hi welcome back to in vidcom my name is Rebecca and in this lesson I'm going to
show you the difference between two commonly confused words which are during
and while okay now both of these words are used to refer to activities that are
happening while something else is happening or happened and that's why
it's easy to get them mixed up but actually when we use them grammatically
they're quite different so let me show you what that difference is so from the
point of view of grammar first of all for those of you who care about grammar
during is a preposition and the word while is a conjunction okay all right
now let's see what that means in effect when we use the word in a sentence so we
would say for example some people were talking during the movie so we are using
during plus and now okay that's the key after during we use a
noun after while we need to use there are two possibilities subject and verb
or we use while plus a gerund what is a gerund a gerund is a verb in the ing
form such as running talking teaching okay so during plus a noun
while plus the subject and verb or while plus a gerund alright let's go step by
step so some people were talking during the movie right movie is a noun or if we
wanted to express the same thing using wild we would say some people were
talking while we were watching the movie okay
the wild part of the sentence can go at the beginning or it can go in the middle
that's okay so we could also say while we were
watching the movie comma some people were
period okay but here you saw while + subject + verb now because while suggest
something is continuing very often we will see here a continuous form of the
verb okay a continuous tense present continuous past continuous and so on
okay alright but you could also shorten it a little bit and you could say while
plus the gerund for example while watching the movie comma some people
were talking or some people were talking while watching the movie here this verb
watching becomes a gerund okay now let's look at some more examples the best way
to understand something is not just from the theory but from the practice the
practice examples and then your own examples okay let's look at another one
so we stayed indoors during the snowstorm the snowstorm is a now right
so we could also say during the snowstorm comma we stayed indoors
indoors means inside or while it was snowing comma we stayed indoors okay so
here we have while plus the subject plus the verb alright
are you getting it I'm sure you are okay the next one during plus a noun again he
felt quite confident during the interview okay again during plus and now
or we could say he felt quite confident while he was being interviewed or while
he was being interviewed he felt quite confident okay or if we want to go with
while plus the gerund we would just say while being interviewed , he felt quite
confident okay alright so that's the main thing during plus them now okay and
while + subject + verb or while plus a gerund
so let's see how well you've understood that by trying out some examples alright
I'll be back ok so let's try some examples number one I met Susan blank
learning French so what are your choices during or while we're going to say
during + what during plus a noun and while + subject + verb or while plus a
gerund so what do we have here I met Susan blank learning French so learning
is a gerund good I heard you so let's write while okay while learning French
okay let's go to the next one number two he read a lot blank the summer okay he
read a lot during the summer or he read a lot while the summer what do you think
okay the summer is what it's a noun so we need to say during the summer good
number three please don't interrupt blank I am speaking please don't
interrupt blank I am speaking while I am speaking or during I am speaking what do
we need is it a noun no it's a subject it's a verb right so we need to say
while okay in the beginning you need to think about it a little bit but
afterwards it'll become much more automatic okay and the way to do that is
by practicing practicing it with your own sentences practicing with my
sentences and also practicing with our quiz on Ingrid and so on okay I'll tell
you where to go for that okay number four blank the lecture some people left
so what do we need I think it's getting easier for you now right so here we have
a noun so we need to say good during the lecture okay nice number five he hurt
himself blank skiing he hurt himself blank skiing so skiing is a gerund so we
need to say while he hurt himself while ski number six she kept texting blank
the meeting she kept texting blank the meeting what do we need there what is
this the meeting it's a noun so we need to say during the meeting okay good
you've got it and the last one switch off your cell phones blank the fuck the
plane is taking off okay you often hear this announcement when you're flying
okay they before the plane takes off they make this announcement ladies and
gentlemen please switch off your cell phones blank the plane is taking off
okay so here we have to say what Wow and why did we choose well because after
that we have a subject and we have a verb okay
so are you getting the hang of it can you feel the rhythm because after some
time you basically know what's right and wrong
not by analyzing it in your head as preposition conjunction subject and verb
but just like in your own language just from the rhythm of it okay and
eventually you'll have the right rhythm so in order to get that rhythm read
these sentences aloud go back listen to the watch it again listen to my examples
read the examples aloud write your own sentences about what's happening right
now where you are so you could say while I'm watching this video my brother is
watching TV okay you could so you could say that
or something like that or during this lecture during this lesson my brother is
watching TV okay or something like that all right or during this lesson I'm
taking notes during this lesson it's raining outside okay all kinds of
examples alright so by using these examples and your own examples you will
master this and you won't make this mistake anymore okay
sometimes it's the big things we want to fix but the way to get better at the
bigger things is by improving all the smaller things along the way so what is
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