F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

“Once you know the rules you can begin to break them effectively.”  (Unknown, NAU professor)

How long did you want to take classes before you got around to signing up for them?

Original:

before signing for the class because I didn’t get around to coming by and do the registration so i have just waited for a week before finally applying for a class.

Correction:

Before signing up for English classes, I didn’t get around to coming by and doing the registration. So I had just waited for a week before finally applying for an English class.

I had waited a week, before signing up.

Grammar

Possessive – ‘S

Tuesday’s meeting.   (a specific meeting)

Were you there for Tuesday’s meeting? I missed it, can you fill me in?

Tuesday (adj.) meetings (kind of meetings that happen on Tuesday)

Were you here for the Tuesday meeting? I missed it, can you fill me in?

Review: Sentence Construction

https://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/sentencetext.html

Go to the store.  (Command, hidden subject is YOU!)

Subject is You.

Predicate is Go.

Object is Store

So I had just waited for a week = So I just waited a week.