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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson

i'm going to talk about three ways to

use the word

of this will not cover all uses of the

word of

but we'll focus in on three very common

and very useful ways to use this word

let's get started okay the first use

of of i want to talk about is

use to show connection or relationship

between part or parts and

whole so this means when we want to

show that two things two or more things

have some kind of relationship

they fit together or they have some kind

of connection

or we want to talk about things within

a larger group so like for example

pieces of things that are inside a hole

of something

we use this meaning of of

let's take a look at some examples first

example

i ate a piece of cake

here we're showing parts inside

a hole in this case we're looking at one

part here my part is a piece

and the whole in this case is

a cake so when i want to talk about one

part in this case a piece i connect

the part to the whole with the word

of i ate a piece of cake

i could make this a plural word if i

wanted to i ate

pieces of cake so i'm still

showing a relationship between parts and

whole with these words so you'll see of

used in this way very commonly with

these counter words

and uncountable nouns let's take a look

at the next example sentence

he broke part of my table

he broke part of my table so again

we see of is connecting in this case

quite literally

a part to a hole in this case my table

my table represents the hole we're

talking about here

so he broke part of my table could mean

like for example one leg of the table

or a corner of the table one piece

one portion of the table so he broke

part of my table

shows that only one piece was affected

we show part and the relationship to the

whole

by connecting them with of he broke part

my table

is not correct part of my table

is correct okay let's move on to the

next sentence

one of the kids cried one of the kids

cried here we have

the kids referring to a specific

group of kids the part

here is one this means one child

one kid in the group of kids

cried so you'll often see

this kind of pattern used when we're

talking about people

groups of people like students or

workers and so on so one of the kids

cried we could change this to the plural

form

as well two of the kids cried it shows

parts or a small number inside a larger

group

so in this example sentence we don't

know the total number here

but because the kids in the plural form

is used

we know that it refers to a specific

group

of kids and we want to talk about one of

those kids

we show the relationship between this

one kid

and the group of kids with of

one of the kids cried so this is the

first way

to use of for this lesson i want to talk

about one more

important and related use of of which is

to show a portion inside something

to show a portion inside something means

to talk about

uh more than one of something inside

a group for example so in these cases

i focused on just one part

inside a larger group but if you want to

talk about

larger numbers for example the majority

or the minority inside a group we can

use

of to show that relationship let's look

at some examples

first most of the students

passed the test most of the students

passed the test so here i'm talking

again about people

we see a very similar sentence here

the kids was in my previous example

sentence

here the students so i'm talking about a

specific group of students

i'm showing though most of the students

passed the test so not just one or two

or three students passed the test

but most of the students passed the test

so i connect this most with the larger

whole

so this could be the students in the

class or the students

in the school whatever i connect this

part

even though it's a majority even though

it's most i connect this

