Unlucky salesman

Vocab:

door to door
demo
sales talk
mes
everything is under control
plugging
brown out

There was a salesman who went door to door to offer their new model of vacuum cleaner. He was looking for a house where he could do his demo. He came to a house of a middle-aged woman and he started his sales talk.

S: “Madam, try our new model of vacuum cleaner. Whatever kind of dirt you may have at home, our power cleaner could fix it.”

W: OK

S: “Ok, I’ll demonstrate.”

The salesman started to take the garbage from the kitchen and place it on the floor. He also added dirt, dust and every disgusting thing that he’d find in the house.

W: “Wait! what are doing.”

S: “Don’t worry Ma’am, everything is under control.”

S: “I’m going to EAT all of this mess, if our power cleaner would fail to clean this up. I swear, promise I’m going to eat it all.”

W: “For a minute please because I’m going to get something in the kitchen.”

Then the woman came back with a spoon while the salesman was plugging the cleaner.

S: “What is that for.”

W: “Start eating all of those dirt because we didn’t have electricity since yesterday. We had a brown-out.”

haha…

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diligence [dil-i-juhns]

• n. earnest effort to reach a goal
• syn. perseverance, industrious, tireless, hard work

Word Form: diligent adj., diligently adv.

• Everyone appreciated my mother’s diligence.
• She diligently pays for her bills on time.
• A person who lacks diligence never succeeds.
• The company was saved from lawsuits because their diligent record-keeping proved otherwise.

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Subject, Objects and Possesive

What are Subjects, Objects, and Possessive?

Subjects are the doer of the action (noun or pronoun). To find the subject, find first the verb and ask the question “Who or What?” Usually subjects comes first.

Example: She cleaned the room.
The verb is “clean.”
Then ask, “Who or what cleaned the room?”
or ask “Who cleaned the room?” because the doer of the verb (cleaning) is a person.

Example: The ball hit the glass.
The verb is “hit.”
Then ask, “Who or what hit the glass?”
or ask “What hit the glass?” because the doer of the verb (hit) is a thing.

Objects are the receiver of the action (noun or pronoun). Not all sentences have objects. The noun or pronoun that is affected by the verb or that has received the verb is the object.

Example: She cleaned the room.
The verb is “clean.”
Then think…The person or thing that received the cleaning?…
The object is “Room.”

Example: The ball hit the glass.
The verb is “hit.”
Then think…The person or thing that received the hitting?…
The object is “glass.”

Possessives show that something belongs to somebody.

Example: She cleaned the baby’s room.
The owner of the room is “the baby.”

Example: The ball hit the neighbor’s glass.
The owner of the glass is “the neighbor.”

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