Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 14

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

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  Welcome back.

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  This is Harry, and this is our audio podcast in the english language, trying to help you or trying to understand grammar and other aspects of English.

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  And hopefully we'll be able to help you, as we always do, with some particular sentences.

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  Again, if you have any queries, suggestions, ideas, whatever it is, you'll find the details at the end of the podcast, and I'd be more than happy to hear from you.

• 00:35

  As always, I'm going to read the sentence twice.

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  First time to give a general understanding, and the second time to go through it in a little bit of detail.

• 00:43

  Okay, so here's the sentence.

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  First reading.

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  Even after a long overnight flight in a cramped seat without sleep, staff are frequently expected to be in the office next morning ready to do a good day's work.

• 01:03

  Okay, so quite a long sentence this time.

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  So here's the second reading.

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  Even after a long overnight flight in a cramped seat without sleep, staff are frequently expected to be in the office next morning ready to do a good day's work.

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  Okay, so this is like a again, taken from a manual or an instruction from an office when people are traveling, how they are to behave and what's expected of them when they are flying on business.

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  And in this case, they're expected to get into the office the next morning, even though they may have been traveling throughout the night.

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  Okay, so we start with even after, we could say although, but even after.

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  So we've got the preposition after a long overnight flight.

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  So here we're using the adjectives and in the correct order of adjectives, a long overnight flight.

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  So it's telling us that it's a flight.

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  It's telling us that it's long, and it's telling us that it took place overnight.

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