Peter TS #10

On Monday 1 May, Raul came to my apartment to be tutored. It is finals week at FSU, and I thought that we would never be able to find a table at Strozier. Raul wanted to go there, but I convinced him out of that idea. We worked more on complex-compound sentences. We reminded each other that Complex sentences are those which contain one independent and one dependent clause, and complex-compound sentences may contain more than one independent clause. Again, I had him write out a complex sentence using the words ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘if’, ‘while’, and ‘after’. He could tell the difference between dependent and independent clauses. We came up with example sentences, and his examples reinforced my assessment that he has become proficient in constructing these kinds of sentences. He talked about maybe reviewing gerunds and infinitives, but we ran out of time. I think that for our next session, we will work on these topics.