Difference between “By” and “Until” - Learn English Grammar about

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Okay, today we're going to talk about
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Two words that are very important
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To learn that a lot of students struggle to understand the difference between these two words
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Even though they're very similar and we use them in a very similar way
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the meaning can be different and
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Quite frankly when someone makes a mistake
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Sometimes we have to think a little bit to understand what they mean. So it's important to understand how these words are different
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these two words are by and
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Until
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some examples of how people get these words wrong or use them incorrectly it is when asking about
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let's say the date or something like I have to give something to
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somebody on
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Sunday they might say please give me this paper until Sunday
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which is
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Incorrect. They should say please give me this paper by Sunday. The reason for this is because
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We use
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until to talk about a situation or a state of being
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That will continue up until a certain date are up to a certain date or moment
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Okay
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and then by we used by to talk about an action or
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an event
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That will happen
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Let's say at or before a certain moment
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So in that example
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Please give me this paper by Sunday
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We're talking about an action that will happen up to or before a certain moment. Let's look at how
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Until is used correctly. So remember when we talk about until when we use until
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We're using it when we're talking about a situation or a state the state of being for example
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Let's say that
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You are staying at your friend's house and you?
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Are there for Friday?
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Saturday and Sunday
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But you will leave on Monday, okay
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so that's a situation and
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We're talking about it that it will continue up to a certain moment
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Which is Monday so your situation staying at your friend's house will continue
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up to Monday so you can say I
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Will stay at my friend's house
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until Monday
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If you say I will stay at my friend's house by Monday
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That does not make sense and it's wrong
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because
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Stay at my friend's house is a situation now. Let's use the same example
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You are staying at your friend's house
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But let's use the word by correctly to describe an action or event
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Okay, so this action?
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Will let's say is arrived. Okay, you will arrive at your friend's house
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at
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or before a certain time
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let's say
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Friday
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you can say I
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will arrive at my friend's house by Friday and
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We use by in this example because we are talking about an action
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So let's look at some examples of using these words correctly and incorrectly
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So you can understand
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If you ask a question about your situation
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for example staying at your friend's house you
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Can ask how long you will stay you will say?
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Can I stay until?
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Monday
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If you say can I stay by Monday that is wrong the person talking about
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You leaving?
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That is an action so they can say bye for example
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Yes, but you have to leave by Monday
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by Monday
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They are talking about the action of you leaving in this example
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you are a student and you need to finish your homework because
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You need to give it to your teacher tomorrow. The situation is doing your homework
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So if you talk about how much time you have?
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you can say I have until tomorrow to
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do my homework until
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Tomorrow your situation happens up to
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tomorrow now
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If we talk about the action, okay, you let's say give your homework
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You have to give your homework to your teacher then you would say I have to give my homework to my teacher
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by tomorrow
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Okay, not until tomorrow because the action is giving okay students. That's our lesson for today
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