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Assert dominance

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[Estoria#4001 19]

My problem is that whenever she gets stuck in am activity, she just stops and stares at the screen.

I've tried dabbing regularly whenever she got an answer right to motivate her, but to no avail.

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Yeah that's no good

[Estoria#4001 19]

Thankfully she's fairly smart for her age, she's just. so. goddamn. LAZY.

[2 quid is good 2,209]

Oof

This hits rather close to home

[Estoria#4001 19]

Which is why she's blacklisted. I'd 100 times rather have an interested student with difficulties than a smart but lazy one.

[2 quid is good 2,209]

Yeah I get where you're coming from

[Estoria#4001 19]

She's the last student today, so it gets lonely. At least there is a much more interested student that does classes together with her but goes home earlier, but he didn't come today.

It's amazing how much stuff you just understand about your language without knowing how it technically works. I have to explain to literally everyone how pronouns work, they don't even know what they are and still use them all the time.

This is why grammar is important people, it'll help you later on in life.

Don't sleep on it just because it's "lame" and "boring".

[Inçendyne 31]

Esto dabbing irl?

[Estoria#4001 19]

Yeah. Only with the students though.

[Inçendyne 31]

2public4me

[Estoria#4001 19]

I did dab in front of my dad when I told him I had passed my driver's license.

[Inçendyne 31]

Do you ever slap any students w/ a thesaurus when they overuse simple adjectives?

[Estoria#4001 19]

Using simple adjectives is already an improvement

Usually I have to explain what a noun is and how it differs from an adjective to begin with

Otherwise their heads fry when they try using indefinite articles.

If a student comes in already knowing the difference between the two, I consider them blessed and put them on the whitelist automatically.

[Inçendyne 31]

Not as confusing as adverbs and compound adjectives.

[Estoria#4001 19]

Eh, adverbs aren't that hard to use, it's more a matter of memorizing the silly ones.

Compound adjectives are a mess though, it's something you can't really comprehend, you must "feel".

Usually the biggest difficulty comes from the Present Simple though, most of them just can't accept that auxiliary verbs are necessary.

[Inçendyne 31]

B/c of tense since some introductory words already handle tense, so they don't have to add tense to the following word.

[Estoria#4001 19]

Yeah, like past simple

[Inçendyne 31]

Like see and saw, but if didn't is preceding it, it's already in past tense and should be written as see.

[Estoria#4001 19]

Yeah, they get weirded out by it because it's totally different to Portuguese.

Where there are auxiliaries only in the perfect tenses.

But that's regarding the grammar, the actual biggest mistake is phonology x morphology, i.e. pronunciation x writing.

Because English suuuuuucks when it comes to that.

[Inçendyne 31]

Right
The confusion that comes w/ homophones

[Estoria#4001 19]

Ugh

[Estoria#4001 19]

To, two and too

[Estoria#4001 19]

They're, there and their

They even mistake our for hour, smh

Biggest takeway: English is hard and it succs