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[existenz]

There are several main purposes for this English project. All centered on improving and enriching our English language by learning new expressions and terms. Although some of these terms touch on our lives, unfortunately, we are not familiar with them. Additionally, we meant to improve our general knowledge in political and cultural issues, especially, the ones which are close to us.

My teacher said it doesn't make any common sense ;[

can anybody help me to fix it ?

[LucentShade]

Although there are a few corrections that I would make, this paragraph makes enough sense to be understood.



There are several main purposes for this English project, all focused on improving and enriching our English language by learning new expressions and terms. Although some of these terms affect our lives, we are unfortunately not familiar with them. Additionally, we mean to improve our general knowledge on political and cultural issues, especially the ones which are close to us.

The original phrase "All centered on improving. . ." was a sentence fragment, so I joined it with the previous sentence. This links it to the subject "purposes."

touch on>>affect is a minor style change that makes the phrase more formal.

meant>>mean: This is talking about the things you are doing or are planning to do, so you need the present tense, not the past.


Sorry, the HTML codes aren't working for me, otherwise I'd highlight the changes.

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[existenz]

thanks a million !!!

I am so happy to know I have common sense, since my teacher said I don't have