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Graduation

Yesterday was my graduation and I was so excited about it the previous days. It ended up being pretty boring if I'm being honest. It took really long for it to start and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring. However, it felt special afterwards. Let me explain it better.
The same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year. I think he is the only teacher who really cares about us at school. I mean, the others care, but not so much as him. He doesn't care about grades and what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn. He's so cool. I told him that if it had been possible, I would have asked him to give me my diploma. However, as I knew that it wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll never forget.
Every student was to take a photo with three teachers showing the diploma. So I knew that he'd read my message when he took the photo with me (he hadn't responded).
When the graduation finished, I was in a kind of rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give a present. I was with a friend who told me she'd talked with this teacher and I was really upset because I hadn't. Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me. I never felt that important or special, it felt so nice.
We hugged and got to talk alone and he told me that what I had written to him was very beautiful. I didn't think so, I thought it could be better. Anyway, he said some other stuff too. I'm afraid I only heard half of what he told me because I still couldn't believe I had hugged and was talking with a real human being (we had online classes all year). It was a moment that was very special to me and that I'll always cherish. After we were done talking, we hugged again and said goodbye. I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having told him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.
When I got home and went to my bedroom I started crying, which I honestly hadn't thought I would do. It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I hanged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded). But I won't write about it because I wrote very much already.

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Yesterday was my graduation, and I was so excited about it the previous daysin the days leading up to it.

It took really long for ita long time to start, and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.

However, it still felt special afterwards.

The same day, buta few hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year.

I think he i's the only teacher at school who really cares about us at school.

I mean, the others care, but not aso much as him.

He doesn't care about grades andor what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.

When the graduation finished, I was in a kind of in a rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give me a present.

I didn't think so, I thought it could've been better.

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I haunged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

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Flan_girl

Dec. 5, 2020

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Thank you!

Graduation

Yesterday was my graduation, and I was so excited about it the previous daysduring the days leading up to it.

You can just say that you were excited here because you already introduced what you were excited about in the previous section.

It ended up being pretty boring if I'm being honest.

It took a really long time for it to start and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.

However, it felt special afterwards.

Let me explain it better.

Theat same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year.

I think he is the only teacher who really cares about us at school.

You can say "he's" instead of "he is".

I mean, the others care, but not aso much as him.

He doesn't care about grades andor what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.

He's so cool.

I told him that if it had been possible, I would have asked him to give me my diploma.

"Would have" is more commonly written as "would've" thought in this situation you could say (at least in everyday-speech, probably not in writing) "Id've" (I'm not sure how to spell it).

However, as I knew that it wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll never forget.

The "that" isn't wrong just unnecessary.

Every student was to take a photo with three teachers showing the diploma.

The phrasing "was to" sounds a bit formal/stiff, it's more common to say "had to" or "was supposed to".

So I knew that he'd read my message when he took the photo with me (he hadn't responded).

When the graduation was finished, I was in a kind of rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give a present.

"Wanted me to give a present" isn't wrong but implies that you are the one giving the present. If you wanted to say that they were giving a present to you, then it would be phrased like, "wanted to give me a present".

I don't think that it's technically wrong to say, "finished" instead of "was finished", it just sounds kind of off.

I was with a friend who told me she'd talked withto this teacher, and I was really upset because I hadn't.

Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me.

You can use "he'd" instead of "he had".

I never felt that important or special, it felt so nice.

We hugged and got to talk alone and he told me that what I had written to him was very beautiful.

You can use "I'd" here instead of "I had".

I didn't think so, I thought it could b've better.

It's "could've" instead of "could be" because it happened in the past.

Anyway, he said some other stuff too.

I'm afraid I only heard half of what he told me because I still couldn't believe I had hugged and was talking withto a real human being (we had online classes all year).

It was a moment that was very special to me and that I'll always cherish.

You could also rephrase the beginning of the sentence as, "The moment was very special to me", but you don't have to.

After we were done talking, we hugged again and said goodbye.

I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having told him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.

Here you can either say "I'd have" or "I would've", though both are interchangeable. "I'dve" would maybe be used here in everyday speech but I don't believe it's correct grammatically.

When I got home and went to my bedroom, I started crying, which I honestly hadn't thought I would do.

