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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is prepositional phrase 10. The
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prepositional phrase today is at a loss for words. Okay. Let's take a look at the
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note. If someone is at a loss for words, he or she does not know what to say or
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how to respond to a particular situation. One is basically speechless. Okay. Let's
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continue. It is easy to see how this phrase was formed. If one is lost for
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something, it means they don't have it or cannot find it. So in the same sense, you
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can't find the words because there's something about the situation that has
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kind of made your mind blank. It has shocked you or it made you over
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emotional or something like that and you just you just can't find any words. Your
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brain can't come up with some words. So you , you will often say that you're at a
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loss for words. Let's continue. You can also use the phrase "words fail me " in
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similar situations. Okay . Let's continue. All right. Let's look. We have got four
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examples here. Let's look at the different examples. Here's the first one.
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I cannot believe what he said. it was... I was too shocked. I was at a loss for
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words. So of course, in this case you are shocked. And you're so shocked by
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what this person said that you just didn't know how to respond. So you could
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say you are at a loss for words in this situation. All right. Number two here. I was
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at a loss for words to see the amount of people who donated money to help me out
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of my difficult situation. So this is actually a good reason. Sometimes you know,
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something that touched your heart so much or touched you emotionally and for
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that reason maybe you can't think and you could be at a loss for words in that
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sort of situation too. Let's look at number three here. When he
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showed up for the interview wearing just his underwear, I was at a loss for
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words. Yes here's another one where you were just completely shocked. You just,
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don't know what to say. It was too shocking and too
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unexpected a sort of a situation. All right. Number four here. The topic was just too
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stupid and boring I couldn't think of any interesting questions to ask. Maybe
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that was your job you were supposed to ask some interesting questions and
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there's just nothing about the topic that was interesting at all. So I was at
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a loss for words. it just means you know, you just didn't have anything in
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your head. You couldn't figure it out. In this sense you can also say I was at
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a loss for words. Or again in all these situations you probably could have said
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words failed me too. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your
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time. Bye-bye.