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Adrián Pellegrino
A bad day in the airport. All begin the last Wednesday when I have to go to the airport to take the fligth to Buenos Aires City but there was a traffic accident. So, I arrived later and the boarding gate had already closed and I missed the fligth. The next flight that it was good for me, it departure in six hours later. I had to wait this time. Of course I arrived later to the other city and I lost one day of capacitation but for luck, I could take the other five course days.
12 jun. 2020 03:27
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A bad day at the airport.

It all began the last Wednesday when I had to go to the airport to take a flight to Buenos Aires City, but there was a traffic accident. So, I arrived late and the boarding gate had already closed, and I missed the flight.
The next flight that <s>it </s>was good for me<s>, it </s>departured <s>in</s><s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);"> </s>six hours later. I had to wait the whole time. Of course I arrived late to the other city and I lost one day of <s>capacitation</s> training, but <s>for</s> luckily<s>,</s> I could take the other five <s>course</s> days of the course.
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Hi Adrian!

Explanations for a few of my changes:

--I changed <take the flight to Buenos Aires City> to <take a flight to Buenos Aires City>. In English, "the" is used to talk about a specific thing, and usually it's something that the person you are talking to already knows about. "A" is used to talk about a thing in general. So, if you were talking to someone and you and that person both understood "the flight to Buenos Aires City" to refer to a specific flight (for example, the flight that leaves every Friday at 5:00), then "the" would be correct. But if you didn't have this understanding, then "a flight" would be correct. For a different example, if my friend said she wanted to to to "a bar downtown," then she is saying that she wants to go to any bar downtown. If my friend said she wanted to go to "the bar downtown," then is is saying that she wants to go to a specific bar (this could be because there is only one bar downtown, or it could mean that my friend and I have an understanding as to which bar downtown is "the bar" that she's referring to). If there was more than one bar downtown and my friend said "the bar downtown" and I didn't know which specific bar she was talking about, I would likely ask her "which bar?"

--I changed <later> to <late> a few times. Later is used for a comparison. For example, you could write "I arrived later than I wanted to" or "my friend arrived later than me." But if you don't want to include a comparison, you could just say "I arrived later." When someone just says "I arrived later," it makes me ask, "later than what?" Sometimes the rest of the paragraph answers that question, so you don't have to write it out. For example, you wrote that the other plane "departed six hours later." From the rest of the paragraph, I knew that you plane departed six hours later than your original plane.

--I changed <I had to wait this time> to <I had to wait the whole time>. I'm assuming that you mean that you had to wait for the six hours. "I had to wait this time" is not a grammatically wrong thing to say, but here "this time" refers to that instance you were at the airport, instead of, for example, the time you were at the airport last year. "I had to wait the whole time" makes it clear that it was an amount of time that you had to wait.

Espera que este te ayude! Estoy estudiando espanol y idomas no siempre estan facil!
12 juni 2020
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