Question : English: by itself / of itself ?
Question Details: Please rewrite my Eng writing and I would appreciate it. I still don't get this...
I really want to know about this:
1. I go falling asleep by myself as this room is very warm and cosy. Native speaker said that I can' t not use 'automatically or naturally'.
2. When I work on my papers on the computer, it was shut down by itsef / of itself so that I did not know what to do.
* are there other ways to say instead of saying I did not know what to do.
3. I was so tired that my eyes was closed by itself
4. My friend said using 'puts me to sleep' How can I use this one in a sentence?
Oh... I don't get that. Please help me using many example to understand if you can.
2007-09-08
07:08:23
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Thanks for the person below. You seems a man who is good at both Korean and English.
The reason I posted my questions is that I wanted to use right words and expression when I speak English, which make my English sound natarally.
Yes, I got the meaning 'by itself and by myself' finally. I did not fully understand those Eng native speaker explainted to me about my question, 저절로, unfortunelately and nobody mentioned 'by itself or by myself.
The reason I mentioned 'puts me to sleep' which I was told from a friend of mine is because I don't understnad the meaning. Therefore, I would like to know what the difinition and meaning of it as well as using that expresson in my sentence and conversation in English.
I hope you understand what I was supposed to. Thanks for your help. I really appreciate that.
2007-09-08
09:22:04 ·
update #1
oh. sorry... I got the meaning of 'by itself and by themselves, lol..
2007-09-08
09:23:45 ·
update #2
Yes, I desperately wanted to know of '저절로. My last question is that I would like to know the meaning of 'puts me to sleep' and to know some example of applying the words in a conversation. Thanks..
2007-09-08
09:29:49 ·
update #3
I am a self taught English student.
2007-09-08
09:33:51 ·
update #4
One of my friend told me that the eyes are part of our body, so we can not say that my eyes closed by themselves. Is that true? I learned this one today:
I could not keep my eyes (=them) open because I am so tired.
Thank you all so much for helping me out. I learned many things using ~~ so ~ that, ~~ because ~ , by itself if the subject is a thing, puts me to sleep, I could not keep my eyes open and so on during sevaral days. Thank you again !!
2007-09-09
08:13:14 ·
update #5
oh.. English is so completed.. I got it after all. I am so happy now
by itselp : apply to a thing
could not keep it(them) + p.p because ~
Noun + put(s) me to sleep
~ so that ~
2007-09-09
08:34:43 ·
update #6
complicated, lol ~
2007-09-09
08:35:54 ·
update #7