English does stress me

[jason_els]

Thank goodness! We were worried you might have been held in the basement of some Austrian psychopath. :biggrin:

 

[tommiet]

A big dick sex site is no place to get help with your homework honey!!!

 

[Rugbypup]

A big dick sex site is no place to get help with your homework honey!!!

Fair comment but in my view the S in the title of this site is not exclusive to sex or the penis.

Help is help, I've asked and discussed equally if not more so random a subject.

 

[JustAsking]

A big dick sex site is no place to get help with your homework honey!!!

Except I have never met so many smart people in one place on the Internet as this site.

 

[Drifterwood]

Please except us from using both sides of the toilet paper.

 

[D_Jared Padalicki]

Thank goodness! We were worried you might have been held in the basement of some Austrian psychopath. :biggrin:

That is rude

 

[cdarro]

Except I have never met so many smart people in one place on the Internet as this site.

Maybe, but a pretty good share of.....well, let's just say "not so smart" people too.

 

[tommiet]

Hey as long as they're hung but you're right...I AM smart!!:stupid2:

 

[Incocknito]

To write effectively you need to:

Use capitalisation
Use techniques such as alliteration, assonance, sibilance (where applicable)
Semantic fields
Groups of three for emphasis
Short sentences for impact
Long sentences for detail
NEVER Start a sentence with the same word. Use a different word to start every sentence.

(Except very select cases where you are intentionally using repitition for effect)

Also its best to start off essays with a quote but that may not be possible if you don't know the subject matter of the exam.

For example, when I was writing essays on Keats one quote I would use was:

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

- Isaac Asimov

And that would immediately tell the reader the scope of my essay. And it also stands out because not many people memorise quotes.

What you wrote is okay at a basic level of English, to show your comprehension but it doesn't show an understanding of English writing techniques and maxims (rules).

 

[clear]

Except I have never met so many smart people in one place on the Internet as this site.

Lol...

So very true. And for the record JustAsking, I have been meaning to engage you in conversation for a very long time. So much I have yet to ask you about your unique perspective of life. I may PM you sometime to get it all started.

Anywho, the advice so far dispensed seems to be more than sufficient; to get the OP along his way.

Ciao-

T.D.

 

[Calboner]

I thought that college and high school were the same, but now it seems that college in university or so. very confusing, so probably for him too.

Americans often use the terms "school," "college," and "university" in a very careless and confusing way: e.g., many will speak of someone being "in school" when they mean that the person is studying at a college or a university. However, in the US, "high school" signifies the last four grades of the secondary education that everyone gets; "college" signifies post-secondary education, for those aged 18 and older, though properly it excludes post-graduate education (i.e., education for a degree subsequent to a bachelor's degree). The term "college" may also be applied to a division of a university, usually the undergraduate liberal-arts division, but sometimes also to the individual graduate and professional schools.

In the UK, all of these words except "university" are used quite differently. I don't know if the Britons even use the term "high school," and I am pretty sure that they don't use the phrase "in college," at least not with the meaning that it has in the US. I have heard the term "college" applied both to English public schools, such as Eton College, and to the residential institutions that make up the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

 

[D_Jared Padalicki]

Americans often use the terms "school," "college," and "university" in a very careless and confusing way: e.g., many will speak of someone being "in school" when they mean that the person is studying at a college or a university. However, in the US, "high school" signifies the last four grades of the secondary education that everyone gets; "college" signifies post-secondary education, for those aged 18 and older, though properly it excludes post-graduate education (i.e., education for a degree subsequent to a bachelor's degree). The term "college" may also be applied to a division of a university, usually the undergraduate liberal-arts division, but sometimes also to the individual graduate and professional schools.

In the UK, all of these words except "university" are used quite differently. I don't know if the Britons even use the term "high school," and I am pretty sure that they don't use the phrase "in college," at least not with the meaning that it has in the US. I have heard the term "college" applied both to English public schools, such as Eton College, and to the residential institutions that make up the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

We do that too, I always say that I'm going to school, not uni or acadamy, just school.