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The lecture is about Even though , Even if and Even When.
Wellcome back to engvid.com . I am Adam and todays lession comes from a very common question
i get from students. Students sometimes asks me , like they ask me about a question about
grammer or about whatever , sometimes i say you know what i am not sure , i will tell you
tommorow or next day etcetera and than they say to me . . . you are a teacher , you should
know - and i say to them you know even teachers sometimes need to learn and to continuously
grow and find out new things for his students. and of course the next question is "what is
Even" and i say ok - well there is our next lesson. right? so todays word "Even". Many
student understand - like they hear it all the time - but they don't really understand how
its being used. So today i am gonna give you some examples because i have the best way to
understand this word. Most of you have seen it as "Even though" "Even if" or "Even when" -
there are other uses that we are gonna look at in a minute but first as go over this , but
first , what is . . . what is the word even suggest. okay when you use the word "Even" you
are talking about something that is very surpricing . . . its against expectation . what is
expectation? when you think something will happen but something else happen . for example if
i win a million dollars you will . . would expect that i will buy a big house so that i will
go on vacation or than i will stop working okay? so what we wanna see that sometimes what
you think will happen is excatly the opposite or different from what actually happens and
hense that one we use the word even. lets look at the first example. Even though i was late
my boss wasn't angry. now you would think , you are late , your boss is angry ! but i am
stressing that what should have been the case . . he should have been angry and she should
have been angry but wasn't . Even though i was late - so its a very surpricing situation. if
i used only though . . thoug i was late my boss wasn't agnry. This just shows a regular
contrast. okay? Late should equal angry. it wasn't. this shows surprise because usually my
boss gets angry when i am late. not that i am late often - but when i am late my boss gets
really angry. but today, no , today my boss was calm , nothing going on . He must have had a
good weekend.I don't know. Now , "if" : if i win the lotarry , i won't have enogh money to
buy a house. That doesnot make sense. If you win the lottery, you have a lot of money so
that why i'm using "if" . and when i use "if" i am also adding the negative, the opposit of
what is expected. "Even if i win the lottery , i won't have enough money to buy a house."
okay? it depends how much the lotter is. I think loto 649 , that's the lottery in Ontario ,
I think it's three milliion right now. In Toronto that'll buy you a little house , maybe. So
: "Even if i win " , Now : "Even when" . "if" is a hypothetical; may be it will happen, may
be it won't happen. probably not. "when" we use for more realistic ideas, when something
happens. "even when he presented the evidence," - when he showed proof that something
happened - , "no one believed him". Now , you think evidence , if somebody sees evidence,
they believe what you're saying. but even when he presented the evidence, they didn't
believe him. very strange. I can . . . I put the word here "after" : "Even after he showed
the evidence. . ." if you want to talk about time lapse, this is "when shows" at that time,
"after" means later, but both work the same way in this sentece. okay? so again: "even" means surprising or against expectations , but we are not limited to these three expressions. Let's look at some more. Okay. now another thing to remember about this word : "even" is that it sometimes gives you extra information . just by using this word you should be able to understand something else. Okay? so let's look at these examples.
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