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English practice - travelling around Europe
Hello to all,
in order to have some English writing practice, I'll shortly talk about the journeys I took in these last years. Corrections are welcome. ------ Rome is very popular all over the world, and many people choose it as their holiday destination. Because of traffic, pollution and poor city planning, though, it is not a very pleasant city to live in. Every time I can, I move away from Rome and travel in Italy and Europe, not in other continents because I don't like long airplane flights. In 2008 I went to Zagreb, Croatia, to visit some friends; in 2010 I went to Paris to visit my sister, who lives and work there; in 2012 I went to London with a friend. London is an enormous city and often we had trouble in finding the correct routes through it: once we went four times back and forth on the same bus!! I often travel around Italy, also. I'm an experienced chess player and often play tournaments outside Rome. Quite often, these tournaments are played in beautiful places: for example, last June I played in a beautiful city on the mountains of Alto Adige, a German-speaking region near the northern border. |
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Pretty good! The only comments I have are 1) on other continents (not in, though you say in Africa, not on it) and 2) who lives and works there.
Edit: Cross-posting with Rusty, who sees different corrections necessary Last edited by Perikles; March 03, 2013 at 11:23 AM. |
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Thank you Rusty and Perikles for the corrections. Your replies were almost contemporary: Perikles' reply came just one minute after Rusty's one!!
I'm glad that this time I made less mistakes than in my previous posts. "My sister lives and work" is evidently a mistake caused by distraction. You corrected the expression "move away from Rome" because it means leaving Rome for good, I guess? Would the sentence "I travel in Italy and Europe, but not to other continents" have been correct? Last edited by wayfarer; March 04, 2013 at 06:29 AM. Reason: I wrote "that" instead of than!! |
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There are fewer people here than yesterday There is less of a crowd here than yesterday Fewer problems, less hassle Quote:
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I travel within Italy and Europe, but I don't travel to other continents. |
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Thank you for the further explanations, Perikles, I'll take note of them. I didn't know about the difference between "less" and "fewer", and I didn't know that verbs have to be repeated when there is a "but" clause, in my language it is different.
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Now I'm unsure. More input needed. |
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If you were to use 'travel to' in the first clause, then the 'but not to' phrase would be perfectly fine. But, since you're already in Italy, you can't travel to it, so you must choose other wording. I travel around Italy and (other countries in) Europe, but I don't travel to other continents. |
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Thanks Rusty, now it is clear, when there is the same verb, but there are different prepositions, the verb has to be repeated. Another example can be: finally we decided not to walk to the park, but just to walk around the neighbourhood.
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