How would you say? 1) We saw a strange man dressing/dressed as gorilla. - What the correct form is right? 2) Growing/Grown up in a rural area, they had never experienced big-city life. - What the correct form is right? Many thanks!

IT IS NOT FAIR! How to match it in??? I am not a native speaker, for the record! I was extremely without exaggeration struggled by this exercise is following! It demands on I should "complete the centences (1-7) with the models of urban transport from the box". Here is this box of words: bicycles, buses, escalators, intercity trains, metro, river boats, trams, trolleybuses. Here is sentences where I should put these words in. In parentless - my answers where was bottom line. 1) City (buses) are gradually being replaced by electric and LPG vehicles to make them more environmentally friendly. 2) Passengers in London can travel by (river boats) to destinations along the River Thames. 3) The first electric (trolleybuses) in Ukraine operated in Kyiv. The system now consists of about 140 kilometres of tracks. 4) There are special lanes for (bicycles) to encourage more people to take up this environmentally-friendly mode of transport. 5) The majority of (intercity trains) lines run underground, and stations can be accessed from the surface via (escalators). 6) In some cities, people can travel by (trams). You can see their electric cables above the street. 7) Metro operate on domestic routes in Ukraine and you can use them to get to the biggest cities. Am I right when matching? It is entirely weird to me, because trolleybuses and trams seems are the same in our country. Some sentences astonished me in a way of its applicability of using two words from the box. I would gladly see your corrections and notes. Thanks a lot...

Can I say in that way? Hi! There are two examples. Tell me, please, what one is incorrect: 1) While Jane was decorating Christmas tree, her mum cleaned the room. 2) While Jane was decorating Christmas tree, her mum was cleaning the room. Is the last sentence correct? If the first, why?

Where are my mistakes in article? Does it sound natural as it is written by native? I was supposed to write an article in which I should answer the following: You are on an exchange trip to a school in the UK and have read the following advertisement in the school magazine. Write an article at least 100 words in which you: • describe your own experience of exam stress, • explain why the experience was stressful, • say how you coped with it and suggest another technique for coping. I would be appreciative to read your remarks and see the correction. Many thanks! Article is below: Evidently, everyone of us have ever passed the test with the tense feelings you are not going to hand in. And I was not the exception. The thoughts as "I don't pass", 'All of them will pass, but none the way will I' were absorbed into me. I remember when examiner asked me to agree contractually to a limitation of the liability and my hands was nervously shaking! My goals there were only not to scew up in front of the whole and fill in the agreement. By some miracle, I filled it in and got a sense of relief. It has to be said that by the months of hardworking, I did not pay heed to anyone's advices how should I pass the exam, especially from teachers. I was thinking that I am the smartest in terms of persevering the goals I setted, and no one should be given the advices to me. And all these guidelines were beggining to be undermined when time has come. 1 hour is left, and I'm in the itch due to thoughts as 'I'll be a pond scum if not passed' or 'Damn! I spent 2 days to learn Thales' theorem! What is it?!' That's why that exam was stressful. I was scared what if not pass. What others might think? What should I write is exam was passed perfectly, and after this experience I have became very confident of what I know. I coped with it because I knew that all I was learning was really true knowledge. It had a fundament, an 'absolut', as it is commonly reffered to. That's why I coped. But what if you have no clue at Descarte's philosophy? Do not panic. For you I have some technique: if you really were styding hard and have the knowledge of the subject is testing you, try it out to forget that this subject exists for 1-2 days untill time to pass has came. Do calming practices for settling those pre-test nerves: roll feet over a golf ball, do crunches, look outside, spin and jump. Forget about everything! And I persuade you it is working. Forget about everything you should pass! You are the smartest person I have ever known. You got this. Cordially, Alex

How to match these adjectives applicable??? My deepest gratitude if you are ready to help. I have to do one exercise that is confused me. Here is a condition: 'Match TWO or more adjectives from the box with each topic (1-5). Use each adjective only once.' When finishing this exercise, I saw that topic "feelings" has only one adjective! Where I'm mistaken in choosing? See below the adjectives, and then the topics are related with each adjective: Words are given: compulsory, confident, confused, cosy, demanding, determined, major, motivated, practical, relevant, significant, spacious, supportive, tense, unfamilliar, upset. Topics are given with these adjectives: 1) feelings: tense; 2) people: confident; demanding; determined; motivated; practical; supportive; upset. 3) events: compulsory; significant; 4) information: confused; major; relevant; 5) places: cosy; spacious; unfamilliar; Where had I a mistake? Many thanks for answering! Thank you for doing Italki better! Cordially, Alex

How to match these adjectives applicable??? My deepest gratitude if you are ready to help. I have to do one exercise that is confused me. Here is a condition: 'Match TWO or more adjectives from the box with each topic (1-5). Use each adjective only once.' When finishing this exercise, I saw that topic "feelings" has only one adjective! Where I'm mistaken in choosing? See below the adjectives, and then the topics are related with each adjective: Words are given: compulsory, confident, confused, cosy, demanding, determined, major, motivated, practical, relevant, significant, spacious, supportive, tense, unfamilliar, upset. Topics are given with these adjectives: 1) feelings: tense; 2) people: confident; demanding; determined; motivated; practical; supportive; upset. 3) events: compulsory; significant; 4) information: confused; major; relevant; 5) places: cosy; spacious; unfamilliar; Where had I a mistake? Many thanks for answering! Thank you for doing Italki better! Cordially, Alex

