3. Check for full subordination: She’s here because now^needs the form.
4. Check the verbs: TV is interested. (Interesting is the norm.)
5. Check the pronouns: form, agreement, reference: themselfs. (themselves instead)
6. Check the word form: Pregnant brides are sometimes quick and quiet wed.
7. Check word order: Ask him where was he should be Ask him where he was then.
8. Parallel: He hates our nagging and to ask him where he’s been.
9. Check for repetition not needed: She runs quite fast and rapidly.
10. Check for correct usage: Looking forward for what may soon be.
Yeah, I acknowledge that this isn't exactly a perfect parallel to Andrew Crocker-Harris feat of translating the whole Agamemnon in rhyming couplets! But then, Taplow isn't a privileged student at a boys' school either.
So let's imagine that Andrew, at the appropriate moment, had confided in Taplow.
Andrew
When I was a young teacher, I wanted to make English musical for my students. I wanted them to enjoy the process of learning the language. So I wrote English lessons in the form of songs.
Taplow
You write song in present tense too.
Andrew
But at the beginning, I was successful. That is, the students liked the songs. They liked the lessons. I was so successful that a publisher approached me at a teachers' conference and asked me to compile them for a song book. And I did. And it was a big success. I was once the keynote speaker at a conference. People asked me to give workshops.
Taplow
That very good!
Andrew
But somewhere along the way.. .it was no longer wanted. They stopped ordering it. And it went out of print.
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