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Hi, have a seat. Thanks for coming by.
I’m glad I can visit you for improving my English and uh I would like to speak with you about the problems of my listening, of my understanding.I would even want to speak about the problems, you know, the problems, I want like to improve it. How can you help me to improve my understanding?
It sounds like you want to improve your listening comprehension. Before we dive into that, I wanted to discuss the feedback on your last essay. Is now a good time?
Well, it would be a good time to speak about it, but I don’t really remember your feedback. Can you repeat it?
Yes, absolutely. I can go over it again. Overall, it was a good effort, but the main issue was with clarity. Some of your sentences were a bit hard to follow.
Temy what kind of systematically mistaking I am
It sounds like you’re asking what kind of systematic mistakes you’re making? Is that right?
What? I saw the transcription, it’s very good to get it. Nevertheless, the transcription was very wrong. Yes, I want to speak about uh systematic mistakes that I have done in my essay.
Okay, let’s focus on the systematic mistakes in your essay. One thing I noticed was subject-verb agreement. Can you tell me more about what you find challenging about that?
Really? I make mistakes with a with a subject verb agreement. It’s such a simple thing in English and I did it wrongly. Uh can you give me some examples? I am very surprised about it.
Sure. For example, instead of saying, “He go to the library,” it should be, “He goes to the library.” Does that make sense?
Really? I cannot imagine. To be honest, I never thought I make such a terrible mistake.
It’s a common mistake, even for native speakers sometimes! Don’t worry too much. We can review some more examples. Would that be helpful?
Right, have you some examples that I mixed up the subject word order that’s a mistake I make very often when I write it down, when I write it down something fluidly, but in my German thinking I looking for the most important part of the sentence and put it in the beginning and so very often the object is the most important part of the sentence and but after then most of them I correct myself. But have I done such a mistake in this essay too without without noticing it?
Yes, I did notice a few instances of that. It’s understandable, especially when translating your thoughts from German. Let’s look at the second paragraph. Do you see how the sentence starts with ‘The park I visited’ instead of ‘I visited the park’?
Indeed? I cannot imagine that I ordered in that way. But the park is a central one and so I put it on the front. So, uh, next time I will observe it more carefully before I’m giving you the paper over.
I understand. It’s about emphasizing the park’s importance. Next time, try to be mindful of the word order before submitting the paper.
I will do it. Really. But did you find out some other mistakes I have to correct in the future?
Yes, there were a few instances of unclear pronoun usage. It would be great to work on that. Are there any other questions I can answer before you go?
Well, give me an answer for the following using of the gerund use of the verb tense. The sentence started with “he has been trying to do something” . Why is it use the gerund and not “has tried to do something” ? Uh because I don’t see the reason for using the gerund for it and the ING form, the ING form I like very much and I would use it in this case too, but I don’t know why.
That’s a great question! “He has been trying” uses the present perfect continuous. It emphasizes the ongoing nature of the trying. “He has tried” is the present perfect simple, which focuses on the completed action. Since you wanted to focus on the continuous effort, you used it correctly! Would you like to practice more examples?
And let’s discuss this example deeper. you say the perfect means action is finished but it has a influence in the in the present. And what’s the reason and I I have the feeling that I use um a continuous form if uh there is a more dynamic in the action and not uh has been finished it.
You’re right! The present perfect connects the past action to its present relevance. The continuous form highlights the duration and ongoing effects, giving it that dynamic feel. I think we’ve covered a lot today. Do you have any other questions about the essay?
At the moment, no. I think we have covered it uh totally and uh so I will look into the essay again for correcting uh some of your uh notices you made me.
Great. I’m glad we could clarify things. Feel free to stop by again if you have more questions as you revise. Good luck with your essay!