Donald Trump Assassination Attempt 🇺🇲 Learn English with News

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First, I'll read the headline.

I was saved by luck or God, Trump says.

What do you notice about the  sentence structure of the headline?

Is this an active sentence or a passive sentence?

To understand that just ask yourself is the  subject doing the action or receiving the action?

And this could be an indication as well because  

we have our past simple of the verb  to be conjugated with the subject.

And then we have our verb here in Ed.

So this is our passive.

You also might notice that word  by which is usually associated  

with the passive by something luck or someone God.

Now let's take luck.

And what if we wanted to make this active?

What would it be?

Well, if it's Trump says  he could say luck saved me.

Luck saved me.

Now luck is a something.

It's when good things happen to  you, but it's beyond your control.

Luck.

You can have a lot of luck or you can use the  adjective form, which is lucky to be lucky.

This is used a lot to show appreciation.

I could say to you, I'm so  lucky to have great students.

I'm so lucky to have great students  like you, which I truly believe.

Now you might show appreciation  to me and say I'm so lucky.

I have a great teacher.

That's so nice of you.

Thank you.

Now notice that difference in sentence structure.

I'm so lucky to be lucky.

And then we've made it stronger.

You could say I'm very lucky as well.

I'm very lucky.

Now notice here to have so the infinitive to  have great students or I have this is a clause.

I have a great teacher subject verb object.

And then you can just add in to be lucky.

I'm very lucky.

I have a great teacher.

So if you agree that you're  lucky, put I'm so lucky.

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Former U.S.

President Donald Trump has said  he is supposed to be dead after  

Saturday night's assassination  attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

First, let's look at supposed to.

I hear a lot of mistakes with this, with the  sentence structure and also with pronunciation.

Let's confirm the pronunciation because this  Ed is silent, you don't hear it supposed to.

So I say to.

But this, it just sounds like the present.

Simple suppose supposed to repeat after  me supposed to supposed to Let's review  

these examples.

I'm supposed to study tonight.

So we have our subject, the verb  to be conjugated with the subject.

You could change this to the subject  she and then you would need she is or  

they of course you need they are as a contraction.

They're supposed to study tonight,  so this part doesn't change.

And then you need to and the base verb  or you can think of it as the infinite.

So just remember to conjugate your verb to be.

Now this is commonly used in the past  simple I was supposed to study last night.

Now remember, you need to conjugate your  

verb according to the subject they  were supposed to study last night.

When you're supposed to do something,  it means you have an obligation,  

but that doesn't mean you  actually do the activity.

If you say they were supposed to study last night,  

that sounds like the obligation  was there, but they didn't do it.

So this is very commonly used in the past  simple and even in the present simple,  

they're supposed to study tonight.

It's not clear if they are going to or not.

It's just that the obligation is there.

So don't forget that verb conjugation.

Don't forget that Ed, remember  the pronunciation as well.

And you need your infinitive,  your two plus base verb.

So Trump has said he's supposed to be  done after Saturday night's assassination,  

assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

All rally is a large public meeting,  but it's a public meeting of supporters,  

people who support people who support someone  or a particular plan, idea, proposal, policy.

Now this is important that is  of supporters because we have  

a separate word for people who meet in a  large group but who are not supporters.

And that would be a protest or the the  people who attend a protest are protesters.

A protest is a large public meeting of opposers,  

people who oppose someone or a  project plan policy proposal.

So this attempt took place at a rally which was  

supposed to be filled with  supporters in Pennsylvania.

Notice that pronunciation Pennsylvania.

NIA.

Pennsylvania In one of his first  interviews since the incident, Mr.

Trump told conservative U.S.

media he felt that he had  been saved by luck or by God.

So this is the same sentence  structure that we saw in the headline.

So we saw to be saved.

He was saved in this case,  it's just in the past perfect.

He had been saved by luck or by God.

But this is still the passive  because he's receiving the action,  

whereas in the active it  would be luck had saved him.

Let's look at the word incident because  it has a very similar meaning to accident,  

but they're not interchangeable.

You could see at work there was an incident,  at work there was an accident at work.

An incident is an unusual or unpleasant,  

pleasant event, but an accident is an event  that results in harm, damage, injury or loss.

So they are very similar in meaning.

But if I hear these two sentences, the  first reaction I have will be different.

If someone said there was an incident at work,  my first question would be what happened?

So tell me more, what happened?

What was the incident?

If someone said there was an accident at work,  my first reaction would be, was everyone OK?

Because I would be concerned about safety  because an incident is unusual or unpleasant.

Unpleasant but doesn't necessarily  mean that there was damage or harm.

But accident, My first reaction  would be, is everyone OK?

Was anyone hurt?

That would be my first reaction.

So that's why there is a subtle difference.

Now in this case they could have used  accident because there was harm involved,  

but the person chose to use incident.

I don't know why because it also means unusual  or unpleasant, which would describe this event.

