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could some body tell me the wrong points in my writing?

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much / a lot of / lots of
Much is used only with uncountable nouns. It is used mainly in questions and negative sentences: Do you have much free time? How much experience have you had? I don’t have much free time.
In statements a lot of or lots of (informal) is much more common: ‘How much (money) does she earn? She earns a lot of money. You can also use plenty (of). These phrases can also be used in questions and negative sentences.
A lot of / lots of is still felt to be informal, especially in BrE, so in formal writing it is better to use much, a great deal of or a large amount of.
Very much and a lot can be used as adverbs: I miss my family very much. I miss my family a lot. Thanks a lot. In negative sentences you can use much: I didn’t enjoy the film (very) much.

source: Oxford Advanaced Learner's Dictionary

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Tax
Duty, customs, tariff, levy,
excise
These are all words for money that you have to pay to the government .
tax
money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services: income tax, tax cuts

duty
a tax that you pay on things that you buy, especially those that you bring into a country: The company has to pay customs duties on all imports.

Customs
tax that is paid when goods are brought in from other countries

tariff
a tax that is paid on goods coming into or going out of a country: A general tariff was imposed on foreign imports.

levy
an extra amount of money that has to be paid, especially as a tax to the government: a levy on oil imports

excise
a tax that is paid on some goods made, sold or used within a country: There has been a sharp increase in vehicle excise.


duty, customs, tariff, levy or excise?
These are all words for taxes on goods. Excise is for goods sold within a country. Customs is for goods brought into a country. Tariffs are on goods going into or coming out of a country, often in order to protect industry from cheap imports. Duty is more general and can be a customs or excise tax. Levy is the most general of all and can be any sort of tax or charge.
(a) tax / duty / tariff / levy / excise on sth
(b) to pay an amount of money in tax / duty / customs / tariffs / levies / excise
(c) to pay (a) tax / duty / customs / tariff / levy / excise
(d) to collect taxes / duties
(e) to increase / raise / reduce (a) tax / duty / customs / tariff / levy / excise
(f) to impose (a) tax / duty / tariff / levy
(g) to cut taxes / duties
(h) to put (a) tax / duty / tariff on sth





hobby, game, pastime
These are all words for activities that you do for pleasure in your spare time.
Interest
an activity or subject that you do or study for pleasure in your spare time: Her main interests are music and gardening.
Hobby
an activity that you do for pleasure in your spare time: His hobbies include swimming and cooking.
Game
a children's activity when they play with toys, pretend to be sb else, etc.; an activity that you do to have fun: a game of cops and robbers He was playing games with the dog.
pastime
an activity that people do for pleasure in their spare time: Eating out is the national pastime in France.


interest, hobby or pastime?
A hobby is often more active than an interest: His main hobby is football (= he plays football). His main interest is football (= he watches and reads about football, and may or may not play it). Pastime is used when talking about people in general; when you are talking about yourself or an individual person it is more usual to use interest or hobby
a popular interest / hobby / pastime
Do you have any interests / hobbies?
to take up / pursue a(n) interest / hobby
to do sth as a hobby

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Last and take are both used to talk about the length of time that something continues. Last is used to talk about the length of time that an event continues: How long do you think this storm will last? The movie lasted over two hours. Last does not always need an expression of time: His annoyance won’t last. Last is also used to say that you have enough of something: We don’t have enough money to last until next month. Take is used to talk about the amount of time you need in order to go somewhere or do something. It must be used with an expression of time: It takes (me) at least an hour to get home from work. How long will the flight take? The water took ages to boil


his / her last / dying 'breath
the last moment of a person’s life


SYNONYMS
gaze, peer , glare,
These words all mean to look at sb/sth for a long time.stare to look at sb/sth for a long time, especially with surprise or fear, or because you are thinking: I screamed and everyone stared.
gaze (rather formal) to look steadily at sb/sth for a long time, especially with surprise or love, or because you are thinking: We all gazed at Marco in amazement.
peer to look closely or carefully at sth, especially when you cannot see it clearly
glare to look angrily at sb/sth for a long time: I looked at her and she glared stonily back
to stare / gaze / peer / glare at sb/sthto
stare / gaze / peer / glare hard / intently / suspiciously
to stare / gaze / peer anxiously / nervously
to stare / gaze / glare fiercely / stonily
to stare / gaze wide-eyed / open-mouthed
to stare / gaze into space






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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
the best-known play (1962) by the US writer Edward Albee. It is about a college teacher and his wife who constantly argue and play cruel games with each other and a younger couple who visit them. In the film version (1966) the older couple were played by Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton3.


Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
an English writer of novels. She is well known for the experimental style of many of her books. She was one of the first writers to use the ‘stream of consciousness’, a way of describing a person’s thoughts and feelings as a flow of ideas as the person would have experienced them, without using the usual methods of description. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and is considered an important early writer about feminism (= the idea that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men). Her best-known novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928).


Tom Cruise (1962 )
a US actor. He won Golden Globe Awards for Born on the Fourth of July (1990), Jerry Maguire (1996) and Magnolia (2000). He is probably best known for playing a US Navy pilot in Top Gun (1986). His other films have included Mission Impossible (1996) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) in which he appeared with Nicole Kidman, to whom he was married for ten years until they separated in 2001.


Golden Globe Award n
any of several film and television awards given at a special ceremony each year since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Compare Oscar, Emmy.

Nicole Kidman (1967– ) a Hollywood actor, born in Australia. She received an Oscar for The Hours (2002) and her other films include Batman Forever (1995), Moulin Rouge (2001) and Cold Mountain (2003).
source: Oxford Cultural guide

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Idioms related to interchange2 unite 1

sort out / separate the sheep from the 'goats
to distinguish people who are good at sth, intelligent, etc. from those who are not


like 'sheep
(disapproving) if people behave like sheep, they all do what the others are doing, without thinking for themselves


a wolf in sheep’s 'clothing
a person who seems to be friendly or harmless but is really an enemy


set sth in 'train
(formal) to prepare or start sth:
That telephone call set in train a whole series of events.


bring sth in its 'train
(formal) to have sth as a result:
Unemployment brings great difficulties in its train.


(catch / throw sb) off 'balance
to make sb/sth unsteady and in danger of falling:
I was thrown off balance by the sudden gust of wind.


on 'balance
after considering all the information:
On balance, the company has had a successful year.


(be / hang) in the 'balance
if the future of sth/sb, or the result of sth is / hangs in the balance, it is uncertain:
The long-term future of the space programme hangs in the balance.

his / her last / dying 'breath
the last moment of a person’s life.


breathe your 'last
(literary) to die


famous last 'words
(saying) people sometimes say Famous last words! when they think sb is being too confident about sth that is going to happen:
‘Everything’s under control.’ ‘Famous last words!’


the last 'word (in sth)
the most recent, fashionable, advanced, etc. thing:
These apartments are the last word in luxury.


hear / see the 'last of sb/sth
to hear / see sb/sth for the last time:
That was the last I ever saw of her. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ve heard the last of this affair.


every last …
every person or thing in a group:
We spent every last penny we had on the house.


be on your / its last 'legs
to be going to die or stop functioning very soon; to be very weak or in bad condition


last 'in, first 'out
used, for example in a situation when people are losing their jobs, to say that the last people to be employed will be the first to go


last but not 'least
used when mentioning the last person or thing of a group, in order to say that they are not less important than the others:
Last but not least, I’d like to thank all the catering staff.

he who laughs last laughs 'longest
(saying) used to tell sb not to be too proud of their present success; in the end another person may be more successful

at long last
after a long time


the last / final 'straw | the straw that breaks the camel’s 'back
the last in a series of bad events, etc. that makes it impossible for you to accept a situation any longer


throw your 'hand in
(informal) to stop doing sth or taking part in sth, especially because you are not successful

throw yourself on sb’s mercy
(formal) to put yourself in a situation where you must rely on sb to be kind to you and not harm or punish you


throw sb/sth 'overboard
to get rid of sb/sth that you think is useless


fix sb with a 'look, 'stare, 'gaze, etc.
to look directly at sb for a long time:
He fixed her with an angry stare.

look / stare / gaze into 'space
to look straight in front of you without looking at a particular thing, usually because you are thinking about sth

