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Speaker 1: You don't need to wait around anymore. I know that

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you were waiting on me to help you figure out

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if you should use wait four or wait two or

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wait up and so on. Let's check it out.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode eight oh four

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six ways to wait. Wait is an interesting verb because

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it can be used alone or with a variety of prepositions,

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with each combination having its own unique usage. Let's start

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off with wait around. When you wait around, you are

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actually just staying in one place while waiting for something

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to happen or force someone to do something. I remember

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once in college we were waiting around for the professor

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to come, and after like half an hour, someone from

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the office came and said that the professor couldn't make it.

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That day, we were waiting around when the internet went down.

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I had to wait around for more than an hour

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until the phone company fixed the issue. Next, let's talk

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about working at a restaurant. These days, we use the

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word server but originally the term for the person who

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took your order was a waitress or waiter. Do you

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know why? It's like when we say teach, teacher, sing singer,

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and dance dancer wait waiter. The verb weight means to

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serve food and drinks at a restaurant. If you have

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that kind of job, you can say that you wait tables.

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Wait tables means to serve food and drinks. You'll notice

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that I didn't use a preposition there, Like Jenny waits

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tables at the steakhouse downtown. She waits tables. We could

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also say that she waits on customers wait on. When

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you wait on customers, you serve the customers at the restaurant.

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And we also use weight on when you can't proceed

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with something because someone else needs to do something thing first,

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Like in the office, we were waiting on the boss

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to approve the meeting schedule before we could send it out.

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That happens a lot in an office, doesn't it You

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need to wait on someone to do something before you

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can do what you need to do. Maybe you were

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waiting on me to teach this lesson before you could

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understand how to use this language. Wait four is probably

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the first collocation you learned with wait, wasn't it. Wait

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four tells us that you have some free time, or

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even some time to kill before something else happens. You

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can wait for the train, wait for your turn online

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at the bank, and wait for the concert to start.

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So you might be wondering what's the difference be between

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wait for and wait on. Well, when you wait on someone,

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you can't do anything until they do something. Wait four

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just shows us that you have some free time before

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something happens or before someone comes. You can also wait

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to do something like I'm waiting to talk to the boss.

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He's been busy all day, but I need to talk

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to him. On election day, we are all waiting to

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see which party gets elected. Wait to do something? Aren't

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you glad that you don't need to wait to learn

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how to use weight? Like this? The last phrase for

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today is to wait up. Wait up means to delay

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going to sleep because you are waiting for another person

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to come home. Like if your partner has to work

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late and they don't want you to delay going to sleep,

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they will probably say something like, Hey, don't wait up

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for me. I've got a late meeting tonight. Don't wait

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up for me? Has anyone waited up for you recently?

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