Just so you have an idea of the type of English I have to correct in the course of my work:
At the Cambridge School, for the first time in my life, I enjoyed the companionship of seeing and hearing girls of my own.
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Li Gong prognoses to me.
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You must have a confidence with English.
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I used to make noises, keeping one hand on my throat while the other hand felt the movement of my lips.
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So this sad experience may have done me some good and set me thinking on some of the problems of composition.
I’m given these sentences by Chinese teachers in China who teach English. If this is the sort of thing they’re teaching their students, they’re really screwing with their students’ English.