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You and I, you and me – afterwards,
after all – who, whom, whose
I wanted to ask you a couple of questions.
What’s the difference between, ” After all ” and ” afterwards” ‘ For
example: “We are not good chefs, but after all, the food wasn’t that bad.”
“We had to study last night, but afterwards we went out for a few beers.”
‘Afterwards’ is a time expression. It refers to time.
‘After all’ is more than a time expression:
“I thought I was lost, but I was going the right way after all.”
“Let me help you. After all, you always help me.” (por lo menos)
“After all is said and done.” – al fin y al cabo, a fin de cuentas
“After all the trouble she’s caused me, I still love Berta.” (despues de
todo)
“We had lunch. Afterwards, John went home.”
¡OJO! It’s not correct to say, X”We had lunch. After, John went home.“X
– You should say, “We had lunch. After that, John went home.”
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Adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns
NOUN – Reza drank his coffee (‘coffee’ is a noun)
VERB – Reza drank his coffee (‘drank’ is the verb)
ADVERB – Reza drank his coffee slowly (‘slowly’ is the adverb – slowly,
quickly, noisily, beautifully etc)
ADJECTIVE – Reza drank his hot coffee slowly (‘hot’ is the adjective. An
adjective describes the noun – strong, weak, expensive coffee etc)
sly – astuto, taimado/a (a sly fox)
David used the example HELP – verb and noun. What’s the adjective?
‘helpful’ / ‘unhelpful’ / ‘helpless’ – and the adverb? ‘helpfully’
Study them in a table:
NOUN | VERB | ADJECTIVE | ADVERB
economy | economize | economical/economic | economically
analysis | analyse | analytical | analytically
apology | apologise | apologetic | apologetically
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Gym Vocabulary
to workout – to go for a good workout
to get fit / to be fit
to get/keep in shape
to have a spare tyre – michelines, flotadores / double chin – una papada
chin – barbilla
to lift (do) weights (to pump iron) – to do yoga, aerobics, step, judo,
to do push-ups/press-ups, to do chin-ups/pull-ups, to do sit-ups
to do reps (repetitions – repeticiones)
to build muscles – to get a six pack – tableta de chocolate
to stretch – estirarse
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