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Welcome to this one hour English lesson today, you're going to learn English with the news.
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We're going to read two different news articles together so you can learn a lot of advanced
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vocabulary, complex, grammar and correct pronunciation. Let's get started. I'm sure you recognize
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Prince Harry and you may know that he just released a memoir called spare. That's what
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we're talking about today, and I'm sure that's what
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Many people around the world are talking about right now. So let's read the headline. Prince
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Harry's Memoir spare which captures the ugly side of Royal life hits bookshelves. Now,
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let's talk about the title of this Memoir. A memoir is simply a book that talks about
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your own experience or memories a memoir now. Spare in English is an adjective
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Active. It's an adjective and it means extra or additional that's not in use. So not in
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use. So that means that's available. That's not a news that's available. For example,
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I could say, do you have an umbrella?
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Now, if I wanted to be more specific, I could say, do you have a spare umbrella? Remember
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as an adjective, it comes before the noun and it just lets you know that I don't want
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your
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umbrella if you're
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using it. I want an additional umbrella that you're not using.
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So you might say, do you, do you have a spare pain if you're in a class and you're taking
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notes or you want to take notes and you don't have a pen, you could turn to someone and
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say do you have a spare pain? So I would guess that's pair in this contact. Is referring
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to the fact that he is like the extra member of the royal family not in use because
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Cuz there's no way he's ever going to become king because his older brother. William is
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going to be king, so he's like the spare. That's what I would guess. I don't know if
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that's true or not. Now let's talk about this hits bookshelves hits bookshelves. So hit
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is our verb to hit. It's being used in a different way, of course. Because hit is this, that's
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the verb to hit, but to
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It a bookshelf. When a product hits a location, it simply means to become available to become
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available, so I'll write that out because it's used in the context of when a product
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hits a location, it becomes available. So you might, as let's say, a new iPhone was
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released or is going to be released, you might ask
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When does the new iPhone? Hit the
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store,
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hit the shelves, hit the internet because you can buy it online, right movies. When
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does that new movie? Hit the theaters become available in the theaters. So is very commonly
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used.
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So when does his or his new Memoir became available, hit the bookshelves.
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All right, let's continue on Prince Harry's. Memoir was released Tuesday. This is when
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it hit bookshelves Tuesday, not only offering right now. When I see this, not only, I know
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that later on in the sentence, they're going to say, but also not only but also because
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those two go together. So let's find out where they say that not only
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Only offering new details on the British, Royal Family's bitter internal Feud after
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days of bombshell, Revelations, and promotional interviews. Well, that was quite long actually,
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but also describing. So we use this expression. Not only but also when we want to talk about
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two different benefits or features or points about one thing, so,
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so, you might say,
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The book not only talks about the royal family, but also
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talks
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about his relationship with Meghan Markle. His wife, for example, not only, not only,
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and then you have your claws, but also and then you have your second Clause your second
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point. So
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Oh, that's a very Advanced structure. It's a nice structures. You can practice using
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that in your own. We use this a lot in written English but you can absolutely use it in spoken
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English as well. So, we have not only but also let's also look at this bitter. Bitter.
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Bitter. Bitter is an adjective. When someone is bitter, they're angry or upset.
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That about something that they just can't forget about. So let's say last week or two
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weeks ago, a friend didn't invite you to their party. So you're angry and upset. You were
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angry and upset at the time. But two weeks later, you're still angry and upset. So the
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anger and the feelings of being upset have lasted because of that event.
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That's when you would say she's bitter, she's been angry and upset for a long time angry.
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I'm said, about a past event, I'll say, and you're still angry and upset now, so the family's
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bitter
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Feud,
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a feud is a fight, it's another way of saying fight their Feud.
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I do hear this quite a lot in the media to describe when two people are fighting. It
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could be a family, it could be within a company, it could be friends celebrities. I often hear
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them described it as a feud in the media. But honestly in in my own speech in speech
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with my friends movies, I don't hear that a lot is I hear it more specifically in the
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media in everyday context. We just say
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Fight the families. Bitter internal fight.
