Franco
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prove that [(sin 2 t / sin t )] - [( cos 2t ) / cos t ] = sec t and sin (2t - t ) = sin t
17 years ago
Can you explain me the difference between "the clock fell onto the roof of the car and bounced through the windscreen or bounced on the windscreen" If a clock smashes through a window does it crash/break/smash the window? What is a synonym for smash throu...
15 years ago
He made a drug that could separate the good from the evil (meaning: the good and evil side of human personality)? A few days later/after/ afterwards? He transformed into Mr Hyde He transformed himself into Mr Hyde? While she was sitting on the bus she was...
15 years ago
1)Animals have the same right to life as humans. Animal testing means to cancel the right to life of animals 2)I use the internet for school research/for homowork/for doing/to do my homework or some school research/to cheat at school/to search for informa...
15 years ago
I hope you could answer some of my questions this time Can you say: I use the Internet to do my homework researches or is it better to say for doing my homework research/for homowork research? After a little period OR after a short time OR after a while ?...
15 years ago
Is it correct to say He became too tired to carry his friend on his rope and decided to cut it 1)Though with a broken leg he managed to arrive at the camp by moving his hands and knees OR is it OK to say with his hands and knees. Could you omit by before...
15 years ago
Can you check the following sentences,please? 1) The sight of nature breaks (OR breaks in upon) the poet's mood (OR state) of loneliness which characterized the beginning of the poem 2)Nature is presented as a living presence (OR being), according to a pa...
15 years ago
1)The ship reminds of two well-known medieval themes: the Ship of the Fool and the Ship of Death (Is remind correct or is it better to use is derived from??) 2)During the ballad (better in the/within the ballad??) are also present (and not presented) such...
15 years ago
1) The albatross as well as the spirits, the angels and the sea monsters are other supernatural elements (Is it correct or is it better to say "Other supernatural elements include...)? 2) The poet makes order (is it correct??) in a world which was pointle...
15 years ago
1) The poet's initial mood Or state? of solitude turns into happiness 2) The flowers are introduced/described in the first stanza ( can you use PRESESENTED???) 3) Nature is presented as something positive, as a friend and a comforter to man (is it correct...
15 years ago
1) The wedding guest hadn't chosen to hear the mariner's tale 2) The storm changes the course of the ship (it it correct to use "course") and is represented as a huge bird (is as correct?) 3) The flowers help (better enable??) the poet to think about his...
15 years ago
1) 2025 is it only two thousand and twenty-five or could you also say twenty twenty-five? 2) in 2000 (is in two thousand/in the year two thousand) 3) How many films did he appear in? Or In how many films did he appear? 4) Which part did film director.. of...
15 years ago
1) at five years old he went to live in Mexico (or at the age of five is better???) 2) The group dissolved (and not was dissolved??) 3) What did film director offer to him? (.. Answer: the part of Frodo AND not offer him???) 4) He played (or he acted) in...
15 years ago
1) He was asked to sort out the mystery about the theft of a ring from Peter's room (is it correct to use theft?) He had to find the thief of a ring from... (is it correct to use thief?) 2) If I want to help with the plastic bag problem, I have to (or is...
15 years ago
1) There have been many problems with plastic bags also in Chile, the Atacama Desert and ,, (is "also" correct?) 2) The Irish Government introduced a ten pence tax on each plastic bag (or Per plastic bag?) people use (or used?) 3) He thought that human be...
15 years ago
1) At first he lowered his friend on his rope down the mountain (is it correct to use lower) but as his friend was pulling him off the mountain he decided to cut the rope. 2) He decided to cut the rope so as not to fall off the mountain (is "so as not" co...
15 years ago
Can you help me express these two sentences in a better way? 1) He thought that men are divided into a part of good and a part of pure evil and he wanted to separate them 2) The American Civil Rights M. fought with demonstrations against the laws of socia...
15 years ago
Can you check these two sentences for me? 1) he dreamed of equality of all people 2) he fought against evil 3) the Black Power Movement was more militant (OR a more militant group?) 4) A homowork agency does his homework in Paul's place (instead of for Pa...
15 years ago
Can you check these sentences for me? 1) They search to not throw away so manu plastic bags (they try not to throw so many .... away??) 2)He enjoyed not having a conscience (he enjoyed having no conscience) 3)he couldn't keep in control that situation bec...
15 years ago
Can you check the mistakes in the following sentences? 1) The American Civil Rights Movement was a fight organised by M.L.King (was a non-violent organisation led by M..???) 2) It was different from the Black P Movement because the first (better the forme...
