Using ‘off’ as a preposition - Learners' Questions

[@bbclearningenglish]

'At', 'on' and 'in' are all prepositions of place. Sam explains how to use them in this English In A Minute free English class: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZzQfHRor6yhbM0

[@EzraLua]

The title of this video says "proposition" instead "preposition" 😅 Thank you BBC

[@ineedenglishspeaker9620]

@@EzraLua I noticed the same.

[@bbclearningenglish]

@@EzraLua Thank you for pointing that out. Our finger must have slipped! We've corrected it now.

[@Sasa-fw3bb]

Hello dear teacher. 🤗 Really good to see you. Seems you r working at BBC. So proud of you! One of ur old student from Edgware Academy

[@eriolyaotzin]

Excellent explanation. I love this video. Greetings from México

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[@sumitgautam2734]

Very good informatiom

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Thank you so much..that's really useful👍

[@FcoAngelPD]

The way you move ur shoulders is certainly wooing

[@duchet8174]

Thanh you so much. You're funny. Just one small thing : Please do not point your finger toward me. Young european people do it but it isn't friendly.

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[@amandaguo2712]

This is very useful, thank you, Dan!

[@nadeeperera8936]

Great job sir😘😍🙏

[@ineedenglishspeaker9620]

Look at the title of your video. You wrote prOposition in headline. Is it correct?

[@ThiagoSorrisodimenor]

When the DJ changed de music I went off the party.

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[@Laacibtv2024]

Much appreciated!

[@MickyHuang]

Thank you! I love it:)

[@rukhsanasaleh9668]

Hi. Could you please guide me is it correct sentence. I take off from work?

[@bbclearningenglish]

Almost! You can say 'I take time off from work' or 'I'm off work' 😊

[@sendatamie8574]

Wonderful video . Look forward to your next class. Thank you !

[@olifabu]

Thanks Dan !!! I have appreciated how you answer our questions. It is really helpful and if possible you can explain to me, and other colleagues, several ways of using preposition 'out'.

[@moulmour]

Yes i did enjoy it! thanks lot teacher.

[@Bluemoon_561]

Thank you so much from your best English learning.

[@javierfast5780]

this video was so fantastic

[@najatarabia741]

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[@mskblumenau]

Thanks

[@virchaudhari4691]

Thank you so much this helped me alot

[@HebaMohamed-co1tk]

Great thank you

[@matlindell5022]

You always work your ass off to make interesting videos ,and most of the time they catch me totally off guard!

[@nawarnawar5822]

Hi Dan. Off is a confusing word in the English language because it can be used as an adjective, perposition, adverb, and verb. It has so many meanings some of which are slang. I sometimes don't know what to write ' of' or ' off' especially while using phresal verbs.

[@villagevlog6634]

Polish of food??

[@priyamitran8195]

The video caption has a typo - 'proposition' instead of 'preposition'.

[@bbclearningenglish]

Hi! Yes, we noticed that too. Thanks for saying - it's now been corrected.

[@troshiniv]

Are you again kicked out of the office? Are you giving illegal lessons from the corridor?

[@abuhuraira3685]

USE OF PREPOSITIONS AT some point you have TO realize that some people can stay IN heart but not IN your life The better you feel ABOUT yourself The less you need TO show OFF I made a huge TO do list today I just can't figure OUT who's going TO do it

[@Riveringot]

😀😀😀😀😀

[@TheGudsProduction]

I got on the train and I took off my jacket because the ambience was a bit hot. My house is just off the badminton court. He was off colour yesterday so he was off lecture. He was off balance when he was about to take the course. My mum was off duty because my little sister got headache so she had to look after her. On the off chance your bus arrives early, I will come to the terminal early too to meet you. I put off my intake at uni since I hadn't much money back then. He was starving, so he polished off food. I just knocked off writing the examples.

[@mdwaliullah3106]

I love this channel and the way they teach.

[@aymaco]

proposition/ preposition? I think the title has an incorrect misspelling.

[@Riveringot]

😀😀😀😀😀

[@ssdd6779]

🤔🤔🤔😆

[@bbclearningenglish]

Thanks! That's been corrected!

[@Kat-lz2lf]

thank you, really useful and adorableeee

[@saibaba1334]

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[@EngLhag]

That I would say it's a C1-C2 level. Great vid

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[@brigittesaint-pe2604]

Hello Dan Could you explain something please? At the end of this video, you said that the phrasal verb Kick off meant to finish. That confuses me because I have learned that we can use kick off to start a work, a meeting, a ball game etc....in a nutshell, the strict opposite 🙃

[@TheGudsProduction]

It's knock off not kick off.

[@brigittesaint-pe2604]

@@TheGudsProduction oh sorry for my lack of attention. Thanks for your response.

[@TheGudsProduction]

@@brigittesaint-pe2604 you're welcome mate. Greeting from Indonesia.

[@shanusha4778]

Hey dan ,you should take two days off for enjoying with your betterhalf 👋

[@bbclearningenglish]

That's good advice!

[@KiranKumarManchala]

Mistake in the title. It's preposition. Not proposition.

[@mostafahisham2926]

All your videos are enjoyable and informative ,why don't you make after each video another shorter one to correct the the glaring mistakes of the comments,it will be useful for all of us and will encourage every one to comment.

[@bbclearningenglish]

It's a nice idea. We do try and reply in the comments section - usually to answer any follow-up questions that people have, but also to try and help people with their English. We fear that if we started a video to correct mistakes, it might start an endless cycle of videos as we correct the mistakes in the comments of the mistake correction videos... 🤣

[@mostafahisham2926]

I understand your point, you realy do great effort to help us improving our Englisch, but my suggesion is not to correct every mistake, not the easy mistakes of the beginners, and sometimes we read the comments before your correction and then we move to another video. so it will be great If there is video which we can track to learn from the common mistakes. You can control the number of videos, you can make it weekly and choose the best sentences to correct, I imagine it will be great motivation .. Regards for all of you ,regards for Dan my favorite teacher👌

[@hussainnoor7706]

grt

[@naveennayan633]

Hi, I have a doubt regarding uses of "off"!..somewhere while reading I came across a sentence that was " A person falls off elephant"; but, somewhere else, I saw another sentence that read " the plane took off from the runway at 5 o clock in the evening"..why?..can someone clarify it to me?

[@khaledxerox]

why off mean on in this example "The ​alarm should go off ​automatically as soon as ​smoke is ​detected" ?

[@bbclearningenglish]

'Go off' can mean 'activate'.

[@najatarabia741]

I have a question, what is meant by you better had?

[@mtmtmtmt]

Does "on the off chance that" mean "just in case"? Thanks.

[@bbclearningenglish]

Yes, they are basically the same thing.

[@alizakaria4718]

What does "off to school" mean?

[@bbclearningenglish]

'I'm off to school' means 'I'm leaving to go to school'.

[@najatarabia741]

I've cooked a meal for three people just on the off chance that Louis comes

[@mtmtmtmt]

So "on the off chance that" means "just in case"? Thanks.

[@HamzaAli-vd6gu]

Why you don't explain (of)? I've told you many times.