English Phrases: Make Excuses - Explanation and Examples

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Hello, this is Jack from tofluency
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.com, and in this video we're going to look at the phrase
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make excuses - and I used this phrase in a video
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where I was talking about the perfect time to start learning
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English. So, let's have a look at how I used
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this phrase
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if you're saying those kinds of things then you're only
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making excuses. So, in the video I said
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if you're saying those kinds of things then you're
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only making excuses. Now,
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to make an excuse means to give false
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reasons for why you can't do something
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So it's to give false reasons and this
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is different than giving a reason for why you can't do it do something
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because making an excuse is a false
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reason. So, let's have a look at a couple more examples..
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Manchester United's manager
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always gives excuses for why they lose.
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So, the manager talks about false reasons
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why his team loses. Now imagine you're in a class and the teacher
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might say this: Stop making excuses
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and do your work. Okay, so some
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students will give excuses why they can't do something
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and the teacher will say something like this. So, my question for this video
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is: What excuses to children make
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for not doing their homework? So
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leave your comments below this video, thanks for watching,
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and see you next time!
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