Members help members on grammar, vocab, pronunciation...
Moderator: EC
-
shiqangpan
- Rising Star
- Posts: 55
- Joined: Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:36 am
- Status: Learner of English
Post
by shiqangpan »
Consider the conversation that comes from Cambridge Kid's Box
...
ALVIN: That's a really exciting job! I'm going to be a firefighter.
SHARI: Well, now we know what we're going to write about in this week's ezine – jobs!
DAN: Let's write about famous people's jobs!
Could DAN have said
we're going to write about famous people's jobs
?
-
Joe
- Admin/Teacher
- Posts: 1789
- Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:56 am
- Status: Teacher of English
- Location: England
Post
by Joe »
shiqangpan wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:47 pm
Consider the conversation that comes from Cambridge Kid's Box
...
ALVIN: That's a really exciting job! I'm going to be a firefighter.
SHARI: Well, now we know what we're going to write about in this week's ezine – jobs!
DAN: Let's write about famous people's jobs!
Could DAN have said
we're going to write about famous people's jobs
?
Not really. They've just come up with the idea of writing about "jobs" and Dan is
suggesting refining that to "famous people's jobs".
-
shiqangpan
- Rising Star
- Posts: 55
- Joined: Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:36 am
- Status: Learner of English
Post
by shiqangpan »
Thank you.
I understand the "Dan suggesting famous people's jobs" part. I don't understand the difference between the two he might use
Let's write about famous people's jobs!
and
We're going to write about famous people's jobs!
Would you please explain it a little more?
-
Joe
- Admin/Teacher
- Posts: 1789
- Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:56 am
- Status: Teacher of English
- Location: England
Post
by Joe »
shiqangpan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 1:56 pm
Thank you.
I understand the "Dan suggesting famous people's jobs" part. I don't understand the difference between the two he might use
1. Let's write about famous people's jobs!
and
2. We're going to write about famous people's jobs!
Would you please explain it a little more?
1 is a suggestion
2 is a statement of fact