with of most of the students passed

the test you might also hear the pattern

most students passed the test that is

also okay

if you're including this the though you

need to include of because

this the students is referring to a

specific

group so the our definite article

is showing us that we're talking about a

specific

group of students so this could be most

of the students

in this class or in my class something

specific is happening there so we use

the we connect it with of if you don't

use

a specific definite article for example

most students pass the test that's okay

but the statement becomes less specific

you're just talking about maybe

students across the country for example

we don't know

it's not so clear there so if you're

using the definite article

make sure to use of to connect it

okay let's look at another example

the majority of people at the event

were rich the majority of people at the

event

were rich okay so here

i'm using majority the majority

the majority so majority is another way

to say

most the largest number of people

in other words so majority for example

could mean like 80 percent of people

basically more

than 50 percent is a majority so

the majority of people at the event were

rich

so this is an example sentence where i

could choose to

use the definite article or not the

majority of the people

at the event were rich that would also

be okay

because i'm making it very clear in the

sentence

which people i mean so people at the

event

the specific group of people so i could

say the majority of the people at the

event were rich

that's also okay i've chosen not to

include it here because this extra

information

tells me which people so the majority of

people

at the event were rich here my part

is this percentage of people so 50

or more of this group people at the

event

were rich i show the connection by using

of so this is my part

my portion and this is my total group my

hole here okay one more example of this

none of us had any idea

what to do none of us had any idea what

to do

so here we're showing zero

none of us so us

because we're using us it refers to a

group that means

nobody inside our group no people

zero people inside our group had any

idea what to do

so we connect this with none of

us so we wouldn't really say zero

of us it wouldn't sound so natural we

would say

none of us you could also say nobody had

any idea what to do

but we're using of here because we're

showing

a portion in this case none

and we're showing a whole so when you

want to show this relationship between

something inside the hole and the larger

group

the larger hole you connect the two with

of

okay let's continue on to the second

point for this lesson

the second point for this lesson is

using of

to talk about the materials or

parts something is made with

or to talk about an object's

contents so contents means the things

inside something else this is a bit

different

from what we've talked about over here

let's look at a few example sentences

first let's focus on these two

a cup made of silver

a cup made of silver this use of

of here is showing us

the materials that the cup is made of so

a cup

made of silver silver is the material

cup is the object you'll notice too

made is in parentheses sometimes native

speakers will drop this part when we're

talking about the materials or the parts

something is made with a cup of

silver this can sound a little bit more

formal

but sometimes we do choose to use made

of silver i like to include it for this

lesson just to make it a little bit more

clear

which kind of of we're talking about so

a cup of silver is also

okay to use to me it sounds a little bit

more polite

so this of is showing us a material

silver for a cup

let's go on to the next sentence also a

material

sentence her earrings were made

of gold her earrings were made of gold

so again you see our material

