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Originally Posted by Supperman
An Asian puppet show / TOEIC
I’m watching a show on a stage (platform). Ten members (characters) are playing now. They’re human shape characters, but not human itself. They’re wearing a whole body costume including the head, or they may be marionettes, though I can’t see any strings on this photo.
I can't decide which, because I don't know the scale of the platform.
It might be very small.
They have a white face with large ears, and are wearing oriental clothes. Their sleeves have white lace wings.
The wear is basically reddish and colorful. They’re wearing a cap/hat too.
I think they’re the oracles, the servers of God.
Or they’re the maid of honor, the servers of the king.
The background curtain is basically red in color, with two dragons drawn on it. There are rainbow-color frills at the edge of the curtain.
I think this is an oriental show, maybe China, or India, or South-east Asia.
I don't think this is not Japanese origin.
Two characters are standing both on left and right side.
The remaining 8 characters are sitting on their knees, in two rows and four lines.
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First, in response to some of Dogs corrections, I think your sentence "Two characters are standing both on left and right side" should actually be "Two characters are standing
on both the left and right side." Now, what Dogs said 'both on the'
is right, but personally 'on both' instead of 'both on' sounds more natural.
Secondly - to explain Dogs correction of the omission of 'not' - your sentence "I don't think this is not of Japanese origin" is quite incorrect. What we have here is called a 'double negative', which basically means that the 'do not' and 'is not' cancel each other out, meaning that you are grammatically implying that you
do think they are of Japanese origin. So simply "I don't think they are of Japanese origin" is fine.
Also you ideally need 'of' before 'Japanese origin', or 'I do not think they are Japanese
in origin'.
I'm not too sure what you mean by "The wear is reddish and colourful", do you mean what they are wearing? If so then 'The clothes' or 'The costumes' may be more appropriate here. Other than that (and Dogs other comments) your writing is excellent
