IN or ON? Learn to use these 8 professional English verbs correctly

in this lesson you're going to get three lessons because today we're going to cover grammar vocabulary and pronunciation all right so today basically what we're going to look at first is which verbs go with which prepositions this is always fun i know i know how much you love that so that's why in this lesson you're going to get to decide whether to use the preposition in or the preposition on with certain uh business verbs or general verbs all right now today we're looking at about eight of them okay but this is actually part of what we do in an online course which i've created which is called correct your english errors in 10 minutes a day we correct different types of mistakes that people make to do with grammar vocabulary pronunciation expressions and so on okay so if you're interested in that please check the link in the lesson description but for now let's get started so number one i'm going to read the sentence and in each of these sentences you have to decide whether the correct preposition is in or on okay those are the only two options all the way through and we have to choose one of them all right there is always a preposition that we need so number one let's focus blank the current project so what's the correct answer there let's focus blank the current project what do you think the correct one is on let's focus on the current project what does it mean to focus it means to pay attention to pay special attention to something to focus on that to give your attention to something all right now that's the grammar part of it that we should say focus on something the vocabulary part to focus means to pay attention to something in particular and the very important in this case pronunciation part is that this word is pronounced focus say it after me focus this word is very often mispronounced and then it can sound rather rude so be really careful how you pronounce this word okay good let's look at number two now our team participated blank the meeting our team participated blank the meeting what should it be to participate in something okay this is the correct answer to participate in something all right that's the correct grammar part of it now what does it mean to participate in a meeting or in a conference or in a presentation what does it mean to participate to take part in it to be there and to be actively involved in it or to be involved in it okay good number three he specializes blank wedding cakes so what's that which is the right preposition here he specializes in wedding cakes okay you specialize in something so what does it mean to specialize to specialize means to become kind of an expert in a particular area not on everything in general but particular area to focus on that to know a lot about that and therefore you specialize in that and you become kind of much more aware if not an expert of that area okay so this person specializes in wedding cakes all right now uh pronunciation specialized the pronunciation here participated the verb by itself participate past tense participated good all right number four it depends blank the weather so what do we need there in or on it depends on the weather all right you depend on something what does it mean it depends on that means well let's let's look at an example let's say we're going to we're organizing a picnic but is it going to happen or is it going to be cancelled i don't know it depends on the weather it depends what happens it we we base our decision on whether the weather is going to be good or not okay but in general to depend on something means to be able to count on something to be able to trust something so if we trust that the weather is good then we will have the picnic if not we may cancel the picnic all right let's pronounce the verb correctly it depends on good all right very nice number five please concentrate blank your students please concentrate blank your students so somebody told the teacher who was doing maybe wasn't doing the right things please concentrate blank your students so what should it be you concentrate on something you could also say please concentrate on your studies okay you could tell the students please concentrate on your studies all right so you concentrate what does it mean to concentrate this word is like this one okay focus to pay special attention to please focus on your studies please concentrate on your studies or on your students or whatever okay so here concentrate on say it after me concentrate on it is helpful to say the preposition after that because then your brain is hearing the right information the right combination that you need when you're using these verbs all right number six we believe blank honesty so which is it in or on we believe yes okay you believe in something we believe in honesty so what does it mean to believe in something you have trust in that you have faith in that or you follow that principle okay so and you trust that it is true that it is right that is to believe so say it after me to believe in you can believe in someone you could say to your your child i believe in you you could say to an employee i believe in you in your ability to do a good job to get this contract to do this work all right so you could believe in someone or in something next number seven she insisted blank taking a taxi so what's the answer there she insisted on okay she insisted on taking a taxi to insist on something means to say again and again no this is what i want to do i don't want to do anything else this is what we need to do okay you insist you keep saying again and again that this is what somebody needs to do or whatever it may be okay it could be she insisted on ordering a pizza okay she said again and again no i want a pizza i don't want anything else all right so we use it in many different contexts all of these words you can use them in business situations and you can use them in your regular life okay no problem good let's pronounce this one insisted let's say the whole thing to insist on something okay excellent number eight we rely blank support from the it department we reply sorry we rely blank support from the it department so which is it we rely on okay to rely on is like one of our other words here do you know which one it's this one okay so rely and depend basically mean the same thing i rely on you i'm counting on you we i'm depending on you okay that means you uh you're depending on them for support uh let's say in this case from a particular department from someone from a department from something okay so to rely on to depend on they mean exactly the same thing say it for pronunciation to rely on all right good so now you've got the grammatical part of it you've got a little bit of the meaning you've also got some pronunciation but let's make sure that you've really got the grammar part of it because that can sometimes be the most challenging is it the in or on maybe you got some of these right if you've got all of them right that's fantastic but make sure that you use them correctly because these are very commonly used words and if you're not using them now you can start using them and that will certainly upgrade your level of english okay so when we come back in a second we're going to review the prepositions with these verbs all right so now let's make sure that you have mastered the correct prepositions let's review them again it takes time to make sure that you're using the right prepositions okay so don't worry if you get it wrong even the second time just review it you will get it there's no question about it okay it's just a matter of practice so let's do that number one let's focus blank the current project what was that let's focus on the current project okay now if you wish i'm gonna i just gonna step aside you can pause the video you can fill them all in if you have a piece of paper and then you can join me or you can continue as we go along all right let's jump around a little bit to make it more interesting let's do this one please concentrate blank your students or please concentrate blank your studies please concentrate on your studies okay just so happens that the concentrate on focus on they are similar in meaning and they also use the same preposition all right let's take another one number three he specializes blank wedding cakes he specializes in wedding cakes all right very good let's take another one number seven she insisted blank taking a taxi she insisted on taking a taxi great how's it going so far you're getting them okay step by step let's try number two our team participated blank the meeting our team participated in the meeting all right very good let's job down here number six we believe blank honesty in or on we believe in honesty excellent number four it depends blank the weather it depends on the weather all right so what's left this one down here number eight we rely blank support from the i.t department we rely on right so we had set depend on rely on also count on means the same thing all right very good so as you saw when we did it a second time it doesn't mean you automatically get it you do have to work at it a little bit but hopefully you've already mastered some of them so what can you do now write your own sentences okay what have you participated in what do you need to concentrate on um what do you believe in make it relevant write some sentences about your life your work your family and then these words and the verb and the preposition will come together nicely in sentences that make sense for you all right so do that that will help a great deal and remember these are only eight but if you'd like to improve your english in lots of different ways please do check out the link to my course uh we're getting a lot of excellent feedback from our students and i'd love for you to be able to be part of that all right thanks very much for watching and you can of course subscribe to my youtube channel you can also go to invid so remember all of these things and all the very best with your english bye for now

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Length: 15min 57sec (957 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 20 2021