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After days of bombshell Revelations. Now a bombshell is a announcement that has a really
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big impact because a bomb, imagine a bomb, right? So imagine you deliver news to someone
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and there's a big impact of that. In this case, a revelation is information that
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Isn't available secret information. And now it is available and by describing it as a
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bombshell. It had a big impact. So that's a bombshell revelation just information being
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shared that has a very big impact. Let's continue on but also describing how he fell headlong
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in love with.
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His future wife, Megan Markle. So this was quite a long paragraph. And then, I summarized
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it in this very short paragraph, the media does that they like to use additional adjectives
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to make it sound really important or entertaining when you can say the same thing in a more,
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simple way. Okay, let's continue on while
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Many of the details from the book titled spare have already been reported, its release at
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midnight Monday. Local time will allow the public to get their hands on a copy of a memoir
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filled with glimpses into a rarefied family Riven by disagreement and distrust when you
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get your hands on something. So notice the sentence structure, our verb is the verb.
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Get one's hands. The one in this case, is the subject, they so it's there. As the possessive
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pronoun to get one's hands plural, hands on is our preposition. And then something, when
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you get your hands on something, it just means that you have it. And we usually use this,
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when the something might be
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Difficult to to obtain or there's some sort of
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significance
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in obtaining. Let's say there were only ten iPhones that hit the shelves and I was able
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to get my hands on one. I was able to obtain one and that is special or significant because
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there aren't many available. So here's the example, sentence and remember get
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his hands. So you need to match the possessive pronoun to the subject. So I put that here
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for you as well, so you remember one's hands
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Let's continue on, okay? With glimpses into glimpses into when you Glimpse at something,
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you look at something quickly and you don't necessarily see the whole thing, you just
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see a part of it. So let's say I'm driving, I might Glimpse at a billboard a billboard
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is just a poster that you see on a highway. So I'm driving and I
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Glimpse at it, I can't stare at it, or look at it for a long time because I'm driving,
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I have to pay attention to the road, so I might Glimpse at it quickly, so to look at
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something quickly, so that let me write that for you. So to glimpse
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To Glimpse at something is to look at something quickly. So, in this context, if we get a
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glimpse
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into
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the royal family, it means we get to look at the royal family but only briefly because
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we only get to see what the Memoir shares with us, right? So that's what it is.
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Trying to let us know. We get to look at the royal family, but only a little bit, rarefied
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is an adjective and as an adjective, it means not ordinary. So of course, the royal family
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is not ordinary their extraordinary, their rarefied. So we use this as an adjective to
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describe the family there.
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The rarified family. So if there is a company that is quite different from ordinary companies,
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you might say it's a rarefied company. For example, I don't think you'll use this adjectives
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too much in your vocabulary, but just to understand the article, a rarefied family Riven by disagreement,
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Riven by is another way of saying /, because you have your
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We as a whole, the family is not arguing there together, but if the family is divided Riven
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by it means the disagreement caused the family to separate to become divided Riven by. So
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this is another way of seeing / / disagreement.
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Let's continue on some Britain's flocked to bookshops overnight to be among the first
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to buy a copy of spare. When you flock to a location it describes, when a large number
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of people go to a location generally at or around the same time. So you might say that
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people flocked to the Apple Store when the new
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IPhone, hit the shells.
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When the new iPhone hit the shelves, they flocked to, so a large number of people and
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they generally went around the same time because the iPhone was released at a specific date
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and time and that's when everybody went. So to flock to a large number of people, let's
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continue on some of the books. Most eye-catching passages include allegations that Harry's
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brother and heir to the throne
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Prince William physically attacked him during a dispute that a step mother Camilla. The
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queen consort leaked private conversations to bolster her reputation and that his father
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King. Charles the Third had pleaded with his sons to not make his final years, a misery
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with they're arguing. So remember, we learned another word, another word for fighting we
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could say, with they're arguing,
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With their fighting, with their feuding, that could
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be
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another word with their feuding. So I'll leave that there.
