QC Community Weekly Contest #154 : Making Out the Meaning
Every single day I wake up, I have been working on my English grammar after I failed my final English exams. How? I found out that the major reason for my failure was not because I didn’t prepare very well—it was because I was not learning the rules.
Up until today, I am practicing for my next exams, but I don’t think that I have enough knowledge yet.
For instance, this was one of the questions I had to solve today, and it goes thus:
Choose the option that best completes the gap:
The young man looked carefully at the long document, but he couldn't make __________ what it meant.
A. up
B. out
C. off
D. through
Initially, I took option A as the answer, and I was wrong. The app indicated that the right answer was option B. I was sad, so I went to use the DeepSeek AI for assistance. I use DeepSeek in cases like this rather than ChatGPT because it is relatively cheaper and faster. ChatGPT times out after asking a lot of questions.
Ever since I have been using DeepSeek, my tutor said that I am improving.
I love the encouragement that DeepSeek gave me. It said that I did a good thing by focusing on the rules.
I am adding to my knowledge by learning from my mistakes and this method works for me. Deep seek added that English has a lot of rules. Do you know what deep seek has done? It has helped me learn by searching for the rules.
After doing this, I got a list of phrasal verbs that one can combine with "make" to learn their meanings.
Things that I have learnt about "make up", "out", "off", and "through" can be seen in the picture above.
Next, DeepSeek gave me a list of phrasal verbs with the word "make", and they are eight in number:
make up, out, for, off, of, after, over, and do.
It gave me a test sample automatically to see if I really learnt something.
I was happy when I was able to get the whole question right. I have gained substantial knowledge about phrasal verbs, today, I will apply it in the free write daily challenge.
Make do means to manage with what is available, even though it is not enough. This word was used in an American movie that displayed black resilience during the world war II and I will end my beautiful write-up with the response of the Six Triple Eight American movie: Winners make do.
Thanks.