This one is inspired by few suggestions in my blog. I don't believe that it could be fun. I think correcting someone is tedious and boring work.

But anyway here is the idea ( it totally can be modified to whatever you think is more fun): You see somewhere a post by me with some eggregorous mistakes, you copy it here and correct the way you think is right. I would say only posts from today and newer.

I am clearly gonna put-in a lot more effort with such thread🤣. Poking fun at me, shaming me into the ground and generally doing whatever will make things stick better is totally allowed.

I on the other side promise to make to every correction some kind of follow-up post, where I apply whatever you tried to teach me. Hopefully in this way more things will stick and less effort wasted.

Put in. No hyphen.

How I would write it.

The grammar nits are going to love you Lapka! Great thread and well done in regards to wanting to improve yourself. I'll definitely be popping in as I am sure my grammar could do with some improvement.

Awefull thread.

Last sentence is fine and proper English but most native speakers would move "this way" to the end. Also helping verbs like is.

Hopefully, more things will stick and less effort "is" wasted "this way".

Not really a big deal tho.

On the one hand I feel the same way, but on the other hand.... who knows.

Helping verbs...... meehhhh..... That one will be a toughy for me, because it feels right, how I had written it. But I take it and will try to apply today.

Position of various clauses is also a sad theme. All my instincts want to put them without any order in a sentence.

Naaahhh the thing Is, that I have reread few posts of mine and it was embarrassing. I can do better. I clearly understand, that the effort has to come from me. I should at least proofread everything I post, to exclude the avoidable mistakes.

I basically agree with GM. But it makes me appreciate even more the effort other guys did put in.

Nice, a not so subtle shot at a mod. Good job!

As someone that's not a native english speaker and doesn't feel comfortable posting in OOT too much because of that, this thread makes me feel pretty uncomfortable.

How about: “That one will be tough for me, because how I had written it feels right.”

One clue: in the way you wrote it, “it” appears twice. If you can restructure clauses to avoid that mild awkwardness, it will help.

I note with amusement that I have violated my own rule!

English

It's really easy to correct someone's English but unless we can explain—or you can understand—why something is incorrect or better another way, just correcting you doesn't do you much good in the long run. It's good that you recognize this because it's the only issue that stands out with your English: you generally have all the right words in the sentence, but they're not always in the right order. For example, instead of "all my instincts want to put them without any order in a sentence," we'd say, "all my instincts want to put them in a sentence without any order"; or actually, "all my instincts want to put them in a sentence without (any) regard to order," or "without worrying about order."

I don't know what the general rule is that determines the correct order in this case, other than it sounds right one way and not the other to a native English speaker. "In a sentence" and "without regard to order" are both adverb prepositional phrases, so how do we know which one comes first? I can come up with a lot of rules that are true in most cases, but they all seem to have some exceptions, so I'm not sure what the general rule is, probably something like this.

Word and phrase order is much more important in English than in some other languages like Russian, because we don't (for the most part) have alternate case endings which make referrals more clear.

I’m with Greg on this. I know very few actual grammar rules but I know how to make the language sound like I want it to.

lapka,

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/gra...rases-position
you = object
see = verb
post = object
somewhere = adverb

You see a post somewhere

by me = prepositional phrase modifying object "post" which could go either before or after the adverb

You see a post by me somewhere (best) or
You see a post somewhere by me (ok)

How about “You see one of my posts somewhere.”

I like lapka's phrasing, especially when she's on tilt over MLY.

@El D: “you” is the subject of that sentence, isn’t it?

A+ for rephrasing in order to avoid the passive voice. That was the first thing I learned in grad school. I'm not sure why it took so long for someone to explain that to me.

TY, sir. I avoid passive as I would the plague. Judge Alex Kozinski, he of recent resignation fame, taught me that in such a way that I’ll never forget it.

Lapka, further example:

Passive: MLYLT is loved by lapka

Active: lapka loves MLYLT

If we were writing about lapka, I'd use the latter. If we were writing about MLYLT, I'd use the former.

I'm an English teacher.

You want Skype lessons, send me a PM.

Are you asking or telling her?