Online Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

pinpoint: precisely point out

tsunami: 海啸

insert: 插入 insertion(n)
ie. insert a picture here.

dwell on: 纠结

Grammar

active vs passive voice
ie. S + V + O … Somebody wrote the book. – more movement, more direct, use when you’re talking about yourself or things you know for sure
ie. O + be + written + by… The book was written by somebody. – more description, for information, less emphasis on the S (less responsibility for S)

The book is being written by Ally.

I always temporarily feel confused about tense.

nervous about the tense is becoming normalization.

The part I think the most trouble for me come to my mind is tense.

If I introduce the book to you, I’d like choose the passive voice.

The first thing that came to mind is at the past, if I hope to buy something, I will to think a long time. Now, if I want something, I can buy it directly. If you buy something of Uniqlo, maybe under discount, the original price is maybe 299, but the sell price is maybe 99. But in my opinion, you buy the 99 product but it’s normal and if you buy the thing which you could have but you don’t need necessary thing. So this kind of product I call the coupon product…. which you can save for next time. So next time you can directly to buy. At the past, I don’t have a specific target for product… but I don’t have too much money for a long time. For example, I want to buy A product, but for product B, the product which has similar outlook with product A. so I buy a lot of products I don’t really need.

When I ask you, I hope you could use different tenses.
When I asked you this question, I was hoping you could use different tenses.

I was hoping you to order this pizza.
I was hoping you would order this pizza.

I find that you’re so funny.