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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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00Today, I played chess with my closest friend, John, at the living room of my house. We had two matches and fortunately, I won. He was good at chess and it was a fierce competition but lady luck was on my side. After the chess matich, I threw myself onto the sofa and watched my favorite TV program, "Gentle Flowers" (made-up program name). At the same time, I was thinking: "Two hours later, my father will come into the house and will be asking whether I have finished my homwork. Should I get on with doing homework now?" I am pretty confident that I will have finished my homework by then because I will get on with my homework right after I finish watching this program. I expected my homework to take at most thirty minutes to complete and probably have about an hour to do other things I like. "Hmm, hmm, hmm... What should I do during that hour? Should I make spaghetti and eat to my hearts delight or should I go out and play with my friend --. If I call, I am sure he will come to play with me." As I was struggling to make a choice, the door bell rang. "Who that might be?" A fleeting thought came on that that (it??) might be my father, had come home unexpectedly a couple of hours early as he had done one or twice before this year. Hoping that it is not him, I got up to open the door and there stood a mailman with a pad, asking whether I am Mr. XXX. Relieved that he is not my father, I told him I am not he but Mr. XXX is my father and he will be home soon, possibly within two hours. He nodded his head and went along his way. I then closed the door after him and went straight to my room to start doing my homework, thinking it might be better to finish my homework early than go through one more stressful experience like that. 0-
  

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00Please organize it into meaningful paragraphs, first.0-
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0Sorry, Mr. M. I am not too sure how I should go about dividing this into meaningful paragraphs, but here is my try. Do you have any tips as to how I shoud divide it? 02br
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00Today, I played chess with my closest friend, John, at the living room of my house. We had two matches and fortunately, I won. He was good at chess and it was a fierce competition but lady luck was o
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0Just out of curiosity, why did you keep changing tenses between past and present? For example,02br
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00Hoping that it is not him, I got up to open the door and there stood a mailman with a pad, asking whether I am Mr. 02br
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00I'm not a native speaker but I don't see a reason for changing tenses like the above. Maybe native speakers do that.0-
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0Hi, I think the answer to your question is this: The part 'it is not him' in 'hoping that it is not him', is time-transcendent -- thus need not be changed.02br
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00as in your quoted sentence: 02br
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00Hoping that it is not him, I got up to open the door and there stood a mailman with a pad, asking whether I am Mr. 0-

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