Lesson 270--Speak Up versus Speak Out

speak up = speak louder

examples

The teacher asked the student to speak up.

She spoke up when it was clear no one could hear her.

speak out = criticize someone or something, take an opposite position to something

 

examples

Kelly spoke out against the new government policy.

When they found out the truth, all the students spoke out against the teacher.

Matthew spoke out against the multinational company's exploitation of the workers.

Lesson 247--order of prepositions

 

Prepositions are used for many things.  In today's lesson we look at prepositions of time and place and their order.

We went to the park. (place)

We went in the afternoon. (time)

When we put them together, we put place before time.

We went to the park in the afternoon. (correct)

We went in the afternoon to the park. (incorrect)

However we can rearrange the sentence to put the time at beginning of the sentence.

In the afternoon, we went to the park.

more examples. (All the sentences are correct)

I drove to work on Monday.  However, I took the bus to work on Tuesday.

On Monday, I drove to work.  On Tuesday, however, I took the bus to work.

On Monday I drove to work.  However, on Tuesday, I took the bus to work.