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Italia Posted 14 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Is this right?

So I'm gonna tell a story and you guys correct my mistakes it's about most embarrassing moment
" so I went to college 2 weeks ago and after I met my counselor and finished talking to him I wanted to thank him and I shake his hand I give my hand to shake his hand but he didn't and he said my hand is injured and I didn't know because it wasn't covered so I was embarrassed" is this right?
  

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Hi, The first thing you need to do is to divide this into separate sentences. Start each one with a capital letter, and end it with a period. Without that, it's very hard to figure out what you are talking about.

  • Hi, The first thing you need to do is to divide this into separate sentences.
  • Start each one with a capital letter, and end it with a period.
  • Without that, it's very hard to figure out what you are talking about.
  • Clive
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Hi,

The first thing you need to do is to divide this into separate sentences.
Start each one with a capital letter, and end it with a period.

Without that, it's very hard to figure out what you are talking about.

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1.So I went to college 2 weeks ago. 2. And after I met my counselor and finished talking to him I wanted to thank him. 3. and I shake his hand. 4. I give my hand to shake his hand but he didn't. 5. And he said my hand is injured. 6.
And I didn't know because it wasn't covered. 7. so I was embarrassed" is this right I hope this helps a little?
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Hi,

1.So I went to college 2 weeks ago. 2. And after I met my counselor and finished talking to him I wanted to thank him. 3. and I shake his hand. 4. I give my hand to shake his hand but he didn't. 5. And he said my hand is injured. 6.
And I didn't know because it wasn't covered. 7. so I was embarrassed" is this right I hope this helps a little?
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No i've never studied this but i'm just tryin' to learn how to tell a story.....and I mean by covered is he didn't have a bandage wrap on so that's why i didn't know his hand was injured
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Hi,

He said his hand was injured. I didn't know because it wasn't bandaged, so I was embarrassed.

You need to be able to make correct sentences to tell a story, or to do any other kind of English writing or speaking.

Is there an
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I have no problem with reading and understanding English ....I just have some problems with speaking and yea I will take some college classes
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Hi,

Forgive me if I seem unkind. I don't mean to be.
But you really need to work on your English sentence structure if you want to do OK in college.

You can write and post some sentences here if you want to, but you need a more organized fo
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No you're not mean at all that's the truth I have to work on my english
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Clive: ".... I wanted to thank him. and shake his hand."

1. No period between 'him' and 'and'. (Guess this was a typo)
2. It doesn't seem to make sense to me.
'I wanted to thank him and shake his hand.'
Either you use 'wanted' twice (that's rather unnatural) or you just say: I wanted to thank him by shaking his hand.

LS

By the way, your English is actu
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Hi,

Clive: ".... I wanted to thank him. and shake his hand."

1. No period between 'him' and 'and'. (Guess this was a typo) I just didn't notice it. Sorry.
2. It doesn't seem to make sense to me.
'I wanted to thank him and shake his hand.' It's fine.

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