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  • Kerin

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    July 23, 2021 at 11:22 am in reply to: MY PERFECT WEEKEND

    That does sound like a pretty perfect weekend!

    I prefer (missing word) eat out with my parents or my friends and usually go out around the city to explore it and go around (DELETE:for) exhibitions and visit museums.

    During summer I love wake up early and go to the beach, and chilling…

    The verbs like and love are particular verbs in English. When we talk about something we really enjoy, it’s common to use this structure:

    I like + ING

    So your phrase would be

    During summer I love waking up early and going to the beach, and chilling…

    Or, you can use I like + to + verb

    During summer I love to wake up early and go to the beach, and chill…

    This form is more common in American English, but both are correct

  • Kerin

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    July 20, 2021 at 9:50 am in reply to: Company meeting clarification question

    Hi Andrea,

    These are good clarification questions.

    > I’d put this one: I have some trouble following, did you said biscuits? in the present continuous: I’m having some trouble following, did you said biscuits?

    >and a tweak to a preposition:

    So, to me four words were unclear

    Can you figure it out?! πŸ™Œ


  • Love this Manuela!

    The only thing to change is a preposition!

    > She is going up of 1 level > βœ… She is going up BY 1 level

    I know…. prepositions suck!

    Check this out when you have some time

    https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/tips-for-learning-prepositions/

    Tips for learning prepositions

  • Kerin

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    July 16, 2021 at 11:47 am in reply to: How we perceive accents

    Thank you for your thoughts Andrea. Yes, unfortunately I’ve had this kind of discrimination from English people more than once, but now that I’m older, I handle it much better!

    Nicely written Andrea, I have a few tweaks to make, but very little. Well done!

    > Well, I think that’s just the point: it’s not the accent in my opinion, is the mentality of people that link the accent with the origin of someone. You are missing an ‘it’ in this phrase. Can you figure out where it should go?

    > You need a preposition: to be discriminated against

    I’ve never been discriminated against because of my accent

    > I have a bunch of uncles, aunts and cousins that lives❌ in Abruzzo and Lazio and they are afashinated about ❌ my accent, and me too about theirs.

    βœ… who live (“they”)

    βœ… fascinated with

    πŸ‘

  • Kerin

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    July 14, 2021 at 11:38 am in reply to: Andrew and Mabel

    Good!

    Same thing from the other task, better to use past simple

    Sorry Andrew, you have said β€œnudge”, have you?

    Can you try and rewrite? πŸ‘

  • Kerin

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    July 14, 2021 at 11:32 am in reply to: Activation Project

    Nice work @Manuela.Lelli

    There are a few tweaks to make:

    no.3 What you’ve written isn’t grammatically wrong. However, we would tend to just use the past simple in this situation: Sorry, I didn’t catch what you said

    no.4 you are missing an ‘it’ – can you try and figure out where it should go?

    no.6 perfect!

    no.7 Similar to no.3. It sounds more natural to use the pst simple. Can you rewrite using past simple?

    Thanks! ☺

  • Kerin

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    July 9, 2021 at 9:40 am in reply to: What does your company do?

    @davide πŸ‘ nice sentence!

    To make it even stronger, you could also add the problem your company solves or the goal your clients want to reach:

    Sintra Consulting srl creates and sells digital solutions with the purpose to lead customers through their digital transformation so that they can ….

  • Kerin

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    July 7, 2021 at 9:24 am in reply to: What does your company do?

    Hi @Gianni.Bianchi this is good: clear and concise πŸ‘

    A tweak to make:

    Sintra – Digital Business offers digital transformation services for companies SUCH AS B2B platformS, ecommerce and support for digital strategy

    To make it even stronger, you could also add the problem your company solves or the goal your clients want to reach: Sintra – Digital Business offers digital transformation services for companies such as B2B platforms, ecommerce and support for digital strategy so that they can …..

  • Kerin

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    July 22, 2021 at 9:22 am in reply to: Company meeting clarification question

    It is ‘for me‘! Correct!

    I think the way to be fluent is to do exactly that- just go with what feels natural. (Fluent doesn’t mean correct in this case! It means ‘communicative’)

    Of course, if nobody tells you you are making a mistake, then you keep repeating that mistake (believe me – my achilles’ heel in Italian is prepositions. I tend to translate from English and I know it’s wrong to do that, but unless someone tells me the correct preposition I never learn!)

    Check this out for tips on prepositions

    https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/tips-for-learning-prepositions/

    Tips for learning prepositions

  • Kerin

    Administrator
    July 20, 2021 at 9:51 am in reply to: How we perceive accents

    That’s it πŸ‘

  • Kerin

    Administrator
    July 16, 2021 at 11:38 am in reply to: Andrew and Mabel

    Sorry Andrew, you said β€œnudge”, didn’t you? πŸ‘

  • Kerin

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    July 16, 2021 at 11:36 am in reply to: Activation Project

    Thanks Manuela.

    On the question tag, if the first part is positive, the second part should be negative: You said 37%, didn’t you?

  • Kerin

    Administrator
    July 12, 2021 at 9:47 am in reply to: What does your company do?

    Nice @Gianni.Bianchi – much stronger πŸ‘

  • Kerin

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    July 12, 2021 at 9:45 am in reply to: What does your company do?

    Great! Much stronger @Davide.Mattesini πŸ‘

  • Kerin

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    July 7, 2021 at 9:14 am in reply to: AP 8 – What would you say?

    Ok @Lu_Corde , let’s see:

    In your original sentence you wrote:

    > Sorry, how much sales increase we need?

    you are simply missing the auxiliary verb: Sorry, how much sales increase DO we need?

    In the corrected sentence you are almost there, you are just missing the preposition which you could place here

    > Sorry, how much do we need to increase sales BY?

    or here

    > Sorry, BY how much do we need to increase sales?

    Lastly, you could simply say: Sorry, how much?

    πŸ™‚

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