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Example of individual correction service
Dear Zoltan
Thank you very much for your submitting your views on the 'Limited
Resources' unit. I Agree very much with what you say about the sense of
urgency not having arrived yet, but I think governments, as well as
companies, have a role to play in changing people's attitudes. In the U.K.
poeple expect energy, like all commodities, to continue getting cheaper and
cheaper.
Here is a corrected version of what you wrote. The corrections are in
CAPITALS and the original in (parentheses). Do let me know if something is
not clear.
"The world economy still relies on oil and natural stocks/resources. As a
research chemist I know about new technologies and solutions which are truly
enviromentaly friendly. Due to lack of interest FROM (of) large companies,
those useful technologies have ALWAYS been developed (always) in the
background for ages and no one even mentioned them. I think the proper time
to implement the new inventions into (the) real life still has not come.
People should really take care about THEIR (the) energy consumption but this
is not the main portion of energy loss. Personally I think IT IS NOT JUST
(the not) ORDINARY (everyday) people but RATHER the large industries;
companies could save more energy BY (with) improving their working
procedures.
Due to THE high price of elecricity, water, gas and oil in my country and
generally lower salaries - COMPARED (comparing) to other EU countries -
people ususaly do take care about their energy consumption. This is not
because people do take care about the enviroment but they can not afford
higher energy consumption. My country is a former communist country where
the prices were low and (were) no limits WERE introduced ON (in the) energy
consumption. At this time nobody spoke about enviroment and air pollution.
Now we live in a different age and habits HAVE (has) changed but (the)
people's mentality has remained."
nb when we talk in general about 'real life', 'energy consumption',
'people's habits', 'ordinary people' we do NOT use the article 'the'
Best wishes
Paul
Paul Dummett, Colin Benn, Nicholas Sheard, William Hone and Anwen Evans
ENGLISH @ OXFORD
Website: www.englishatoxford.com
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