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English Grammar Difficulties

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ID: 2193 Upper Intermediate
Learning Chinese is hard, but learning English is difficult too! In this lesson, a Chinese student faces a teacher after failing to get their head around some points in English grammar. Learn how to talk about tense, prepositions, clauses and all those great grammar words in this lesson!
Wed May 22 2013 | John, Vera
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
惨了 cǎn le tragic
摸底 mōdǐ assessment
而且 érqiě moreover
粗心 cūxīn careless
王小明，到我的办公室来！
Wáng Xiǎomíng ，dào wǒ de bàngōngshì lái ！
Wang Xiaoming, get into my office!
惨了。
cǎn le 。
Busted.
你怎么回事啊，摸底考试才考了48分！你到底复习了没有啊？
nǐ zěnmehuíshì a ，mōdǐ kǎoshì cái kǎo le sìshíbā fēn ！nǐ dàodǐ fùxí le méiyǒu a ？
What's to be done with you? You only scored 48% on the placement test. Did you review or not?
老师，我复习是复习了，可是很多东西过了一个暑假都忘记了。而且考试时也太粗心了，好几个句子一般现在时第三人称单数动词都没加“S”。
lǎoshī ，wǒ fùxí shì fùxí le ，kěshì hěn duō dōngxi guò le yī gè shǔjià dōu wàngjì le 。érqiě kǎoshì shí yě tài cūxīn le ，hǎo jǐ ge jùzi yībānxiànzàishí dìsānrénchēng dānshù dòngcí dōu méi jiā “S ”。
Teacher, I reviewed and I reviewed, but I forgot lots of things over the summer vacation. Also, when I took the test, I was so careless. There were a lot of sentences where I didn't add an “s” to third person verbs in the present tense.
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