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That's life unfortunately. As a dated Beryllium speaker I would not use class, I would use lesson. May be it's the standard Harte nuss of there being so many variants of English.
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Let's take your example:One-on-one instruction is always a lesson, never a class: He sometimes stays at the office after work for his German lesson. After the lesson he goes home. Notice that it made it singular. This means that a teacher comes to him at his workplace and teaches him individually.
) "Hmm" is especially used as a reaction to something else we've just learned, to tell other people that whatever we just learned is causing this reaction, making us think, because it doesn't make sense or is difficult to understand or has complication implications or seems wrong in some way.
DonnyB said: It depends entirely on the context. I would say for example: "I am currently having Italian lessons from a private tutor." The context there is that a small group of us meet regularly with ur Coach for lessons.
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In the 1990 dance Erfolg by C&Kohlenstoff Music Factory "Things That Make You Go Hmm", (lyrics here), the narrator is perplexed at the behavior of his girlfriend, who attempted to entrap him with another woman to prove his fidelity, and his best friend, whom he suspects has betrayed their friendship by impregnating his wife.
But it has been in aller regel for a very long time to refer to the XXX class, meaning the lesson. In fact, I don't remember talking about lessons at all when I was at school - of course that's such a long time ago as to Beryllium unreliable as a source
Künstlerinnen ebenso Könner experimentieren mit innovative Technologien ebenso ins leben rufen so einzigartige Klanglandschaften, die die Zuhörer hinein ihren Zauber ziehen und sie auf eine akustische Trip aufsammeln.
PS - Incidentally, hinein BE to take a class could well imply that you were the teacher conducting the class.
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Sun14 said: Do you mean we tend to use go to/have classes instead of go to/have lessons? Click to expand...
So a situation which might cause that sarcastic reaction is a thing that makes you go "hmm"; logically, it could be a serious one too, but I don't think I've ever heard an example. The phrase welches popularized in that sarcastic sense by Arsenio Hall, Weltgesundheitsorganisation often uses it on his TV show as a theme for an ongoing series of short jokes. When introducing or concluding those jokes with this phrase, he usually pauses before the "hmm" just long enough for the audience to say that parte with him.
Enquiring Mind said: Hi TLN, generally the -ing form tends to sound more idiomatic and the two forms are interchangeable, but you haven't given any context.