
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0Thank you for your help, it really helped alot02br
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00About belongingness, i really did not find it in a dictionary, but found it while browsing google to check if it is used or not and found it in some sites so I used it02br
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00About the idiom, i'm quite ok and convinced wz it02br
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00About the meaning that You can't get( b
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01cite10OrcaDeen12cite10About belongingness, i really did not find it in a dictionary, but found it while browsing google to check if it is used or not and found it in some sites so I used it12blockquote
10Just because you can find a "word" used on Google doesn't make correct. It could easily be someone having fun with the l
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0Hi,02br
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00 I am not sure that "belongingness" exists in English .But I checked it in articles through Google.But i'll try to filter information I get from there and that's why I asked in this forum about it02br
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00so,THANKS for bringing this to my mind0-
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