English Lessons
“No thanks, I've got to get going.”
You're visiting a friend's house. She invites you to stay and eat dinner there, but you know that it would be more work for her if you stayed. You want to politely say "no".
“Do you want to go to time out?”
Your son isn't doing what you tell him to. You want to threaten to punish him. The punishment is sitting in a chair by himself with no toys for 5 minutes.
“You seem to have a hairline fracture in one of the minor bones in your foot.”
Your foot hurts after a sports accident, so you went to the hospital. The doctor has taken an X-ray, and now he's showing it to you and explaining what's wrong.
“You have to learn to share.”
Your son is playing with another child his age. He has a toy which the other child wants to play with. He won't give the toy to the other child, so you tell him this.
“Please note that I will be out of the office starting Friday, December 7, through Tuesday, December 11.”
You're taking a few days off of work. It's the end of the day, and you're setting your email auto-responder message. You write this.
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