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Hi there, my name is Rani and
I'm going to teach you English today.
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We're going to talk about one of
the steps in life, that is getting married.
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How many of you out there
are actually right now married?
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Anyone divorced?
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Single?
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Alright, so we're going to go through
what these words mean in English.
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So the first one is married.
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This is a verb, okay?
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To marry.
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This means that we can
change the verb into the past.
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For example, I am married, okay?
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You can also use the future
to talk about getting married.
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So as you can see here,
married is a verb, okay?
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Now a thing that's very confusing
is that marriage is a noun.
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So for example, you can have a marriage party
and in Canada we call that a reception, okay?
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Now before you're married,
some people like to get engaged.
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Engaged, you can think of like a
promise that you will marry someone.
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So if your boyfriend or girlfriend asks you
to marry them, you can say yes or no, but
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if you do say yes,
you will say woohoo.
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I'm engaged and usually we
have an engagement ring, okay?
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Now sometimes people get married
and it doesn't work out too well.
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After that,
in Canada you have two choices.
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The first choice is you can get separated,
okay?
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So let's say I got married and after a couple
of years, I realized that it wasn't working
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very well, I would get separated
or I would then be separated.
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So I can say I am separated,
okay?
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Separated just means that you're not living
together, but you're still legally married.
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Now if you totally hate the person and you
don't want to live with them anymore and you
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can't stand them, you go to court and you have
a legal trial and that's called a divorce.
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You would then be divorced.
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So you would say I am divorced.
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So usually people are separated first and then
if it doesn't work out, you get a divorce.
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Divorce is a noun, okay?
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So today we've talked about marriage,
separation, engagement and divorce.
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For a nice little quiz on this, please visit
www.engvid.com and you can see how much you
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really know about
the English language.
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Bye.
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