Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 63

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

• 00:10

  This is Harry, and welcome back to my english podcast, where we try to help you with the various aspects of the english language and particularly the grammar.

• 00:21

  As always, I have four sentences for you, and we're picking some topics that are fairly topical, if you pardon the pun.

• 00:31

  This week we have a look at direct speech and some political issues, things that are in the news.

• 00:40

  So here's the first sentence.

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  We've been through all kinds of hurricanes, all kinds of storms, but never anything that bad.

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  I mean, it was like we were standing in the middle of the ocean.

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  Second reading, we've been through all kinds of hurricanes, all kinds of storms, but never anything that bad.

• 01:03

  I mean, it was like we were standing in the middle of the ocean.

• 01:07

  So this is in relation to the poor people in the Bahamas who have been devastated this week by the Hurricane Dorian that has hit those islands in that particular region.

• 01:19

  So it's direct speech.

• 01:21

  Okay.

• 01:21

  So that's the first important thing to note, direct speech.

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  So we're using informal language.

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  We've, so we have weaved and we spell it.

• 01:32

  We apostrophe ve.

• 01:35

  We've been through all kinds of hurricanes.

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  Been through means we have survived.

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  They've hit us before in the past, all kinds of storms.

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  So when we're describing lots of things.

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