Corrections for Ilze
Hi there! It was lovely to read about Latvia, thank you so much for your post. Please, do tell us more! You gave us so many interesting tidbits about life in Latvia, not least in the paragraph where you spoke about money-for-information. I’m always worried about publicising that kind of information though; you never know who’s reading! Please be careful. Big hugs.
On that note, I would love to tell you about how we were reported to the local town Mayor in China last week, but much along the same lines I think it’s best if I don’t! Clearly, our errors were borne of circumstance, were not committed intentionally, and we will never repeat them.
OK, here are some English corrections (as requested!):
“Average week salary in Latvia is about 75 Latvian Lats, it is about £ 85”
- use ‘that’ for this kind of sentence: ‘The average weekly salary in Latvia is about 75 Latvian Lats - that’s about £85.’
“I like compare my country with a wonderland”
- After ‘like’, use EITHER the infinitive (‘to do’ something) OR the gerund (‘doing’ something) OR a noun. Also, it would be more appropriate to use 'I'd like...' here. With this advice in mind, could you correct this sentence for me?
Overall, your written self-expression in English is of a very high level, and you must receive many compliments on your command of English, so I won’t bore you with another compliment. ;-)
Best wishes,
Sarah
Comments
I was so chuffed, Sarah of your kind reply; I am well thank you for asking. Worplesdon is the place to be, no doubt! I admire you positive outlook on life, I also am an optimistic soul in heart. I am a working girl of 58 – turning 59 in a couple of months. It is good to read your valuable advice you give to Ilze, I am sure she appreciates it very much. Best...
It was a wonderful suggestion to have a line in between to indicate the paragraph break in the comments. I tried something like xml tags </next paragraph> style, but it turned out to be pathetic by increasing one more extra words ;-) though it is really not acceptable tag in that programming language. I would like to know one thing, is it that you have a habit of drawing line after finish writing either in the blackboard or in the notebook?. I am asking this because innovation comes in the context of what they do in their daily life but with some difference. As you can see being a software programmer I could think of using the tag style ;-).
Hi Sarah Thank you very much for compliment:) Best.. Ilze
Hi Sarah, reading your blogs gave me so many pleasure and i can learn much. So please write more if you have time. We'd like to read. Oh, i think the sentence we can rewrite as : I'd like to compare my country with a wonderland. Is that right? Hope to read your new blog soon. Best wishes from Jingjing in Beijing.
Hi Sarah, I'm Mercè from Spain, a 46 "girl". I love learnig English but I want to say "sorry" if my command of English is not so good. But I can't lose the hope for learning every day some more about this language. Thousands of thanks for helping all of us to improve our English. It's very nice to know about you and your life. Keep telling us about you!!! Bye for now. Mercè
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