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From: Saara Kekki <does@not.exist.invalid>
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Subject: Re: grammar check please
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:04:57 +0200
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Hi,
since I'm not a native English speaker, I'd just like to point out a
couple of pretty small things I happened to notice...
Rinze Smit wrote:
> The colorfull uniform
--> I think colorful (with one 'l' only in the end) is the more
appropriate spelling (eg. in Google colourfull gives 28,500 matches,
whereas colourful gives 1,090,000...)
the band unique in it's
--> a common mistake I think. It's = it is. So you want to say unigue in
ITS performance.
That's about it :) I'm a student of English, so I probably notice all
kinds of small things, but I guess you're not writing this for any too
official purpose, so this seems pretty good!
-Saara
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