How I Use Received Corrections

Ladia

April 11, 2021

How do you use your corrections to study? Do you rewrite your journal on paper? Make flashcards of the words you learned? The entire sentence?

How I Use Received Corrections

I always go through the corrections once I receive them. I stop at each one of them, and I make sure that I understand why it was corrected that way. Most of the time, I immediately realize what was wrong. But sometimes, I further discuss the mistake with the corrector. After some time, I read my old journals to see the corrections again. Seeing them more than once helps to remember the correct phrases. If I were a beginner, I would undoubtedly write the mistakes and vocabulary on paper.

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secretpostman

How I Use Received Corrections

I always go through the corrections once I receive them.

I stop at each one of them, and I make sure that I understand why it was corrected that way.

Most of the time, I immediately realize what was wrong.

But sometimes, I further discuss the mistake with the corrector.

After some time, I read my old journals to see the corrections again.

Seeing them more than once helps me to remember the correct phrases.

At least, I *think* this is incorrect. Certainly my suggestion is definitely correct. Or "helps you to remember", "helps in/with remembering".

If I were a beginner, I would undoubtedly write the mistakes and vocabulary on paper.

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You've made an elementary error here: how can you possibly apply this process if you don't make any mistakes?! :)

Oh, no, wait, I see one. "helps me to remember". Massive.

Ladia

April 11, 2021

Seeing them more than once helps me to remember the correct phrases.

Thank you for the suggestions!
I didn't include "me" because I meant the sentence as a general truth.

From the Cambridge dictionary:
"If something or someone helps to do something, that thing or person is one of several reasons for it happening:
Example: The drought has helped (to) make this a disastrous year for Somalia."

I believe the same structure is applicable to my sentence as well.
But I agree that it feels unnatural in the given context.

Ladia

April 11, 2021

Thank you for correcting my journal! Next time, I'll try harder to make more mistakes! :)

secretpostman

April 12, 2021

Yeah, there's many many contexts you can do that in. That's why I wasn't even sure it was incorrect :) Just feels weird with "to remember".

Generic you is very useful for making sentences like that applicable as general truths.

How I Use Received Corrections