Persuading and Encouraging, Preventing Someone From Doing Something

1. Persuading

    a. Definition

Persuading is an expression to persuade someone. So, someone want to do something as like as persuader’s request.

Contrastive Conjunction and Modal Perfect

Modals in the past form are used in the past time.
They are could, would, should, and might. Formula of modals is:

Modals + verb 1 + O/C.
Can be used in every tenses.
a.    Could is the past tense of can
The modal auxiliary could is used.
To express an ability in the past:

Passive Sentences

Passive sentences or Passive voice verbs are used in writing much more often than in speech, and they are used in some types of writing much more often than in others. Passives are used more in journalism (newspapers, magazines) than in fiction (novels, stories), but most journalists and fiction writers use far more active than passive sentences.

Direct speech and Indirect speech

Direct speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called quoted speech)
Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.

For example:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
or
"Today's lesson is on presentations," she said.

Narrative Text

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain readers. Other function of narrative text is for education. 

Discusssion Text

Discussion is a text which presents a problematic discourse. This problem will be discussed from different points of view. It presents pro and contra opinion on certain issue. The purpose of a discussion text is to present arguments and information from differing viewpoints. Discussion texts are usually written in the present tense.

Asking about Possibilities, Expressing Curiosity and Desire, Expressing Views.

1. Asking about Possibilities

Possibility is used when we are talking about the future, we often don't really know what will happen.

Expressing asking about possibilities:

• Would it be possible for (somebody) to …?
• Do you think it’s possible that ... ?

BUSINESS LETTER

1. Definition

A business letter is:

• a letter written for formal or professional purposes.
• similar to a friendly letter, except for one extra part.
• should be short, courteous, and to the point.

Explanation Text

Explanation is a text which tells processes relating to forming of natural, social, scientific and cultural phenomena. Generally the purpose of an explanation text is explaining how something forms or why the thing happens. So when we read an explanation text, the text will cover the answer of "how" or "why" relating to a thing or a phenomenon. It is often found in science, geography and history text books.

Generic structure of Explanation

• General statement :  stating the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.
• Sequenced explanation : stating a series of steps which explain the phenomena.

Complaning and Giving Instruction

COMPLAINING 

A complaint is complaints are expressions of "displeasure or annoyance" in response to an action that  is seen by the speaker as unfavorable.

Making a complaint

• I do wish you could….
• Excuse me, I’m afraid…
• I wish you wouldn’t mind…

Making Suggestion and Requesting Something

MAKING SUGGESTION

Making Suggestion is how you express your suggestion to someone
WHAT ABOUT/HOW ABOUT ... + Base form + -ING
Example :
•    What about going to the swimming pool tomorrow?
•    How about going to the swimming pool tomorrow?

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

o    "If you had left earlier, you would have caught the train." or
o    "You will make yourself ill if you eat all those chocolates."

They are called conditional sentences. A conditional sentence consists of two clauses; the if-clause, and the main clause. The if-clause can come first or second. When it comes first, we usually put a comma between the two clauses.

ADMITTING MISTAKES & MAKING PROMISES

 1) ADMITTING MISTAKES

  Admitting Mistake is the way you to admit and ask for a sorry of your mistake.

 

  Benefits of Admitting  Mistakes:

• It demonstrates your courage
• It demonstrates your humanity

Blaming and Accusing Someone

(1) BLAMING

 

     Blaming : When someone said that person did a mistake that should be her/his responsibility, like  choosing wrong way. Blaming is an expression that is used to say on somebody the responsibility for something done (badly or wrongly) or not done: He blamed his teacher for his failure. Blaming is finding fault: if you don’t do the work well, you will incur.

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