comes after our connecting word of

and the object it's connecting to

is earrings her earrings

were made of gold so these two sentences

show us how we use of to indicate a

material

or a part that something can be made

with

i want to look at the next two sentences

though

these two sentences refer to using

of for objects contents

first example sentence i'd like a glass

of wine please i'd like a glass of wine

please

so you'll notice as we talked about in

this part

we have a counter word and an

uncountable noun so wine is an

uncountable noun

glass is a way to count portions of wine

a way to count

servings of wine here however

it's referring to the contents of the

glass

so i'd like a glass of wine please means

one glass

full of wine so inside the glass is just

wine a glass of wine we could say

a pint of beer or a cup of juice

for example those are all counter words

plus

uncountable noun connected with of

patterns

so here this part is referring to the

counter word

this is the uncountable noun that's

completely inside it we connect the two

with

of one more example of this

the box was full of old

letters the box was full of old

letters this one does not use an

uncountable noun

here we're talking about a box

in this case this box the contents of

this box

was or were rather the contents were old

letters old letters so

we're using of here because this is a

good hint word

full full means like 100 of the

inside of the box was old

letters so we're showing the contents

there

with uh we're connecting the item the

object

to its contents with the word of

we could change this we could add other

things too

the box was full of old letters and

pens and pencils or the box

was full of old pictures we could change

that we could add

other things to this sentence if we want

but we're showing

here the contents of the box full

of something so you may see

that empty is used in a pattern like

this like the box was

for example empty of money

empty of money so this may seem a little

bit strange

why would you say that but it means

there was no money

inside the box empty means there's

nothing inside

so the box was full of means it's 100

percent

uh things inside something empty means

nothing zero percent so the box was

empty of money

is correct we sometimes use that it

sounds a little bit more formal a little

bit more polite

but when you want to talk about the

contents of something in this case a box

or perhaps a bag

a purse you can use of

to connect the contents with the object

itself

okay so with this in mind let's continue

to our last use of

of for this lesson number three we use

of to show belonging you see this

a lot in organizations in

government situations companies schools

and so on

we use it to show belonging to be a

member

of something let's look at these

examples

here she's the head

of the company she's the head of the

company means

she's the top of the company so

in these patterns the company is the

organization

that's the group the head

means the top or her position the

way in which she belongs to the company

she's the head of the company we could

change this part right here

to reflect a different position in the

organization

she's a manager in the company

she's a worker in the company

but you'll notice we change

of to in in situations like that

because it's like we're not talking

about

one specific key figure we're talking

about one person that's kind of

like a member of a group so she's a

manager

of the company might be used in

situations where a person is like a top

manager so this is kind of another key

point

we use this of pattern when belonging

to talk about like key roles

in organizations or key roles for

organizations so she's the head of the

company

in contrast we would not say she's the

head in the company

we would not use a pattern like that

she's the head

of the company let's look at another

example here

