How To Use Happen
hi I’m Vanessa from the website speak
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tell me what happened let’s get started
today’s natural expression is the word
happen last week I had three students
say it occurred yesterday even though
occur is a great word we don’t really
use it in natural conversation very
often some students say when was it what
did you do on vacation and these
sentences are okay but native speakers
would change it a little bit so let me
give you some sample sentences with the
word happen when did it happen it
happened yesterday what happened I don’t
know did anything fun happen on vacation
yes we did a lot of fun stuff so now I
want to tell you a little story with the
word happen so that you can feel more
comfortable using this word and it will
help you remember it last week one of my
Japanese students told me an incredible
story that happened to him the week
before he said that he lost his wallet
while he was on the train and losing
your wallet is terrible but for him it
was awful because he had over a thousand
dollars in cash in his wallet so when he
realized that he lost his wallet he
tried to think about what could have
happened so he called the police station
and there was nothing he called the
train company and there was nothing so
he tried to think what could have
happened where could my wallet be where
could I have dropped it and then he
realized oh maybe I dropped it in
between trains so he decided to go back
to that train station and see if maybe
he had dropped it
maybe his bag was open and it fell out
of his of his bag so he went back to
that train station and guess what
happened he went to the ticket window
and there was his wallet with all of his
cash inside the wallet all of his money
was
still there this is incredible I can’t
believe this happened I’m pretty sure
this would never happen in the US but
what about your country would something
like this happen in your country on my
website I’m going to give some more
sample sentences and details about how
to use the expression happen so if
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full free lesson and now I have a
question for you what is something
amazing that happened to you
try to use this natural word happen in
some sample sentences I’ll check out
your sentences and I’ll talk to you
later
goodbye