Upgrade Your English: “AS LONG AS” & “AS FAR AS”

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So, you might or might not know this, but I
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am a private teacher, so if you're struggling
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with things in English, I have online private
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lessons, englishwithronnie.com, and I'll help
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you anything you need in English; pronunciation,
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vocabulary, crazy things like this.
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This is for one of my students, Braino, this is for you.
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A lot of the times in our classes, students
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have specific questions, like, "Bronnie, what's
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the difference between 'as long as' and 'as far as'?"
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And I go, "Oh, god, that's a good question.
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Let me check..."
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Whoa, there's a lot to explain about this one, so I'll make a video about it for you.
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But if you have questions like this, I'm sure
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they come up all the time, I'll help you answer
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those, and I'll walk you through what each of these crazy things mean.
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So, this lesson is to help you with "as long as" versus "as far as", "as long as".
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We use this for a period of time, so we can
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say, you can stay here-period of time-as long
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as you like, or you can stay here for as long as you want.
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So, I'm telling you that this is a period of time or duration.
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I can't say, you can stay here as far as you like.
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That doesn't make sense.
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So, for this one, we're talking about a
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period of time, we have to say "as long as".
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Next one.
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This is kind of fun.
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Do you guys hate conditionals, like "if" or "when"?
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Huh.
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So, we can substitute conditionals, and we can use "as long as".
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As long as you pay, you can eat here.
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I can substitute "as long as" in this sentence
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for "if", so I could say, hey, if you pay,
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you can eat here.
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Now, another cool thing about this sentence,
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because I have a little star here, is I can
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also reverse the order of the sentence.
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I can definitely say, hey, guess what, you can eat here-comma-as long as, or you can
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substitute "if" you pay.
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So, this is a conditional, right?
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If you don't pay, guess what, you can't eat here.
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But as long as you do this, then you have permission.
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So, this is a requirement.
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As long as you give me money, I will give you lessons.
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If you give me money, I will give you lessons.
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It's like a trade.
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We also talk about length when we're comparing something.
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My coat is as long as his.
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So, as long as makes sense, we talk about the length of something.
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Long means length.
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Length means how long something is.
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When you measure things, right?
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What's the length of something?
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And also, we can use "since", and this one we can change, too.
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As long as you're here, let's drink.
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It's just another way of saying since you're here, let's drink.
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Or because of the reason why you're here, woo, let's drink.
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Now, I can switch this.
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I can say, "Let's drink as long as you're
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here", but we have to be careful because this
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one can change its meaning.
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So, since you're here, let's drink.
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Since you're here, let's drink.
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Let's drink since or because you're here.
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Because of your very presence.
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It is just inspired me to drink.
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Maybe that's a good thing.
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I don't know.
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So, if you see an asterisk or a star beside
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these sentences, it means that we can change
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the order of the sentence.
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And it's cool.
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It's just fun.
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Woo.
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Look at how much fun we're having with grammar today.
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Yes.
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Someone hold me back.
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As far as...
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This one's fun.
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This shows the extent of your knowledge or your...
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I guess your appear...
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Not appears.
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Opinion.
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But we'll get to that one.
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So, as far as I can see, you have three kids.
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You might have more kids, but I don't know.
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And we can use verbs like "see" or "tell".
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As far as I can tell, it's going to rain.
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Yeah, there's clouds.
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As far as I can see, it's going to rain.
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As far as I know...
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So, I'm telling you that I know...
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I don't know everything; I know a little bit.
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It's like a limit.
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Okay?
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It's perfect as far as I know.
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So this is an example of how I've inverted the sentence.
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I can say, "As far as I know, it's perfect."
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Or "It's perfect as far as I know."
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It doesn't change the meaning of the sentence.
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As far as I can tell, it's going to rain.
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I can say, "Oh, it's going to rain as far
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as I can tell, but I'm not a weather person,
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so don't ask."
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Distance.
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Now, these ones we cannot switch.
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Okay?
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Don't...
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Do not change the order of this sentence, please.
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And this is telling us kind of our limitations on something; our limits.
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"We will travel as far as we can."
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But then we're just, like, done, going to sleep now.
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"The grass grew as far as the fence."
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So that means up to the limit of the fence, there is no more grass.
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So we're giving it a distance and a limit.
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"I ran as far as the school, yeah!"
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And then I died, because I'm not good at running.
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And the last one, we use this a lot, "As far as I'm concerned, you did a great job."
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I can also invert this, "You did a great job, as far as I'm concerned."
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Or, oh, yeah, "You're a horrible person, as far as I know.
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As far as I know, you're a horrible person."
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So again, we can switch those.
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And this is only giving someone your opinion.
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It's kind of weird because we have "far" and
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"long", and they might be the same in your
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languages, but I hope this helps.
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I hope you can work some things out.
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And as far as I know, these are all the examples
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that I've got to give you for this lesson.
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EnglishWithRonnie.com if you want to have private online classes with me.
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As far as I know, I'm out of time.
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I got to go.
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I'm...
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Yeah.
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Bye.
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