2019-09-11
4 分钟Welcome to my English learning podcast. This is Harry and I'm helping you improve your English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation through short sentences. The sentence that I have for you for today is - By the time I graduated I already had a lot of experience of the real world. English grammar rules. Much vs many. New vocabulary. Learn English with me at www.englishlessonviaskype.com - VIP English Learning Club, Online Courses and Skype English lessonsSupport the Show.Advanced English les...
Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to our podcasts in relation to the english language and helping you with your english grammar.
So let's get straight into the first sentence.
I'm going to read it for you once, just so you get a general idea, and then the second time to give you a little bit more of an explanation.
Okay, so the first reading, by the time I graduated, I already had a lot of experience of real work.
Second reading, by the time I graduated, I already had a lot of experience of real work.
Okay, so we're using one of these time expressions here.
By the time, meaning after I had finished my school or my university work.
So by the time.
By the time I graduated, so by the time I had finished school or I had completed my course, by the time I graduated, I already had.
We use this word already to mean something had been achieved, you had gained something.
So I already had.
And again, our word, a lot of meaning, much or many, but we use a lot of as this generic word to describe much or many.
A lot of experience, we could say we had much experience.
We can't say many experience because experience is one of these uncountable nouns.
Okay.
And as an uncountable noun, we don't use the plural.
So we don't say experiences.
We say experience.
And usually with experience, we use much, but for countable or uncountable, you can use a lot of, and it often sounds better.