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panicnhysteria) wrote2016-10-27 03:27 am
Help-ish?
I'm back... To complain about stuff and ask questions. Yeah, hi!
So first of all, today I was walking to my house and I felt a weird uncomfortable ache in my back, I twisted a little and I swear some bone cracked and it was scary as hell, luckily there was no pain or further discomfort after that so... i guess it's okay
Second complaint! Is it bad to like school?
Last week I had to do the "teamwork" worthy of 3 classmates because the website needed to collaborate "suddenly" didn't work on their computers. One side of me was planning on not giving a fuck ans receivinf a failing grade just to show the teacher how damn lazy and easily-defeated they were... But the bigger side of me was terrified of getting a bad grade so I did a pretty awesome but totally unfair work for my team. Later on I received extra points for this, but a really close friend started saying if I couldn't stop doing everyone else's work it was because I liked letting people use me and I felt awful after that.
Like... I'm smart, I know I am and I consider myself pretty lucky because that's the only reason I'm not failing every class at the moment (because I'm lazy and terrified of socializing so I only depend on that lol) so when I find myself working more than my part, I find it unfair, but besides the extra time I don't really "suffer". Anyways, I felt awful and at the same time resigned because I know my classmates won't change... Ever. So I'll still be "used" from time to time and that sucks.
Aaaand I'm the one thar jumps up at the chance of explaining things or doing classwork During the class, and everyone looks at me like I should be doing something else but... Whatever
And finally!!! A question that my English teacher and I argued about yesterday. For a written test I had to write a story.
In said story I wrote "The raindrops felt heavy on my face".
The teacher marked that as a mistake, saying: "The correct way to write it would be 'The raindrops felt heavily on my face' because if you're adding a word after a verb it Must be an adverb"
To which I thought 'Hell no', because "felt heavily" sounds wrong (yeah, I have no real evidence supporting me yet). It kind of sounds like the raindrops were feeling something?
So both the teacher and I ended confused and now I'm asking here because.... Most people here speak English as their first language so you must be reliable sources to solve the dilemma xD
Was it "felt heavy" or "felt heavily"?
Let me know!
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No, it's not bad to like school. It's a good thing! It's sad that people will take advantage of that though. I hope you made it very clear to the teacher that you did all the work.
I'm not a native English speaker either, but I would say that 'felt heavy' means something else than 'felt heavily'. The first meaning how it felt on your skin and the second meaning how hard the rain fell. But I could be totally wrong about this.
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I definitely did, and I have this weird satisfaction of knowing that my efforts are rewarded somehow, even if it's just extra points and the like.
Also, I AGREE WITH YOU 100%
The rain feels heavy on something, if the rain felt heavily it does sound like the rain has feelings that are felt "heavily". Different context that makes all the difference, I'll try to explain it to my teacher, thank you so much!
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It still lacks a formal explanation but we agreed that raindrops do not have feelings, thus the "felt" in this case was about how a face feels the rain and NOT how the rain "decides" to feel about a face. Quite logical but it was sooo confusing after a while lol. Thank you!
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