
26-Dec-2008, 10:25
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Re: this is my rambling writing about my cats Quote:
Originally Posted by webdweller Thank you for your suggestions. Are those all the changes that you think are necessary?
Frankly, I'm somewhat surprised at how little the passage needed to be changed. In writing this passage for review by other people in this forum, I tried to experiment with many new words, phrases, sentence structures and usages that I DEEM appropriate and idiomatic (based on my sense of English) but don't know for sure if in English, they are acceptable or not. They include: "sliding door," "meowed loudly and repeatedly," "a demonstration for food," "put into the fridge for preservation," "shovel the food to both sides to create a "buffer zone" which had no food" (<-- Do you really understand this description?) and "both of them saying in one voice."
Are all the usages above correct and idiomatic? | You didn't need "a demonstration for food" because it would soon be obvious what the cats were hollering for. (Say speak with one voice.) You made some good choices. All in all it's not bad. (Anybody who has lived with a cat will understand it.)
I wouldn't say it's a rambling writing. It's quite coherent. |