Please check for grammatical errors
Last year, one of my classmates took over her father’s business. She came to Bangalore on a business trip in April. I was glad to meet her after a long time. Besides, I was curious to see her quicksilver smile. The same day I made an appointment with her. We met at the Union Square restaurant the very next day. She had come with her three potential clients. As far as my knowledge is concerned, she always frowns. But this time, she was grinning and her smile added some extra strength to her charming personality. She had a professional outlook which was really amazing. I could make out the positive changes in her behavior.
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I can see nothing in terms of grammar that needs to be changed. There are a couple of places where your paragraph could be made stronger.
Your second sentence ends with two prepositional phrases, one after the other. There is nothing you can do to eliminate these prepositions without changing the meaning. However, you can avoid the strung together feel of the prepositional phrases by altering the structure of the sentence. This would also give the paragraph a bit more rhythm. Move "in April" to introduce the sentence --> "In April, she came ..."
Consider emphasizing "long time" by saying "such a long time."
Consider joining your fourth and fifth sentences with the conjunction "so". The will help vary your sentence length and make the writing more interesting. (When sentence length varies, the comprehension and interest of the reader improves.)
Consider simplyfing "as far as my knowledge is concerned" --> "as far as I knew".
Oh, I did find one punctuation error. You have a compound sentence toward the end that needs a cooma before the conjunction "and".
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answered Jun 13 '12 at 22:11
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Thank you very much.
add commentIn addition to Jeff’s points, two sentences seem a bit off to me.
I was glad to meet her after a long time. It sounds like you are meeting her for the first time, but after a long time is somewhat unclear. Is it a long time since you last met her? Was this an online class, so you met a long time ago and this is the first time in person? I was glad to finally meet her in person after such a long time.
Besides, I was curious to see her quicksilver smile. This sentence seems out of place. Later, you mention that your understanding was that she always frowns. If that is true, then how did you know she would be smiling and how did you know it would be a quicksilver smile. This sentence is saying that part of the reason you agreed to meet her was to see that smile, which contradicts the later statement. I had to look up quicksilver as an adjective in the dictionary. In this sense, it means rapid or unpredictable in movement or change. Does that describe her smile?
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answered Jun 13 '12 at 23:20
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Thank a lot for your corrections. Now, I will work on your corrections.
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answered Jun 14 '12 at 09:37
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Do you have a question? New questions should be posted as questions rather than answers to a previous question.
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