TTMIK Level 8 Lesson 23 - PDF - a podcast by G9Languages

Welcome to another lesson in the Advanced Situation Expressions series. Throughout this series, we will take a look at common situations and some of the advanced expressions you can use in each of them. In this lesson, we will introduce various expressions you can use when you want to make suggestions and proposals.

Sentence Structures

1. How about doing …?
= Verb stem + -(?)(?)? ? ?????
= Verb stem + -(?)(?)? ? ????

Ex) How about doing it this way?
= ??? ??? ? ????
= ??? ? ??? ? ????
= ??? ? ??? ? ?????

2. Why don’t we do ...?
= -(?)(?)????
= -(?)(?)????

Ex) Why don’t we go to the meeting together?
= ??? ?? ?????
= ??? ?? ??????

3. I think it will be better to …
= -(?)? ? ?? ? ???.

Ex) I think it will be for you to research more about this.
= ? ? ????? ? ?? ? ???.

4. I’m thinking of ...ing. What do you think?
= -(?)?? ???, ??? ??????
= -(?)?? ???, ?????

Ex) ???? ??? ???, ??? ??????
= I’m thinking of moving the office (to another location). What do you think?

Fixed Expressions

1. ???
= it would rather be …
= it will be more … if you ...

Ex)
??? ? ?? ? ?? ? ???.
= I think it would rather be better not to do it.

??? ?? ??? ?? ? ?? ? ???.
= It will be better to use a different product (rather than sticking with the current one).

2. ???
= or
= or perhaps
= or if you don’t like that option

Ex)
??? ?? ??? ????
= Or shall we just do it this way?

??? ? ? ??? ??????
= Or perhaps we should look for a bigger place?

3. ???
= if so
= if that’s the case
= then

Ex)
??? ??? ??????
= Then shall we postpone the event?

??? ?? ? ?? ?????
= Then how about me giving it a try?

4. ?? ??? ? ?? ?? ???? ?? ? ????.
= It wouldn’t hurt to try doing it this way (just for this once).

5. ?? ?? ??? ? ?? ? ?????
= For now, how about we try doing it this way?

6. ?? ??? ?? ?????
= Perhaps we can do it like this?

7. ??? ?? ??? ????.
= I have a good idea.

8. ?? ??? ?????.
= A good idea just occurred to me.

9. ?? ??? ?? ? ????.
= I have a suggestion that I’d like to make to you.

10. ??? ? ? ?? ?? ? ???.
= I think we could do it like this.

11. ?? ???? ? ?????
= Have you, by any chance, tried doing it like this, too?

12. ?? ??? ? ?? ?? ??? ? ???.
= I think it will be cool to try doing it like this too.

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