Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 9

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• 00:10

  Hi there and welcome back.

• 00:11

  This is Harry again, and we are looking at our english recordings for those of you studying at around the intermediate level of your English.

• 00:21

  As always, I'm going to read a sentence for you.

• 00:24

  I'm going to read it twice and then I'll give you a brief explanation as to the important grammatical points.

• 00:31

  So here's the I don't have a lot of free time these days because I am studying for my exams.

• 00:40

  Okay.

• 00:40

  The second time, I don't have a lot of free time these days because I am studying for my exams.

• 00:48

  So here we have quite a few grammatical points.

• 00:52

  The first part of the sentence, we're writing this in the present simple I don't have.

• 00:58

  So do.

• 00:59

  In the negative, I don't have.

• 01:01

  And again, we're using that abbreviated form, do not, don't.

• 01:05

  D o n.

• 01:08

  I don't have a lot of free time.

• 01:11

  And we're using the present simple here because it's a habit.

• 01:15

  I don't have a lot of free time these days, meaning most days.

• 01:19

  So we can use the present simple to describe that.

• 01:23

  And we use these days because we're talking about now and these days effectively these because it's more than one.

• 01:32

  If it was only one day, it would be this, but because it's more than one, it's these.

• 01:37

  So the plural.

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