Here you can say "I'd" instead of "I would".

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I had hunged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

But I won't write about ithat because I wrote very mucha lot already.

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I'm sorry that these all look copy-pasted. I had originally corrected your journal but found that it wouldn't submit and I didn't want to delete everything I'd written, so I opened it up on another tab and copied my original corrections.

Great Job! Just a few corrections! I noticed that you seemed to use contractions sparingly. This seems to be very common, though in everyday life you will find contractions everywhere. As a general rule of thumb, you can use contractions anywhere but very, very formal papers, (I honestly can't really think of the last thing I read without them!). The only other time you wouldn't use contractions is if you want to stress a certain point, but otherwise you use them for everything else. I hope that this helps!!!

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Flan_girl

Dec. 6, 2020

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Oh, never mind! Corrections are always helpful and appreciated. Thanks a lot!

Graduation

Yesterday was my graduation day and I was so excited about it the previous daysly.

Your sentence was correct, I just think it flows nicer this way.

It ended up being pretty boring if I'm being honest.

It took really long for it to start and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.

However, it felt special afterwards.

Let me explain it better.

The same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent aone of my teachers a message to thank him for everything he didhad done this year.

You should use the past perfect tense here, because the actions of your teacher were done before a certain point in the past (in this case that point in the past was you sending him a message).

I think he is the only teacher who really cares about us at school.

I mean, the others care, but not aso much as hime does.

He doesn't care about grades and what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.

He's so cool.

I told him that if it had been possible, I would have asked him to give me my diploma.

However, as I knew that ithis wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll would never forget.

"This" instead of "it" sounds a bit more natural in this particular scenario.

Every student was to take a photo with three teachers show, holding the diploma.

So I knew that he'd read my message when he tookafter taking the photo with me (he hadn't responded).

I am not sure if I understood correctly! If you meant that he hadn't seen the message yet and you figured he would see it after taking the photo, this would be the way to say it.
But if you meant to say that he'd seen the message before taking the photo but hadn't responded yet, you would say "so I knew that he had read my message before taking the photo with me."

When the graduation ceremony finished, I was in a kind of a rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give me a present.

I was with a friend who told me she'd talked with this teacher and I was really upset because I hadn't.

Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me.

I had never felt that important or special before, it felt so nice.

We hugged and got to talk alone and he told me that what I had written to him was very beautiful.

I didn't think so, I thought it could be better.

Anyway, he said some other stuff too.

I'm afraid I only heard half of what he told me because I still couldn't believe I had hugged and was talking with a real human being (we had online classes all year).

It was a moment that was very special to me and that I'll always cherish.

After we were done talking, we hugged again and said goodbye.

I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having told him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.

When I got home and went to my bedroom, I started crying, which I honestly hadidn't thoughtink I would do.

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I was hangeding out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

But I won't write about ithat because I wrote very much've written a lot already.

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What a good story. Congratulations on your graduation!
Your teacher sounds like an amazing person. It's really nice having a teacher like him, isn't it? A teacher who you can truly connect with, one who actually cares about his students.
You shouldn't regret anything! You told him he was a teacher you would never forget and I'm sure those words meant a lot to him. I think that's enough for him to know how grateful you are for everything he's done. Anyway, lots of emotions on graduation day!
As for the corrections, I hope they help. Most of the things that I corrected were just style errors (to make it sound a bit more natural). Good use of the past perfect tense. And in general, your writing flows really well. :)

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Flan_girl

Dec. 5, 2020

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Thank you so much for everything! The corrections help me a lot. Re-reading what I've written isn't enough to catch mistakes and make it sound nicer, so it's great that you can help me do that.

Graduation

Yesterday was my graduation and I was so excited about it in the previous daysdays leading up to it.

Just sounds less awkward

It ended up being pretty boring, if I'm being honest.

To be honest you don't really need the comma since this is pretty casual writing, but if you want it perfectly grammatically correct then I think you should add the comma.

It took really long for it to start and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.

However, it felt special afterwards.

Let me explain it better.

The same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year.

I think he is the only teacher who really cares about us at school.

I mean, the others care, but not so much as hime does.

