Meanings of happen

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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm what in the world happened

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let's talk about it are you ready to

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take your english from regular boring

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english to fun a party english

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okay maybe not party english but at

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least real natural english well there is

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one advanced word that i'd like to share

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with you it's the word happen today

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we're going to be talking about a basic

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way to use happen and then an advanced

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way to use happen so i hope that you'll

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be able to integrate it into your

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vocabulary and sound like a natural

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native speaker let's start with the

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basic version of happen it's simply

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something that occurred if your coworker

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walks into the office covered in mud you

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might say what happened this is a casual

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conversational way to say what occurred

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occurred is way too formal for daily

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conversation so the word happen is

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perfect your coworker might say it it

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all happened so fast i tripped on the

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sidewalk i don't remember all of the

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details I don't remember exactly what

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happened let's take a look at three

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specific situations when we often use

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the word happen