15 years ago
1)A considerate person is someone that (or only who is possible) always thinks of others 2)In Montgomery , Alabama, black people were not allowed to do a lot of things, for example go to restaurants, sit in the front of buses (is for example correct: can...
15 years ago
1)Every person that uses a plastic bag (better everyone who uses a plastic bag, has to pay ten pence; is "every time you use a plastic bag, you have to pay...??? correct) 2) one of his servants (also one among his servants?) 3) he said that when the guilt...
15 years ago
Can you check these sentences, please? 1)If you want to reduce this problem (a synonym for reduce?) 2)He thought that in a man there are good and evil parts (there is a good and an evil part) 3)You have to reuse them (instead of use them more times) 4)He...
15 years ago
1)Don’t use plastic bags but you must use….. (but use …… instead?) 2)He enjoyed the results of his experiments until he murdered an old man 3)He had to find which of/among Mr Williams’s servants had stolen a ring from.. 4)Civil rights for black Americans...
15 years ago
He would like his children to be judged (is it correct or shall I replace it with wanted??) Human's skin : human tissue Thanks
15 years ago
1) He was asked to solve a mystery on Peter Williams's farm (is on correct) because his ring (is it clear it is Mr Williams's?)had been stolen from his bedroom 2)She sat down in an empty seat (or on an empty seat) and a man asked to leave him the bus seat...
15 years ago
1) The thief didn't have or hadn't a dirty thumb from the soot on the bottom of the saucepan because he hadn't put his thumb on it. He was the only one who had a clean thumb. 2) His hands didn't get dirty from the soot (is from correct?)CAn you say he did...
15 years ago
1) The clock landed on the roof of the car (can landed be replaced by fell on/crashed on??) 2) The cat hurt the clock that smashed through the window (can "crash" replace smash through) 3) Can you say "he asked for the laws of segregation to be abolished?...
15 years ago
Can you check the following e-mail for me, please? 1)I am terribly sorry for e-mailing you your new timetable for the period .. later than I promised you 2)As the 8th December and the 5th January were holidays, you will have to catch up two hours in the s...
15 years ago
1) He wonders whether he should make a stand (do you know a synonym?) against the mass of troubles and by doing so put an end to them. Hamlet is aware (realises??) that the end of the troubles can be brought about either by killing the king or by taking h...
15 years ago
1) The first player is asked to recite a few lines concerning the death of Priam and the grief borne (a synonym?) by his wife Hecuba.H wonders at (?)the player’s skill at (?) conveying sorrow. Actually, he wonders how he could convey such a sorrow for a p...
15 years ago
1) Oliver Twist tells the adventures of a poor young boy, born of an unknown unmarried woman who died delivering him to the world.His name is symbolic (?) of the reversal of fortune (?) he experienced. 2) He was brought up in a workhouse. Workhouse were p...
15 years ago
Can you check the following sentences: 1)Though the family finances were put partly to rights (can you tell me a synonym?), his mother insisted on his working at the factory(or that he should continue working at the factory?) 2)His father rescued him from...
15 years ago
1) If you listen to a normal conversation in English you will realise that large sections fall into (??) perfect iambs. An iamb is the most common stress pattern in English and consists of (is made up of??) an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed on...
15 years ago
1)When passing through the woods, we must pause to see the squirrels busy (in?) hiding their nuts in the grass 2) "No time to turn at Beauty's glance, and watch her feet, how they can dance (Is the rephrase correct? We have no time to see the beautiful gl...
15 years ago
Do you happent to have a comment on this poem taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass?" We Two Boys Together Clinging WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going—North and South excursions making, Power enjoyi...
15 years ago
Can you let please me know the meaning of these lines I am not sure of? "We Two Boys Together Clinging Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutching.... No law less than ourselves owning—Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking...
15 years ago
Can you check these sentences for me please? 1) Man cannot be sure of what will happen after death and has no proof that human suffering stops (?) or will stop at that point 2) The medieval perspective in which Hamlet sees death as physical liberation fro...
15 years ago
I forgot to include these sentences: 1) I use the Internet to be kept up-dated (or to keep-up-to date) on the latest news (meaning to be informed on the ...) 2) is the spelling and word choice of the following food correct? Saurkraut (without plural), som...
15 years ago
Can you check the following statements for me, please? 1) What image does Hamlet use to express the fear of something after death ? The image of the "unknown country" from where no traveller comes back 2)What prevents men from committing suicide? Accordin...
