Could you tell me whether the following sentence is right?
The child try to play a emotional card by using her sad experience to touch her parents so that they accept her request.

If this sentence is not right, pls tell me a better way of expressing this. Thanks a lot!

Question

Could you tell me whether the following sentence is right?
The child try to play a emotional card by using her sad experience to touch her parents so that they accept her request.

If this sentence is not right, pls tell me a better way of expressing this. Thanks a lot!

Answer

No. 'try' does not agree with he/she. tries or tried perhaps?
I would probably say 'the emotional card', as it is one technique.
'touch' is perhaps not quite the right word... Being somewhat cynical, I would probably say manipulate!
'accept' is also not quite the right word to go with request - you probably want to say something like 'give in to'.

Answer

"tried" instead of try
"the emotion card" would be the usual idiom
I would delete "by using her sad experience to touch her parents" as it is wordy, and redundant.
Instead try "to get her parents to grant her request."

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