AnnaMaran

Hi Ms Parry, here's the exercise Thanks Anna, I've written the corrections in capitals - I hope you can understand them and correct them. Instead of correcting this version, it would be a good idea if you could copy it and write another version below so that we can then comment on your 2nd version without losing the first version - is that OK? Maybe if you write your 2nd version in a different colour it would help!

Ok, I'm going to correct it. But I have just a question. When I'm going to translate "I FIGLI", referring to both sons and daughters, what I am supposed to write?

Children

 Dear Madam, I have read with much interest the article by Henry Reid, which appeared in yesterday’s edition, about the loss of values in  our modern families. In my personal view, the reader’s opinion is fundamentally correct, and I personally agree with him. However, I would like to make some clarifications concerning the subject.

 It stands to reason that family values have changed a lot during the last years. I am only 24 years old, so I cannot imagine for real how WHAT it was to live like 40 years ago. But I do assure YOU that I have noticed a lot of changes also (WHY ALSO?) between my generation and the new one (WHICH? - NOT CLEAR). When I was a child, me and my friends AND I have been taught (TENSE?) to respect the NO ARTICLE adults, were they parents, grandparents, teachers, or whatever (TOO INFORMAL), for the simple reason they were older and, by that, AS SUCH wiser than we were. We did our best at school, and also after school, doing homework and helping our parents at home, for what was possible to do. AS FAR AS POSSIBLE  However, who has USE 'IS' HERE AND A NOUN the responsibility for that? Teenagers, who are just kids too much grown up (NOT CLEAR), or their parents, who are not able to teach them what is really important in life, who did not educate them at all sometimes? Let me just give you an example. I have a little brother of 8, and I am sure he is going to be a great guy, because my parents are educating him the same way they did with me and my sister. The real problem is that parents nowadays are too much busy in living their own lives, and they do not care at all of PREPOSITION? their sons.(AND DAUGHTERS?) A boy may pretend to be an adult, but he is not an adult. He always needs some reference points to look at, to understand what is good and what is not. And most OF the time parents do not realize this. They think it is the school’s duty to educate their own sons (GIRLS OF COURSE STAY AT HOME AND DO THE HOUSEWORK....), but it is impossible doing (GERUND OR INFIN? - WHAT'S THE RULE HERE) it, if the parents themselves treat the teachers as someone (SOMEONE REFERS TO ONE PERSON ONLY - HERE YOU NEED A PLURAL WORD - OR NOTHING) useless, and prefer to give always reason (THIS IS A TRANSLATION FROM ITALIAN) to their sons, just to not take the trouble to scold them. Because this would mean they have failed as parents.

 To conclude, I agree that new generations have lost the important values of life, and not only the family ones. But we need to reflect carefully on this problem, and try to find out the causes, to change the consequences.  Your faithfully,  Anna Maran LOOK IN MURPHY FOR THE USE OF 'TOO MUCH' AND CORRECT IT IN 2 PLACES.