Now another thing I want you to notice in one  of one of his first interviews, don't forget to  

put that S on the noun when you use one of one  of my friends, because you're focusing on one.

But the noun needs to be plural  and also the verb that comes next,  

which here we don't have a verb that comes next.

But the verb that comes next  needs to be conjugated in the  

singular because it's focusing on one of.

Let's review this sentence.

One of my friends was because was  is the singular of the verb to be,  

it will it's used with the subjects he and she.

One of my friends was in an accident,  so we have one, but the noun has an S,  

but the verb is conjugated in the singular,  in this case with the subject he or she.

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The most incredible thing was that  I happened to not only turn my head,  

but to turn at the exact right  time and in just the right amount.

OK, so he's talking about literally turning  his head, which I'm doing right now.

Let's take a look at this sentence structure.

I happened to not only turn my head.

Now, because he said he happened to turn his  head, it means that he didn't purposely plan this.

It's not that his security  guard said turn your head.

So he purposely turned his head.

It happened by chance.

It just happened accidentally.

It wasn't planned.

So that's the sentence structure  of to happen to do something.

It occurs by chance, not attention,  which means it wasn't planned.

Let's review these examples.

I happened to see Maria at the conference.

So notice this is in the past.

Simple.

That's why this has the Ed verb.

But then you have your infinitive  to happen to do something.

So in this case, to see I happened  to see Maria at the conference.

This means I didn't plan to see Maria.

It happened accidentally.

I didn't know she would be at the  conference or she happened to find.

So with the Ed and then the  infinitive, she happened to  

find her grandmother's gold ring in the basement.

She wasn't looking for her  grandmother's gold ring.

It happened by chance, accidentally.

And that's why at the beginning  Trump said it was luck.

Because when you have luck,  it's nothing intentional.

And in this sentence structure, we have not  only but to turn at the exact right time.

So by using to, not only he's saying  he's doing this action turn his head,  

but he's also doing something else.

He's turning it at the exact right time, the  time the bullet went by and the right amount.

Because if he just went like this, he could  have been killed, but he went like this.

So the right time and the right amount, he said,  

adding that the bullet that grazed  his ear could have easily killed him.

Let's look at this verb graze and  then in the past simple grazed ZZ.

So notice that ZZ and then just a soft  D for the Ed grazed grazed his ear.

If something grazed his ear it means  it just touched it slightly but likely  

it didn't cause damage because it  was just very lightly or softly.

This isn't really used in an everyday  context, it would be more in specific cases.

Athletes could use this a lot,  or chefs, because they use a lot  

of knives and equipment that could cut  them, but it just grazed their finger.

Thankfully it didn't cut them,  it just grazed their finger.

And children fall a lot.

So you might use it for children.

So maybe this is an athlete  playing tennis and you could say,  

thankfully she just grazed her knee when she fell.

So her knee just touched the  pavement slightly softly.

She won't need stitches.

So they don't need to stitch her knee together.

She won't need stitches.

And then you could Dad, she's so lucky.

She's so lucky.

So of course, in this case, because  Trump happened to turn his head at  

the right time and in the right  amount, the bullet grazed his ear.

He's so lucky.

A spectator was killed in the attack.

A spectator is someone who  wasn't actively involved,  

who was just there to to witness or observe.

This is very commonly used in  sports because all of the people  

who go to a sports game but who are  not the players, they're spectators.

So every time you've gone to a sports game  but you're not playing, you're a spectator.

In this case, though, a spectator was killed  

in the attack while two other  people were seriously injured.

The gunman who also died has been  named as Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Now, in this case, they're using named  as because it represents identified as.

It's not used to say your name.

I wouldn't say I'm named as Jennifer.

No, my name is Jennifer.

I'm Jennifer.

But this here represents has been identified  as Thomas Matthew Brooks named as.

This construction is also used  to recognize someone officially.

It could be an official title, a  sports title, or a jaw position title.

For example, Maria was named  as the new marketing manager.

So officially pointed or recognized as.

So you will see it in a business context as well.

Let's continue.

Mr.

Trump described the moment  he looked up at the crowd.

So notice here we have our phrasal verb look up.

So that's if your head is down,  you look up and then you look at.

So you look at someone or something.

Right now I'm looking at my computer screen and  you are also looking at your computer screen.

So if you're looking down at your piece of  paper, you might look up at the computer screen.

And that's why we have these two prepositions.

So he looked up at the crowd.

So the spectators, the crowd,  after realizing he had been shot,  

I knew that history would judge this,  and I knew I had to let them know where.

OK?

He told the Washington Examiner, speaking  

as he prepared to board a flight to the  upcoming Republican National Convention.

RNC.

This is the acronym for Republican National  Convention in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Milwaukee,  

Milwaukee, WI, where he is expected to be  confirmed as the party's candidate for president.

Mr.

Trump said he now had a chance  to bring the country together.

So all of this is an introduction  to this statement, Mr.

Trump said.

And when did he say that he said it?

In this case, he said it while speaking,  speaking as he prepared to board a flight.

