I've practice for my speaking test, and I've got some questions, please answer them for me. Because I aim for a high score in the Ielts speaking test so can you just tell me which sentence can be improved and how to improve them? I want them to be as natural as possible, not understandable. Thank you so much:

1.Girls don’t know what men want, so when it comes to seducing they keep giving wrong signals.

2.After breaking up , you should cut off the exposure to him. ( Is “ cut off” natural in this case, if not please help give me another phrase)

3.I’m always grateful to have her as part of my past life. ( Is this natural “ part of my past life”, if not please improve the sentence for me)

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I've practice for my speaking test, and I've got some questions, please answer them for me. Because I aim for a high score in the Ielts speaking test so can you just tell me which sentence can be improved and how to improve them? I want them to be as natural as possible, not understandable. Thank you so much:

1.Girls don’t know what men want, so when it comes to seducing they keep giving wrong signals.

2.After breaking up , you should cut off the exposure to him.  ( Is “ cut off” natural in this case, if not please help give me another phrase)

3.I’m always grateful to have her as part of my past life. ( Is this natural “ part of my past life”, if not please improve the sentence for me)

313Alicear · Answer

1. "Girls keep sending the wrong kind of signals when seducing men because they don't know what men want." sounds more specific since it's a little unclear in your original sentence who is seducing who.  If you want something closer to your original sentence, then you can just add a "them" after the word "seducing" to make it clear that the men are being seduced.

2. "Cut off" is natural in this case, however I would write it as "After breaking up, you should cut off all contact with him."  Cutting off contact is a more commonly used phrase in this case.

3. "I will always be grateful that she was a part of my past life."  The past tense sounds better because you are talking about the past.  As for "part of my past life", it sounds great!  :D

313Alicear · Answer

@easylove Happy to help!  Good luck on your speaking test!