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When something is eye-catching, it means that your eye is drawn to it, so your eye naturally
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goes to it. It is more interesting or it stands out more, it gets your attention. That's eye-catching.
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So, the passages passage is just right. Now, we're reading a passage of this article, so
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it's a piece.
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Us of the article article and eye-catching
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most interesting Parts passages. Most interesting. Now, it could be another adjective interesting,
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engaging
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most entertaining for example, but I'll just say most
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interesting.
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An allegation is when someone accuses someone else, you did this. That's my allegation against
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you. So Harry had allegations against
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his
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brother William. You did this. That's what he said in the book, so he physically attacked
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him. So
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physical means that there was violence involved, he touched him. He
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Maybe hit him, we don't know. But there's some sort of physical illness. Attacked him
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during a dispute. Dispute is another word for fight during a fight or an
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argument, or again, a feud. We could say, Camilla leaked, when you leak something, it's
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when you make it available, but it should not be available. So these private conversations
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Ossetians their private for a reason, but if you leak them is, when I say, oh, here's
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the conversation. And I give it to you, but you shouldn't have it. So, that is the verb
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to leak. This is a verb. I know it's a verb because it's conjugated in the past simple.
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So to make
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Information available, when it shouldn't be, because it's private information. It's not
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supposed to be public.
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To bolster her reputation bolster in, this sense, is another way of saying to improve
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to increase, to bolster her reputation to improve improve or increase. But in this case,
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it's improved because you don't necessarily increase a reputation, but you can improve
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it. A lot of people don't like Camilla, right? She has a negative reputation, she wants to
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improve it to bowl.
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Ulster it.
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Now I think to plead with someone is please don't please don't, that's to plead with someone
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to plead with his sons. Not to make his final years. A misery a misery would be terrible
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a misery with they're arguing feuding disputing or fighting. Let's continue on the publication
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of such a Frank and revealing account is in near.
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Today's event in the centuries-old history of Britain's Royals who has Harry, has pointed
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out double as both a family and National Institution, the book has led to questions over whether
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it could deal lasting damage to the monarchy even asking whether its future. Existence
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is now, less certain, okay of Frank and revealing account, Frank is another way of saying honest,
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an
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Honest and revealing just right. This first honest revealing is when you share a lot of
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details. So that comes from the verb to reveal which means to share with details. So to reveal
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to reveal a lot of details or information to share. Share a lot of details or information.
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And then Frank means honest, an unprecedented event is an event that doesn't happen very
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often. It's never happened. It's unprecedented. Now, unprecedented on its own means that it's
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never happened before. But when you say near unprecedented, it means that it's almost so
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near means. Almost
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This sense so it's implying that it's almost never happened before and the event is sharing
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so much information about the royal family publicly leaking that information giving you
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a glimpse into the private life of the Royals.
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Okay.
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And our final paragraph Harry has said that he still wants a reconciliation with his family.
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When you have a Reconciliation, it's when so two parties, they're disputing they're
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feuding, they're fighting, but if they reconcile, which is the verb to reconcile is when they
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come back together as a family. So, right now there's Prince Harry here and there's
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Prince
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William Prince, Charles or King Charles here, they're divided. Right? So to bring them back
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together. That's to reconcile reconciliation is just the noun of it to reconcile. We use
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this a lot in a legal context because if a husband and wife, they separate which is illegal
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Event when they no longer want to be married. But then if they reconcile, it means they
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do want to be married again and they do not end their marriage that's reconcile. So to
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become friendly again after a dispute to reconcile. So, he wants to reconcile, he wants all reconciliation
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with his family and believes one is possible. But asked whether he
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Had burned his Bridges with his father and brother to burn.
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One's bridge is an idiom. So imagine right. Now if I'm here and I want to get there and
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there's a bridge, I can easily go back and forth between the two, right. But if I burn
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the bridge, the bridge is no longer there, I can't get there, right? So it's when you
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act in a way that makes reconciliation impossible or act in a way.