All of that is additional information.

Let's review the sentence structure  to be expected and then infinitive.

This is when something is likely to happen.

So in this case, it's likely that Trump will be  confirmed as the party's candidate for president.

Now here to be confirmed because he's being  officially recognized as we could also say  

where he is expected to be named as the party's  candidate, just like we saw it here to be named.

Maria was named as.

So Trump was named as the  party's candidate for president.

So in this case, expect means likely to happen.

You can also use it in the case as normal  to happen, which has a very similar meaning.

You could say at the airport,  delays are to be expected,  

delays are to be expected, they're normal.

I wrote that example for you as well.

Let's continue.

He said his speech would now be completely  different instead of the humdinger aims  

mostly at current President Joe Biden's  policies he had previously planned.

So before the incident at the rally,  

he had planned a different speech,  one that would be a humdinger.

Do you know what this means?

A humdinger.

Humdinger means impressive or exceptional in.

It's a fun word to say, isn't it?

Humdinger, Humdinger.

Dinger.

So get that strong, err at  the end, repeat after me.

Humdinger.

Now, grammatically, it's important  to know that humdinger is an A noun.

So you need an article.

So you could describe something and say this  lesson, the lesson you're watching right now.

This lesson is impressive, is exceptional.

These are adjectives.

Impressive and exceptional are adjectives,  so you wouldn't use an article.

This lesson is and then adjective.

But if you want to use humdinger,  

which means impressive, you just need  the article because humdinger is a noun.

This lesson is a humdinger.

A Humdinger.

So to remember that, and if you agree this lesson  is exceptional or impressive, put Humdinger.

Humdinger put that in the comments.

And I ask you to put things  in the comments also because  

simply writing it down will make it so  much more likely that you remember it.

Humdinger.

Put that in the comments to help you remember it.

So Trump was saying that his  speech was going to be a humdinger,  

it was going to be impressive and exceptional.

Had Saturday's attack not happened, this would  have been one of the most incredible speeches.

So this reinforces that it was a humdinger  instead of impressive, exceptional.

You could also use incredible as  one of the adjectives for humdinger.

So again, he could have said this would have  been a humdinger because you need that article.

So let me write that for you.

This would have been a humdinger,  but he use would have been,  

which means it isn't because he's  not going to do it a humdinger.

This would have been a humdinger.

One of the most incredible speeches.

This is the sentence structure we reviewed before  because we have one of he's emphasizing 1 speech,  

the speech he was going to make at the rally.

And then because we use one of  the noun needs to be plural.

So don't forget that one of  and then the noun is plural.

Honestly is going to be a  whole different speech now.

So after the incident, remember what an incident  is and how it compares to accident is going.

After the incident.

Trump is planning a different speech or  has plans because it's already planned.

And he said, honestly, it's going  to be a whole different speech Now.

It's a chance to bring the country together.

And that's a nice way to end on a positive note.

So to end on a positive  note, that's an expression.

You can use it in a book, a  movie, a speech, a lesson.

And on a positive note simply means.

And positively, the subject of  this article was quite negative.

But this article ended on a positive  note because after this incident,  

Trump said he's going to write a  speech to bring the country together.

So again, you end on a positive note,  which simply means you end positively.

If you were to use the adverb form  positively and on a positive note.

And then we could say, thankfully, this incident,  

because Trump wasn't hurt,  the bullet just grazed him.

Thankfully, this incident  ended on a positive note.

So you could use this as well.

It's a very common expression.

And on a positive note, of course,  you could also end on a negative note,  

but in this case, we'll  say end on a positive note.

And that is the end of the article.

So what I'll do now is I'll review  the article from start to finish.

And this time you can focus on my pronunciation.

I was saved by luck or God.

Trump says.

Former U.S.

President Donald Trump has  said he is supposed to be dead  

after Saturday night's assassination  attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

In one of his first interviews  since the incident, Mr.

Trump told conservative U.S.

media he felt that he had  been saved by luck or by God.

The most incredible thing was that  I happened to not only turn my head,  

but to turn at the exact right time  and in just the right amount, he said,  

adding that the bullet that grazed  his ear could have easily killed him.

A spectator was killed in the attack, while  two other people were seriously injured.

The gunman who also died has been  named as Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Mr.

Trump described the moment he looked up at  the crowd after realizing he had been shot.

I knew that history would judge this and  I knew I had to let them know we are OK,  

he told the Washington Examiner.

Speaking as he prepared to board a flight to  the upcoming Republican National Convention  

RNC in Milwaukee, WI, where he is expected to be  confirmed as the party's candidate for president.

Mr.

Trump said he now had a chance  to bring the country together.

He said his speech would now be completely  different instead of the humdinger aimed  

mostly at current President Joe Biden's  policies he had previously planned.

Had Saturday's attack not happened, this would  have been one of the most incredible speeches.

Honestly, it's going to be a  whole different speech now.

It's a chance to bring the country together.

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