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 #2 (permalink) Sun Dec 07, 2008 14:54 pm upon mystery |
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Hello Makareena,
Welcome to this wonderful place.
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| He climbed upon his lap for comfort |
To the best of my knowledge, lap is used with computer, Laptop. It is called so because we put it in our laps. A lap is the top surface of the upper part of the leg.
As far as
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| He climbed upon his horse and rode off.(what is the exactly meaning of “rode off” & ride away) |
is concerned, it simply mean that the person who rode the horse, went off. Off means away.
Concerning your writing, let me correct your paragraph and then you will know your weaknesses:
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Great day for all,
Every day we learn new things in our life. It is interesting and important to share your knowledge with other. It is hard to learn a new language because you are familiar with your native language. For example, like me my native language is Arabic, and I thought my language is difficult to me also even then English.(This sentence is not clear)
I am here to learn English, and I hope to find someone to help me to correct my mistakes in writing. Today when I was studying English, I found a new interesting word: “upon”. “Upon” has the same meaning of “on”. Okay this is not the problem. I continued focusing on this word, and I got more examples about it until I found an unclear sentence:
• He climbed upon his lap for comfort.
What I know about the word lap, is that it is used for computers. And the other word lab is a place to make a test and experimentations. And after a long search, I found that the word lap and lab have the same pronunciation but different spelling. (They do not have the same pronunciation, [p] and [b] are different)
• Upon arrival, they went in search of a hotel.(what did he mean by this sentence? Did he mean when he arrived he wanted to find a hotel “talking about future”?)
• Upon my word! (when should we use this word?)
• He climbed upon his horse and rode off.(what is the exact meaning of “rode off” & ride away)
Could you please help me to solve this mystery. What did the writer mean by lap in the above sentence.
If you don’t mind can you give me your opinion about my writing and what are the weak points in my writing |
By the way, Arabic is my native language, too.
Here to serve you
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 Happytofita
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Dec 07, 2008 17:16 pm upon mystery |
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Dear Happytofita,
I truly appreciate your kindness, thanks brother
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| like me my native language is Arabic, and I thought my language is difficult to me also even then English.(This sentence is not clear) |
what I mean the Arabic is difficult to me also more then English.
especially in Arabic Grammar |
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Makareena
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Dec 07, 2008 18:43 pm upon mystery |
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| Makareena wrote: |
Dear Happytofita,
I truly appreciate your kindness, thanks brother
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| like me my native language is Arabic, and I thought my language is difficult to me also even then English.(This sentence is not clear) |
what I mean the Arabic is difficult to me also more then English.
especially in Arabic Grammar |
You could say: As far as I am concerned(or in my opinion, for me,etc) Arabic is more difficult than English.
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Happytofita
I'm here quite often ;-)
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