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Namsteven Posted 16 years ago
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Receive bribery too much

- My complaints about my country are the offcials receive bribery and corruption too much. People are lacking in social awareness. Traffic jams are an everyday occurrence. All streets are flooded with a lot of water after heavy rain.

- Are these sentences grammatical and natural to say?

Thanks so much to Teachers,

Namsteven
  

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I have underlined problems: My complaints about my country are the offcials receive bribery and corruption too much. Peo ple are lacking in social awarene ss. Tra ffic jams are an everyday occurre nce.

  • I have underlined problems: My complaints about my country are the offcials receive bribery and corruption too much.
  • Peo ple are lacking in social awarene ss.
  • Tra ffic jams are an everyday occurre nce.
  • All str eets are flooded with a lot of wate r after heavy rain.
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I have underlined problems:

My complaints about my country are the offcials receive bribery and corruption too much. People are lacking in social awareness. Traffic jams are an everyday occurrence. All streets are flooded with a lot of water after heavy rain.
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Dear Mister Micawber and other members!

- What do you mean by the underlined problems? They confused you? Or They don't make sense at all? How can I rewrite these sentences more naturally?
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By underlining, I mean that there is a language problem of some kind and you should try to solve it and then post a revised version of your sentences for us to check again. That is a good way to learn: by thinking and trying. For instance, the first underlining I made is because of a sloppy spelling mistake that you should have corrected while posting the first time.

Please attempt to
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Dear Mister Micawber and other members!

- This is my revised version Emotion: smile

"My complaints about my country are the min
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You seem to have changed some things that I did not underline and created different problems. As I told you, the first underlining above was for a SPELLING mistake.

The basic problem is that your subject is 'complaints', so all of the complaints should be in the same sentence. Please try again.

My complaints about my country are the minister receive bribe too
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Dear Mister Micawber and other members!

- This is my revised version: Emotion: smile

- My complaints about my country are all
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My complaints about my country are that all the ministers receive too many bribes, the people lack common sense, traffic jams are an everyday occurrence, and the streets are usually flooded badly after heavy rains.

- By the way, Can I say "People lack social awareness" intead of "People are lacking in common sense" in this context?-- 'Social a

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