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June 18, 2024

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Bake Sweet Potatoes in the Field.

When I was a child, life in the countryside was so boring. We didn't have a lot of fun.

One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in fields.

At the end of October, it's the harvest season for sweet potatoes in my area. People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground. After people picked up sweet potatoes, there were still some sweet potatoes remaining under the ground.

When we children went to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoes, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.

After we dug out some sweet potatoes, we dug a small ditch in the ground and put the sweet potatoes on the top of the ditch. Then we found some dried sweet potato vines and put the vines inside the ditch and lit them to bake the sweet potatoes.

Half way through the baking, we flipped the sweet potatoes. When they were almost completely baked, we stopped the fire and pushed the sweet potatoes into the ditch and covered them with the soil that was dug out from the ditch.

After about ten or fifteen minutes, it was time to eat the baked sweet potatoes. At that time of food shortage, they were our big meals.

Have you ever baked sweet potatoes this way when you were a child?

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Bake Sweet Potatoes in the Field.

When I was a child, life in the countryside was so boring.

We didn't have a lot of fun.

One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in the fields.

At the end of October, it's the harvest season for sweet potatoes in my area.

People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground.

After people picked up the sweet potatoes, there were still some sweet potatoes remaining under the ground.

When we children went to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoes, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.

After we dug out some sweet potatoes, we dug a small ditch in the ground and put the sweet potatoes on the top of the ditch.

Then we found some dried sweet potato vines and put the vines inside the ditch and lit them to bake the sweet potatoes.

Half way through the baking, we flipped the sweet potatoes.

When they were almost completely baked, we stopped the fire and pushed the sweet potatoes into the ditch and covered them with the soil that was dug out from the ditch.

After about ten or fifteen minutes, it was time to eat the baked sweet potatoes.

At that time of food shortage, they were our big meals.

Have you ever baked sweet potatoes this way when you were a child?

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I don't think I've ever been in the field picking up sweet potatoes... or ANY vegetable for that matter. What a unique process!

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Jack

June 18, 2024

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Thank you very much.

Baked Sweet Potatoes in the Field.

One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in the fields.

adding the article "the" because it was used in the title.

People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground.

"Use" instead of "used" because you introduced the present tense in the former sentence.

After people picked up the sweet potatoes, there were still some sweet potatoes remain ing under the ground.

1) Present tense is used here because this is an event that has happened and is still happening. Once the narrative is brought back to childhood, then the past tense is used.

2) the preposition "in" is used because potatoes would still be "in" the dirt. "Under" could still work, but this may imply that the potatoes are fully submerged under layers of dirt.

When we children went to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoesose that remained, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.

After we dug out some sweet potatoes, we dug a small ditch in the ground and put the sweet potatoes on the top ofinto the ditch.

1) The first "sweet potatoes" is not needed because we know that's what you're digging up as stated in the previous sentence.

Then we found some dried sweet potato vines and, put the vines insideto the ditch, and lit them to bake the sweet potatoes.

Since this is a sequence of events, you can join each clause with a comma.

Half way through the baking, we flipped the sweet potatoes.

When they were almost completely baked, we stopped the fire and, pushed the sweet potatoes into the ditch, and covered them with the soil that was dug out from the ditch.

After about ten or fifteen minutes, it was time to eat the baked sweet potatoes.

AtDuring that time of [the] food shortage[s], they were our big meals.

If it was one food shortage, then maybe add "the" to signify the one you're referring to. If there were many, add "s" to the end of shortage.

Have you ever baked sweet potatoes this way when you were a child?

I can't say I have done sweet potatoes, but we used to do something similar. We would wrap some veggies and some beef in tin foil, cook it over a fire, and then let it cool in the ground for a bit. They were called "Silver Turtles" and they were really good.

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Jack

June 18, 2024

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Thank you very much for your corrections and detailed explanations. Tenses seem like something that I can’t master in my entire life, which always drives me crazy.

When I was a child, life in the countryside was so boring.

We didn't have a lot of fun.

One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in the fields.

At the end of October, it's the harvest season for sweet potatoes in my area.

