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please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter



 
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please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter #1 (permalink) Wed Mar 12, 2008 13:16 pm   please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter
 

Ivy, Vivian, Jan and I had been to Africa twice last year, which were
great experience for we fours.
Climbing those high mountains which rise above the plain was a lot of fun to us...

I am hesitated, thinking if it is better to say

Climbing those high mountains rise above the plain was a lot of fun to us...

than

Climbing those high mountains rise above the plain was a lot of fun to all of us...

Please help!

Thanks

Kitty
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please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter #2 (permalink) Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:21 pm   please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter
 

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Ivy, Vivian, Jan and I went to Africa twice last year, which was a great experience. Climbing those high mountains that rise above the plain was a lot of fun for the four of us.
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please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter #3 (permalink) Thu Mar 13, 2008 17:29 pm   please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter
 

Thanks, Mister Micawber!

May I ask why it is not
"Ivy, Vivian, Jan and I went to Africa twice last year, which were great experience.", because we went to Africa twice.
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please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter #4 (permalink) Thu Mar 13, 2008 23:58 pm   please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter
 

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You are confusing imagination with grammar. You have two choices:

[We went to Africa twice last year,] which was a great experience.

We went to Africa [twice] last year, which were great experiences.
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please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter #5 (permalink) Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:09 am   please help find any incorrect prepositions and mistakes in my letter
 

Thank you so much for the help, Mister Micawber! :D
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