I met with my tutee Ahmad for the second time on Sunday May
22nd 2016 at Starbucks on Tennessee Street. Ahmad asked me this time
to help him with complex sentences. Just like clauses last week, I had to learn
on the fly that complex sentences are one complete sentence from two standalone
clauses. I tried to explain to Ahmad
that he just forms the two ideas into one sentence. Ahmad, however, explained
that he understood what complex sentences were, but that he needed help forming
them. So we opened up his text book and went to the practice problems. Problems
for complex sentences involved having two ideas (for example: I ate leftover
roast beef, the kids did not eat leftover roast beef) and asking students to
form them into one complex sentence (fe: I ate leftover roast beef, but the
kids didn’t.) So after I explained to Ahmad how to do the first two, I had him
do the rest on his own while I corrected any errors.
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