15 years ago
1)The ghost is sympathetic to Gertrude )is sympathise with a synonyn?) 2)In the morality play characters stood for human qualities, either good or bad (or good and bad??) 3)show sympathy for someone, to feel pity for (is "to pity someone also correct?) 4)...
15 years ago
1) Poe believed that the greteast art was that which had to do with emotions. Thus, the subject matter of many of his tales deals with (??) living corpses, frightening experiences and with situations which the reader has never encountered before (?) 2)Poe...
15 years ago
Can you please help me rephrase a poem by Whitman or at least check if my sentences are correct? 1)We were holding each other tightly without ever leaving each other (??) 2) We enjoyed going up and down, making excursions, being powerful (??) 3) We strech...
15 years ago
I would like to know which of the following spellings are correct: two grapefruits or grapefruit two kiwis or two kiwifruits Is the plural of fruit and kaki possible? On the basis of your last correction, can you check the rephrasing of this line "Misers,...
15 years ago
Can I say We alarmed the stingy (mean), the servants and the priests with our forays. Thanks
15 years ago
Can you check if my rephrasing of Emily Dickinson's poem (The wind tapped like a tired man") is correct? 1) The wind tapped (or hit his fingers lightly) like a tired man (on the poet's door??) and she, like a host, invited him to enter 2) To offer him a c...
15 years ago
Can you help me rephrase the poem “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath? 1) The mirror is silver, exact and four-cornered. It has no preconceptions. It is truthful, not cruel. It swallows whatever it sees, unmisted by love or dislike (How can I replace unmisted?) It h...
15 years ago
Can you help me rephrase some lines of Eliot’s “The Preludes I-II”? 1) The poet is describing what he sees as the winter evening settles down. He also lets the reader smell what he smells, like the odour of the steaks in passageways (a synonym?). It is di...
15 years ago
Can you check how I rephrased the poem "Leisure" by Davies? Thanks 1) The poet meditates upon the meaning of life and says that we (full of care?) don’t have time to admire the beauty of nature. 2) In particular, we don’t have time to stand under the tree...
15 years ago
Can you correct the following rephrase from a grammatical and lexical point of you? The poem is narrated by the mirror and has a balanced structure with two verses mirroring each other. This emphasizes the idea of the first stanza, which describes the mir...
15 years ago
Can you check for the last time if everything is correct? Thank you very much in advance!!! The poem is narrated by the mirror and has a balanced structure with two verses mirroring each other. This emphasizes the idea of the first stanza, which describes...
15 years ago
Can you check for the last time my rephrase of this poem and I suggest me an appropriate synonym for soldiered and turf? Thanks We were holding each other tightly without ever leaving each other. We enjoyed going up and down, making excursions, being powe...
15 years ago
Can you check this paragraph for me, please? 1) A few weeks ago my cousins had an incredible sequence of accidents; he wanted to make a coke for his mother but he couldn't reach the eggs and the flour that were in a very high part of his kitchen's furnitu...
15 years ago
Can you help me correct this phrases 1) Yesterday something really funny and unusual happened to me at the swimming pool 2) I was swimming when I saw a guy that was climbing the diving board's stairs (?). It was very convinced (?) and he jumped the last t...
15 years ago
Can you please tell me if all the sentences are grammatically correct? 1) Yesterday something really funny and unusual happened to me at the swimming pool 2) I was swimming when I saw a guy that was climbing the diving board's stairs (?). It was very conv...
15 years ago
Thank you for your help. Can you help me find the mistakes in this paragraph please? 1) Last week we tried to go to the stadium, but during the trip we ran into very strange problems 2) First of all, a tyre burst, so we stopped the car, and we tried to ch...
15 years ago
Can you help me check this paragraph? 1) An afternoon we were at my friend Paul’s house to do our homework. We usually do homework together, and we were surfing the net because we had to find information for a school research. 2) On the table there was a...
15 years ago
Can you help me check this paragraph? Thanks 1) When I was a child, I went to the seaside with my family and some of my parents’ friends. One day it was very hot so I decided to go into the water with my friends and our small inflatable mattress. 2)We swa...
15 years ago
Can you help me check this paragraph? Thank you for your last corrections! 1) It was midnight. We were walking through the street. There wasn’t anybody, everything was quiet, when a fast car jumped out of the darkness. 2)The car crashed against a wall and...
