Remembering and sensing
Sensing
Read these problem letters from a magazine and notice the collocations relating to sensing.
When I first met my new boss, I had/got
the impression that he might be a
difficult person to work for. I sensed some
tension between us. Now I have a
feeling that he is trying to make things
difficult for me. I don’t know whether I
should trust my intuition1 and hand in
my resignation. Or am I just being
ridiculously over-sensitive?
Kim T
For the last few weeks I’ve been much
more sensitive to heat and sensitive to
light than I used to be. I’ve always had
sensitive skin and sensitive teeth but
this is much worse than ever before. My
hands have also started going numb2 if I
get at all cold. I used to have an acute3
sense of smell and acute hearing but I
don’t any more.
Jan P.
1 feel confident that my instinctive feelings are correct
2 losing all feeling
3 acute = sharp, very good
Common mistakes
Remember the difference between a sensitive person [a person who is easily upset] and a sensible
person [a person with good judgement].
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