Name: 學習英語。 "怎麼會這樣？" (Learn English: "How come?")
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Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video I am going to teach you a very important expression

It's a very popular expression you may see in movies, on TV, or in conversation with

But it's a very good one to know because we do use it a lot.

Okay, well, first I have a question for you.

"Why did you miss your plane?" and "How come you missed your plane?"

What is the difference in meaning between these two sentences?

The difference in meaning is actually they mean the same thing.

"How come?" is another way to say "Why?".

So if you're writing, you're going to use "Why?", but if you're speaking you can use

"How come?" is informal, it's an informal way to say "Why?"

And so, by informal, I mean you use it with your friends, with, you know, people you're

talking to on the street, but you wouldn't use it in an essay. Okay?

what we're asking about is... we want to know why something happened or the reasons why

So, for example: "How come you missed your plane?"

You know, a reason might be: "Oh, I was late getting to the airport" or "I slept in." Okay?

So these would be the answers to a question like: "How come?"

So, a lot of the time, teachers will ask this question.

That means the teacher wants to know why you were late for class.

So now let's look at the grammar of "How come?" and how we can use it in a sentence.

Okay, so again, "How come?" is an informal way to say: "Why?"

Now let's look at the grammar of "How come?" and how we make a sentence with "How come?"

So, I have here: "How come", which is at the beginning, and then we have plus the subject.

It can be: "I", "you", "he", "she", "they", "we", or it can also be a thing, a place,

or a person, but it's the doer of a sentence.

So, for example: "play", "take", "listen", "sing", "eat", these are all verbs.

And then finally we have an object, which comes after the verb in regular English sentences

and usually those can be people, they can be places, they can be things, so these are

If this is confusing, let's look at some examples, maybe that will help.

So, for example: "How come you"-is the subject-"take"-is the verb, and the object is-"the bus"?

This means the same thing as: "Why do you take the bus?"

So, here I actually have this written: "Why do you take the bus?"

And you'll actually notice "How come" is easier in terms of grammar than "Why".

If you look here: "Why do you take the bus?" you have this word, here: "do".

In other sentences we say: "Why does he" or "Why didn't he", but there's always something

like: "do", "does", "did", "didn't" here with "Why".

And a lot of students forget to put this here.

A lot of students will say: "Why you take the bus?"

Now, the nice thing about "How come" is you don't need this.

If you look at "How come", if you can make an English sentence: "you take the bus", you

can change this into "Why" just by adding "How come".

So, the structure of this is just like a regular English sentence.

We have the subject, the verb, and the object, and then we just add "How come" at the front

So let's look at another example: "How come Toronto isn't the capital of Canada?"

So, again, we have: "How come", we have "Toronto" which is the subject, we have "isn't" which

is the verb, and we have "the capital", which is the object.

So, if you want to make a regular sentence, I would just say: "Toronto isn't the capital",

we can just add "How come" to this, and then it becomes a question, meaning: "Why isn't

So here we have "How come" at the beginning, "John" which is the subject, and "didn't come",

because it's negative form we have "didn't" here, so this is the past, past tense.

Not all sentences in English need objects.

The main thing is that you have a subject and a verb.

Okay, so that might be a little confusing for you.

Point here is: "How come" is easier than "Why" because all you need to do is make a basic

sentence, and you add "How come" to the front of it. Okay?

One last thing I wanted to say about "How come", you can also use "How come?" just on

Here I showed you how to make "How come", you know, combined with a sentence.

You can also just use it, like, you know: "How come" and a question mark.

So, for example, imagine we're having a conversation and I say to you: "Oh, John didn't come today."

You might be wondering: "Oh, why didn't John come?"

So you can just say to me: "How come?" which means: "Why didn't John come?"

Okay? Or, you know: -"English is a great language."

So it's a very easy thing to use, and I really, really recommend you start using this in your

English because it will make you sound more like a native speaker, and it will improve

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