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Yesterday, I went bird watching to a meadow. The meadow had a flood like a pond, and there are a lot of water birds, such as ducks, geese, swans, and gulls. Also, because the weather was not great and it started raining a little bit, many sparrows were soaring over the flood. I brought my binoculars with me and enjoyed watching those birds.
Then, at the opposite shore of the flood, I saw a goose which had a distinct colour. It was unmistakably not a greylag goose or Canadian goose. I thought it was an Egyptian goose. Once I'd seen them when I visited Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa. But I left my field guide at my flat, so that I couldn't confirm my guess.
Then I came to my office and looked Egyptian goose up on the internet. What I saw was no other than an Egyptian goose. As its name suggest, they live in Africa, and in the UK they are rather rare. Only 700 adult Egyptian geese breed in the UK.
Also, there was a blog reporting bird species observed at the meadow, almost daily. I soon found Egyptian goose in the latest entry. Although I didn't see any other bird watchers there, the guy running this blog also went to the meadow and saw the same rare goose. Now, no question. I was just lucky.
Today, I met one of my colleagues. He is a very keen and experienced bird watcher. I wanted to report my observation yesterday and said to him, "How rare is Egyptian goose in Oxford?"
To tell the truth, I had a serious problem with the pronunciation of 'Egyptian', so that I couldn't take care of grammars and other stuff. No doubt, my question was a lot more horrible than you've just read.
He couldn't understand me immediately. So I asked, "You know, Egypt?"
"Yes," he said.
"The adjective of Egypt?"
"Egyptian?" he said.
"Yes, Egyptian goose. How rare are they?" I asked again.
Then he replied to me, wearing an expression of surprise, "Well..., you can find them in Museum..."
"I found one yesterday at the meadow. That's why I'm asking," I said.
"What? You found it on the ground?", he looked really interested now.
"Yeah, it was on the ground," I answered.
"What did it look like? How big was it?", he asked.
"It's this size, you know," I showed him the size of a goose with my hands. "It was like this colour. It had exotic patterns at its head and hip. I've once seem them when I was in Kenya. It's definitely not a greylag goose or Canadian goose. It was an Egyptian goose."
Then he said, "Goose? Oh, sorry, I thought you're talking about Egyptian GOODS on the ground."
Then, at the opposite shore of the flood, I saw a goose which had a distinct colour. It was unmistakably not a greylag goose or Canadian goose. I thought it was an Egyptian goose. Once I'd seen them when I visited Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa. But I left my field guide at my flat, so that I couldn't confirm my guess.
Then I came to my office and looked Egyptian goose up on the internet. What I saw was no other than an Egyptian goose. As its name suggest, they live in Africa, and in the UK they are rather rare. Only 700 adult Egyptian geese breed in the UK.
Also, there was a blog reporting bird species observed at the meadow, almost daily. I soon found Egyptian goose in the latest entry. Although I didn't see any other bird watchers there, the guy running this blog also went to the meadow and saw the same rare goose. Now, no question. I was just lucky.
Today, I met one of my colleagues. He is a very keen and experienced bird watcher. I wanted to report my observation yesterday and said to him, "How rare is Egyptian goose in Oxford?"
To tell the truth, I had a serious problem with the pronunciation of 'Egyptian', so that I couldn't take care of grammars and other stuff. No doubt, my question was a lot more horrible than you've just read.
He couldn't understand me immediately. So I asked, "You know, Egypt?"
"Yes," he said.
"The adjective of Egypt?"
"Egyptian?" he said.
"Yes, Egyptian goose. How rare are they?" I asked again.
Then he replied to me, wearing an expression of surprise, "Well..., you can find them in Museum..."
"I found one yesterday at the meadow. That's why I'm asking," I said.
"What? You found it on the ground?", he looked really interested now.
"Yeah, it was on the ground," I answered.
"What did it look like? How big was it?", he asked.
"It's this size, you know," I showed him the size of a goose with my hands. "It was like this colour. It had exotic patterns at its head and hip. I've once seem them when I was in Kenya. It's definitely not a greylag goose or Canadian goose. It was an Egyptian goose."
Then he said, "Goose? Oh, sorry, I thought you're talking about Egyptian GOODS on the ground."
Yesterday, I went bird watching in a meadow.
A flood had caused a pond to form, and there were a lot of water birds, such as ducks, geese, swans, and gulls.
I'd seen them once before, when I visited Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa.
But I left my field guide at my flat, so that I couldn't confirm my guess.
Then I went to my office and looked Egyptian goose up on the internet.
What I saw was none other than an Egyptian goose.
As its name suggests, they live in Africa, and in the UK they are rather rare.
I wanted to report my observation from yesterday and said to him, "How rare are Egyptian geese in Oxford?"
To tell the truth, I had a serious problem with the pronunciation of 'Egyptian', so that I couldn't take care of grammar and other stuff.
Then he replied to me, wearing an expression of surprise, "Well..., you can find them in Museums..."
"It's this size, you know," I showed him the size of the goose with my hands.
I saw them once when I was in Kenya.
My mom likes to look at birds, but is by no means an avid bird-watcher.
You did fairly well on this journal entry, keep up the good work(^_^)
I'm not avid bird watcher either. I just restarted bird watching when I moved here. Because there are full of exotic birds.
By the way, you corrected 'so that' into simple 'so' twice with red colour. I understand they work without 'that'. But I'm not sure why 'that' cannot be here. Could you explain why you think 'so that' is wrong or unsuitable in these cases, if possible?
Below is an example sentence from a dictionary. Here 'so that' is used to introduce a 'result' of something.
Nothing more was heard from him so that we began to wonder if he was dead.
I've only ever heard "so that" used to show a result of something that was done on purpose.
For example:
"I left the ladder in front of the house so that I wouldn't have to walk all the way to the garage."
"The dog buried his bone so that no other dogs could get to it."
Yesterday, I went bird watching in a meadow.
The meadow was flooded, so it was like a pond, and there were a lot of water birds, such as ducks, geese, swans, and gulls.
Then, at the opposite shore of the flooded meadow, I saw a goose which had a distinct colour.
To tell the truth, I had a serious problem with the pronunciation of 'Egyptian', so that I couldn't take care of grammar and other stuff.
Good!