[Grammar] Part two.A description on a pictures. Please everyone check it.

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A girl is child and she is wearing a red short pants and a sleeveless T-shirt. She is holding a cock on her hand and she is watering the flowers .
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How on earth did you get the word 'cock' for the water nozzle?:shock:

'Cock' is either the term for the male bird of certain species, or a term for the male genitalia. There are various names for the item she's holding, such as a spray nozzle or spray pistol, but please, do not write about little girls and cocks.
 
I'd say "... holding whatever in her hand."
 
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A girl is child and she is wearing a red short pants and a sleeveless T-shirt. She is holding a cock on her hand and she is watering the flowers .
Thanks.

Try "There is a young girl wearing red shorts ...".
 
A girl is child and she is wearing a red short pants and a sleeveless T-shirt. She is holding a cock on her hand and she is watering the flowers .
Thanks.

In addition to the comments from tzfujimino regarding the correct preposition, and emsr's suggested rewording, I'll (again) suggest you study up on articles in English. 'A/an' are singular (by definition they mean 'one'), so you cannot have 'a shorts'.

Edit. I just realized you have the same error in your title - "a pictures"
Remember:
a=1
an=1
the = 1 or more
 
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The valve (handle or knob) that controls the flow of water through a garden hose is called a stop-cock.
 
In Ame, stopcocks generally are only used to refer to valves in plumbing. Even in plumbing, you're far more likely to hear it referred to as a valve.

Sometimes the type of valve you'll see in a water/tea/beverage dispenser, where you have to flip it up to pour and back down to stop are called dripcocks.

Pepcocks are the small titrating valves used in chemistry labs and some HVAC lines. These are all more jargon than common parlance. If you don't work in those industries, you probably wouldn't be familiar with the terminology. Even then, they're always specifically referred to by type, never just a generic 'cock'.

The last time I can ever recall actually using any of these terms was back in high school and college chemistry labs.

We generally refer to the larger ones used outside a house for garden houses as just valves or hydrants.
 
In BrE, the stopcock is the tap either in the street or somewhere in your property which switches off the water supply to the whole building or, in the case of flats/apartments, just to your own property. Occasionally, there is a separate stopcock in the kitchen or bathroom which turns off the water supply to just that room. They're mainly used by plumbers or sometimes, in the case of an emergency, by the occupant or homeowner. It's always a good idea to know the location of your stopcock(s) for emergency use.
 
In AmE, we would likely call the business end of a hose a "nozzle".
 
In BrE, the stopcock is the tap either in the street or somewhere in your property which switches off the water supply to the whole building or, in the case of flats/apartments, just to your own property. Occasionally, there is a separate stopcock in the kitchen or bathroom which turns off the water supply to just that room. They're mainly used by plumbers or sometimes, in the case of an emergency, by the occupant or homeowner. It's always a good idea to know the location of your stopcock(s) for emergency use.

We just refer to those as shutoff valves in AmE. Properly plumbed, you should have a main one for the entire house, and separate ones for each fixture so you can isolate things for repairs.
 
In AmE, we would likely call the business end of a hose a "nozzle".

Yes in BrE too, usually if has is a tapered end. If it has a handle like the one in the picture we would probably call it a "spray gun".
 
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