Re: wanna be a volunteer online english teacher???

Teachjeju — Fri, 12 May 2006 07:00:43 GMT

Hi,

I'm interested in assisting your venture. I have been a TESOL teacher in Thailand and Korea for four years. I have taught all levels including IELTS, TOEFL and Business English. I'm now involved in translation proofreading and International Trade Public Relations for a Korean provincial government and export corporation but would enjoy marking students test papers or essays etc.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Pete

Peter Masters B. Bus (App Ec) Dip FP TESOL FCTBE

Dilemma between present/infinitive and ING

Adam_T — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:44:48 GMT

Hello there, I read a lot on your forums for the last few weeks since I began a job of proofreading in a software company.

My mission is to transform system messages from low level English to significative/business English. Sometimes I encounter very odd sentences with obscure meanings but this time I am more wondering about a style/grammar issue.

It concerns these two sentences:

1 - Is this payment applying to the customer?

and

2- Does this payment apply to the customer?

I am puzzled for two things. One is that the first one sounds better to my ears. Second I think the first one gives a sense of "on the moment" feeling to the message which would appear as a question while a cashier processes a transaction. It just sounds more accurate to me.

On the other hand: "This payment is applying to the customer." sounds bad.
"Applies" would be correct in that context. And think I was taught not to use "to be" with "ing" in most cases.

Where am I losing it???

Thx,

Adam

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Re: wanna be a volunteer online english teacher???

Dilemma between present/infinitive and ING