OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR-121 sau đây là giáo trình lý thuyết tiếng anh và bài tập áp dụng từ cơ bản đến nâng cao , nhằm giúp các bạn có thể tự mình ôn tập và củng cố thêm về nền tảng kiến thức môn Anh văn , tự tin đạt kết quả tốt trong kỳ thi ngoại ngữ | OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR 121 DURING OR WHILE BY OR UNTIL AS OR LIKE A During or while Compare these examples. 1 often read during a meal. I often read while I m eating. It happened during the night. It happened while they were asleep. You ll have to be quiet during the performance. Were there any phone calls while I was out During is a preposition like in . It comes before a While is a linking word like when . It comes phrase like a meal or the night. before a clause . I m eating. B By or until Compare these examples. I m very busy this week. I have to finish this I ll be busy for most of this week. I won t have report by Thursday. any time until Friday. Trevor will be home by halfpast six. He ll be at work until halfpast five. They hope to build the new bridge by next July. We won t have another holiday until next The post should be here by now. summer. Till is more informal than until. slept till ten o clock. We can use by the time or until before a clause . we arrived. There was no food left by the time we arrived. I ll wait until you re ready. NOT by we-arrived See Unit 27B for the present simple after until etc. C As like and as if Compare these examples. She works as a fashion model. She dresses like a fashion model. She is a model. Her clothes are similar to a model s. As a beginner you simply have to learn the Mark is a good golfer but today he played like a basics. beginner. I m using this tin as an ashtray. You look like your brother. We use as to talk about a job or function. We use like to talk about things being similar. We can also use as or like before a clause. We drive on the left here as like you do in Britain. Mike and Sarah are going to Paris for the weekend as like they did last year. Like is more informal than as before a clause. We also use as with verbs of speaking and knowing . say know expect. As I said before I m sorry. I m sorry and I said so before. I haven t much money as you know. I haven t much money and you know it. Rachel .
