2019-10-25
12 分钟Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to my English learning podcast. Today, we are talking about the difference between unless and until. Enrol in Harry's English Club at www.englishlessonviaskype.com for €9 per month, or sign up for Online Courses and Skype English lessons Support the Show.Advanced English lessons on my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/learnenglishwithharry Learn English with HarryOnline courses start from only €7.99. Click to enrol today https://www.e...
Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to my english grammar classes.
What we're talking to you today about is a bit of grammar in relation to two particular words, unless and until.
These seem to cause students a lot of trouble even though the words are no way connected.
In fact, the only connection they have is that they're both described as conjunctions, but that's the only thing that they have in common.
But as I said, they do cause my students a lot of problems.
So I thought what I would do today is spell out specifically with lots of examples, exactly what we mean and how you can use them.
Okay, so I'm going to explain them to you.
I'm going to give you examples of each.
I'll work you through the examples, so hopefully by the end of the lesson, you'll know the difference between unless and until.
And at the end, I'm also going to give you an explanation as to until, because that's something else that causes my students a little bit of confusion.
Okay, well, unless and until they're both conjunctions.
So we use them in sentences to join some thoughts.
Okay, so there's a commonality between them, but in every other respect they are very different.
So let's look first of all at unless.
So when we're using unless we don't use it with any negative word, it's not followed with a negative.
We can't say unless.
Not unless.
No, unless.
I didn't.