Is my reported speach correct? I will be very appreciated if you answered to/corrected my questions and exercise respectively. Here is conditition is given: 'Complete the centences in reported speach.' First, you'll see in direct, and then was already reported speach that was done by me. Admittedly, all 6 centences in direct speach have its own beginning in reported speach that I must continue! So, in parentheses you will see my following. 1) "I'm sorry I didn't remember to get the tomatoes, Vanessa!" My answer: Chris apologized to (Vanessa that he hadn’t remembered to get the tomatoes). - In parentheses is my following. 2) "You added sugar to my coffee already, didn't you, Peter?" My answer: Sam wondered (if Peter had added sugar to him coffee). - In parentheses is my following. 3) 'Go to the supermarket after school and buy some eggs, Jack.' My answer: His mum asked (to go to the supermarket to buy some eggs.) - In parentheses is my following. 4) 'I don't think it was me you saw at the café, Elena.' My answer: Ruth doubted whether (him Elena had seen at the café.) - In parentheses is my following. 5) 'You must hand in your essay by 4 p.m. today, Sally!' My answer: The teacher told Sally (she (must)/(had to) hand in her essay by 4 p.m (yesterday)/(that day)). - In parentheses' are my following. 6) 'Will you tell me if you hear anything, Ben?' My answer: Jenny asked (Ben to tell if he heard anything.) - In parentheses is my following. I'm not sure in appropriateness using past simple to the verb "hear" to the last sentence, when I tell, for example, you, that certain Jenny asked someone Ben that the latter 'tell [her] if he heard anything.' Isn't it sounds kind of weird? If not, will there other ways to say without changing the meaning? I know one of you have already urge to write that allegedly if we have simple tense be sure to run away to change it into past, and hence my following is right. The concern is distracted me is in indirect speach there's a conditional sentence, and after 'if' is following 'present simple' - 'hear'; in reported speach conditional gets lost, if I'm not mistaken. Or still I am? I don't get this subject completely, so I'd gladly read yours censorious remarks to my answers (mean in terms of grammar), thinkings (in terms of appropriateness) and just to my style of writing. Many thanks for answering. Thank you for your laborious work on Italki! Thank you that was when helping me, for your being, and for your being in the future! Cordially, Alex.

Is there okay with style and gramma in the letter? Correct my errors. Thanks. Condition: You are studying in Leeds and you have seen the following advertisement for a part-time job at a call centre. You are interested in applying for it, but you need more information. Write an email of at least 100 words to Mr Davis in which you: 1) Tell him why you are interested in a part-time job at the call centre, 2) Ask how many shifts you have to do a week and how long each one is, 3) Ask when you need to send in your application and when the interviews will be held. The letter: Dear Mr Davis, My purest gratitude for reading this letter. Having a considerable experience in the speaker’s area and being sufficiently successful as a communicative and empathic man, I drew attention for a part-time job at the call centre you are offering. Because of covid-19, as you may know, many lost their jobs, and labor market is used up all their offers. And I’m interested in this trade, as a breadwinner of my dearest. The only part that matters for me is how long each shift and what its quantity? The question caused by pandemic that is existing now. It’s sure, you abide by the FMLA law, thereby maintaining security of each worker. But, to be sure, I really need to know what conditions in the call centre are. Is there a disinfection after each shift? If pandemic gaining momentum, will cuts be provided to shift in terms of its quantity and duration? I would be very appreciate for answering these significant concerns. If you excuse my little audacity when asking, when I will be needed to send an application and when interviews will be held? In advertisement are following that applications and interviews are being taken and held before 25, 30 of April respectively. Is there any changes? Yours sincerely, Alex

PLEASE, check my letter for an external examination in Ukraine! Please, if you find any mistake - give me know what subjects i shoud prepare!!!! It's very significant for me to do my Enlglish better. Many thanks! Here is a condition: You have received a letter from your pen-friend in which he/she writes that he/she has been playing basketball for years. Now he/she has decided to start judo. Write him/her a letter in which you explain: 1) Whether you support his/her decision to take up one more kind of sport and why. 2) What kinds of sport are popular with your friends? 3)Whether you do any sports or watch sports competitions on TV. Here is a letter: Dear Sophie, Hi! I haven’t heard from you for ages! It seems that a strong rigour, which you adhere about a basketball – isn’t strong! It is normal to change your lifelong hobbies, philosophical thoughts or even personal beliefs, if you ask me. Oddly enough, but I endorse your decision to start judo, instead of basketball. And this implies that you’re only living, maturing, and inclined to change the bygone! So, all we sometimes change in our life former or vice versa – we’re adding something new, which can harmonize in life with the same former; thereby, your new kind of sport is great! I guess, once you treat me Japan’s sushi. And what do you think? Can you remember that Igor’s “sucking diesel”, whenever you see him? Do you reckon he still has a deal with volleyball, which he was keen on? – No way! Cricket and handball – his passion. And the same with others – all changed theirs former hobbies. Nevertheless, some kinds of sport as the same cricket, scating (especially for my dearest) and skiing are predominating, as I could notice. But I prefer handball, which I’ve been playing passively since six years old, as you might know. Didn’t you? Oh, Sophie… There’s a whole essay why I consider e-sport as sport, but, namely, I watch its competitions on TV, including also handball. For me that newest and perspective e-sport replaced handball’s admiration that was. It’s incomprehensible and really, really hard conveying feeling how I’m enamoured of it. I’ll drop you one secret: my skills are gaining momentum, and maybe I’ll go for a official trip to the Chicago Esports Festival 2020 in March very soon! So, I’ll carefully keep you informed. Warmest regards, Alex