English Writing Exercise Describing People and Objects
Instructions:
Describe people and objects, including both singular and plural forms. Use both positive and negative statements. Ex. We are women. We are not men. This is a gold coin. These are not yellow flowers.
These flowers are not red. They are blue. My HP computer is not red. It's black. I do not have short hair. I Have one beautiful pitch-black long hair! I am a not ugly. I am a beautiful woman.
These flowers are not red. They are blue. My HP computer is not red. It's black. I do not have short hair. I Have beautiful pitch-black long hair! I am not ugly. I am a beautiful woman.
（而我的信心也很好。）
Some corrections:
... I do not have short hair. I have beautiful, long pitch-black hair! ...
Very good Xiaoxiao. No need for a hyphen between the words pitch black.
These flowers are not red. They are blue. My HP (Hewlett Packard) computer is not red. It's black. I don't have not short hair; I have long, beautiful, pitch-black long hair! I am a not ugly. I am a beautiful woman.
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Ah, another modest Chinese.
HP is what we call an acronym. It is made up of the first letters of a string of words: Hewlett Packard. Acronyms are always ALL CAPS. "USA" is an acronym. You know what that stands for: United States of America, so you would NOT write it as Usa.
Semi-colon: If two sentences are very closely related, you can join them into one two-part sentence with a semi-colon instead of a period. Adds a little variety to your writing.
Normally when we use three or four adjectives to describe our hair, we tend to use a customary word order that's not written down anywhere but we learn it intuitively as we grow up. We would say: "I have long straight black hair", or "I have short, curly, blonde hair." (length, shape, and color in that order)
Multi-word adjectives: I must disagree with Dale. I can say the room is pitch black when the lights are out, but if I say pitch-black hair, pitch and black become a two-word adjective and must be hyphenated. In other words, you are correct in what you did.
PRESENT TENSE IN ENGLISH 现在时态There are three forms of present tense in English:
Simple: I walk, I read, I write, I like (used for routine 会, habit, facts, repeated actions)
Emphatic: I do walk, I do read, I do write, I do not walk, he does not write, do you read? (used for emphasis, negative verbs, and questions)
Progressive: I am walking, I am reading, I am writing (used for action occurring right now)
Go to my profile and look at my two flashcard sets on verb tenses. They may help you.
You did well for a first attempt here. Keep up the good work.
Great effort
Lee's comments are very clear
Keep up the good work
These flowers are not red. They are blue. My HPp computer is not red. It's black. I don't have not short hair. I hHave one beautiful, long, pitch-black long hair.! I am a not ugly. I am a beautiful woman.
"HP" is what the company uses: it comes from the names Hewlett and Packard. （Despite another comment, some acronyms do not have capital letters, such as "asap", which means "as soon as possible" and never has capital letters. Some acronyms become words with only one capital letter, such as "NATO" which is often written as "Nato".)
Usually you use the emphatic "do not" or "don't" if you are using a negative.
The expression "pitch black" is correct for night, but it has bad connotations (implicit meaning), such as a connection with dirty or stickiness, and here you do not want to give that impression.
To use the word "a" you need to have a noun after it. In this case, you do not need it.
很好！
Very good, some changes:
These flowers are not red. They are blue. My Hp HP computer is not red. It's black. I do not have not short hair. I have one beautiful pitch-black long hair! I am a not ugly. I am a beautiful woman.
HP is capitalised because Hewlett and Packard are both names...
Very well done
Not bad Xiaoxiao, I have made some corrections for you to follow ^^
"These flowers are not red, they are blue. My HP computer is not red, it's black. I don't have short hair, I have beautiful pitch-black long hair! I am a not ugly, I am a beautiful woman."
These flowers are not red. They are blue. My Hewlett Packard computer is not red. It's black. I do not have not short hair. I have one beautiful, long, pitch-black long hair! I am a not ugly. I am a beautiful woman.
When writing formal English, we would write out the words Hewlett Packard or Macintosh, etc.
HP is an acronym for Hewlett Packard. Both letters are capitalized. An acronym is a a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words. Examples:
OPEC = Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,
LORAN = long-range (radio aid to) navigation
SONAR = sound navigation and ranging (now standard word - sonar)
RADAR = RAdio Detection and Ranging (this word is now being used as a standard word - radar)
Did you mean to say you have 1 piece of hair on your head?
If you really did mean to say this, then you would write: I have one beautiful, long, pitch-black strand of hair on my head.
To add a little more confusion to your English studies, (wink) adjectives are written in a specific order. Here is a chart you may print for future reference. The order begins from left to right.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjective_order.htm