Choosing Between an Education Event and a Client Meeting
What I Said:
Today’s plan was that go the kindergarten to join a lecture of education about my kid. But an hour ago before this event, I got a new task, took my wife to meet her client. That is an important client for us this year, so we had to make a choice , gave up the education event. Because we can got the information about this event in other ways, but we would’t be able to take a conversation with this client at a right time. The boss of this client would be in his office today, other times he always out of office.
ChatGPT’s Revision:
Today’s plan was to go to the kindergarten for a lecture on my kid’s education. But an hour before the event, I got a new task — taking my wife to meet her client. This client is very important to us this year, so we had to make a choice and skip the education event. We can get the event information in other ways, but we wouldn’t get another chance to talk to this client at the right time. The client’s boss was in his office today, which rarely happens since he’s usually out.
Fixes and Explanations:
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“was that go the kindergarten to join a lecture of education about my kid” → “was to go to the kindergarten for a lecture on my kid’s education”
Rephrased for smoother flow and grammatical accuracy. “To go to” is correct instead of “that go the.”
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“But an hour ago before this event” → “But an hour before the event”
“An hour before the event” is more concise and clear.
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“I got a new task, took my wife to meet her client” → “I got a new task—taking my wife to meet her client”
Changed “took” to “taking” for correct tense alignment.
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“That is an important client for us this year” → “This client is very important to us this year”
“Is very important” sounds more natural than “that is an important client.”
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“so we had to make a choice , gave up the education event” → “so we had to make a choice and skip the education event”
“Gave up” is replaced with “skip” for smoother and more common phrasing.
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“Because we can got the information about this event in other ways” → “We can get the event information in other ways”
Corrected “can got” to “can get” for proper grammar and tense.
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“but we would’t be able to take a conversation with this client at a right time” → “but we wouldn’t get another chance to talk to this client at the right time”
Simplified phrasing and improved naturalness.
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“The boss of this client would be in his office today, other times he always out of office” → “The client’s boss was in his office today, which rarely happens since he’s usually out”
Rephrased for better clarity and grammar. “Rarely happens” adds nuance.