LarkVeil Dixon Phrases EP.43｜實用情境｜第 43 集

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Once in a while marks low frequency. It can appear at the beginning or end of a clause, and it is less regular than every week or every month.

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All at once can mean suddenly or simultaneously. Here it presents the windows' movement as one sudden event.

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Use come from to identify a source or cause. Match come to the subject and tense: courage came, but interest comes.

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For alarms, go off means begin making a warning sound. The past form is went off; a modal keeps the base form, as in may go off.

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Make over means redesign or transform something substantially. The object follows over, and into can introduce the new use or form.

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Let someone or something alone means do not touch, change, or disturb them. Let stays let in both the present and the past.

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Let on can stand alone when the secret is understood: he never let on. To state the information, follow it with a that-clause: do not let on that we prepared a card.