2021-11-28
14 分钟Hi there.
Welcome back to my podcast.
This is Harry here, and we're going to give you some hopefully helpful tips on how to improve your English.
And as we always do, we're going to help you with grammar, phrasal, verbs, expressions, everything possible that will make you a better communicator.
And as always, I'll give you my contact details at the end of this particular podcast.
And if there's anybody out there that you think might benefit from it, well, why don't you give them the details also?
So what are we going to talk about in this podcast?
Well, we're going to talk particularly about fixed phrases with on.
So the preposition on fixed phrases with on.
I'll go down through them one by one.
Not on by, on.
One by one.
Some people confuse the pronunciation there, so fixed phrases with on, and I'll go down through them one by one and then I'll explain them individually and give you some examples.
So on the off chance, on second thoughts, on a whim, on a budget, on principle, on one's own, on target, on duty, on purpose, and finally, on condition that, okay, let's take them one by one.
First, on the off chance, well, when we use this expression, we're not quite certain that somebody might be able to help us and we're not quite certain that they'll have what we want.
So we say on the off chance, so for example, you go into a shop, you're searching for perhaps a particular notebook.
You haven't seen it anywhere in the city, but you see this little stationery shop at the end of the street.
So you run in and you say to the shopkeeper, on the off chance, would you happen to have this type of notebook?
And the guy says, yeah, hold on, I think I've got one in stock.
And off he goes and brings it out and you say, ah, wonderful, excellent.