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That it's impossible to get to something else. So a lot of people are revised. When you quit
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your job, don't burn your Bridges because you want to be able to go back to that job
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in the future. How could you burn your Bridges? Well, if you tell your boss, you were the
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worst employer I ever had. I hated working for you. You're a jerk and you do something
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that makes it so.
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So your employer would never want to work with you again. So that bridge to that job
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is gone, right? So here I've added the definition and the example. Don't burn your Bridges when
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you quit. So be very polite friendly because you may need a reference from your company
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or you may want to go back to that company in the future. So that's the article. I'm
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sure there's a lot more.
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Interesting details about this new Memoir spare. Are you going to read it? Share it
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in the comments if you plan on reading this Memoir. And now what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to read the article from start to finish in full so you can practice along with my
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pronunciation. Let's do that now.
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Prince Harry's Memoir spare which captures the ugly side of Royal life hits bookshelves
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Prince Harry's Memoir was released Tuesday, not only offering new details on the British
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Royal Family's bitter, internal Feud after days of bombshell, Revelations and promotional
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interviews. But also describing how he fell headlong in love with his future wife. Megan
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Markle while many of the details from the book
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Old spare have already been reported, its release at midnight Monday. Local time will
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allow the public to get their hands on a copy of a memoir filled, with glimpses into a rarefied
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family Riven by disagreement and distrust. Some Britain's flock to book shops overnight,
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to be among the first to buy a copy of spare, some of the books, most eye-catching passages
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include allegations that Harry's
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sir and heir to the throne Prince William physically, attacked him during a dispute
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that his stepmother Camilla, the queen consort leaked private conversations to bolster her
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reputation and that his father King, Charles the Third had pleaded with his sons to not
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make his final years, a misery with they're arguing, the publication of such a Frank and
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revealing account is in near
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An unprecedented event in the centuries-old history of Britain's Royals. Who, as Harry
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has pointed out, double as both a family and National Institution, the book has led to
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questions over whether it could deal lasting damage to the monarchy even asking whether
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its future. Existence is now. Less certain Harry has said that he still wants a reconciliation
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with his family and believes one is possible.
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But asked whether he had burned his Bridges with his father and brother, amazing job with
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that article. Now we're going to move on to the next article. Feel free to take a pause,
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get a cup of tea if you like, and let's continue on, let me read the headline. Why Meghan Markle
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isn't attending King Charles the third's coronation with Prince Harry. She's a mom first. Now,
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right here, notice, we have the
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the word, why? But let me ask you, is this headline a question?
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What do you think? No, it is not a question and we know that because the order of the
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words to be a question, first, we would have the verb and then we would have the subject
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Meghan Markle. So as a question, it would be. Why isn't Meghan Markle attending the
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coronation? That is a question right here.
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Meghan Markle isn't attending the coronation is written more as a statement to introduce
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the reason and this is the reason she's a mom first. So if I wanted to write this as
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one complete sentence, I could say, the reason why Meghan Markle isn't attending the coronation
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is because she's a mom. First, this would be the common way to write it here.
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Here is just written as a headline to introduce the reason and then the reason is stated separately,
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but all together, this is what you would write. Let's continue on.
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Sitting this one out. So notice this is just a thought on its own. This isn't a full sentence
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as a full sentence. I could say, Meghan Markle is sitting this one out. Now I need is because
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sitting is in my ING form. So I know is part of the present. Continuous, as a full sentence,
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my sentence was start with the subject in this case.
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Meghan Markle. And then my verb, I know my verb is conjugated in the ing form, so it
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could be a Jaron, but this isn't a Jaron sentence. So I know it's the present. Continuous Megan
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Markle is sitting this one out. Now, this is an expression to sit something out, and
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in this case this one is the something and it represents the coronation. So to sit something,
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nowt, in this case, the coronation it means to not involve yourself. So in this case,
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it's an event. So it would mean to not go to the event, but it could be perhaps a work
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project and you might say, sorry, my schedule is full. I'm going to sit this one out which
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means you're not going to involve yourself in the work project. So here I wrote the definition
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In for you and I gave you an example as well. Now I did prepare a free lesson PDF so you
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can look in the description for the link to download the PDF that summarizes all of the
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notes. Let's continue. Meghan Markle won't be attending. King Charles the third's coronation
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with Prince Harry next month and her reason for skipping the ceremony. So skipping
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In this case means to not attend. We could also say her reason for sitting this one out
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has to do with her children. So again, to skip something is the same as saying to not
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attend, something to not attend something, but we do use this one to skip something more,
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when there is an obligation of attending.
