Please don't sleep with your face turned towards me, it's very horrible.

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"Please don't sleep with your face turned towards me, it's very horrible."

"Please don't sleep facing me, your face is very horrible."

Please check.
 

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They are both comma splices.

:)loling:)
 

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We don't tend to qualify "horrible", as in "very horrible" or "slightly horrible". Something is either horrible, or it's not.
 

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The face is horrible?
 

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That's what the man said.
He said that in his second sentence. In the first, I took it that it was "sleeping with your face turned toward me" that was horrible, for a reason ungiven. Maybe his/her breath smells.
 

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In what situation do you plan to say this to someone, tufguy?
 

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What can I say? I'm a risk-taker!
 

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Ah, I just got wind of your intended meaning. ;-)
 

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In what situation do you plan to say this to someone, tufguy?

I was practicing and got stuck. I wasn't sure about these sentences that's why I asked you.
 

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What were you practising? How to be rude to someone? Unlikely things to say when sharing a bed with someone?

Here's a suggestion - if you don't have a need to say something in your own language, it's unlikely you're going to need to say it in English.
 

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What were you practising? How to be rude to someone? Unlikely things to say when sharing a bed with someone?

Here's a suggestion - if you don't have a need to say something in your own language, it's unlikely you're going to need to say it in English.

Please help me. Could you please help me? It demoralises me please I need help. please, it hampers every thing. I beg of you guys please.
 

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ems's post was helpful, especially this bit:

'if you don't have a need to say something in your own language, it's unlikely you're going to need to say it in English'.
 
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