Diary - My home phone didn't work anymore

[Maybo]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

My home phone didn't work anymore so I went to a electronics shop to buy a new one. When I asked the shop assistant if they had any home phones, he answered that they don't sell them in this shop anymore and asked me to check their online shop. I was quite surprised that they didn't have such essential thing. Then, I browsed around, and I guessed they sold only expensive products in the shop, maybe because of the high rental cost.

 

[Tarheel]

Are you saying that you still have a landline?

 

[Maybo]

Are you saying that you still have a landline?

Yes.

 

[Tarheel]

My home phone didn't work anymore, so I went to an electronics store.to buy a new one.

(I wrote that from memory.)

 

[Tarheel]

When I asked the shop assistant if they had any home phones he said that they didn't have any and suggested that I try the online shop.

 

[Tarheel]

I was quite surprised that they didn't have such an essential thing.

 

[Tarheel]

I browsed around, and then I guessed that they only sell expensive items in that shop -- maybe because of the high rental.

How do you know how much they pay in rent?

 

[Maybo]

How do you know how much they pay in rent?

Sometimes newspapers reports the rental in that district.

 

[emsr2d2]

Recently, my home landline phone didn't work anymore stopped working so I went to an electronics shop to buy a new one. When I asked the shop assistant if they had any, home phones, he answered said that they don't sell them in this shop anymore and asked me to check their online shop. I was quite surprised that they didn't have such an essential thing. Then no comma here I browsed around a bit, and I guessed realised they sold only expensive products, in the shop, maybe because of the high rental cost rent they have to pay for the shop.

 

[Maybo]

What’s the difference between ‘rent’ and ‘rental’?

 

[emsr2d2]

What’s the difference between ‘rent’ and ‘rental’?

What differences do you find when you look those two words up in several good dictionaries?

 

[Maybo]

What differences do you find when you look those two words up in several good dictionaries?

Rental: an arrangement to rent something, or the amount of money that you pay to rent something
Rent: a fixed amount of money that you pay regularly for the use of a room, house, car, television, etc. that someone else owns

I think the "rent" emphasises regular payments.