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Do not attend something that you should or are required to attend?
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And if you are a university student, you might know this expression. Well, because you might
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say, I was tired. So I skipped my morning class you skipped class, you didn't attend.
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But there is this requirement or at least you should attend. There's some sense of obligation
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to attend. Whereas, when you say,
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I'm going to sit this one out. There isn't really the same requirement to attend, so
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just be careful about that. You might say, I can't believe, I can't believe she skipped.
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The meeting today. So in this case, it's probably not a good thing. You skip the meeting because
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you probably were required or you should have attended that meeting. So just be careful
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when you use skip something because there is that obligation there?
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As much as Megan appreciates the invite to the coronation. She wouldn't miss her son's
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birthday for the world. All right, so that's the reason why is her son's birthday which
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makes sense. It's a valid reason to sit it out or to skip it. Would you agree with that
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reason? Now notice here, the invite the invite now, you might be thinking, but Jennifer invite
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is a verb
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Herb, what is it doing here with an article in front of it. And you're right, invite is
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a verb. I let me give you an example. I didn't invite Megan Marco to my party. Okay I didn't
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invite of course this is a verb. Now in this case, I know it's not a verb because there's
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article in front of it. Now in this case, it's being used
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And as a noun, and I want you to notice my pronunciation invite the invite and listen
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to this one. I didn't invite invite. So with verbs, the syllable stress is on the second
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syllable invite, but with nouns, the syllable stress is on the first syllable invite
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Using the noun invite is a very casual way of saying, the word invitation, of course,
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the, the noun is invitation invitation. But native speakers commonly shortened this to
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invite because it's just a lot shorter. So I could ask you, did you get my invite? Did
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you get my
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My invite, okay. And it's the same as invitation, just remember the pronunciation. Invite the
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syllable stress on the first syllable. As much as Megan appreciates, the invite to the
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coronation. She wouldn't miss her son's birthday for the world. An Insider exclusively tells
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us weekly of the former actress 41, so Meg and Markle. If you didn't know, she is a former
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Actress. So that's what this means of the former actress 41. So, Meghan Markle is 41
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years old and she's a former actress who shares son Archie, 3 and daughter Lily, bet 22 months
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with Harry 38. So, Prince, Harry is 38 years old? Despite being The Duchess of Sussex.
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Megan is a Mom first, and this is the reason why she's skipping the coronation. She's sitting.
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Paying it out. Now, if you're enjoying this lesson, I hope you are. I want to tell you
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Expressions, learn how to use them correctly, get comfortable with fast-paced, native speakers
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On how to become a member. All right, let's continue on the date of the coronation Saturday.
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May 6 happens to coincide with our cheese fourth birthday. Now, talking about birthdays,
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we could say, Archie turns for on May 6. So we use the verb to turn when you talk about
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going from one.
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Stage to the next stage. So let's say it's in the future. It's July, Meghan could say
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Archie, just turned 4, because only a few weeks before it was his birthday. So in this
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case, it's in the past simple because it's a completed event. He already went from 3
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to 4, so that is how you can talk about age with your birthday's. You use the verb to
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turn.
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It's not clear. What kind of plans, the suits Alum. Now, this might confuse you, you have
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to know about Meghan, markle's acting history. Because remember, she's a former actress and
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she was in the TV show Suits. It's a very good TV show. If you haven't watched it, the
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TV show Suits. It's about lawyers lawyers, who wear these very expensive fancy suits.
