Hi guys.
I've written my first essay ever
. I
've just started learning english 7 months ago and I
haven't have a chance to write
one until now. Could someone post some correc
tions and give me
an opinion. What's wrong and what's alright? :) thanks in advance...
You are doing well for such a short time learning.
Already, it's apparent that you could spend more time on the appropriate use of the simple past and present perfect - when you get the time.
Would you like to live
[have lived] 100 years ago ?
This is a very interesting issue
[question] which can give a "yes" or "no"
[No space around quotation marks] answer without consideration. Was it good to live one hundred years ago without an electric cooker or
not?
Maybe these times were better or not?
On the one hand
, the environment was cleaner and safer 100 years ago. There
weren't problems inside the countries which were caused by politicians.
[Yes there were. 100 years ago, 1910, the world was on the brink of WWI]
People didn't kill each other as th
ey do now.
[That's true. The methods were far more primitive, but just as life-ending.] "More than 15 million people were killed, [in WWI] making it also one of the deadliest conflicts in history"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
The oceans and rivers were much cleaner than now. People did care about whole environment, there was no pollution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
Life was much easier because there were no problem with a administration. post office etc. Terrorists weren't active as now.
[100 years ago, Lenin and his thugs were planning the massacre of all non-Marxist intellectuals in Russia]
On the other hand, it is much easier and quite interesting to live in
the modern world of technical achievements. Nowadays it seems so obvious that our houses are equipped with gas, water and electricity. We would find it difficult to live without a telephone, a wa
shing machine or an electric cooker. Maybe nowadays
we have more pollution than we had 100 years ago
; maybe last century
we were safer, but we have better electricity and life is easier. Nowadays we have more acts of terrorism than before but methods of defending countries are better and effective. The production of food is more succes
ful. Travelling is much
more comfortable thanks to aeroplanes.
Communicati
on in cities is faster as well.
In conclusion, thank
s to medical achievements
[It's a mistake to introduce new material in the conclusion.
You haven't mentioned medical achievements before. The conclusion summarises the points you've already made]
and technology people live in comfort and health. Life in the XXI century is more comfortable, enjoyable and easier. I would find it difficult to live in the the XX century.
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I know is shite,
[This is not a nice word in this context, even when disguised] my first essay. If you want correct some sentences or mistakes, please do it,
I'd appreciate it. :)