Again, you'll find loads of people who write it the first way, so I guess you're not "wrong" if you write "him," but if you want it perfectly grammatically correct then you need to say "he does." the reason is because you need to keep the two different nouns "parallel" — you see "others care" is a noun + verb, so you need to make "him" into a noun + verb, which is "he does."
Another example would be like "playing video games is more fun than books." You would have to say ""playing video games is more fun than reading books."

He doesn't care about grades and what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.

He's so cool.

I told him that if it had been possible, I would have asked him to give me my diploma.

However, as I knew that it wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll never forget.

Every student was to take a photo with three teachers showing the diploma.

So I knew that he'd read my message when he took the photo with me (he hadn't responded).

When the graduation finished, I was in a kind of rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give a present.

I was with a friend who told me she'd talked with this teacher and I was really upset because I hadn't.

Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me.

Could you say "brought me" instead of "delivered me"?

I never felt that important or special, it felt so nice.

We hugged and got to talk alone and he told me that what I had written to him was very beautiful.

I didn't think so, I thought it could be better.

Anyway, he said some other stuff too.

I'm afraid I only heard half of what he told me because I still couldn't believe I had hugged and was talking with a real human being (we had online classes all year).

It was a moment that was very special to me and that I'll always cherish.

After we were done talking, we hugged again and said goodbye.

I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having toldtelling him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.

When I got home and went to my bedroom I started crying, which I honestly hadidn't thoughtink I would do.

to be honest I think both ways of writing this sentence would work, but I personally feel like the corrected way sounds less awkward

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I haunged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

But I won't write about it because I wrote very much already.

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Flan_girl

Dec. 5, 2020

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Thanks!

Graduation


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Yesterday was my graduation and I was so excited about it the previous days.


Yesterday was my graduation and I was so excited about it in the previous daysdays leading up to it.

Just sounds less awkward

Yesterday was my graduation day and I was so excited about it the previous daysly.

Your sentence was correct, I just think it flows nicer this way.

Yesterday was my graduation, and I was so excited about it the previous daysduring the days leading up to it.

You can just say that you were excited here because you already introduced what you were excited about in the previous section.

Yesterday was my graduation, and I was so excited about it the previous daysin the days leading up to it.

It ended up being pretty boring if I'm being honest.


It ended up being pretty boring, if I'm being honest.

To be honest you don't really need the comma since this is pretty casual writing, but if you want it perfectly grammatically correct then I think you should add the comma.

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It took really long for it to start and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.


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It took a really long time for it to start and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.

It took really long for ita long time to start, and there were so many speeches and such that it got boring.

However, it felt special afterwards.


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However, it still felt special afterwards.

Let me explain it better.


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The same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year.


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The same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent aone of my teachers a message to thank him for everything he didhad done this year.

You should use the past perfect tense here, because the actions of your teacher were done before a certain point in the past (in this case that point in the past was you sending him a message).

Theat same day, but hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year.

The same day, buta few hours before the graduation, I sent a teacher a message to thank him for everything he did this year.

I think he is the only teacher who really cares about us at school.


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I think he is the only teacher who really cares about us at school.

You can say "he's" instead of "he is".

I think he i's the only teacher at school who really cares about us at school.

I mean, the others care, but not so much as him.


I mean, the others care, but not so much as hime does.

Again, you'll find loads of people who write it the first way, so I guess you're not "wrong" if you write "him," but if you want it perfectly grammatically correct then you need to say "he does." the reason is because you need to keep the two different nouns "parallel" — you see "others care" is a noun + verb, so you need to make "him" into a noun + verb, which is "he does." Another example would be like "playing video games is more fun than books." You would have to say ""playing video games is more fun than reading books."

I mean, the others care, but not aso much as hime does.

I mean, the others care, but not aso much as him.

I mean, the others care, but not aso much as him.

He doesn't care about grades and what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.


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He doesn't care about grades andor what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.

He doesn't care about grades andor what the headmaster tells him to do, he just wants us to learn.

He's so cool.


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I told him that if it had been possible, I would have asked him to give me my diploma.


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I told him that if it had been possible, I would have asked him to give me my diploma.

"Would have" is more commonly written as "would've" thought in this situation you could say (at least in everyday-speech, probably not in writing) "Id've" (I'm not sure how to spell it).

