Read the excerpt from June’s note to her teacher asking for tutoring. I know you are busy, but I think math stinks, and I was ho
ping you could tutor me after school for a couple of weeks. Which is the best revision of the underlined portion of the sentence? but I really hate math, but I need extra help in math, but math is hard and annoying, no change
The correct answer is “but I need extra help in math”. Telling a math professor that the field of teaching they like so much and that they have worked so hard to teach all his/her life is simply callous and insulting, especially considering the use of the very derogatory “stinks”. Depicting herself as a struggling victim of Math’s difficulty does a better job on eliciting the teacher’s sympathy.
