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Language Summary 2 DVD-ROM 2

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• We use ago to talk about a time in the past. We use it with the Past Simple: amazing very surprising: They
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discovered some amazing coincidences.
We got married six months ago.(= six months before now).
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unexpected you don't expect 1t to
LAST happen: We might meet people we know
.
• We use last to say the day, week, etc. in the past that is nearest to now: in the most unexpected places.
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I saw Jo last Friday. (=the Friday before now). unfortunate unlucky or having a bad
result: There was one last unfortunate
• We use last with days (last Friday), months (last May), seasons (last summer)
coincidence.
and in these phrases: last night, last week, last weekend, last month, last year,
incredible and unbelievable very
last century.
difficult to believe: There are some
TIPS• We say last night, but yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon and yesterday coincidences which are really incredible.
evening not last morning, etc. An unbelievable coincidence happened
on a beach near Salem.
• We don't use a preposition with last or yesterday: last weekend not in last ·11eekend,
strange and extraordinary very
yesterday evening not at y-esterdayi evening, etc.
unusual: Many of us experience strange
• We can use on with days to mean last: I bought it on Friday. = I bought it last Friday. coincidences. The next extraordinary
coincidence in this story happened on
IN
10th July 1940.
• We use in with years (in 1900) and months (in July).
• We use in the with decades (in the sixties) and centuries (in the nineteenth century) .
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• We use until to say something stops or
starts at this time:
www.english0905.com They didn't start making the film until

two years later.
• We use because to give the reason for
something:
Feifer didn't have his personal copy of
the book because a friend lost it.
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meet (someone) for the ask (someone) out go on a date
• We use so to give the result of
first tT me
something:
Hopkins wanted to read the book so he
went to London to buy a copy.

• We can use while and when for things
that happen at the same time.

go out (with someone) fall in love (with someone) get engaged (to
someone)
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While he was waiting When they were
for his train home, filming in Vienna,
he saw a book on a George Feifer came
seat near him. to visit the actors.

TIP• When a long action and a short
get married (to someone) break up (with someone) get divorced action happen at the same time, we can't
use while with the Past Simple:
TIPS• We can say break up (with someone) or split up (with someone). He was waiting for his train home while
• We can also say: be in love/engaged/married/divorced. he saw a boo{( on the seat near him.