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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 385. The title of today's lesson is "Don't use
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go ahead when you should be using get ahead. " All right. Now I recently did a
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verb phrases (videos) on both go ahead and get ahead and they have a lot of different
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meanings but they do have a few meanings where they are kind of similar and this is why
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maybe students could get confused between these two. So today we're only
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going to concentrate on where students would make a mistake. It would be a
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common mistake for an ESL student. So let's , let's look at the note here. In
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regard to one's job or career use "get ahead" not "go ahead. " So that's where
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the most common mistake may happen. All right. So again, let's look at the first one
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with the X. Of course that's wrong. You cannot go ahead in the company without
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being fluent in in English. Yes. So of course, the correct way would be with the
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check. You cannot get ahead in the company without being fluent in English.
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So get ahead would be here. So again this is in your career or this is in your job.
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So this is where the students might make the mistake. Number two here. It is
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difficult to go ahead in that political party if you do not toe the line.
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I remember in politics , if you belong to a political party and toe the line. That
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means you always vote with the party. So if there's a particular issue that you know
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sometimes you do have it where you might have one politician in a political party
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he doesn't want to vote the same way as the party on this particular issue. Maybe
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it's something to do with his district or area or maybe it's just his personal
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beliefs. He don't ....he doesn't want to do that. So they pressure him to toe
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the line. But if you refuse to do it sometimes they could hurt your career in
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the party , especially if you do it more than once.
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Okay. So again of course, with the correct way would be with check. It is difficult
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to get ahead in that political party if you do not toe the line. That's ... you know,
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you vote with them. You know, most of the time.
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All right. Number three here. Without a big break in Hollywood, it is difficult to go
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ahead in your career. No again , with the check . We should be using "get ahead. "
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So without a big break in Hollywood, it is difficult to get ahead in your career. It is
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difficult to advance in your career. So here get ahead means advance, move
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forward , you know, in your job or your career. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was
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clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.