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08-28-2009, 01:53 AM

I'm sorry I'm a bit late in but I'll help if you would like.

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Originally Posted by loveskyliemole View Post

Well, I heard that there are more and more Japanese boys care their hair in their legs(is this right English? in? on? or do you have any special name for that? In Japanese, we have,we call it sunege)
and they shave it too!
What do you think about that?
The correct English would be 'on' not 'in'. This is because 'In' would imply that the hair is inside their legs. Also 'caring for' would be used here instead of just 'care'. Meaning the whole sentence would be:

I heard that there are more and more Japanese boys caring for their hair on their legs.

You can make it even more natural sound by saying 'leg hair' instead of 'hair on their legs'. Meaning an even more natural sounding version of the previous sentence would be:

I heard that there are more and more Japanese boys caring for their leg hair.

I hope that helps somewhat. Feel free to ask me anything about English. The best general tips I can give you at the moment would be writing tips. Study other people’s paragraph layouts. It looks unnatural to start each sentence on a new line.

Paragraphs should be used to group sentences to group several sentences that together develop one central idea. Thinking about it however can make it hard to decide where to start or end paragraphs though. If I was learning English I would just read a lot and try and get a feel for how fluent English writers use paragraphs.

I hope I have helped.
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