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Luis de la Cruz
Can you please tell me if there are any changes to make? I'm going for a casual conversational style. Many thanks!
- After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to get some water from the water cooler, but there wasn't any.
- I made plenty of food for my guests, but none of them liked it. I will try a different menu next time.
- She didn't want to sell her classic car, and no offer could change her mind. Her car was really precious to her.
- I've written down some ideas, but they're not in my Google Docs—they're on paper.
- None of the organizers invited him to the event, but he went anyway.
- This band used to visit this country often, but they haven't held a concert here since 2007.
- The white ceramic floor got so dirty that no cleaner could get it completely clean.
- No wonder you're feeling stiff now. You haven't stretched all day and have been sitting in front of the computer for hours.
- There's no way she's going to fail the college entrance exam. I know for a fact that she's been studying like crazy.
- I asked a snack bar seller in the park where the minizoo was, and he told me he had no idea—perhaps he was upset that I didn't buy anything and didn't want to tell me.
2025년 2월 1일 오전 4:52
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Hi Luis! I honestly think the sentences you have are fine!
If I were going to make any changes, they’d all be small and based on my own personal preference. I don’t think any changes are really necessary—good job!
Take your original sentence for example: “I made plenty of food for my guests, but none of them liked it. I will try a different menu next time.”
I would personally say something like: “I made plenty of food for my guests, but none of them liked it—I guess I’ll try out a different menu next time and see if I get a better result.”
One other sentence for example: “After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to get some water from the water cooler, but there wasn't any.”
Here, I would just get rid of the word “water” in “water cooler,” and say “cooler.” So: “After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to get some water from the cooler, but there wasn't any.”
Another alternative could be: “After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to grab some water from the cooler, but there wasn't any.”
Other teachers and I could go on making small changes to all of your sentences, but unless you really want to see a bunch of different variations, I don’t think any changes are necessary.
2025년 2월 1일
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Great stuff!
Some might argue it should be I had hoped to get some water, to emphasise the point.
I think minizoo should be two words
-> where the mini zoo was
2025년 2월 1일
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Luis de la Cruz
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