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Anonymous
06-03-2004, 09:15 AM
Somebody please correct the following sentences at the earliest

1. I am sorry to inform you that as my classes are starting earlier than I expected, I have cancelled my ticket.
2. I never thought you can be rude to me (suggest better one). Now I too see come changes in you..
3. You are more stubborn than me.
4. I won’t take any freedom that I don’t deserve from now onwards.
5. You were never like this before. You were never cruel/ unkind to me.
6. I don’t know suddenly what happened to you, anyway the next 3 months which we are apart, we will utilize this time to understand each other better.
7. I promise I will behave more matured from today, no more childish behavior, talking or writing.
8. Consecutively you were writing the same thing for 3 days that you have hectic work at your office and you would answer my doubts. Though I wrote I was busy I used to write something.
9.Today you are testing my patience, perhaps tomorrow you will test whether I am really a mad like some people says, day after tomorrow you will test whether I have some other problem.

Thanks very much

sc231426
06-03-2004, 09:57 AM
1. I am sorry to inform you that as my classes are starting earlier than I expected, I have cancelled my ticket. (OK)

2. I never thought you can be rude to me (suggest better one). Now I too see come changes in you..

I never thought you could be rude to me. = I never expected you to be rude.

"I see come" does not work. You could say "I see ____ coming." For the second sentence, you could say, "Now I'm seeing you change," "I'm just starting to notice some changes in you."

3. You are more stubborn than <strike>me.</strike> I (am).

4. I won’t take any freedom that I don’t deserve from now onwards. (OK)

5. You were never like this before. You were never cruel/ unkind to me. (OK)

6. I don’t know <strike>suddenly </strike>what happened to you so suddenly, <strike>anyway</strike> but during the next 3 months <strike>which</strike> when we are apart, we will utilize this time to understand each other better. (OK)

7. I promise I will behave more matured (or: with more maturity) from today (or: in the future): no more childish behavior, talking or writing.

"no more childish behavior, talking or writing" is not part of the previous clause unless you add "with no more childish behavior..." If you don't want to make two sentences or add the preposition, then the colon is a good choice here since you elaborate on your meaning of "more matured."

8. Consecutively you were writing the same thing for 3 days that you have hectic work at your office and you would answer my doubts. Though I wrote I was busy I used to write something.

Meaning is unclear here. I think by "doubts" you mean "questions." I'd change the beginning to "For three consecutive days, you wrote that you were very busy..." I don't understand the second sentence. Perhaps you mean "For three consecutive days, you wrote that you were too busy at the office to answer my questions. Even though I was also very busy, I spent time to write to you."

9.Today you are testing my patience, perhaps tomorrow you will test whether I am really a madman like some people say<strike>s</strike>, and the day after tomorrow you will test whether I have some other problem.

"testing my patience" is an idiom here, meaning "putting my patience to the test" = "making it very difficult for me to remain patient." The use of "test" in the rest of the sentence does not make sense. You will need to find some other way of saying what you want to say.

"a madman" = a crazy/insane person