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🇺🇸 HOW AMERICANS TALK ABOUT THE FOURTH OF JULY

American English With Brent

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Fireworks and Fireworks

A fourth of July tradition is watching the hot dog eating contest on Coney Island in New York City. You would never or nor should you ever put car gasoline on a fire or to start a fire. So that is the noun you might have an explosion when a firework goes off. There's a short sentence for you there. Next one here, this is a tough one. Blow up. I can do an entire lesson on the phrasal verb blow up. But I want to talk about two ways we use blow up and they're very different in English.

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