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 #2 (permalink) Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:55 pm Re: to cultivate analytical mind |
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1. The first sentence is correct English. The second is ungrammatical. "how is the analytical mind to be cultivated" would be correct, and may be more suited, though I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say here. Do you mean "If that's the way to teach math" ironically -- i.e. that isn't a good way to teach math?
2a is OK.
2b isn't right. You may mean "Look, with one move you can settle many problems."
3. With no further context, I understand this to mean that the speaker used to have feelings for the other person but now wants to expunge them. |
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Oct 09, 2011 15:38 pm Re: to cultivate analytical mind |
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| Dozy wrote: |
| 1. The first sentence is correct English. The second is ungrammatical. "how is the analytical mind to be cultivated" would be correct, and may be more suited, though I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say here. Do you mean "If that's the way to teach math" ironically -- i.e. that isn't a good way to teach math? |
Yes, I said it ironically. Math teachers are good at math, of course, no doubt about that. They know how to solve a problem by just looking at it. But having the ability is one thing and being able to efficiently transfer the knowledge to the students is different kettle of fish. They often ended up saying something like this, "If you can see the reason why or how this expression being set up, (e.g.(5C3*4P2*4!)/(3!)), I must congratulate you. Otherwise, just skip this topic because it's a very abstract subject to follow." I think the mentioned example is one of the very bad practice among the efforts to refine the mind of the students but this is true, and sad.
In this case, do you suppose "how is the analytical mind to be cultivated" would be a better alternative?
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2a is OK.
2b isn't right. You may mean "Look, with one move you can settle many problems." |
All right.
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| 3. With no further context, I understand this to mean that the speaker used to have feelings for the other person but now wants to expunge them. |
OK and I assume the word "delete" would fit in here? |
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Oct 09, 2011 18:51 pm Re: to cultivate analytical mind |
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1. Sorry, I've just noticed that I somehow changed "learn" to "teach" in my reply. I meant "learn".
"how is the analytical mind to be cultivated" has a stronger sense that such cultivation ought to happen but currently isn't happening, so it seems a better fit here.
Without more context, your sentence might misinterpreted as saying that students are successfully learning maths using a method that is not cultivating their analytical minds, so the latter needs be achieved in some other way. If it is in the context of a general complaint about maths teaching then it should be OK though.
3. Sorry, I don't understand. Would "delete" fit where? |
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| #5 (permalink) Sun Oct 09, 2011 19:13 pm Re: to cultivate analytical mind |
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| Dozy wrote: |
| Sorry, I don't understand. Would "delete" fit where? |
Actually I'm wondering if I were to replace the word "delete" by "remove", would it have sound more appropriate? |
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| #6 (permalink) Sun Oct 09, 2011 20:02 pm to cultivate analytical mind |
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| You mean "Remove my feelings for you"? Neither "delete" nor "remove" is the obvious word here. Really, more context is needed. If the intention is to say "I no longer care about you" in a novel way then "delete" works better for me. |
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:03 pm to cultivate analytical mind |
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I saw it somewhere on the facebook site and thus no content is available.
But this I can tell you: Never will I delete my grateful feeling for you. :D |
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