People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground.

I think it sounds more natural like this

After people picked up sweet potatoesgathered it, there were still some sweet potatoes remaining under the ground.

When we children wentgo to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoes, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.

When they were almost completely baked, we stopped the fire and pushed the sweet potatoes into the ditch and covered them with the soil that was dug out from the ditch.

After about ten or fifteen minutes, it was time to eat the baked sweet potatoes.

At that time ofDuring food shortages, they were our bigmain meals.

I interpreted this sentence as sweet potatoes being the main thing you ate during food shortages given the context.

Have you ever baked sweet potatoes this way when you were a child?

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There were some sentences I didn't correct because I was unsure of the exact baking process so I didn't want to provide false grammatical corrections. Other than that, good job! Those sweet potatoes sound tasty

Bake Sweet Potatoes in the Field.


Baked Sweet Potatoes in the Field.

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When I was a child, life in the countryside was so boring.


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We didn't have a lot of fun.


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One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in fields.


One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in the fields.

One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in the fields.

adding the article "the" because it was used in the title.

One thing that made me happy was baking sweet potatoes in the fields.

At the end of October, it's the harvest season for sweet potatoes in my area.


At the end of October, it's the harvest season for sweet potatoes in my area.

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People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground.


People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground.

I think it sounds more natural like this

People used cattle to pull plows to plow sweet potatoes out of the ground.

"Use" instead of "used" because you introduced the present tense in the former sentence.

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After people picked up sweet potatoes, there were still some sweet potatoes remaining under the ground.


After people picked up sweet potatoesgathered it, there were still some sweet potatoes remaining under the ground.

After people picked up the sweet potatoes, there were still some sweet potatoes remain ing under the ground.

1) Present tense is used here because this is an event that has happened and is still happening. Once the narrative is brought back to childhood, then the past tense is used. 2) the preposition "in" is used because potatoes would still be "in" the dirt. "Under" could still work, but this may imply that the potatoes are fully submerged under layers of dirt.

After people picked up the sweet potatoes, there were still some sweet potatoes remaining under the ground.

When we children went to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoes, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.


When we children wentgo to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoes, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.

When we children went to the sweet potato fields to dig out the remaining sweet potatoesose that remained, we carried two things: a basket woven from the twigs of the chaste trees and a shovel with a wooden handle.

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After we dug out some sweet potatoes, we dug a small ditch in the ground and put the sweet potatoes on the top of the ditch.


After we dug out some sweet potatoes, we dug a small ditch in the ground and put the sweet potatoes on the top ofinto the ditch.

1) The first "sweet potatoes" is not needed because we know that's what you're digging up as stated in the previous sentence.

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Then we found some dried sweet potato vines and put the vines inside the ditch and lit them to bake the sweet potatoes.


Then we found some dried sweet potato vines and, put the vines insideto the ditch, and lit them to bake the sweet potatoes.

Since this is a sequence of events, you can join each clause with a comma.

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Half way through the baking, we flipped the sweet potatoes.


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When they were almost completely baked, we stopped the fire and pushed the sweet potatoes into the ditch and covered them with the soil that was dug out from the ditch.


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When they were almost completely baked, we stopped the fire and, pushed the sweet potatoes into the ditch, and covered them with the soil that was dug out from the ditch.

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After about ten or fifteen minutes, it was time to eat the baked sweet potatoes.


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At that time of food shortage, they were our big meals.


At that time ofDuring food shortages, they were our bigmain meals.

I interpreted this sentence as sweet potatoes being the main thing you ate during food shortages given the context.

AtDuring that time of [the] food shortage[s], they were our big meals.

If it was one food shortage, then maybe add "the" to signify the one you're referring to. If there were many, add "s" to the end of shortage.

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Have you ever baked sweet potatoes this way when you were a child?


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Have you ever baked sweet potatoes this way when you were a child?

I can't say I have done sweet potatoes, but we used to do something similar. We would wrap some veggies and some beef in tin foil, cook it over a fire, and then let it cool in the ground for a bit. They were called "Silver Turtles" and they were really good.

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