I went to tutoring Chinese on Friday afternoon as usual. My student was a 10-year old little girl. Her mother is Chinese, but her father is American. Althourh she is half Chinese, she can only understand a little Chinese, not to mention speaking or writing in Chinese. I have been teaching her once a week for almost a month. She is one of those sweet and well-behaved student, but would easily lose her attention while learning. Besides Chinese, she is also studying French, piano, clarinet and singing. I think that's too much for a ten years old girl. Who knows, as long as she enjoys learning all those things, she can benefit from all the skills she will have in the future.
Hi Snow,
I'm also a tutor and have the first-hand knowledge of this issue. And I've noticed, the more children are kept fully occupied the faster they make good progress.
Thanks for an interesting topic.
Dear Skoon, thank you for the comment. Sounds like you didn't get the chance to do what you like. That's painful. I talked to the mother a couple of days ago, and suprisingly she told me that it was actually her dauther who asked to learn all these things. I still think it is too much work for her though, and I wish all the best to her too!
Bob, my English teacher! Thank you sooooo much for your comment! That is very very clear and helpful. After reading your comment, I think I have a very clear picture about when to use have and has. I revised the sentence you pointed out on my post. Please correct me about any mistake I might make in the future. Very appreciated!!
Maybe if you say she can benefit from all the skills she WILL have in the future, or instead say benefit from all the skills she has in the future. In the future she has. In the future she will have. So, she will have or she has, are correct usage. She have is not really correct. So funny a coincidence, but I just made the same mistake earlier this evening when commenting on your movie blog and talking to someone before I finished the sentence. Have and has are tricky at first to understand, but the future and plural overlap. She has ...we have ...I have... he has..you have ...he will have... I will have ...you will have ...they will have. So she have does not work and he have will not work. We have, I have,and they have all work for present tense. Will have is future tense and everybody will have is correct, everybody, it, we, they he , she, mother, father, everybody and everything...all will have because it is in the future.
If we are talking about today (right now) I, you, they, we, some, most, all, ..are nouns that properly are use with have. But in the present tense singuar nouns like he or she must be used with has. This is one of the quirks of English. I am sorry that it is not easier with good firm rules that always apply. We just have to consider that in making one language out of so many other languages, someone forgot to get it all organized with rules. Instead there are things that do not follow the usual rule and then we must just memorize that as being irregular.
@rneem: That's true. One of my good friends have been learning piano since very young age. I can't remember how many times I heard she complain about how her parents forced her to practice while all the other kids were playing. However, after high school graduation, she got admitted to one of most prestigious music school in China. Then she told me that she actually felt grateful towards her parents because she would definitely give up practicing if her parents wasn't so strict with her.
@Karenina: It's hard to tell. She certainly seemed tired, but not necessarly depressed. I think part of the reason is that she has just started to learn the Chinese, French and singing. When times goes on, she might feel depressed due to the enormous work load.
Hi friends, i like all the comment and all the opinion.So, i think that a good thing her parents do to take care about there child this day. Because they know life now so diffecult for kid and teen.As you know this day thers is no place for children except tv
or play vidio games.
So we're talking about the 'suffering' of a ten-year-old American girl - I thought American children didn't have to study as hard as Chinese children had to do. But, in this competitive society, it's quite understandable for a child to take all the effort and pain to learn more, no matter whether she is an American or a Chinese girl.
As for that sentence, we usually say: 'not to mention something'.
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I'm also a tutor and have the first-hand knowledge of this issue. And I've noticed, the more children are kept fully occupied the faster they make good progress.
Thanks for an interesting topic.
If we are talking about today (right now) I, you, they, we, some, most, all, ..are nouns that properly are use with have. But in the present tense singuar nouns like he or she must be used with has. This is one of the quirks of English. I am sorry that it is not easier with good firm rules that always apply. We just have to consider that in making one language out of so many other languages, someone forgot to get it all organized with rules. Instead there are things that do not follow the usual rule and then we must just memorize that as being irregular.
I wish all the best for that 10-year old girl
thanks for this topic
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@Karenina: It's hard to tell. She certainly seemed tired, but not necessarly depressed. I think part of the reason is that she has just started to learn the Chinese, French and singing. When times goes on, she might feel depressed due to the enormous work load.
or play vidio games.
As for that sentence, we usually say: 'not to mention something'.
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