Re:I wish I could write this well
by searene on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:03AM
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I’m not a native English speaker, either. The biggest challenge for me is to write English sentences without grammatical errors. To do that, you need feedbacks that tell you whether your sentences are correct, that’s especially hard when you neither live in an English-speaking country nor have an English-speaking friend. Online language learning forums help a little bit, but they are not enough if you want constant feedbacks.
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Some feedback:
1) "Feedback" is uncountable
2) The long sentence starting with "To do that" should be split into two after "correct". As written, the clause that follows is completely standalone and there is no conjunction to connect it to the rest of the sentence.
3) This is more of a style thing, but I would expand the word "that" in "that's especially hard". For example, into "getting this feedback". Why? Because "that" should refer to some concept you already mentioned, but there is nothing in the preceding sentence it can meaningfully point to. What's hard? Needing feedback? No, getting the feedback is hard, but that phrase doesn't appear anywhere, so you have a dangling pointer :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Same here. I'd recommend tools like Grammarly or something similar (like spell correction on Gmail/GDocs). They at least catch basic errors. Although many incorrect-but-not-right kinds of errors fall through, you'll feel embarrassed much less often.
Same here. The grammar of my main language is very flexible compare to English. There is no grammatical for tenses and plurals.
Re:I wish I could write this well
by rigel_kentaurus on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:07AM
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Not sure if you did that on purpose, but you would say, "you need feedback", not making it plural
Re:I wish I could write this well
by I_complete_me on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:03AM
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I would love to be able to write as well in your language as you write in English.