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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev   
   Misinterprestation   
   18 Mar 20 13:14:28   
   
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   Hi, Anton Shepelev : All!   
   I read your message from 16.03.2020 22:30   
      
   How  do  you  find  the grammar in the following de-   
   scription of an incident from my workplace?   
      
      
   -----Beginning of the citation-----   
   A colleaque leans into the doorway of my office  and   
   asks me rather amiably:   
      
   -- Anton, will you go to lunch with us?   
   -- Yeah, directly, -- answer I,   
      
    upon which he leans out, makes a step down the passage, and   
    exlaims "Oh, fuck" in gunuine anguish.   
      
    I grew surprised and embarrased because other people had seen and   
    heard this unexpected reaction to my harmless answer, and went to   
    investigate. My colleague had sworn when he badly struck his   
    shoulder or elbow upon the door jamb or some such structural   
    element while clearing the doorway   
   ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
   Directly???   
   Taking aside "directly" I think that the question "will you" demands the   
   answer like "Yeah, I will".   
   IMHO it is very unusual how you switched times from present to past. I believe   
   you should use the past tense in every sentence. "A colleague leaned... and   
   asked me..."   
      
   Do you think that "Yeah, directly" means the same as "Yeah, surely"?   
      
   PS: also note that your direct speech punctuation is like in the Russian   
   language, not in English.   
   +   
   colleague   
   genuine   
   embarrassed   
   exclaim   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2020   
      
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