045 - Expression: To Put Someone On A Pedestal / Groundhog's Day
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How to Put Yourself on a Pedestal
People who are full of themselves, conceited or arrogant, put themselves on a pedestal regularly. This means that we think we're better than others. Let's go through some pronunciation exercises. Repeat after me. IPut is also the same in the past tense as it is in the present tense. And so you actually need a context to know whether the statement I put myself on a pedestals is in thepresent or in the past. There are a few other very short verbs in English such as cut, hit, and hurt that kind of follow the same format. It put itself on a pedestale. We put ourselves on a pedestAL. They put themselves onA pedestal.
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