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I have an English writing exercise , and I would like to ask someone if he/her could correct it for me and tell me which mistakes I made. It has to contain 2 reflexive pronouns and the verbs remember and worry. This is my writing exercise (Sorry for my bad english. I come from Europe):

Dear editor of the TV guide

I would like to talk to you about a TV show called Pretty Little Liars on VIJFtv. This program normally comes out on Wednesday but I saw that it wasn’t aired this week. There wasn’t a mid-season episode or finale that’s the reason why I asked myself why it wasn’t aired. I visited their Facebook page but there wasn’t a notification that the date has been changed. It’s for myself really stressful because Pretty Little Liars is my favourite TV show ever. Did they cancel the show because it didn’t have enough views or is it because they just don’t broadcast it anymore? If they just don’t broadcast it anymore then I would like to know why. This show is amazing, that’s also the reason why I’m so worried. I just remembered that Pretty Little Liars isn’t the only show that stopped broadcasting there is also another show called The Vampire Diaries that not a long time ago stopped.
Would you mind helping me, please? I really want Pretty Little Liars and The Vampire Diaries back.

Sincerely,

Yasmine1999

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Your English isn't bad. If fact, it's quite good. Good enough for you to capitalize "English," and good enough for you to edit your own writing. Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction should be separated by a comma: "I'll go to a concert on Monday, and John will go to a museum on Tuesday." I count three of those in your exercise. Two independent clauses should be separated by a conjunction of by punctuation. They shouldn't simply be placed together. These are call "run-on sentences" because the first just continues into the next with no warning. I count three of those in your exercise.

"It's for myself really stressful" is an incorrect use of the reflexive pronoun. There are some idiomatic prepositional uses of the reflexive pronoun, e.g, "by myself" means alone, but when used as objects, their antecedent must be the subject. That's why your first use is correct: "I asked myself." "I" is the subject (the person asking) and also the object (the person asked). But in your second use, "It" is the subject (the general situation) and there is no object. "It's stressful for me" is the natural way to phrase the sentence.

I didn't find the world "worry."

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