Hayden Forehand TS #13

Suiliman and I met on July 14th at 12pm at the Paper Fox Coffee Shop. I had initially intended to have Suiliman work on a "Grammarman" comic I found (on the ever helpful OneStopEnglish website) regarding some subjects Suiliman had been interested in in the past, but he quickly turned my focus to some homeowkr of his. He was going over contrast words (Even though, despite, in spite of...) and was having difficulty understanding when to use each one. I explained to him some of them were formal and some were informal, and that "despite/in spite of" typically deals with an object (the heat, the cold, etc...) and "even though/though/although" dealt with actions (even though it was raining, although I crashed my car). This cleared things up for him it seemed. Also he wished to know the difference between "therefore" and "consequently". We went over the differences and I told him to be wary of the common tendency for native English speakers to use the word "so" in lieu of "therefore" or "consequently". The favorite idiom I left with Suiliman this session seemed to be the classic "Two Peas in a Pod".

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