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under the counter
goods that are bought or sold under the counter are sold secretly and sometimes illegally

over the 'counter
goods, especially medicines, for sale over the counter can be bought without a prescription

bend your 'mind / 'efforts to sth
(formal) to think very hard about or put a lot of effort into one particular thing

blow your 'mind
(informal) to produce a very strong pleasant or shocking feeling:
Wait till you hear this. It’ll blow your mind.


sth boggles the 'mind (also the mind 'boggles)
(informal) if sth boggles the mind or the mind boggles at it, it is so unusual that people find it hard to imagine or accept:
The vastness of space really boggles the mind. ‘He says he’s married to his cats!’ ‘The mind boggle

cast your mind back (to sth)
to make yourself think about sth that happened in the past:
I want you to cast your minds back to the first time you met.

cross your mind
(of thoughts, etc.) to come into your mind
SYN occur to sb:
It never crossed my mind that she might lose (= I was sure that she would win).


know your own 'mind
to have very firm ideas about what you want to do

mind / watch your 'language
to be careful about what you say in order not to upset or offend sb:
Watch your language, young man!

if you don’t mind | if you wouldn’t mind
used to check that sb does not object to sth you want to do, or to ask sb politely to do sth:
I’d like to ask you a few questions, if you don’t mind. Can you read that form carefully, if you wouldn’t mind, and then sign it.

I wouldn’t mind sth / doing sth
used to say politely that you would very much like sth / to do sth:
I wouldn’t mind a cup of coffee, if it’s no trouble. I wouldn’t mind having his money!

come / spring to 'mind
if sth comes / springs to mind, you suddenly remember or think of it:
When discussing influential modern artists, three names immediately come to mind.

mind your own 'business
(informal) to think about your own affairs and not ask questions about or try to get involved in other people’s lives:
‘What are you reading?’ ‘Mind your own business!’ I was just sitting there, minding my own business, when a man started shouting at me.

have a good mind to do sth | have half a mind to do sth
used to say that you think you will do sth, although you are not sure:
I’ve half a mind to come with you tomorrow.

mind the 'shop (BrE) (NAmE mind the 'store)
to be in charge of sth for a short time while sb is away:
Who’s minding the shop while the boss is abroad?

mind 'you
(informal) used to add sth to what you have just said, especially sth that makes it less strong:
I’ve heard they’re getting divorced. Mind you, I’m not surprised—they were always arguing.

lose your 'mind
to become mentally ill

make up your 'mind | make your 'mind up
to decide sth
They’re both beautiful—I can’t make up my mind

your mind’s 'eyey
our imagination:
He pictured the scene in his mind’s eye.

to 'my mind
in my opinion:
It was a ridiculous thing to do, to my mind.

bring / call sb/sth to 'mind
(formal) to remember sb/sth
SYN recall:
She couldn’t call to mind where she had seen him before.

on your 'mind
if sb/sth is on your mind, you are thinking and worrying about them / it a lot:
You’ve been on my mind all day

stick in your 'mind(of a memory, an image, etc.)
to be remembered for a long time:
One of his paintings in particular sticks in my mind.

mind / watch your 'step
1to walk carefully
2to behave in a careful and sensible way

have a memory / mind like a 'sieve
(informal) to have a very bad memory; to forget things easily

open your / sb’s mind
to become or make sb aware of new ideas or experiences

it's enough for mind, isn't it?
keep / stay / steer clear (of sb/sth)
to avoid a person or thing because it may cause problems






source: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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why don't you continue the discussion? did you forget that?
why don't you read my passage about sport and don't you correct the wrong points?

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Why do you think in this way ?
If you look at Thank botton you can see someones who read your text.
I individually prefer to use them .they are very helpful for me.
plz continue

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Why do you think in this way ?
If you look at Thank botton you can see someones who read your text.
I individually prefer to use them .they are very helpful for me.
plz continue

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I meant my passage about sports. nobody didn't tell anything about that. it means that all of that was right.han?

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Hi guys!
I wrote 1 paragraph about chess .please correct my mistakes.
One of my favorite sports is chess, because it like a real war and it needs concentrating.
Whenever I play chess I feel that I’m in the battle and I’m guiding my soldiers .
You can choose infinitive game or defensive game . I prefer to play defensive policy at the first, then I decorate my members as the best way, I start play infinitive policy. I think the the best beat is horse ,
because it could have unforeseen movement in predicamentt .