However, as I knew that it wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll never forget.


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However, as I knew that ithis wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll would never forget.

"This" instead of "it" sounds a bit more natural in this particular scenario.

However, as I knew that it wasn't allowed, I still let him know that he was a teacher I'll never forget.

The "that" isn't wrong just unnecessary.

Every student was to take a photo with three teachers showing the diploma.


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Every student was to take a photo with three teachers show, holding the diploma.

Every student was to take a photo with three teachers showing the diploma.

The phrasing "was to" sounds a bit formal/stiff, it's more common to say "had to" or "was supposed to".

So I knew that he'd read my message when he took the photo with me (he hadn't responded).


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So I knew that he'd read my message when he tookafter taking the photo with me (he hadn't responded).

I am not sure if I understood correctly! If you meant that he hadn't seen the message yet and you figured he would see it after taking the photo, this would be the way to say it. But if you meant to say that he'd seen the message before taking the photo but hadn't responded yet, you would say "so I knew that he had read my message before taking the photo with me."

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When the graduation finished, I was in a kind of rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give a present.


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When the graduation ceremony finished, I was in a kind of a rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give me a present.

When the graduation was finished, I was in a kind of rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give a present.

"Wanted me to give a present" isn't wrong but implies that you are the one giving the present. If you wanted to say that they were giving a present to you, then it would be phrased like, "wanted to give me a present". I don't think that it's technically wrong to say, "finished" instead of "was finished", it just sounds kind of off.

When the graduation finished, I was in a kind of in a rush because my grandparents were outside and wanted me to give me a present.

I was with a friend who told me she'd talked with this teacher and I was really upset because I hadn't.


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I was with a friend who told me she'd talked withto this teacher, and I was really upset because I hadn't.

Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me.


Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me.

Could you say "brought me" instead of "delivered me"?

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Fortunately, we went back in, and my best friend "delivered me" (that's the expression they used) to that teacher, as he had been desperately looking for me.

You can use "he'd" instead of "he had".

I never felt that important or special, it felt so nice.


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I had never felt that important or special before, it felt so nice.

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We hugged and got to talk alone and he told me that what I had written to him was very beautiful.


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This sentence has been marked as perfect!

We hugged and got to talk alone and he told me that what I had written to him was very beautiful.

You can use "I'd" here instead of "I had".

I didn't think so, I thought it could be better.


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I didn't think so, I thought it could b've better.

It's "could've" instead of "could be" because it happened in the past.

I didn't think so, I thought it could've been better.

Anyway, he said some other stuff too.


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I'm afraid I only heard half of what he told me because I still couldn't believe I had hugged and was talking with a real human being (we had online classes all year).


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I'm afraid I only heard half of what he told me because I still couldn't believe I had hugged and was talking withto a real human being (we had online classes all year).

It was a moment that was very special to me and that I'll always cherish.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

It was a moment that was very special to me and that I'll always cherish.

You could also rephrase the beginning of the sentence as, "The moment was very special to me", but you don't have to.

After we were done talking, we hugged again and said goodbye.


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I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having told him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.


I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having toldtelling him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.

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I regret not having taken a photo with him and not having told him that I would have been awfully sad if I hadn't talked to him.

Here you can either say "I'd have" or "I would've", though both are interchangeable. "I'dve" would maybe be used here in everyday speech but I don't believe it's correct grammatically.

When I got home and went to my bedroom I started crying, which I honestly hadn't thought I would do.


When I got home and went to my bedroom I started crying, which I honestly hadidn't thoughtink I would do.

to be honest I think both ways of writing this sentence would work, but I personally feel like the corrected way sounds less awkward

When I got home and went to my bedroom, I started crying, which I honestly hadidn't thoughtink I would do.

When I got home and went to my bedroom, I started crying, which I honestly hadn't thought I would do.

Here you can say "I'd" instead of "I would".

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I hanged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).


It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I haunged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I was hangeding out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I had hunged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

It was part happiness because of that, and part sadness because of what happened when I haunged out with my classmates (I felt so excluded).

But I won't write about it because I wrote very much already.


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But I won't write about ithat because I wrote very much've written a lot already.

But I won't write about ithat because I wrote very mucha lot already.

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