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keikei000

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28 Oct 2017
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I'm a high school student from Japan. I started keeping a diary in English, so I want someone to point out errors in my writing.

"I want to be desicive! I can't decide things on the spot. It takes me quite a lot of time to decide about something. Now I'm setting a schedule for my study(I'm preparing for the entrance exam of university),but everytime I do this I waste some hours deciding whether I should do something or not. I know this is a very bad tendency of mine, but I can't get out of it. If I don't make any plans at all, I will get anxious all the more because studying without any plans is really uneasy...."
 
Your writing is quite good. It is probably better than that of many American high school students.
I would only suggest a few minor changes:
- decisive is spelled wrong
- 'decide about something': 'decide something' or 'make a decision about something' are more natural
- 'study': 'studying' or 'studies' are more natural
- 'university entrance exam' is more natural
- 'every time' is two words
- 'waste some hours': this is OK, but 'waste several hours' or 'waste a few hours' are more natural
- 'anxious all the more': this is OK, but 'even more anxious' is more natural
- 'without any plans': this is OK, but 'without a plan' is more natural
- 'is really uneasy': this is wrong. It should be changed to something like 'makes me really uneasy'

Great job!!
 
Your writing is quite good. It is probably better than that of many American high school students.
I would only suggest a few minor changes:
- decisive is spelled wrong
- 'decide about something': 'decide something' or 'make a decision about something' are more natural
- 'study': 'studying' or 'studies' are more natural
- 'university entrance exam' is more natural
- 'every time' is two words
- 'waste some hours': this is OK, but 'waste several hours' or 'waste a few hours' are more natural
- 'anxious all the more': this is OK, but 'even more anxious' is more natural
- 'without any plans': this is OK, but 'without a plan' is more natural
- 'is really uneasy': this is wrong. It should be changed to something like 'makes me really uneasy'

Great job!!

thank you!!
Actually I consulted my dictionary when I wrote this, but I'm happy to hear your praise!
 
Not quite.

"Uneasy" is a way to describe how someone feels. It can be any sentient being, actually (e.g. you might say the dog is looking uneasy during a thunderstorm).

So the problem with your usage isn't that the subject isn't a person, it's that "uneasy" is being used to describe a situation ("studying without any plans"). You could also correct it to: "Studying without any plans makes me really uneasy."
 
Not quite.

"Uneasy" is a way to describe how someone feels. It can be any sentient being, actually (e.g. you might say the dog is looking uneasy during a thunderstorm).

So the problem with your usage isn't that the subject isn't a person, it's that "uneasy" is being used to describe a situation ("studying without any plans"). You could also correct it to: "Studying without any plans makes me really uneasy."

Indeed I remember having seen "uneasy" applied to a sentient that is not a person. Thank you!
 
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