Correction anglais

[Gmma]

Bonjour
Pourriez vous corriger mon texte s'il vous plaît?
(il doit être rempli de fautes :triste: )

When he got back to the reservation, I wasn’t surprised to see him.
I’d been expecting him back since the day he left for Seattle, but I didn’t expect to see him so tacking in motivation.
He became lazy.
Thus I decided to help him to find a job. For that, I surrounded ads in red in the newspaper because mostly he watched television.
For weeks, he flipped channels, and searched for answers in the game shows and soap operas.
I ask me that he was going to do with the rest of his life.
He didn’t know.
I think at the old Indian poet who said that Indians can reside in the city, but they can never live there.
But my son had changed since he went to Seattle for his studies (high school and college). He didn’t think any more like an Indian.
For justify he (pour le motiver), I speak he of the kinds of warrior who were compared at eagle, what represented the warriors for the tribe and how there were considered.
Become warrior was a means to follow the habit (coutumes) and to keep an ancestral way of life.
But my son thought all that was any more its time (que tout cela n’était plus de son époque), what the wars between Cow boys and Indians were finished and like him was different of “his brothers”, thought that today the confrontations were Indians versus Indians.
My son was an Indian but he didn’t live like them (comme eux).
I saw he dejested and (pour se remotiver) … he started again to play at basket ball.
It’s maybe (ce dont il avait besoin) … : become a basket ball player.

Merci d'avance. :happy2:

[olivthill]

Au lieu de I surrounded ads in red, écrire I circled ads in red.
Au lieu de because mostly he watched television, écrire because he was watching TV most of the time ou because he spent a lot of time watching TV, ou encore because he was doing nothing but watching TV.
Au lieu de I ask me, écrire I asked myself, ou I wondered, ou I was worried about.
Au lieu de For justify he, écrire To motivate him, To make him change.
Au lieu de I speak he of, écrire I spoke to him about, ou I told him of.
Au lieu de who were compared at eagle, écrire who were compared to eagles.
Au lieu de Become warrior, écrire Becoming a warrior
Au lieu de was a means to follow, écrire was a mean for following, ou was a way of follinging.
Au lieu de the habit, écrire the traditions, the customs.
Au lieu de thought all that was any more its time, écrire thought that was a thing of the past ou thought times had changed.
Au lieu de were finished, écrire were over.
La traduction de ce dont il avait besoin est what he needed, what was good for him.
Au lieu de become, écrire to become, ou to be.

[Gmma]

Merci beaucoup pour votre aide. :++: :happy3:

[Jeremy86000]

Bonjour,

Au lieu de was a means to follow, écrire was a mean for following, ou was a way of follinging.

"a means to follow" était tout à fait correct, comme le serait "a means of following" (même si on dirait plutôt le premier).

En revanche, "a mean for following" est doublement incorrect, d'une part parce que le nom "means" prend toujours un "s", et d'autre part parce qu'il ne se construit jamais avec "for".

[olivthill]

Oui, je me suis trompé pour means.
Merci Jeremy86000 pour la correction, et excusez-moi Gmma pour cette erreur.