>>29168
> But did you actually enjoy the story?
Are you asking this for real?
Why ‒ in Sidney's name ‒ would I try to help brushing up the story if I would not like it? ;D

Of course I enjoyed it. It's well written, very detailed, has many subplots, isn't too violent (ok, some harvesting had to be done), got likeably characters ‒ on the whole a outstanding piece of literature.

> Thanks for picking up the typos etc
You're very welcome. I'm glad I could help.

> "if you wanted"
Thank you for the explanation. To leave words implied is called ellipsis (Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, romanized: élleipsis, lit. 'omission'). It is also called an elliptical construction and "is the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements." [Wikipedia] This syntactic omission is not to be confused with the suspension points with the same name and origin. The latter are used to indicate an omission if neccessary, e.g. in citations.
(Sorry for being a smart aleck. *g*)
I know this leaving out also from my first tongue. Native speakers of all languages mostly aren't aware of doing it.
But I was wondering that "wanted" is the simple past and past participle of "want", but the birthday happens in the future. So I expected just "you want" or "you’ll want". Is there another point I don't get?

> ... English as natively spoken. We often ...
(After theory some practice. *g*)
Well, I'm still curious about your mother tongue and fatherland (>>29122), if it's ok for you to reveal it.