wlokiczyj
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- Mar 17, 2015
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- Student or Learner
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- Polish
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- Poland
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- Poland
Hello, would you kindly take a look at this short letter ?
I'm not so sure about when to use perfect or where the past simple is sufficient.
Dear Thomas,
I'm sorry about not writing to you for such a long time! At least I' ve got some great news to tell You. Me and my class has organised a charity auction last week! Actually, it was me who came up with the idea, and I was leading the whole auction.
During the preparations, we have encountered quite a problem. We couldn't receive enough interesting things for the auction, from the people at school. So a girl from my class decided that we should make some handcrafting. It has turned out to be a wonderful idea! Some of us created paintings the others did some funny T-shirts, one girl even sewed a beautiful doll. The attendance surpassed our expectations. There is no need in telling you that the handmade things were the ones most popular during the auction.
Did I do some grammar mistakes ?
Or maybe have I done some mistakes in the letter ?
As You see I'm not so sure about using this tenses.
Could You advise me a way to improve this particular aspect? I'm working with "Cambridge advanced grammar in use", although it's a great book, there aren't many examples per topic.
Thank You.
I'm not so sure about when to use perfect or where the past simple is sufficient.
Dear Thomas,
I'm sorry about not writing to you for such a long time! At least I' ve got some great news to tell You. Me and my class has organised a charity auction last week! Actually, it was me who came up with the idea, and I was leading the whole auction.
During the preparations, we have encountered quite a problem. We couldn't receive enough interesting things for the auction, from the people at school. So a girl from my class decided that we should make some handcrafting. It has turned out to be a wonderful idea! Some of us created paintings the others did some funny T-shirts, one girl even sewed a beautiful doll. The attendance surpassed our expectations. There is no need in telling you that the handmade things were the ones most popular during the auction.
Did I do some grammar mistakes ?
Or maybe have I done some mistakes in the letter ?
As You see I'm not so sure about using this tenses.
Could You advise me a way to improve this particular aspect? I'm working with "Cambridge advanced grammar in use", although it's a great book, there aren't many examples per topic.
Thank You.
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