Sept. 21, 2025
Food
Fun fact, I have porridge for breakfast every day. I've got used to it since my boyfriend and I started to live together. Before this I had a tea and some sweet things like cookies for breakfast. We have been eating cereal in the morning for approximately one year. Then we switched to buckwheat porridge. We add some fruits and toppings to the dish so we've not got tired of it. Sometimes we cook something else, for example, an omelette or pancakes. But we cook the porridge more often.
There's one more thing I usually eat, it's chocolate. I think it's a bad day if I don't get any chocolate.
We have been eating cereal in the morning for approximately one year.
This sentence uses a perfect tense "we have been."
Then we switched to buckwheat porridge.
This sentence uses simple past tense "we switched"
We add some fruits and toppings to the dish so we've not got tired of it.
This sentence uses the present tense "we add"
Feedback
My feedback is about using three different tenses in a row. In this text, I think it would flow better if you used only two. Why? Because I think you are telling a sequence of events that happened in order, in a sequence, and the verbs should mirror or support the timeline. To work backwards: you start and end the section about porridge in the present tense, so the tricky part is describing the events leading up to this happy state. There are many ways for you to do this, the guidance I offer is not to use both the perfect and the past tense and to consider how you can link the changes with words that transition through time.
BTW It sounds to me like you are writing British English (I'm American), so just because Americans might say "I've gotten used to ..." doesn't mean that "I've got used to..." is wrong. My hunch is that it might be more common to say that in British English. And there is nothing wrong with using "approximately" as you do. Yes, it is a bit more mathematical, but it is a clear, specific word; and if you use it naturally, that is a good think imho.
I've gotten used to eating it since my boyfriend and I started to liveliving together.
Since it's an ongoing action, the -ing forms of the verb will be better here.
Before this I had aI used to drink tea and eat some sweet things like cookies for breakfast.
Is this referring to before you started living together? If so, you might say "Before we started living together, I used to..." or "When I lived alone, I used to..." to clarify the timing.
We haved been eating cereal in the morning for approximately one year year or so.
For an informal work, "a year or so" sounds more appropriate than "approximately one year", which carries a formal feel.
ThenAfter that, we switched to buckwheat porridge.
We add some fruits and other toppings to the dish so we've noour porridge for variety so we won't goet tired of it.eating it every day.
Just a little more explanation needed to make it sound more natural.
Sometimes we will cook something else, for example, like an omelette or some pancakes.
But we almost always end up cooking the porridge more often.
This phrasing gives the idea that, while you like other things, you know that the porridge is the constant part of the meal.
There's one more thing I usually eat, it's chocolate.I also love to eat chocolate in the morning.
I think it's a bad day if I don't get anmy chocolate., it's going to be a bad day.
More natural phrasing for both these last sentences.
Feedback
Overall, it was very good. Definitely got your point across without any problems, my notes are mostly for readability and more of a natural sound. Well done!
Sept. 22, 2025
Thank you! 😊
Fun fact, I have porridge for breakfast every day.
I've gotten used to it since my boyfriend and I started to live together.
Before this I had a tea and some sweet things like cookies for breakfast.
We have been eating cereal in the morning for approximately one year.
Then we switched to buckwheat porridge.
We add some fruits and toppings to the dish so we've no don't goet tired of it.
Sometimes we cook something else,; for example, an omelette or pancakes.
But we cook the porridge more often.
There's one more thing I usually eat, - it's chocolate.
Or, to write without a sentence inversion, you could say "Another thing I eat is chocolate."
I think it's a bad day if I don't get any chocolate.
Sept. 22, 2025
Thank you :)
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Fun fact, I have porridge for breakfast every day.
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I've got used to it since my boyfriend and I started to live together. I've gotten used to it since my boyfriend and I started to live together. I've gotten used to eating it since my boyfriend and I started Since it's an ongoing action, the -ing forms of the verb will be better here. |
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Before this I had a tea and some sweet things like cookies for breakfast. Before this I had
Is this referring to before you started living together? If so, you might say "Before we started living together, I used to..." or "When I lived alone, I used to..." to clarify the timing. |
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We have been eating cereal in the morning for approximately one year. We have been eating cereal in the morning for approximately one year. This sentence uses a perfect tense "we have been." This sentence has been marked as perfect! We ha For an informal work, "a year or so" sounds more appropriate than "approximately one year", which carries a formal feel. |
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Then we switched to buckwheat porridge. Then we switched to buckwheat porridge. This sentence uses simple past tense "we switched" This sentence has been marked as perfect!
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We add some fruits and toppings to the dish so we've not got tired of it. We add some fruits and toppings to the dish so we've not got tired of it. This sentence uses the present tense "we add" We add some fruits and toppings to the dish so we We add Just a little more explanation needed to make it sound more natural. |
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Sometimes we cook something else, for example, an omelette or pancakes. Sometimes we cook something else Sometimes we will cook something else |
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But we cook the porridge more often. But we cook But we almost always end up cooking the porridge This phrasing gives the idea that, while you like other things, you know that the porridge is the constant part of the meal. |
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There's one more thing I usually eat, it's chocolate. There's one more thing I usually eat Or, to write without a sentence inversion, you could say "Another thing I eat is chocolate."
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I think it's a bad day if I don't get any chocolate. This sentence has been marked as perfect! I More natural phrasing for both these last sentences. |
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