When I got a call from you on EC for chat I didn’t miss the opportunity to gain access to you. When we got chatted for a while you generally accepted me as your friend whereas I was already got ready and wishing you to get ready for the same. I liked you very much and I was thinking to get a chance to get together with you in real. You got a shock when I told you about this. I was afraid of your getting angry with me. And you stopped seeing me on EC. I was not used to get ignored by you so I got upset. I then sent you message and requested to get back together and I promised not to get any wish which made you getting doubtful about me. I really had a guilty conscience. I didn’t think that my pleading would be good enough for us to get back together. But with stroke of luck I got permission from you to come to your place in person. My pleading would have given rise for you to get rid of your thinking about me that was not getting serious about our relationship. It will get better, and I promise, I would never get changed as you afraid of.
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Mr. Bob, I already felt the obstacles going by the book. Thanks for the advice. I will try to reproduce the story.
Keep advising.
Hi Mishaikh. Lady Anne made some valid points because if we look at collocations as the frequency of words occuring together, we also have to realize they only go together in certain forms. This is a hazard of trying to use word combinations in ways that you haven't read or heard.
I admire your attempt to put so many "get" collocations in one huge paragraph, but some of them just don't get the meaning across. I think it would make a better story if you rewrote it in your own words. You could still show us a lot of the collocations in the form of a list. That way your story will read well and the list will inform members of words often found with get.
Yes Anne I was feeling it while writing. But I anyway have to obey the requirement of the lesseon.
Thanks for your guidance. I will try to re-write it.
Whew..lots of GOTS, haha!
I don't think some "GOTs" are needed in your sentences. It makes it unnatural to read (haha, at least for me).
Below, please find my correction:
whereas I was already got ready (whereas I was ready)
You got a shock when I told you about this. (You were shocked when I told you about this.)
I was afraid of your you getting angry with me.
I was not used to get being/getting ignored by you
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I know that by simplifying those sentences, you will be getting away from the objective of your blog. Mishaikh, there is a very nice story marred by those collocations you used (sorry!)
If you could rewrite it in your own free words, it would surely turn into a very beautiful story. I like the story but it does not look appealing to me with those collocations.
Have it rewritten Mishaikh. Don't use collocations this time. This is a humble request from your friend. I don't want the story to go in such a waste. Use your beautiful words. I don't think it will be hard for you.
Thanks Expector for your comments.
Thank you, Expector Smith. I'll remember this precious lesson. :)
We usually say "make sense", or "make a difference", or "make a mistake", but not "do sense", or"do a difference" or "do a mistake". There's no "why" - these words are just often found together; they are called collocations.
Great!
Collocations might be the answer to the question "How to sound natural?". A good dictionary usually shows the collocations of a word - try to memorize the collocations besides the word when you look up a word in a dictionary.
Thanks friends for your appreciative comments.
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