Dear sanane11,
After I have already corrected everything and I finally wanted to submit my corrections, this nice website erased everything :-/
So my second try:
I cannot say anything towards the content. My special field is grammar. Furthermore, the expectation of your teacher depends on the grade you are in. What grade are you in?
Red corrections are mistakes/errors, green corrections are improvements:
In chapter 4 of Ernest J. Gaines' novel " X"
, which was published in 1993 , Vivian Baptiste is a minor character. Vivian is the girlfriend of Grant Wiggens
who is the main character of th
is novel . She is the young mother of two children who tr
ies/attemps to get a divorce. In this excerpt
, she meets Grant at the Raunbow Club. ( soll ich hier einen neuen Paragraphen beginnen?
One paragraph should have at least three lines)
Concerning her main character traits She is
a kind, loving
, and ambitious
woman.( soll ich hier etwas Platz frei lassen ?
For what?)
Regarding her outward appearance, Grant describes her as very beautiful. She is portrayed by him as a woman of
a mixed origin with "soft light brown skin
[and
] high checkbones
[and
] greenish-brown eyes "(ll.10-12 ) and long black hair.
Therefore
, she seems to be attractive to other m
en
, such as the three m
en at the Rainbow Club .
Vivian seems to be a very kind woman. When Grant asks her
on the mobile phone to meet
her at the
club
, she firstly says that she has to look
after her children
. Later
she says that she
would* try to find a way to come . ( ich glaube ,dass geht nicht :/) . Finally she meets
with Grant .
(*would is the reported speech version for a future tense sentence. The other reported speech sentences are -in my opinion- okay.)
She is also a caring teacher . ( kann ich caring sagen oder gibt es bessere Adjective ?
The sentence is okay though.)
This becomes obvious in
the lines 15 to 16 when she says " Some people can be we can't . We're teachers , and we have a commitment "
- or ; unlike Grant
, who wants to leave the place with Vivian without thinking what would happen to his students if he is not there/
available.
Vivian cares also about Grant . She asks him three times what the matter is (cf. ll. 37-5) and wants to
know what has happened in order to help Grant
if there is a
ny problem. Later on
, she says " after the divorce I will do everything you want me to do " (ll.)
, and shows/
points out ( welches Verb könnte ich noch benutzen ?) that he can rely on her. Proof/
Evidence can also be f
ound later
on when she says
, " I want you to always come to me
. "(ll.) Their relationship seems to be very strong ( soll ich diesen Satz hier weglassen ? ).
Another feature
is that she is emotional .
Proof/
Evidence can be found in line 26 where
she says
, "
(...) she was crying
," when Grant ( hatte ihr zuvor erzählt ??)
that he does not know
himselfhow to be a man ( schon gar
_nicht?)
, and how to teach somebody to be a man . ( soll ich hier weiter erklären ? )
Furthermore
, she motivates him and says that she wants him to do it for her ( ll. )
, and also stresses that she is sure that Grant can do it .
We might draw
a conclusion that she has a great impact on Grant and wants the best for him .
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That's it. I hope that I have found all mistakes in the second reading.
Please pay intention to the reported speech and quotation rules. Many people (even native speakers) don't know the exact rules, which are very hard and sometimes arbitrary in English.
Keep following comma rules in mind:
- Punctation in quotations belong into the quotation.
- Try to set a in a listing before the last "and". It is called the "Oxford Comma". It's not mandatory but it looks very nice and your teacher will be happy to see it.
- After words as "furtermore" set a comma.
- Subordinate clauses do not always need a comma. Just put a comma before "which/that/who/whose..." when is it not important for the main clauses.
Keep on going! English is a great language and way easier than 1200 years ago 