Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Regbar" Newsgroups: fj.sci.lang.english Subject: mystakes in my text ? Date: 14 Feb 2005 07:47:31 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1108396051.196298.248010@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.216.247.229 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1108396055 25129 127.0.0.1 (14 Feb 2005 15:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:47:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.216.247.229; posting-account=2q74vQ0AAADZhhtMFCJnbZ0tpPxG7fCt Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.sci.lang.english:124 Hello ! I have to make a summary of a text. Here is my introduction (which is not completely finished). Is there any possible improvement ? Thanks for your help :) This text is an article by V=E1clav Havel entitled "A New Impetus for Old Europe". It is published in The Economist [on/in] 2004. V. Havel is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was a leading figure in the Velvet Revolution that brought down communism in Czechoslovakia. In December 1989, he was elected President of his country. His second term as Czech President ended February 2003. [ OR In December 1989, he was elected President of his country until February 2003 when his second term as Czech President ended ] (What is he best in your opinion?). "A New Impetus for Old Europe" approaches the geographical expansion of the European Union (E.U.) with the entry of ten new countries in 2004. More precisely, it [ addresses/examines ] the cultural, economical and political consequences entailed by the widening of the E.U. [ OR More precisely, it addresses/examines its cultural, economical and political consequences ]. [ In V. Havel's view/According to V. Havel ] (What is the best?), (comma or no comma?) the E.U. enlargement eastward marks (does it exist a better verb?) a turning point in the history of Europe. It "heralds the Union's transformation into an entirely new geopolitical entity". We can wonder about (is it correct?) the reasons for this contention/assertion/claim/statement (which word is the more rigorous?)