have you ever seen the queen of england

have you ever seen the queen of england

here england

it's a country but we think of england

as our group our organization

queen then the queen shows this

top level position so the queen of

england meaning

she is the queen that belongs to england

so this shows her relationship to this

larger organization in this case

a country so the queen of england

so we would use this again for like

politicians we would use this for public

figures kings queens and so on

but again they're at this very high

level position

in their organization so let's look at

one

maybe smaller level organization for

this last example

we're the leaders of this group

we're the leaders of this group so this

could be a volunteer group in your

community for example

here the group is our organization

the leaders the leaders in this case

more than one person

the leaders are the top people in the

organization

we connect the top people to the

organization

to which they belong with the word of

we're the leaders of this group

so if we wanted to talk about the

members we could say

we're members of such and such group

yes but you would use that if you're

introducing yourself to someone outside

the situation

and you kind of want to show perhaps a

sense of pride in your belonging

we tend to use in more when we're

talking more internally

i feel so like i'm a member of such and

such group

would be okay but we would probably use

for like companies and so on like a

manager

in this company so there are a couple

situations where there's

a little bit of flexibility in terms of

the preposition that's

used but a good rule is that when you're

talking about

the leader of something the leader of a

group or the leader of an organization

you can use of to show their role so

leader queen king head of company

and use of to connect it to the company

name the organization name the country

name

and so on if you want to talk about the

members of something

if you're talking to someone outside the

group it might be a good idea to use

of i'm a member of such and such

group or i'm a manager

in this company i would prefer

personally to use

in for talking about company sorts of

things i would probably use

of for talking about like group related

things

so this is perhaps a small point that's

a little bit different for

lower level people in organizations but

as i said a good rule is to show

belonging for people at the tops of

organizations

with of uh so i hope that this lesson

gave you some good ideas and some good

chances to practice

these three uses of the word of as i

said there are many

other ways to use this word but i feel

that these are probably some of the most

common ways

and perhaps we can talk more about other

uses of of

in another video in the future if you

have any questions or comments or if you

want to practice making a sentence

with this word please feel free to do so

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在

englishclass101.com 注册您的免费终身帐户 大家好，我的名字是艾丽西亚，在这

节课中，

我将讨论三种

使用这个词

的方法，不会涵盖所有用途

但我们将重点介绍

使用这个词的三种非常常见且非常有用的方式

让我们开始吧，好吧

，我想谈论的第一个用法是

用于显示

部分或部分与整体之间的联系或关系，

所以这个 意味着当我们想要

展示两件事情时，两件或多件事情

有某种关系，

它们可以组合在一起，或者它们有

某种联系，

或者我们想谈论

一个更大的群体中的事物，例如在一个更大的群体中

的事物。

我们用这个意思的东西的洞

让我们看一些例子第一个

例子

我吃了一块蛋糕

在这里我们展示

了一个洞里面的零件在这种情况下我们正在看一个

零件我的零件是

一块 整体 在这种情况下是

一块蛋糕，所以当我想

在这种情况下谈论一个部分时，我用 i ate a piece of cake

将部分与整体联系起来

小菜一碟，所以我仍然用这些词

显示部分和整体之间的关系，

所以你会看到

这些反词

和不可数名词以这种方式使用很常见让我们

看看下一个例句

他打破了一部分 我的桌子

他打破了我桌子的一部分，所以

我们再次看到在这种情况下

将一部分连接到一个洞在这种情况下我的桌子

我的桌子代表我们在这里谈论的洞

所以他打破了我桌子的一部分可能意味着

例如，桌子的一条腿

或桌子的一角

一件桌子的一部分，所以他打破

了我桌子的一部分，这

表明只有一件受到影响，

我们

通过将它们与他的连接来展示部分和与整体的关系 坏了部分

我的桌子

不是正确的部分 我的表

是正确的 好吧 让我们继续

下一句

一个孩子哭 一个孩子

在这里哭 我们

有孩子指的是一

组特定的孩子 这里的部分

是一个 这意味着一个孩子

一个孩子 孩子们

哭了，所以

当我们

谈论

学生或

工人等人群时，你会经常看到这种模式，所以一个孩子

哭了，我们可以把它改成复数

形式

，两个孩子 哭了它显示

了一个更大的群体中的部分或一个小数字，

所以在这个例句中，我们不

知道这里的总数，

但是因为使用了复数形式的孩子，

