Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 26

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• 00:10

  Hi there, welcome back.

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  This is Harry.

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  And here I am to help you with those english grammar issues.

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  As always, I'm going to give you a sentence, I'm going to read it twice, and then we'll go through the different english grammar and other aspects for you.

• 00:26

  This is aimed for those of you who are studying English at intermediate or somewhat below that level.

• 00:32

  And it's all about practice.

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  Listen, practice and listen again and try and introduce the words into your own vocabulary or some of the phraseology that we use.

• 00:43

  As always, if there's anybody out there who's got some suggestions or they would like me to include something that you specifically have a problem with, then by all means write to me and the contact details will be given at the end of this particular podcast.

• 00:56

  Okay, so we're going to begin, as I said, I'm going to read the sentence twice.

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  First time just for you to get an understanding, to listen to it, and the second time just to know it in a little bit more detail.

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  Okay?

• 01:08

  So here we go.

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  I don't think someone should get sacked for making an honest mistake.

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  Second reading, I don't think someone should get sacked for making an honest mistake.

• 01:25

  Okay, so the overall meaning of this sentence is that you don't think that someone who's working in a company who makes a little mistake that they didn't intend to make, you don't believe that they should lose their job.

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  So we're talking about those particular aspects.

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  So what are the grammar points?

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  Well, at the beginning, I don't, here again, we're using one of those abbreviations.

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  I do not do, don't.

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  D o n.

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