English Challenge Grammar and Writing Extension

If you want a real challenge, try re-writing the text below by adding grammar to it. You'll need articles (the, a, an), prepositions (in, on, at etc) and pay attention to verb forms - I've reduced them all to bare infinitives (be, go, play etc). When you've finished...and only when you've finished...compare your text with my original below. Pay attention to any differences you find and try to figure out why I used them in my original text. Of course you are more than welcome to ask any questions you have ...Good luck!

My Order:

1. The boy
2. The girl
3. The friend
4. The boatman
5. The rich man

My reasons:
I sympathize most with boy, because I can imagine do same things he do if I be his situation. other words, if I have girlfriend who sleep with another man £500, I find it impossible forgive her. I feel sorry her, though. She do what she do for right reasons, but I think if she truly love her boyfriend, she know how much her action upset him. I no can make up my mind about friend. If my friends know something important my relationships then I want them tell me. However, if friend keep quiet, boy and girl no split up and they still be happy now. Also, if I be friend, I no think I be able to tell boy what really happen. I consider boatman and rich man be quite similar because they both take advantage girl’s situation. I no can sympathize rich man because I never ask woman sleep me in exchange money. boatman no seem so bad because “he only do his job” and if he take girl other island for free, then everyone else expect same treatment and his business collapse. However, he no show any compassion and only see her situation in financial terms, so I no can respect him.

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I sympathize most with the boy, because I could imagine doing the same things he did if I was in his situation. In other words, if I had a girlfriend who slept with another man for £500, I would find it impossible to forgive her. I do feel sorry for her, though. She did what she did for the right reasons, but I think if she had truly loved her boyfriend, she would have known how much her action would upset him.

I can’t make up my mind about the friend. If my friends knew something important about my relationships then I would want them to tell me. However, if the friend had kept quiet, the boy and girl wouldn’t have split up and they would still be happy now. Also, if I was the friend, I don’t think I would have been able to tell the boy what had really happened.

I consider the boatman and the rich man to be quite similar because they both take advantage of the girl’s situation. I can’t sympathize with the rich man because I would never ask a woman to sleep with me in exchange for money. The boatman doesn’t seem so bad because “he was only doing his job” and if he had taken the girl to the other island for free, then everyone else would have expected the same treatment and his business would have collapsed. However, he didn’t show any compassion and only saw her situation in financial terms, so I can’t respect him.