Erfaan TS #16

For our final tutoring session, conducted in the afternoon, Yan and I covered both adverb clauses and casual speech. Our experience with adverb clauses was simpler with noun clauses; Yan had prior, formal knowledge on different kinds of clauses from her education in China. Much of this session was focused on writing out and practicing sentences to explain concepts such as with reduced adverb clauses: the changing of tenses of verbs and the condensing of words, and centering the subject of a sentence structurally. After completing our work with adverb clauses, we moved on to specifying different ways of greeting somebody, and the nuances of asking somebody how they are (where it is appropriate to actually be honest, versus where it is appropriate to just ask without getting an answer). Yan commented that I had helped through exactly half of her grammar material, which astonished me looking back at it. After our allotted hour together, we then had a rousing conversation session on various cities, locales, aspects of history, current events, and ideologies in relation to China. This was a powerful end to a powerful experience as a tutor!

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