15 years ago
Can you check these sentences for me and help me find suitable synonyms? 1) Julius Caesar has just come back from a victorious (or triumphant) battle against his rival Pompey 2) Where has J. just come back from? 3) Some of his followers plot (synonym) aga...
15 years ago
Thank you for your last suggestions Can you tell me if the following statements are all possible? 1) Antony stirs the crowd against Brutus 2) He turns the crowd against him 3) He urges/incites the crowd to mutiny against him 4) Is this sentence still wron...
15 years ago
Can you help me check the mistakes in the following paragraphs, please? 1) The biker who was in the first place was in a few metres from the arriving line but he put his hands in the air for cheering and he fell over because he lost control of the bike. T...
15 years ago
As agreed, I'm posting you the paragraphs for correction. Thank you in advance for your invaluable help. 1) During a bike competition the biker who was going to cross the finishing line wanted to cheer his supporters and took both his hands off the handle...
15 years ago
Can you check my punctuation and the word choice? Thank you. 1) Coketown was a town of red brick blackened by industrial pollution. Actually, it was dominated by chimneys from which smoke coiled up like snakes. 2) Dickens uses two similes to describe its...
15 years ago
Can you (Writeateacher) check the punctuation and word choice of my last three paragraphs please? Thank you in advance 1) Coketown was a town of red brick blackened by industrial pollution. Actually, it was dominated by chimneys from which smoke coiled up...
15 years ago
Can you (Writeacher) check the following sentences, please? 1) During my winter holidays (can you say “in my….. “, is the singular possible?) 2) I stayed with my cousin (or it is better to say: I spent time with ..) 3) On Mondays I went to the volleyball...
15 years ago
Can someone help me find the mistakes in the following sentences? The sentences are short but I want to be sure about the correct use of the prepositions. Thanks 1. I went skiing with my dad to St Moritz (OR in St Moritz) 2. At Christmas (or On Christmas...
15 years ago
As agreed, I'm posting you the sentencens I'm still not sure of. Thank you in advance 1) I spent my Christmas holidays chatting with my friends on my computer and playing songs on my guitar. I also played on my Nintendo-DS and I went to volleyball trainin...
15 years ago
Can you check the following two paragraphs please? Thank you in advance 1) Last year, on Christmas Day, my relatives came to my home (house) for lunch. At the end of the lunch my mum stood up to go the kitchen to get the dessert. She was talking and she w...
15 years ago
Could you check these two paragraphs for me, please? Thank you 1) Many years ago, when my uncle was only six years old, while he was playing on the balcony, which was on the second floor, one of his toys fell down and crashed on the ground. He wanted it b...
15 years ago
Thank you very much for the help. Can you check these two other paragraphs, please? 1) Once, last year, I was (too?) late for school and I had to run to catch the bus. But the day before it had snowed a lot and that morning the road was icy. (While I was...
15 years ago
Thank you very much for your corrections! Can you help me checking these other two paragraphs? 1) Last summer at my friend’s house, before a party, his dog was closed in a room where there was a lot of food for the dinner.(Better: the accident occured at...
15 years ago
Thank you very much for the help with the run-on sentences! Can you check these three last paragraphs on accidents, please? 1)Once the dog escaped because there was a storm and it was afraid of lightning. It jumped over the fence and it went into my neigh...
15 years ago
Can you check the use of the following phrasal verbs, please? 1) First, Betty tells her husband Fred that Martin, her husband’s friend, saw him cheating on her with another woman. Fred begs her not to listen to Martin because he is a liar and he is making...
15 years ago
Can you check if the following sentences are correct and tell me how I can make them less wordy? 1) She tripped over a Christmas light wire and sprained her ankle 2) There was a police car waiting for him for a traffic offence. (OR: He was booked for spee...
15 years ago
Can you check the mistakes in the following paragraph please? One day, at primary school, a stressed and bored nine-year-old girl didn’t know what to do as she found school lessons really uninteresting. So she decided to do something amazing to surprise t...
15 years ago
I forgot these other two sentences for you to check. 1) Her younger son did a one-week skiing course for beginners. 2) He also took private skiing (ski) lessons in the afternoon for a week 3) THe ski instructor taught him how to snowplough without ski pol...
15 years ago
Can you check the word choice in the following sentences? 1. We never did make to the stadium that day. 2. When the dog was jumping back on his pillow, he dragged the laptop with him. The laptop fell into the dustbin, which overturned spilling everything...
15 years ago
Can you check these very last sentence of the day, please? 1) One day (and not once)the thieves jumped through the window of my house 2) One day the thieves got into my house through my bedroom's window. Actually, I had left it open through negligence. 3)...
