Yes, 'gave you away' means 'showed something about you that was a secret'.
Some members here on MyEC keep copying other's writing from the Internet instead of writing their own. They might have wanted to share what they thought was worth sharing, or they might have tried to fool us into believing the blog was written by themselves.
But we're not allowed to do that - not to copy a piece of writing from the Internet without the permission from the author. Don't plagiarize!
I know it may be so hard for you to write something. You could try to start with something easy or short. You don't need to write something lengthy or complicated. A short paragraph will do.
And, your writing doesn't need to be perfect. Don't be afraid of making mistakes when you're writing - you're even expected to make some mistakes here and there in your writing because even native speakers make mistakes too.
You may have thought, 'How could Expector know the blog wasn't written by me?' Now you know the answer: It was the perfection that gave you away. Yes, the writing was too polished to be written by an English learner like you, or you can say 'It's too good to be true'.
I hope our members will try to let me know if you notice a blog which is copied from the Internet. Try to google it or yahoo it when you're not so sure.
Yes, we encourage you to write your own blog; we appreciate the blogs written by you.
Note
The construction 'too...to...' has a negative meaning: 'so much...that...not possible', for example, you can say 'I'm too old to learn' or 'He's too young to marry her'.
Comments
:) Dear Doc, I thought It was perfection that made me have no blog this month. hihi....
When I want to write a blog, actually I need a pure mind. These days I'm too much to think about another thing, maybe. :)) You're right that we, I'm always afraid of making mistake when I write a blog, but I realize that I make mistake in comment time to time.
Copied blog, hmm...I will notice you if I read any copied blog. Things are just not good if we plagiarize, right? "Better a non-copied short story than a wonderful copied story". :)
I'll try to make at least one blog each month. I'm too afraid to make mistake. ^_^
Thanks for this courageous blog. sometimes I feel down because I keep made almost same mistakes in my every blog and it seems like no progress at all, hehe... I agree with you plagiarize is not a good thing and for knowing our own blog would be more appreciated here, it's make me happy.
I like to read blogs because all members have points of views. But some are more interesting than others. I try to write blogs about some experience of live that I had. But sometimes it is a little dificult to express my experiences or ideas. I think If we try to write our experiences of life or our ideas we are going to improve our learning.
Thanks for your advices.
@Pearl
Yes, it seems only a few of them were copied from the Internet, but anyone here should know it's not allowed to plagiarize.
By the way, I'm glad you've been reading blogs almost every day - I really appreciate it. Keep it up!
@Evangelina
Great! I really enjoyed your nice comment. The structure 'too...to' can be so useful and it doesn't seem to be hard to master - no problem for a smart cookie like you:)
@dara
You're welcome!
Ni hao Expertor Smith, Xie xie! It's like stealing something from someone. Thanks for the nice tip.
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