Use of preposition AFTER in English - Prepositions in English

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Hi there. Welcome to Harry's World of Words and Phrases and English in a Minute
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today we're going to talk about prepositions and in particular the
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preposition after a ft e R and we can use it in many different ways after all
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and this means in the end for example of course he would agree with her after all
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it is his daughter after all then after me if you're standing in a
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queue and somebody asks are you next is it your turn next yes and then you will
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come after me you can also use after in the sense of later so you go to the
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pharmacy and you're looking for your prescription to be completed and the
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pharmacist will say but if you come back after 10 minutes or you come back after
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5 o'clock I will give it to you then so after meaning later ok
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oh I will call you after dinner after the meeting is over and we can also use
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after when we're talking about someone who looks like or behaves like someone
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like his parents or his brother oh you take after your father you take after
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your mother meaning you behave or some of your behavior is similar to today's
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and then when we look at one thing after another meaning one thing happened then
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another thing happened so one thing happened after another series of events
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and finally when we are standing in line for example a teacher with the young
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children will tell the children to stand one after another so one then 1 and 1
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then 1 all in a line okay so that's preposition after and remember as always
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