我们知道它指的是一个特定

的孩子群体，我们想要 谈论其中

一个孩子，

我们展示了这个

孩子与

其中一个孩子哭泣的那群孩子之间的关系，所以这

是本课使用的第一种方法，我想

谈谈一个更

重要和相关的用途 其中

是显示一个端口 tion inside something

to show a part inside something

意味着谈论

uh 多于一个组内的某件事

，所以在这些情况下，

我只关注

一个更大的组内的一个部分，但如果你想

谈论

更大的数字，例如

我们可以用一个群体中的多数或少数

来表明这种关系让我们首先

看一些例子

大多数学生

通过了考试 大多数学生

通过了考试 所以在这里我

再次谈论

我们看到一个非常相似的句子的人 这里

的孩子们在我之前的

例句中

是学生们，所以我说的是我展示的一

组特定的学生，

尽管大多数学生都

通过了测试，所以不仅仅是一两个

或三个学生通过了测试，

而是大多数 学生通过了测试，

所以我将这与更大的

整体联系起来，

所以这可能是

班上的学生或

学校里的学生，不管我把这

部分联系起来，

即使它是多数 尽管

这是大多数

通过测试的学生中的大多数，但

您可能还会听到

大多数学生通过测试的模式，

如果您将其包括在内也可以，尽管您

需要包括在内，

因为学生指的是 到一个

特定的

群体，所以我们的明确

文章向我们展示了我们正在谈论一个

特定

的学生群体，所以这可能

是这个班或我班上的大多数学生

那里发生了一些具体的事情，所以我们

使用我们连接它 如果您不

使用

特定的定冠词，例如

大多数学生通过了测试，那没关系，

但陈述变得不那么具体，

您只是在谈论也许

全国各地的学生，例如

我们不知道

那里不太清楚 因此，如果您

使用的是定冠词，请

确保使用 to 来连接它

好吧 让我们看另一个例子

参加活动的大多数人

都很富有 所以在这里

我使用多数

多数多数多数是大多数人的另

一种说法

，换句话说，多数人例如

可能意味着 80% 的人

基本上

超过 50% 是多数

所以大多数人 参加活动的人很

富有，

所以这是一个例句，我

可以选择

使用定冠词或不参加活动的

大多数人

都很富有，这也

可以，

因为我在句子中非常清楚

人 我的意思是参加

活动

的人 特定的人群 所以我可以

说参加活动的大多数人

都很有钱

那也没关系 我选择不在

这里包括它 因为这些额外的

信息

告诉我哪些人是大多数人

参加活动

的人在

这里富有 是我的总组 我的

洞 好吧 再举一个例子

我们都不知道该怎么

做 指的是一个

组，这意味着

我们组内没有人

没有人 我们组内的零人不

知道该怎么做，

所以我们将其与我们中的任何人都没有联系，

所以我们不会真的说

我们是零，这听起来不那么自然，我们

会 说

我们都没有，你也可以说没有

人知道该怎么做，

但我们在这里使用，因为

在这种情况下我们展示的是一部分

，我们展示的是一个整体，所以当你

想展示某物之间的这种关系时

在洞和更大的

组里面 你把两者联系起来的洞更大

关于对象的

内容，所以内容意味着事物

在别的东西里面 这

和我们在这里讨论的有点不同

让我们先看几个例句

让我们专注于这两个

a cup made of silver

a cup of silver made of silver this use

of here是向我们展示

材料 杯子是由银制成的杯子是

由银制成的

杯子是你会注意到的物体

也在括号中有时母语

人士会在我们

谈论材料或零件时放弃

这部分 用一杯

银，这听起来有点

正式，

但有时我们确实会选择

用银做的

a cup of

silver 对我来说也可以用 这听起来

有点礼貌

所以这是向我们展示了一个杯子的材料

银

让我们继续下一句也是一个

材料

句子她的耳环是

用金做的 她的耳环是 由黄金制成

所以你再次看到我们的材料

出现在我们的连接词之后

，它所连接的对象

是耳环，她的耳环

是用金制成的，所以这两个句子

向我们展示了我们如何使用 来

表示可以用 i 制成的材料或部件

想看看接下来的两个句子，

虽然

这两个句子是指

使用对象内容

第一个例句我想要一

杯酒，请我想要一杯酒，

所以你会注意到我们在

这部分

我们有一个反词和一个

不可数名词所以酒是一个

不可数名词

玻璃是一种计算葡萄酒份量的

一种方法在

这里计算葡萄酒的份量但是

它指的是玻璃的内容

所以我想要一个玻璃 of wine please 是指

一杯

装满

酒的杯子

，所以杯子

里只有酒 艺术指的是

反词

这是

完全在其中的不可数名词我们将两者联系

起来再举一个

例子盒子里装满了旧

字母盒子里装满了旧

字母这个在这里不使用

不可数名词

在这种情况下，我们谈论的是一个盒子 这个盒子这个盒子的内容

是或者更确切地说是内容是旧

字母旧字母所以

我们在这里使用，因为这是一个

很好的提示词

full full 表示像

里面的 100 盒子里是旧

字母，所以我们

用 uh 显示内容

铅笔或盒子

里装满了旧图片，我们可以改变

，

如果我们愿意，我们可以在这句话中添加其他东西，

但我们在

这里展示了装满东西的盒子的内容，

所以你可能会

看到空在一个模式中使用 像

这样 l 就像盒子

里没有钱

没有钱 所以这看起来有点奇怪

为什么你会这么说 但这

意味着盒子里没有钱

呃，东西里面的东西是空的，意味着

零百分比，所以盒子里

没有钱

是正确的

或者也许是一个袋子，

一个钱包，你可以用它

来连接物品和对象

本身，

好吧，记住这一点，让我们

继续我们最后一次

使用的第三课，我们用它

来显示归属感，你

在组织中看到了很多 在

政府情况下公司学校

等等

我们用它来表明属于

某事的成员让我们在这里看看这些

例子

她是公司的负责

人她是公司的负责人

意味着

她是 公司的最高层，所以

在这些模式中，公司是一个

组织

，它是一个团队。头

是指最高层或她的职位

，她属于公司的方式，

她是公司的负责人，我们可以

在此处更改这部分

以反映 在组织中的不同职位

她是公司的经理

她是公司的员工，

但你

会注意到我们在这种情况下会

变成 有点

像团队成员的人，所以她是公司的

经理

在组织中的角色或组织的关键角色，

因此她是公司的负责人

，相比之下，我们不会说她是公司的

负责人，

我们不会使用这样的模式，

她是公司的

负责人 看另一个

例子，

你见过英国女王吗，

你见过英国女王吗？

英国是一个国家，但我们认为英国

是我们的组织，我们的组织

女王，那么女王展示了这个

顶级职位，所以女王

england 意味着

她是属于英国的女王，

所以这表明她与这个

更大的组织的关系在这种情况下

是一个国家，所以是英国女王，

所以我们会再次将其用于

政治家，我们将其用于公众

人物 Kings Queens 等等

但同样，他们在他们的组织中处于非常高级

别的位置

，所以让我们看看

一个

可能较小级别的组织

作为最后一个例子

我们是这个小组

的领导者 我们是这个小组的领导者，所以这

可能是一个志愿者小组 例如，在您的

社区中，

这里的团体是我们的

组织领导者在这种情况下领导者

不止一个

人领导者是我们联系的组织中的高层人员

e

他们所属组织的高层人员，

我们是这个小组的领导者，

所以如果我们想谈论

成员，我们可以说

我们是某某组的成员，

是的，但如果你会使用它 你在

向外界介绍自己

，你有点想表现出

对你的归属感的自豪感，

当我们更多地谈论内部时，我们倾向于更多地使用

这样的组

是可以的，但我们可能会

用于类似的公司等等，比如

这家公司的经理，所以有一些

情况，

在使用的介词方面有一点灵活性，

但一个好的规则是，当你 '正在

谈论

某事的领导者，一个

团体的领导者或一个组织的领导者，

你可以用它来显示他们的角色，所以

领导者皇后国王公司的负责人，

并使用将它连接到公司

名称组织名称国家

名称

一个 d 依此类推，如果您想谈论

某事的成员，

如果您正在与小组以外的人交谈，

那么

使用我是某某小组的成员

或我是该小组的经理可能是个好主意

我个人更喜欢

用公司来谈论公司类型的

事情，我可能会用它

来谈论与团体相关的

事情，

所以这可能是一个小问题，

对于

组织中的低层人员来说有点不同，但

正如我所说 好的规则是用 uh 来表现出

对组织高层人员的归属感，

所以我希望这节课

能给你一些好的想法和一些很好的

机会来练习

这三个词的用法，正如我

所说的，还有很多

其他的用法 这个词，但我

觉得这些可能是一些最

常见的方式

，

如果你

有任何问题或意见，或者如果你

想练习

用这个造句，也许我们以后可以在另一个视频中更多地讨论 of 的其他用法 我 rd 请随时

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