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English Writing Exercise (All Levels)

Course 202, Unit 10, Lesson 4

Describe your best friend

Instructions: Describe your best friend using the vocabulary words from this lesson. What does he or she look like? Does he or she have a unique feature? Do you and your friend have similar features? Ex: My friend has blue eyes and broad shoulders. I do not have blue eyes; I have green eyes.

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Brazil has several popular meals. I'd like to comment about one of them. It's from Minas Gerais in the southeast of Brazil. This food is called "feijoada". Its ingredients are beans, pork and some condiment.
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  • Robert
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    One small comment: in English, condiments are usually things that are put on something after it has been cooked. Like ketchup on hamburgers or mustard on hot dogs, etc.

    You might want to consider "...some spices." instead. Abracos, cara.

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  • alsolomo
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    I'd like to comment about one of them.

    In order to convey your meaning, it feels much more natural to say "talk" or "discuss" instead of "comment."

    Examples:

    I'd like to talk about one of them (needs preposition "about")

    I'd like to discuss one of them. (no preposition after verb)

    "Comment" usually means you will state your opinion about something. Also, it takes the preposition "on" to form a verbal phrase.

    I'd like to comment on one of them. (Meaning: I'd like to tell you what I think about this food.)

     

     Its ingredients are beans, pork and some condiments.

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  • Skye
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    Brazil has several popular meals. I'd like to comment about one of them. It's from Minas Gerais in the southeast of Brazil. This food is called "feijoada". Its ingredients are beans, pork and some condiments.

     

    Very good! I see only one error: the pluralization of condiments contains an "s".

     

    Although you have made no errors technically in your third sentence, I would recommend changing the sentence to be this:

    It's from Minas Gerais in the southeastern of Brazil.

    This is the more natural way to say this (for at least northeastern U.S.).

    Another way to say it more like what you were going for (you need to add something like portion, part or area.  A word like that):in the southeast portion/part/area of Brazil.

     

    Also, just to clarify:

    southeast = noun

    southeastern = adjective (add ern to make it an adjective)

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    Chegaram antes de mim, Edgard. Concordo com o pessoal aew. Sem comentários meus desta vez kkk'

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