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I'm putting together readings for my students tonight from recent news, but this excerpt's going in just because it made me laugh:
“Actually seeing this one-to-one increase, I was like, wow,” says a study author, Kathy Willis, a marine socio-ecologist from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.
(Journalists are supposed to edit quotes with some grace, but sometimes the speaker doesn't offer much to work with. 🙃 I still would've written this differently.)
(It's actually going to be a great verbal exercise. We're working on complex noun phrases, but the code-switching required to pull off this sentence effortlessly for mid-range English students will be fun!)