Christmas is coming

[Epelina Gultom]

Hi...Aland I want to ask about: So we have traditional happy and also a moral, which today we might direct towards all those bankers with their annual bonuses.
Many Thanks

[Ha]

Dear Alan,
I cannot understand this phrase "that our Edward had his wife incarcerated (imprisoned) on the grounds of insanity -- hers, that is."
I read your essay and smiled by myself regularly.
Thanks for your Christmast gift.

[Alan]

Hi,

'A traditional happy ending' - this means that 'The Christmas Carol' ends as all good stories with a happy ending because Scrooge changes from being mean to being generous,. The 'moral' in the story is like a lesson because it teaches us that money doesn't necessarily bring us happiness and that's something our bankers should learn when they get these 'bonuses' (extra money) for their work.

Alan
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[Alan]

Hi,

We learn that Edward has his wife put into prison because she was mad (insane). He says that she was insane and that he wasn't.

Alan
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[Ha]

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My name is Ha. I come from Vietnam, a small beautiful country in Southwestern Asia.
I have some phrases in your second essay that I cannot figure out.
- " who valued his judgment on his writting" Wihichperson does "who" , the first " his" and the second "his", Knebworth or Dickens.
- Does "put on plays" mean " set up plays"?
- " get everyone up on stage" means " Dickens gave amateur artists a professional role on stage" or " he wrote stories about everyone"?
- What does " Dickensia" mean?
- I cannot find the word " tightfisted" in Oxford Dict., can you explain ?
- Who was Cratcht who appeared at the ending ofth essay?
- And the last question, Can you express more clearly the meaning of the last sentence"So we have a traditional happy ending and also a moral, which today we might direct towards all those bankers with their annual bonuses!"
I will read your essay regularly for enjoyment and improving my English.
Thank you for your time and effort.

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[Ayham]

Thank you MR ALAN for your nice essays,but i have a simple question,i`d like to speak english fluently like an english or american people is it possible to do that?or impossible,thank you, and i wish to have an english or american friend to make with him all the time to make a nice conversations
waiting your answer.


thank you so much

sincerely,

AYHAM MOHAMMED

[Alan]

Hi Ha,

I have answered your questions in bold letters:

[Vmahdizadeh]

dear alan
this is part of my article:
can you help me to check grammar of sentence:
thanks alot

Pathogenicity Test
Pathogenicity of M. phaseolina isolates was evaluated on common bean, Line D81083. For inoculums preparation, rice seeds were soaked in water for 1 hour, transferred to glass bottles, autoclaved two-time with 24 hour interval, inoculated with 2-cm- diameter plug and incubated for two weeks and then dried in temperature 45 for three days, crushed and weighted 6 gram per isolates. Inoculum was evenly mixed with 3 cm surface soil of 10centimeter pots. Seeds were sterilized with 2% sodium hypochlorite for 2 min and then rinsed in sterile tap water and planted 5 seed per pot. In the control treatment, sterilized rice powder was used. After 70 days, some indexes such as shoot wet weight, shoot dry weight, root wet weight, root dry weight, plant height, chlorosed leaf percent, defoliated leafs percent and root volume (key 1-4 defined) were recorded. Index damage percent was calculated with adding chlorosed leafs and defoliated leafs.

[Alan]

Hi,

Many of the words are new to me and so I can't really comment on their correctness.

I would only suggest corrections to the following: 'on common bean' = on the common bean/ 'two-times' = twice/
'in temperature 45' = at a temperature of/ 'weighted' = weighed/'5 seed' = 5 seeds/'with adding' = by adding. The plural of 'leaf' is 'leaves'.

Alan
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[Vmahdizadeh]

Dear Alan
Hello
How are you?
i didn't think that you help me.
i am so glad and just can say your help be very usfull.
many of words of this text are prophisicinal.
i am very poor in english, near 4 next mounth, after passing PHD exam, i will have time and i will be obligated to learn english. i hope to continue your lesson in this website,
a question : where are you from? your home language is English?
i sm sohrab,student of mycology in iran.

[Cts0908]

Thank you for the story, Alan!
I really liked it, especially the way you wrote about your taking part in the performance. And I'm thinking... of putting up a new play with my students. Anyway, it is always fun! :D

[Bonkir]

Thank you very much for e-mailing me . I've been enjoying everyone of them.

[Dessitta]

Hi, Alan!
I really like your essays and enjoy them every time, they are so intersting! I keep all of them. Thank you very much for the wishes, and have a very merry Christmas!
dessie

[Sunshinegirl]

Hello dear Alan!
You laughed me very very much!:)

Just a brilliant essay!

Very good!

Merry Christmas!

Angelina

[Nagarajan]

Dear Sir

Really excellent article. Actually i expected the same thing only. Can you forward to me new new ideas... and thoughts... new phares... etc... it will be very much useful for me .

And i want to know.. how to give attractive and meaningful presentation.

If you are having any idea, please forward to me.

Regards

R. NAGARAJAN