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In Reply to: RE: Tom Hanks has moved to MTV posted by RGA on September 15, 2016 at 01:58:38
"So I teach English in Hong Kong and I run English Cafe, a lunch time room for kids to play some games and listen to music etc. I usually serve as DJ and the students give me endless pop songs to play. Allows me to keep up on that vital pop genre. Whatever they like it and if they take interest in English that's the key. Sure ain't going to listen to my boring stuff.
So they give me a Carly Rae Jepsen song starring Tom Hanks. Whoah What?
Tom Hanks. Multiple Oscar winner - okay.
So apparently it's about the day in the life of Tom Hanks - my students also point out that Justin Bieber (who the girls seem to want to marry) comes in at the end.
So they want me to play this everyday - I have to hear it everyday - tell me again that teachers are overpaid. "
So (comma), I thought you were a reviewer. So (comma), you really teach English. So (comma), do you teach them to start every sentence with the word "so"?
Yes (comma), some teachers ARE overpaid.
Follow Ups:
Commas are not determined by grammar, nor by which words they follow. Comma indicates a particular intonation. If you would use that intonation in speaking the sentence, use a comma; if not, don't. So it's important to hear what you're writing, in your mind if nowhere else.
Generally in short sentences you wouldn't, but if the sentence following the introductory word is long, you might well. Also generally speaking, if the material coming first is long (as it is in this sentence but wasn't in the previous sentence), you would.
As a two finger typist I write on all these boards freestyle. I do not go back to check. If my grammar upsets you just skip my posts. Language at its heart is to be understood. Grammar is one of the reasons most kids wind up hating English classes. Almost always ranked at the bottom of favorite subjects by students. When ideas take a back seat to form and style, students in large numbers become disinterested.
Like so I still really really really like you. So like dude, don't crash the party with like that Grammar Nazi stuff dude. So like not cool. Eh?
By Peter Gabriel.....
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
He is right!
Edits: 09/15/16
Thanks - it happens every now and then.;)
Edits: 09/15/16
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