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Thank you all for your help. I have another question about the same sentence I made, please. 1. Like the other Sunday mornings, they went for a walk in the field this Sunday.* Q : I guess the sentence is illogical to say people are like mornings, and it should be logically revised as 2. Like on the ...

Q : What's the most common term in English for a place where you can feel the wind blow, see trees, fields, clouds and sky, hear birds sing and do some jogging along the river? Is it proper to say " in the outskirts of the town "? Or do I have to say " in the countryside "? Than...

I made a sentence 1. Birds sang happily and the river flowed quietly (or gently, peacefully), in which some fish were swimming. and received a comment: It's not good to have the verb separating the noun ("the river") from the which-clause. Q: Does it get better if I change "in which&q...

I made a sentence: 1. White clouds lay hung in the blue sky, clear and high . and received a comment: What is clear and high? I know it's grammatical to use two "equally-emphasized independent clauses": 2. White clouds hung in the blue sky; the sky was clear and high. But I'd like more to ...

Ich esse nicht immer ins Esszimmer. Manchmal esse ich ins Wohnzimmer vor dem Fernseher. ... ins Wohnzimmer und sehe dabei fern. ( I don't always eat in the dining room. Sometimes I eat in the living room watching TV. Manchmal esse ich in der Garage in meinem Auto, um alleine zu bleiben und nachzude...

3. I lent them to my neighbour, but he told me he didn't like any of them because they were too complicated. Thank you, also to Travis explaining "narrative". "You've helped me once again." I found you've simplified a lot, including the tense change. Indeed, simplicity is beauty...

3. [He said he liked none of them] because all three of the stories were too complicated for him. 5. "all three of the stories" is confusing; it sounds to me like you're talking of three stories in a collection of several short stories rather than three individual books. Are you just look...

An unrelated question: I've made a German-English writing exercise. In two of the sentences I intend to say something like, in English, 6. Books, I think then, are just like dishes. 7. what attracts one doesn't always attract someone else. This is my sentence for 7: ▸7. Was zieht man an, zieht nicht...

I've practiced a German-English writing exercise, and this is the English part. Are there anything unnatural in it, especially the underlined parts? Thank you. 1. Several months ago I picked three books in a bookstore, supposing I'd like all three. 2. So far ( Now ?) I've finished reading all; unfor...

Ah, sorry XD I skimmed over the description so I'm glad someone who read it more closely got you a better sentence, but at least you got a small laugh out of it. No no, actually your comment has really inspired me. On one hand, my narrative is not precise enough, and OTOH the dream can indeed be in...

To make sure, in the sentence "Not until last month did I become available , pick one out and start reading it", a German speaker told me "You can't use "available" here in the sense of "having time"; you are always "available" for someone else, not for s...

If you're specifically meaning "moving house" was unsuccessful, I would use "I felt depressed that the move was unsuccessful, too." To begin with, thank you for your comment, linguistcat. I wanted to say something like what willm understood: I can't get anywhere successfully aft...

Q1: I think the sentence (I made) is grammatical? 1. In the spring I bought some books, but I didn't have time to read them until last month, when I picked one out and start reading it. Q2: How about if I want to cut it into two shorter sentences? How about 2.2.1 and 2.2.2? 2.1 In the spring I bough...

I'm not completely certain I understood everything--in particular, by "flat" did you mean something apartment-like on the bus? And I hope I interpreted the last sentence correctly. 1. I think the word I need is "platform"? (I misused "flat" as a noun.) "I stood on...

(I'd like to narrate the dream I had last night as a writing exercise. Thank you in advance for any language corrections.) At the beginning that I can recall, in the dream I was walking in a city I had never come. Having gotten off a bus earlier, I seemingly was going to the place where I'd settle m...

... the first sentence can be better merged into the second sentence as "This month I['ve] finished reading yet another book, which I'm going to introduce now." Thank you. Indeed, I didn't know very well how to use phrases like "yet another", "yet more", "yet agai...

...a book can be read a bit at a time over a very long time... Interesting and inspiring. This thought didn't come to me, either. Now I've seen it's not just a task as simple as placing "again" in a better place. Back to the original sentence I wanted to make, it's something very simple: ...

Would it be bad of me to chime in and say I my instinctual interpretation for the original sentence was, "I reread a book this month." Context would probably determine a lot with this phrase, however, and any of the other meanings put forward could also be the case. You are not the only n...

P.S. an explanation to avoid unnecessary mistakes: By saying "poet" I was sincerely giving my praise.

Then I have to ask seriously: what's the subtle differences between the first and the third meanings, please? AFAIK, they both means something like, " l read little after l had left school. But l've started reading AGAIN recently and I read a book this month." My interpretations: 1st sente...