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Below you will find 19 examples of more or less hopeless sentences taken from written assignments. Your task is to try to understand the meaning behind these sentences - and rewrite them in proper English.
The button 'Check you answers' at the bottom of the page will give you suggested answers.


  1. Many people react quite strongly upon how he sends many young soldiers down there to fight for their country, even though they want to stay home with their families.



  2. If this story had happened now days it would be pretty extreme but at that time I think things was a little bit more casual and less serious that it is now.



  3. At that time there were rules for blacks and they were discriminated. There were rules that said that...



  4. The thing I think is that it helps but the world would be a so much better place to live in if it was giving an opportunity to everybody.



  5. The events of America are many.



  6. It has been some terrorist attacks in London, Madrid.



  7. These wars have helped to form the USA without it the USA we know today would not have existed.



  8. Wars are bad but they have helped America to become America



  9. In “old times” black and white people could not communicate but now they do.



  10. (an application) Tell about you standing on you're own feet, you’re painting skills and the jobs that you have had.



  11. Your childhood will only make it look you are feeling sorry for you’re self and that may not be a good thing.



  12. As you know Americans have dreams which is called American Dreams.



  13. This is some about the culture and values in America



  14. Most people move to get a better job so they can have more money and a better lifestyle.



  15. In 1963 the Vietnam was and it was that killed millions of soldiers to Vietnam and hundreds of US soldiers.



  16. And we also have the events at the Columbine school.



  17. I have read about you in an appendix and I have some suggestions of what you can include in your application to get a grant so you can go to college.



  18. They say that America is the land of opportunities but as it is in the text the possibilities are much greater getting a good education in Norway if you are poor



  19. This is some of the things I think I should mention
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