Everyday Grammar Video: Feedback on Writing Submissions

Hi John, what are you reading?

I was reading some messages we received from English learners around the world.

Really? What did they write about?

We asked our readers and listeners to send us information about the population of their home cities.

Let's take one as an example. We can give some feedback.

Said wrote to us from Lahore, Pakistan.

City, Lahore, Pakistan.

Increasing in 2023 was 13,979,000.

A 3.23% increase from 2022.

Said presented some exact numbers about the city of Lahore.

Our main suggestion is to use complete sentences in your writing.

A reminder, a complete sentence involves a subject and a predicate.

The subject might have a noun or noun phrase and the predicate might have a verb, an object,

a subject complement and so on.

If we use these ideas about including complete sentences,

we might update Said's message to something like this.

The population of Lahore, Pakistan is increasing.

In 2023, the population was 13,979,000.

A 3.23% increase from 2022.

Note that both sentences involve the subject, the population.

The population of Lahore, Pakistan is increasing.

The population was.

In terms of verbs, we have the present continuous.

The population is increasing.

This is because the population is in a continual state of rising.

And that's everyday grammar.