OpenF2F Class Notes (Raph)

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Vocabulary

Load (n): 1- a lot. 2- the amount of weight carried, especially by a vehicle, a structure such as a bridge, or an animal.
E.g.: I’ve got a load of work to get through before tomorrow.
E.g.: The maximum load for this elevator is eight persons.

Rob (v): 1- to take money or property illegally from a place, organization, or person, often using violence.
E.g.: The terrorists financed themselves by robbing banks.

Steal (v): 1- to take something without the permission or knowledge of the owner and keep it.
E.g.: She admitted stealing the money from her employers.

Thief (n): 1- a person who steals:
E.g.: The art gallery was broken into last night, and the thieves got away with two valuable paintings.

Theft (n): 1- (the act of) dishonestly taking something that belongs to someone else and keeping it:
E.g.: Unfortunately, we have had several thefts in the building recently.

Grammar

WHO vs. WHOM

Who and whom are wh-words. We use them to ask questions and to introduce relative clauses.

1- Who as a question word

We use who as an interrogative pronoun to begin questions about people:

  • Who’s next?
  • Who makes the decisions here?
  • Who did you talk to?

We use who in indirect questions and statements:

  • The phone rang. She asked me who it was.
  • Can you tell me who I should talk to.
  • I can’t remember who told me

2- Emphatic questions with whoever and who on earth

We can ask emphatic questions using whoever or who on earth to express shock or surprise. We stress ever and earth:

  • Whoever does she think she is, speaking to us like that? (stronger than Who does she think she is?)
  • Who on Earth has left all this rubbish here? (stronger than Who has left all this rubbish here?)

3- Who in relative clauses

We use who as a relative pronoun to introduce a relative clause about people:

  • The police officer who came was a friend of my father’s.
  • He shared a flat with Anne Bolton, who he married, and eventually they moved to Australia
 Whom

Whom is the object form of who. We use whom to refer to people in formal styles or in writing, when the person is the object of the verb. We don’t use it very often and we use it more commonly in writing than in speaking.

We use whom commonly with prepositions. Some formal styles prefer to use a preposition before whom than to leave the preposition ‘hanging’ at the end of the sentence:

  • Before a job interview it is a good idea, if you can, to find out some background information about the people for whom you would be working. (preferred in some formal styles to … about the people whom you would be working for)
  • Over 200 people attended the ceremony, many of whom had known Harry as their teacher.

We use it in relative clauses:

  • She gave birth in 1970 to a boy whom she named Caleb James.

We use it in indirect questions and statements:

  • He didn’t ask for whom I had voted.
  • He told me where he went and with whom. (preferred in some formal styles to He told me where he went and who with.)

Writing exercise

Original:

Yesterday i received an email at my renters to informed they leave my apartment and which adress they can send me a letter. When you leave an apartment you need to send a letter by registed post at the owner for inform you leave. When the owner received the letter the renter have one month for leave the apartment. In France it exist many laws and rules for rent or leave an apartment, it’s horrible and they change every time so i need to inform everytime. Those laws are only for reters because in France owners are considered like a monsters or thiefs but without owners no renters. I’m disappointed by my reters leave because i have a good relation with them but it’s a live they’ll broke up.

Edited:

Yesterday i received an email from my renters to inform me that they will leave my apartment and asked which address they should send a letter to. When you leave/move out of an apartment you need to send a letter by registered/official post to the owner to inform them... When the owner receives the letter the renter has one month to leave the apartment. In France, many laws and rules exist to rent or leave an apartment, it’s horrible and they change all time so i need to inform every time. Those laws are only for tenants because in France owners are considered monsters or thieves but without owners there would be no tenants. I’m disappointed by the fact that my tenants are leaving because I have a good relationship with them but they have broken up, so that’s life…

Original:

Yesterday with my husband we tried to found a beautiful bow tie by taobao for own wedding. He is picky and likes nothing so he asked me if i can create the bow tie for him. Of course i agree and he choose 3 fabrics for it. Now i need to make 3 different bow ties because he don’t know which color is better with his suit and after i need to make for our parents, nephews and best men. I think he don’t realizes the work is it.

Edited:

Yesterday me and my husband tried to find a beautiful bow tie on TaoBao for our wedding. He is picky and didn’t like anything, so he asked me if I can make one for him. Of course I agreed, so he chose 3 fabrics for it. Now I need to make 3 different bow ties, because he doesn’t know which color will look better with his suit, and after that I need to make them for our parents, nephews and groom’s men. I think he doesn’t realize how much work that’s going to be.