[Kerin]

Solid sentences @Manuela.Lelli 🤩

Just a little correction:

> Merger is a good idea when a company needs help. > A merger is a good idea when a company needs help.

[Kerin]

Thank you @Lu_Corde – nicely done! Have shared a Google doc using the correction code for you to have a look.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_59ETY9qr8fKn9_TUr9SRTxT4M7I6l50Rf6fUhieL6M/edit?usp=sharing

[Kerin]

That’s it!

A few things:

> -it is an abandoned factory, but it is in place – do you mean the location is good?

> Now is the time to buy (omit it)

[Kerin]

Well written Diego

(note in the first phrase, you don’t need the dog, for the same reason you wrote man’s and not the man’s: It is said that dog is man’s best friend, and there are many lessons we can learn from this friend.)

✅ you used your own words

✅ you identified the main idea

✅ you found relevant ideas & omitted irrelevant details

✅ you kept the meaning the same

✅ you kept your opinion out of it

Things to improve

▶️you should note the title and author in the topic sentence

e.g > In “The lessons one can learn from a dog”, the author writes about how many things man can learn from dogs.

▶️ you should use attributive tags

e.g > The Author suggests etc

[Kerin]

Top marks on this @Manuela.Lelli 💪 Well done:

✅ you used your own words

✅ you identified the main idea

✅ you found relevant ideas & omitted irrelevant details

✅ you kept the meaning the same

✅ you used attributive tags

✅ you kept your opinion out of it

Only one little correction

> here we need the article the: (the right to vote, to work, to receive a salary)

Well done 🥳🤩

[Kerin]

This is super work @Mattia.Rosi Well done!

✅ you have explained the reason for the request

✅ you’ve stated the deadline

✅you’ve given dates clearly

✅ you’ve made your request polite

Some grammar points:

>to allow someone TO DO something (infinitive)

> in order to allow our customers uploading ❌

> in order to allow our customers to upload ✅

> At ‘moreover’ take a new sentence (remember, we English speakers like shorter sentences 😂)

and change the structure (we don’t really say: we need that… )

> Moreover we need the website to be offline for a while because we have to test it after the release.

> help someone TO DO something (infinitive)

>Do you think you could help us coordinating these activities with your team?

>Do you think you could help us to coordinate these activities with your team?

👍 Really happy with this Mattia, keep going!

[Kerin]

Could you send me your work by email please? info@hub.englishdigitalacademy.com

Thanks

[Kerin]

Hi @tatiana.aguilar

How are you?

Could you try again with the images? It looks like they didn’t upload correctly,

thanks!

[Kerin]

Great work here @Manuela.Lelli

> instead of tasteful, use tasty

> I think spicy is neutral (unless you really hate spicy food!)

[Kerin]

Thank you for your thoughts @Davide.Mattesini – this was well written.

I have two suggestions for you:

The number of online meetings I do since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.

This isn’t wrong grammatically, but it sounds a bit unnatural. We would use either the present continuous- to show it is a temporary action or something happening int his moment:

▶️ The number of online meetings I’m doing since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.

or, the present perfect continuous to show that something started in the past and is continuing at the present time.

▶️ The number of online meetings I’ve been doing since the pandemic broke out has practically doubled.

Then,

In fact, before remote meetings were only used for outsiders, now they are used to communicate with all colleagues as well.

When you use before you need to stipulate ‘what’ so you can say either:

▶️In fact, before Covid, remote meetings were ….

▶️ In fact, beforehand, remote meetings were …

▶️ In fact, pre-Covid, remote meetings were

Let me know if you need anything clarified!

[Kerin]

Ah, ho capito! Okay, I suggest this:

> it is an abandoned factory, but the infrastructure is all in place

or

> it is an abandoned factory, but the infrastructure is all set up

[Kerin]

I’m really sorry @tatiana.aguilar there is a bug that isn’t allowing the posting of images. Could you send me by email? info@hub.englishdigitalacademy.com

Sorry for the inconvenience

[Kerin]

👍☺

Notes:

> Now it’s time the address the issue of THE English course costs.

> Who wants to get the ball rolling BY asking for more participants?

[Kerin]

😅 You were right! Never trust a native speaker when it comes to grammar!

I should point out (just to be clear!) that it is correct to say ‘How much?’ in this situation because you are checking a number that you didn’t catch.

However, you couldn’t say for example: By how much percent did the sales rise?

Instead you would say: What percent(age) did the sales rise by?

‘Percent’ relates to an entity being divided into 100 equal parts and taking a portion of those parts as a measured amount. Percent IS that amount.

“How many/much percent of” makes no standard English sense. In other words ‘Percent’ itself relates to a single measure, therefore it cannot be ‘many’!

That’s why you can say “WHAT percent[age] of [an entity]….”. So, if you say ‘Half’ then that is “50 percent”.

Hope that is clear!

[Kerin]

@cristina.fernandez

You’ve nailed it! This dialogue is perfect, well done.