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Your parcel has been delivered, but it is notoutside your door.
A short message tells you where to look. Can yousolve the case?
Welcome to English Detective from YOUR EnglishToolbox.
I am Julia. And I am Martin.
Today we are looking for a parcel.
Listen once, make a choice, then check thelanguage clues with us.
Here is the message.
We could not leave your parcel by the front doorbecause of the rain.
We left it with your neighbor at number 18.
Please pick it up before 8 this evening.
Where is the parcel?
By your front door? At your neighbor's home? Or athis delivery office?
And what is the latest collection time mentioned?
I heard front door first. I almost stoppedlistening there.
That is the trap our attention can fall into.
The message says, could not leave it there. Thefirst location is rejected.
The next sentence gives the actual location.
Our first useful expression is leave somethingwith someone.
It means to put something in a person's care.
We left it with your neighbor.
The neighbor is looking after it until you collectit.
Compare that with leave something by something.
By the front door means beside or near the door.
With your neighbor means in that person's care.
Exactly. For another situation, you can leave yourkey with the receptionist.
The receptionist keeps it for you.
That does not mean placing it beside the receptiondesk and walking away.
Our second expression is pick something up.
Here, pick up means collect.
Please pick up your parcel. Please pick it up.
When we use a pronoun such as it, it goes betweenpick and up.
Not pick up it. Pick it up.
You can also pick someone up from a station,meaning go and collect them.
Our third clue is before 8.
Before gives a time boundary. Arrive earlier than8, not at 8.30.
So the answer is the parcel is with my neighbor atnumber 18.
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I should collect it before 8 this evening.
Let us hear the important part again.
We left it with your neighbor at number 18.
Please pick it up before 8 this evening.
Now I hear the person, the address, and the timelimit.
Three details that tell me what to do.
Here is a new case.
Listen carefully. Your repaired laptop is ready.
We have left it with the receptionist, not in therepair room.
Please pick it up before 6 today.
Where should you go and when?
To the receptionist before 6.
The repair room is mentioned, but the word notrules it out.
Always listen to the whole message, not just thefirst familiar place.
Now complete a sentence you might really use.
Could you pick up?
Could you pick up the shopping?
Could you pick me up after work?
The situation changes, but the useful phrasestays.
Leave it with someone. Put it in their care.
Pick it up. Collect it.
Before a time earlier than that time.
Follow the link in the description to our episodepage at yourenglishtoolbox.com.
You can read the message while listening in cinemamode.
Case closed. See you next time.