English Lessons
“An unbelievable amount of work went on behind the scenes to make this happen.”
You've organized a professional conference. You're giving an opening speech. You want to thank the people who helped you, so you start by talking about how hard those people worked.
“It was completely infested with these enormous cockroaches!”
You used to live in an old, dirty house when you were younger. Now you're telling your children about it.
“Have you been by Edith's new house? It's, like, way out in the sticks.”
You visited your friend Edith's new house last week, and you had to drive twenty minutes to get there. You tell your friends how far away it is.
“Excuse me, Ma'am. You dropped this on the sidewalk back there.”
A woman is walking in front of you, when a piece of paper falls from her arm. You pick it up, and run ahead to give it back to her.
“Don't try to do too much at once. Just ease into it.”
You're a personal trainer. One of your clients is trying to get in shape, so he's exercising really hard. You think that he should go slowly at first.
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