15 years ago
Can you check these 6 paragraphs, please? 1) During my Christmas holidays I helped my mum dress the Christmas tree and wrap up the last Christmas presents. 2) I suggested her what she should give my father as a Christmas present. 3) I went shopping for cl...
15 years ago
Can you check the following sentences please I'm not sure of? 1) On Ney Year's Eve I took part in a torch-light procession on the skis (can you say that?) 2) I played barbilliards and snooker with my friends 3)I played on (?) my pinball machine and skittl...
15 years ago
Can you check these sentences,please? 1) It was too bad you couldn't go skiing with your boyfriend 2)I decorated the Christmas tree with lights, angels, bells, snowmen, ribbon, stars and baubles. 3) Antony succeeds in stirring the crowd against Brutus 4 I...
15 years ago
Can you check the following paragraphs for me? Thanks a lot 1) I spent the first days of my Christmas holidays doing homework and studying 2) During the first weekend of my holidays I went to the seaside with my parents. The weather was nine and we enjoye...
15 years ago
Can you please tell if the word choice is correct and how I can improve it? In particular, I'd like you to consider the words in parentheses, too 1) I spent the first days of my Christmas holidays doing homework and studying 2) During the first weekend of...
15 years ago
Thank you very, very much for your help. Which of the following questions are you more likely to use? 1) How long did it take you to eat your Christmas lunch? OR How much time (How long) did you spend eating your Christmas lunch? 2)How much did it cost to...
15 years ago
Thank you very much for your last corrections. Here are some more sentences about Christmas holidays I would like you to check. 1) How long did your Chrismas holidays last? 2) How long did it take you to eat your Christmas lunch? OR How much time (How lon...
15 years ago
Can you check these sentences for me, please? 1.After Christmas I went to my second-holiday home in the mountains and I stayed there till January 30. 2.On Wednesday I returned home, because my parents were giving a party 3.My parents were having a party w...
15 years ago
Thank you very much for your last corrections! Can you please check these other ten paragraphs for me? 1)One day a man in a sport car approached a bend at top speed. He lost control of the vehicle, which jumped over a fence and fell into the river below....
15 years ago
Thank you again for your last corrections! Can you help me check these sentences please? 1) I had planned to do a lot of things during my Christmas holidays but unfortunately I didn't get around to doing them all. ( and NOT I had no time to do all of them...
15 years ago
I really hope someone can check my sentences on Christmas holidays. Thank you very very much in advance! 1) I had planned to do a lot of things during my Christmas holidays but unfortunately I didn't get around to doing them all. ( and NOT I had no time t...
15 years ago
Can you please tell me which is the best word choice in each sentence? Thank you in advance for your invaluable help!! 1.My friends gave me jewels (?) as Christmas presents. 2.On the following (or the next?) day I took the dog for a walk or for walks. I m...
15 years ago
I forgot to include these other two sentences, I would like you to check 1)I had luck with the weather. OR I was lucky/unlucky with the weather 2) In/on/over/during my Christmas holidays I went skiing (Which prepositions is wrong???) Thank you.
15 years ago
Thank you very much for your correction. I just want to make sure of the following expressions. 1)We really had fun and not We had really fun.(the adverb goes between the subject and the verb) It was a really boring day OR It was really a boring day? 2) I...
15 years ago
I forgot to include these five other doubts. 1) What did you like the most (doing) during your holidays? 2) What did you like the most OF your holidays? 3) I didn't go sightseeing in Paris because it was my third time there is it also possible "because I...
15 years ago
Can you please check if the following statements are correct? 1) What is Brutus's decision to support the conspiracy based on? It is based on the possibility that Caesar may turn into a tyrant once made king. 2) What does Brutus compare political power to...
15 years ago
I forgot to include the following two statements 1) The Elizabethans believed that everyone was linked together by a chain of rights and obligations. If someone broke the chain (Can I say "when the chain was broken"), the whole system would break down plu...
15 years ago
Can you please check my tenses. In particular, can you tell me, which tense I shall use when making a summary? Can I say “She says she was going to give a party?” when referring to her own words? Or shall I write “She said she was going to have a party”?...
15 years ago
I forgot to include the following paragraphs for you to correct. Thank you! 1) Unfortunately, Elizabeth overheard his conversation but didn’t take it hard because of her playful manners. 2) Mr Bingley soon fell in love with her. When he was asked which da...
15 years ago
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