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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adverb Phrase 16. The adverb phrase today is in

  • due course. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If we say that something will

  • happen or be done in due course , we mean that it will be done at the appropriate

  • time or when the time is right. When the time is most suitable. It will happen in

  • due course. Okay. It's good to kind of look at this, the word course. So kind of

  • get an idea of where the origin comes from. So this course has many meanings.

  • And in this case, we mean this, this meaning of course. The way things develop

  • over a period of time. So in due course. In the way that things develop over the,

  • over time but you mean really in the right way. Okay. So let's take a look at...

  • we have three examples here. People are not ready to hear the truth. All will be

  • revealed in due course. Yeah. So maybe it's something that might be a scandal

  • or shocking. It might be too shocking for the public to be able to absorb right

  • now. But maybe if you prepare them. If you do things to prepare them, maybe they

  • maybe the time will be better than or the time will be right then. So all will

  • be revealed in due course. So they will reveal this shocking news maybe at a

  • later time when people are more prepared to accept it. All right. Let's look at

  • number two here. Don't worry we will make time and get around to that project. It

  • will all be done in due course . Yeah. This is especially if somebody's pressuring

  • somebody to do it and maybe they're busy with many things but they're, they're

  • telling you know don't worry. We'll get to it. You know we'll get to it at the

  • right time. At the suitable time. That's when we'll do it. All right and the last

  • one here. They won't wait for just the right moment. You know, just the right

  • time. The most suitable time to attack. It will all happen in

  • do course. Okay. So this is exactly how you use it.

  • Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adverb Phrase 16. The adverb phrase today is in

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