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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 355. The title of today's lesson

  • is don't say later when you should be saying from now. Okay. Yeah. This is a ... you

  • know, especially with ESL students. English as a second language. They may be

  • using later when they're talking about something in the future from the present

  • time. You should not be using later at that time. You should be using from now.

  • Okay. Let's look at the note. You should use later in regard to something that

  • happened after another action or fact has already passed. Okay. If you want to

  • talk about something that is expected to happen or may happen, you should use from

  • now. That's actually the most common one, but you might be able to choose a few

  • others. You know, in the future or into the future or from our present time etc.

  • It our all depends upon what you're talking about which one might be

  • suitable, but from now is probably the most common one. All right. Good. So let's

  • take a look at some examples where students might make a mistake. Of course,

  • with the X this is wrong. So here the student says I think there

  • will be flying cars 100 years later. Okay. This is wrong because he's really talking

  • about from this time into the future 100 years. So the correct way to say it would

  • be I think there will be flying cars 100 years from now. That's the most common

  • one or you could say you know, in the future or into the future or from our

  • present time. There might even be several other ways you could say it. But you

  • should not be saying later. Okay. Let's look at number 2 here again. With the X

  • this is wrong. She graduated two years later or she

  • will graduate two years. Even here you're using will. So it's proving that you you're

  • talking about the future. She will graduate two years later. No. She will

  • graduate two years from now. Again from now is the most common one. Okay. So that

  • means that she didn't actually graduate yet.

  • Two years into the future she will graduate. All right. And here's a couple of

  • examples where later is used correctly. After getting married she had a child

  • two years later. So both of these are in the past. You know, who knows maybe she

  • got married ten years ago and eight years ago she had the child. So they are both

  • in the past. They're not in the future. So okay, let's look at the second one. He started

  • that job in 2010 and got a promotion two years later. So again both or in the past.

  • So the first action happened in 2010. He got the job then two years later. Two

  • years after that he got a promotion. So that's the way you would use later. Okay.

  • Anyway, I hope it's clear. I hope you got it. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your

  • time. Bye-bye.

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