Correction

[Fwvo]

Please check if there is any sort of mistake in the following sentences.

1) Conrad stands supreme among his literary rivals, owing to his immortal characters.

2) Whole Europe contribute in his making.

3) When Marlow enquires the Russian, if he has ever talked to him? He replies one can't talk to him, one can only listen him.

4) His all expeditions are for hunting ivory.

5) He himself falls a prey to barbarism.

6) He becomes the man-god of the natives.

7) Man is capable to be whatever he likes.

 

[Rover_KE]

Sorry. We don't answer homework questions.

 

[Fwvo]

This isn't my homework. At least tell something about the points 2,3 and 7.

 

[emsr2d2]

This isn't my homework.

In that case, please tell us where you found this exercise (provide the source and the author). Also, we don't hand out answers here. If it's not homework, you need to tell us what you think the answers are first and then we will comment.

I can tell you this though - there is at least one mistake in six out of those seven sentences.

 

[Fwvo]

In that case, please tell us where you found this exercise (provide the source and the author). Also, we don't hand out answers here. If it's not homework, you need to tell us what you think the answers are first and then we will comment.

I can tell you this though - there is at least one mistake in six out of those seven sentences.

I'm the author of those sentences. As English is not my language, therefore, I'm skeptic regarding the correctness of those sentences. As far my opinion is concerned, It seems to me that all of those are correct except the third one and I don't have any account for that.

 

[jutfrank]

There are too many sentences to deal with in one thread.

I'll tell you straight away that number 1 is correct.

Number 2 is definitely not correct and doesn't make any sense. Can you explain in more words what you mean?

You're writing about the novel Heart of Darkness, aren't you? That's a good book. May I ask why you are writing this? What kind of text is it? Who are you writing for?

 

[Fwvo]

There are too many sentences to deal with in one thread.

I'll tell you straight away that number 1 is correct.

Number 2 is definitely not correct and doesn't make any sense. Can you explain in more words what you mean?

You're writing about the novel Heart of Darkness, aren't you? That's a good book. May I ask why you are writing this? What kind of text is it? Who are you writing for?

Yes, its novella by Joseph Conrad. I'm writing this for my own self, for mental satisfaction. Could you please tell about the last sentence and what is the reason that second sentence is not correct?

 

[jutfrank]

Apart from being ungrammatical, the second sentence doesn't make sense so we don't know what it means.

Did somebody help you with sentence 1? I find it hard to imagine that the same person could use a high level of English such as that of sentence 1 and then write a sentence like sentence 2.

 

[Fwvo]

All are written by me.

 

[Fwvo]

I'm talking about Kurtz that whole Europe contribute in his making, as he is educated partly in England and partly in other countries. How is the sentence grammatically wrong?

 

[emsr2d2]

OK, let's break down sentence 2.

1. Whole Europe - that's ungrammatical. To express the idea, you need at least three words (one of which would be "all") or four words if you want to keep "whole".
2. contribute - given that this seems to be about his education, which happened in the past, this is in the wrong tense
3. in - this is not the preposition that we use with "contribute"
4. his making - I think you're trying to use this to mean "the way he developed in later life". I don't think it works for that idea.

So now you know what's wrong with it, you can try rewriting it.

 

[abo.omar]

7) Man is capable to be whatever he likes.
Man is capable of being whatever he likes.

I am not a teacher.
I am not native.
I am me .

 

[Tarheel]

Omar, we haven't finished with sentence two yet.

Fwvo, you do better when you write short, simple sentences.

 

[probus]

Fwvo, you do better when you write short, simple sentences.

So do we all. Hemingway demonstrated this pretty convincingly.

 

[Fwvo]

Omar, we haven't finished with sentence two yet.

Fwvo, you do better when you write short, simple sentences.

Do you mean there are more mistakes in those sentences?

 

[Tarheel]

I might have to take back what I said. As a general rule, learners express themselves better when they write sentences that are fairly short. However, with one exception, you wrote a bunch of sentences that are full of mistakes. (Did you write the first one?)

:-?

 

[Fwvo]

I might have to take back what I said. As a general rule, learners express themselves better when they write sentences that are fairly short. However, with one exception, you wrote a bunch of sentences that are full of mistakes. (Did you write the first one?)

:-?

yes

 

[Fwvo]

I'm annoyed. It is being said that there are flaws, but no one bears to point out and correct them. I wasn't anticipating this attitude from this fourm. :-(

 

[Rover_KE]

Now you know why we ask that you post only one question or sentence for correction per thread.

We're already up to post #19 and we haven't finished with sentence #2 yet, because you haven't rewritten it following ems's suggestions in post #11.

When you have done that, and got it right, you can post #3 in its own thread with its own relevant title – such as Whole Europe.

We will then proceed with one sentence at a time.

I have faded out the remaining sentences in the OP to remind other members to ignore them until #2 has been resolved.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm annoyed. It is being said that there are flaws, but no one bears to point out and correct them. I wasn't anticipating this attitude from this fourm. :-(

Don't be annoyed. Be patient. Read all our responses carefully. In post #11, I told you what all the mistakes are in sentence #2 and asked you try writing it again. You haven't done that.

As we've said (twice now) in this thread, you posted too many sentences for one thread. Stick to one sentence at a time and threads will be much more logical and clear.