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Okay. And
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Lum is short for the word, alumni. Alumni alumni is the word used when people complete
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their University studies. So when you graduate from a college you then become an alumni of
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that college or university. Now in this case, they're using it because she's completed her
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job on the show Suits. The show is no longer on the air.
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It's done. And so she's now an Alum of the show Suits because she's completed it. Okay.
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So the suits Alum, who is Megan Markle has made do the plans that the suit Salam Mega
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Markle has made for her eldest child's celebration. But the sources says, what do you notice about
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this? The sources says, that's not correct, right?
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Because the source is represents the subject. They there's more than one source. All source
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is a person who provides information, a source of information. So the person who shared this
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information about Meghan Markle with the magazine that person is referred to as a source. But
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in this case, they're saying the
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Horses. So there's more than one source so it's they. So our verb should not have an
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s on it because the S would only be for the source. So it would be they say to avoid confusion.
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I got rid of the s for you and now it's grammatically, correct? But the source says, she didn't want
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to spend it. This she represents Megan Markle, not.
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The Source, she didn't want to spend it away from her son and I know that because we know
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we're talking about the relationship between Megan Merkel and her son. Now you might be
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wondering, didn't need of English speaker. May this grammar mistake. They didn't know
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the rule. No, absolutely. Not every native speaker knows how to conjugate their verbs.
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Like this. What happened is it's a tie.
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Typo. They just spelled the word wrong, most likely, because originally, it was singular,
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and they probably first wrote The Source says, but then later on, they probably realize.
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Oh, wait, there's more than one source and they changed it to the sources, but they forgot
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to change the verb. So we just call this a typo. So just remember they say,
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He or she says, all right. Let's continue. She feels very grateful to be included in
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such a special occasion by the royal family and is glad that Harry can go and show support
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on behalf of their family. So this information is coming from the source. The person who
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is sharing this information about Meghan Markle because it's not coming directly from
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Um, Meghan Markle, The Insider ads. So The Insider this is just another way of seeing
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the source more commonly we would say the source. And again remember that comes from
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source of information because that would be a common question. What's your source of information?
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What's your source of information? Which is asking where did this information?
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Come from now an Insider. If you have inside information, it means you have information
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that the general public does not have. So your friends and family have inside information
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about your life that your boss doesn't have or that, I don't have write the general, public
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does not have but being the same day as Archie's birthday. Unfortunately she
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Just going to have to miss out on this one. This is a great expression to miss out on
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something. And in this case this one represents what the coronation right to miss out on the
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coronation. It means that you don't use or you don't have the opportunity to experience
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something good or positive or beneficial.
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So we commonly use this in things like I can't believe I missed out on the sale. So there
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was a sale at your favorite store, but you were sick that day or you were out of town
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that day. So you couldn't experience that sale, you couldn't use that sale, so you
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Missed out on the sale miss out. And then, if you specify what the noun is the sale,
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you have to use the preposition on, as well. Otherwise, you can say, I can't believe I
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missed out. Now if your friend was just talking about the sale was amazing. I can't believe
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I missed out. Now, it's obvious, you're talking about the sale, so you don't
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don't have to specify the noun, but if you do specify the noun, you have to include the
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preposition on as well, a very common phrasal verb that native speakers use all the time.
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The palace announced on Wednesday, April 12, that the Invictus games founder who's Harry
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this article assumes. You know, a lot about the royal family. So Harry Prince Harry. Megan's
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husband, founded the Invictus games. So he's the founder. The person who started the Invictus
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games would return to the UK for the festivities without
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Wife. Buckingham Palace is pleased to confirm that the Duke of Sussex who is Harry that's
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Harry's, royal title. The Duke of Sussex, will attend the coronation service at Westminster,
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Abbey on May 6th read a statement, The Duchess of Sussex. This is the royal title for Meghan,
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Markle. The Duchess of Sussex will
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Remain in California with Prince Archie and Princess Lily bed.
