Please check my sentences (Feb. 25)

[hirashin]

Dear native English speakers,

Would anyone please check all the sentences below?

1 I work part-time in this store every Saturday.
2 My parents won't let me go out after dinner.
3 My father tells me to study English hard.
4 I want you to stay longer.
5 My brother sometimes asks me to help him with his homework.
6 I sometimes make my son help me with my work.
7 My brother Ken is good at rugby.
8 I enjoy practicing karate every day.
9 I want to join the local soccer team.
10 I usually finish practicing at seven o'clock.
11 Teaching English is a good job for me.
12 I've decided to study abroad after graduating from high school.
13 I am interested in Korean singers.
14 The festival held here in October was wonderful.
15 People living in this town are friendly.
16 I was moved by the drama.
17 The play was really moving.
18 I was surprised to find you wrote the play.
19 The ending of the play was shocking.
20 I was shocked by the ending of the play.

Thanks in advance.

Hirashin

 

[OoTmaster]

They all sound fine to me.

 

[eeky]

I would just add that (6), while correct English, sounds quite harsh/severe. I wonder if you may mean something more along the lines of "I sometimes get my son to help me with my work."

In polished written English I personally prefer "I was surprised to find that you wrote the play."

 

[OoTmaster]

I didn't think about number 6 that way. But you could be right, it might make it sound as if you force your son to help. In the right context though this may be the prefered way to state it. Such as if you feel your son is lazy. All my son ever does is play video games. So sometimes I make him help with my work. More in a context that might be used with the original sentence, sounds less harsh that way.

 

[hirashin]

Thank you for your ongoing help, OoTmaster and eeky. I really appreciate your help.