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  • In the contrary, zoos allow for research into key issues surrounding animal welfare.
    On the contrary...
  • She grabs my hand then flipped me like I weighed nothing. This showed what a good self-defense course has done.
    Verb Tense Shift
  • Reading Camus’s The Plague.
    Sentence Fragment
  • In case you were wondering I never allow myself to be exposed to direct sunlight unless I have my scarf, my sunglasses, and a large umbrella.
    Missing comma
  • We had a test I did well on it grammar is my forte.
    Run-on sentence (independent clauses are not separated)
  • When Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were battling with their light sabers, he became angry.
    Pronoun Reference (we don't know who "he" refers to)
  • “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity,” said Einstein.
    Quotation - misplaced comma
  • Fossil fuels include coal, oil or natural gas.
    Fossil fuels include coal, oil and natural gas. ['Or' is used for alternatives, i.e. usually one but not all the options.]
  • There are others reasons.
    Adjectives don't take plural form
  • i took a walk in central park and saw a Mime, who was pretending to be a Policeman, get sprayed with mace by an elderly woman because she thought he was trying to steal her purse.
    Wrong Capitalization
  • On my vacation to France, I went to Pares and visited the Eifel Tower, the Louvre museum, and Jim Morrison’s grave.
    Spelling (Eiffel Tower)
  • We must rely on the science for the progress.
    Avoid 'the' when speaking about general terms
  • I have a wide variety of supernatural powers, but wish I had the power to go out in the daylight.
    Unnecessary comma
  • They hunt animals for live.
    They hunt animals to live. [If expressing a purpose, use 'to' + infinitive.]
  • I enjoy walking alone in the woods at night because I never what I will meet while I am out there in the dark.
    Missing Word
  • The iron is a useful metal.
    No article with materials
  • It is really tired to read a book on a laptop.
    It is really tiring to read a book on a laptop. [Use '-ed' adjectives for subjective feelings and (usually) '-ing' adjectives for objective causes.
  • I understand that vampires and ghouls need love but I don’t think they really understand just how attached I am to my vital, bodily fluids.
    Missing Comma
  • He is one of those athletes who practices twenty hours a day.
    Subject-Verb Agreement