Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect. In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?
-Interrupt and correct the mistake right away
-Wait until the class or meeting is over and the people are gone, and then talk to the teacher or meeting leader
-Say nothing
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
People are not unfamiliar with the situation that the speaker says something wrong in front of the audience. At that time, the best action for a listener to take is to interrupt on the spot, or to say nothing, as argued by some. As far as I am concerned, the former might cause unwanted troubles and the latter one is harmful. Given the chance, I will wait for the class or meeting to finish and then tell the teacher or meeting leader the mistakes. Reasons for choosing this solution will be elaborated in the following paragraphs.
First of all, waiting till the end is best for the consideration of the coherence and completeness of the speech. As is widely acknowledged, a lecture is carefully prepared, with the purpose of presenting the audience a clear and complete illustration of some concepts or phenomena. Were it interrupted in the middle, for whatever reasons, the smooth flow would definitely be sacrificed. Even worse, the correction might lead to unplanned clarification from the speaker, which takes up a large portion of time that is arranged for other lecture content. In this case, it is highly probable that the speech cannot cover as much information as arranged. While if the listener patiently wait for the end, such mess could be prevented.
Another reason to wait and then tell is that it reduces the possibility of embarrassments and conflicts to the largest extent. Correcting teachers or meeting leaders right away in front of the public could irritate them, especially when they are not good at dealing with others’ correction. To preserve their authority, they might ignore or even criticize the listener. Speaking from my own experience, I once told my professor that what she said was the opposite of what was written on the textbook in her Chinese Linguistic class. She denied and asked me to read more carefully in a sarcastic tone. After that class, I brought the book with me to her office to correct her and she finally admitted the mistake, privately. Therefore, it is wiser to not confront the speaker directly before a crowd.
These two troubles mentioned above could be avoided by simply saying nothing, as some people may claim. However, from my perspective, pretending that nothing is wrong is the most detrimental behavior because it results in a series of negative chain reactions. To begin with, the speaker will not be informed of his errors and continue the wrong. Besides, the audience who were in the present may spread the mistakes they heard. In the long run, it is hurtful to not only listeners but also the speaker.
To conclude, correcting the speaker is a subtle work that requires us to thoroughly weigh the pros and cons before deciding how to do it. As stated above, the best thing to do in such situation is to wait for the speech to end and then tell, for the sake of all parties.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, while, first of all, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2363.0 1977.66487455 119% => OK
No of words: 491.0 407.700716846 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81262729124 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72007345004 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549898167006 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 727.2 618.680645161 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.7304648563 48.9658058833 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.52 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.64 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36 5.45110844103 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 3.85842293907 389% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186154048449 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0422956211718 0.076458572812 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560912708865 0.0737576698707 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0983988071864 0.150856017488 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0568760963709 0.0645574589148 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 86.8835125448 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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