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Last month, AAS confirmed that the Duke of Sussex had been sent an invitation to the
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event. But at the time, it wasn't clear, whether he would attend, in January, the spare author,
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Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex, the founder of the Invictus games, is also the author
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of the book, The Spare
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This spare author hinted that he was still on the fence about going. Okay, let's talk
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about two things here, hint and on the fence. So first, let's talk about to hint when you
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hint at something. It means you you give some information to confirm something I might say.
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She hinted that she wasn't going to attend the party. Okay. Oh, and I could say she hinted
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that she was going to skip the party because remember, skip means to not attend but we
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use it. When remember, I said we use it when there's an obligation a
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that you should attend. She hinted that she wasn't going to skip the party. So when you
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hint at something, you do not say I'm not going to attend. No, you give some information
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that suggests, for example.
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I'm really busy right now. I'm really busy right now. I don't really like parties. I
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don't have anything to wear. I live really far from the party. My car isn't working right
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now. So if you're talking about the party and I
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I say, oh, you know, I don't really like parties. You might think well, that kind of sounds
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like you don't want to go or you're not going to go. So these are all the different ways.
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I could hint that I'm going to skip the party without directly saying so you indirectly
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give information that suggests what you're going to do. So that's two hint. Now to be
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on the fence because notice our verb
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Here is the verb to be on the fence.
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To be on the fence to be on the fence.
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We use this idiom when you're unable to decide. Oh, should I shouldn't I? It would be good,
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but it could also be bad. You're on the fence. So you're unable to decide, or simply, you
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just have not decided for whatever reason you're on the fence.
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As an example.
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where,
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On the fence, if jeans a good fit for the promotion.
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This is not a good thing for, for Jane, for Jane, this is not a very good thing because
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it means on the one hand. They want to promote Jane. She's a really great worker. But on
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the other hand, she might be missing some sort of skill or qualification. So they like
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her, but they also don't like her. They think she would be good, but they also think she
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might be bad. So they're on the fence. We're on the fence. If Jane's a good fit for the
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Promotion or a lot of times we use this as an answer. So a friend could ask you, are
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you going to the party tonight, and you could reply back and say, I'm still on the fence?
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I'm still on the fence, which means you, you haven't decided you want to go, because it
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will be really fun, but you have to work tomorrow.
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And you don't have a lot of time, so you're on the fence.
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So odd a previous time. We now know that Harry is attending the coronation but at a previous
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time he was on the fence about going and that's the end of the article. So what I'll do is
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I'll go to the top and I'll read it from start to finish and you can follow along with my
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pronunciation. Why Meghan Markle isn't attending. King Charles, the thirds coronation with Prince
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Harry. She's
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Uh, Mom first, sitting this one out, Meghan Markle won't be attending. King Charles the
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third's coronation with Prince Harry next month. And her reason for skipping, the ceremony
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has to do with her children, as much as Megan appreciates, the invite to the coronation,
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she wouldn't miss her son's birthday for the world. An Insider exclusively tells us weekly
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of the former actress 41 who shares
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Son Archie, 3 and daughter Lily, bet 22 months with Harry. 38, despite being The Duchess
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of Sussex, Meghan is a mom first, the date of the coronation Saturday, May 6 happens
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to coincide with our cheese, fourth birthday. It's not clear. What kind of plans, the suits
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Alum has made for her eldest, child celebration, but the sources say she didn't want to spend
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it away from her.
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One. She feels very grateful to be included in such a special occasion by the royal family
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and is glad that Harry can go and show support on behalf of their family. The Insider ads,
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but being the same day as Archie's birthday. Unfortunately, she's just going to have to
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miss out on this one. The palace announced on Wednesday, April 12th, at the Invictus
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games, founder would return to the UK for the festivities without his wife.
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Ahem Palace is pleased to confirm that the Duke of Sussex will attend the coronation
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service at Westminster, Abbey on May 6. Read a statement, The Duchess of Sussex will remain
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in California with Prince Archie and Princess Lily bet last month has confirmed that the
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Duke of Sussex had been sent an invitation to the event. But at the time, it wasn't clear,
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This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

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