Conversation started Jul 26, 2015 at 11:34.
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 26, 2015 11:34
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Q: I who am your teacher, am helping you

user124234I who am your teacher, am helping you. How to correct this sentence? Can you please help me how to correct this sentence? Is this correct sentence? It's I who am your teacher is helping you. Correct me if I am totally wrong. Thank you !

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It's unfortunate that learners usually come up with strange sentences on their own.
(Sometimes their textbooks help them to come up with such sentences.)
> a) I, your teacher, am helping you. -- Am I a robot?
> b) I who am your teacher am helping you. -- Am I helping you or confusing you?
> c) I am your teacher who is helping you. -- Problem solved.
But such a learner may not be satisfied with just that. They want something, um..., more complicated:
> d) It's I who am your teacher who is helping you. -- (Learner) Wow, your English is so good!
> e) It's me who is your teacher who is help you. -- (Learner) Thank you so much. Can you teach me? Please, plz, plz.
(NOTE: The learner's thoughts were simulated emphatically, at the 75% level of confidence, with 25% imagination.)
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Jul 26, 2015 12:03
Okay, Catija.but l also have to tell these things to my students. That's why I can't wait. But now , as you said. I will have to wait for your answers. — user124234 Jul 23 at 8:47
Apparently, they're not a learner. They are a teacher.
There are a few likely reasons, in my opinion, that make a teacher come up with such a question.
1. The teacher thinks this kind of sentence is important. They invented their own examples, and then felt unsure about their own sentences, so they asked.
2. The teacher found such a sentence in a grammar textbook (which is unfortunate), and they couldn't answer questions in the textbook, so they asked.
3. Their students asked them about this kind of sentence (for whatever reason), and they couldn't answer their students, so they asked.
One possible cause that can justify this kind of question is because the tests include it.
By the tests, I mean their standard tests.
If the tests emphasize this kind of sentence, whether it's rare or not, natural or not, and such, will be irrelevant.
Because the most relevant reason is that the tests have it.
 
Conversation ended Jul 26, 2015 at 12:12.