Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 536

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  Hi there,

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  this is Harry and welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry where I try to help you to get a good understanding of the English language.

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  In the lesson today we're going to look at collocations, advanced collocations,

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  particularly those relating to two words miss and lose and I'll explain them to you in a little bit more detail.

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  OK, let's get back to the lesson.

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  Now, there are two different words, two verbs in English to miss, to lose.

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  But in some languages, they're the same or very, very similar.

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  So it's easy to get them confused.

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  And I often get people in lessons telling me I lost the bus.

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  And of course, you can't lose the bus.

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  unless it fell out of your pocket of your trousers.

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  And of course, unless you have very big trousers, you wouldn't be able to fit a bus in those.

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  So you can't lose a bus.

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  You can miss the bus, but you can't lose it.

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  So that's what we're talking about in these particular collocations.

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  So as I said, they're both verbs, okay, to miss something and to lose.

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  Usually we use miss when we're talking about transport, as I mentioned, to miss the bus.

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  Missed the train.

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  But you can also use it when you're talking about appointments.

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  You missed the dentist's appointment because you got up late.

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