For this session, my tutee wrote a few example sentences
using phrasal verbs. One sentence threw me for a loop. The sentence was “The
two children were run over and killed by a truck.” Although the sentence was
grammatically correct, I thought that it sounded funny. This was because I
thought that the past particle of run
was ran. After some research, I found
out that I was wrong about this. From this experience, I learned that if
something sounds funny, just look it up. It may sound funny to me because of the
dialect that I am used to hearing. However, I need to teach my tutee academic English.
In addition, my tutee wanted to know how to politely ask someone to do
something. I remembered what Ms. Kim taught us in class last week, so I told my
tutee that the past tense of a verb is more polite than the present tense. I gave
him a few example questions, such as “Could you…?”. My finally piece of advice to my tutee was
that it does not hurt to use the word “please” in this question.
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