Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 65

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  Hi there.

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  Welcome back.

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  This is Harry.

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  And here's sentence number three for this particular week.

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  And again here, we're talking about one of my favorite topics at the moment, the whole issue around Brexit.

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  It covers masses of newspaper coverage, tv, radio, every type of media that you.

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  You look at.

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  So whilst it's fresh and in everybody's minds, I thought we would use it again as a good example of written English and different aspects of it.

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  And in this particular sentence, we've got the use of a phrasal verb and the modal verbs.

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  Okay, so here's the first reading.

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  There were claims pro Brexit peers could deliberately hold up the bill so it could not get royal assent before parliament is probed next week.

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  Okay, so second reading, there were claims pro Brexit peers could deliberately hold up the bill so it could not get royal assent before parliament is prorogued next week.

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  So, as I said, we've got the use of modal verbs.

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  We've got some phrasal verbs.

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  We've got an example of a prefix in front of a word, and I'll explain that when we come to it.

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  So some good language for you to understand, and, of course, also an insight into the Brexit issues of your, as a European, taking some interest and focusing on what's going to happen.

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  So there were claims, so somebody said or somebody believed, pro Brexit peers.

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  So here we've got this prefix pro.

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  So Brexit, this word that has been introduced, Brexit of Britain exiting the European Union, pro Brexit peers.

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  Peers are the members of the House of Lords.

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