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'FROM' is such a small, common word in English, but it has so many different uses! In this lesson, I explain 10 different uses of ‘from’. This English lesson will be especially useful to beginners and intermediate-level students, who tend to get prepositions mixed up. I’ll give you plenty of examples showing exactly when ‘from’ should be used. We’ll also look at more advanced uses of ‘from’ as part of expressions such as ‘from dusk till dawn.’ And finally, I’ll mention some examples from popular culture in which ‘from’ appears in the titles of films and songs. There’s also a slightly rude example of when you should be careful about using ‘from’ if you don’t want someone to get the wrong idea!

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Hi, everyone. In this lesson we're looking at uses of "from". "From" is a really common word in English, you see it all the time, but do you know when to use it? We use "from" as a preposition, and we also use "from" in phrasal verbs, so let's look at all the different situations where we use "from".

We'll start with a phrasal verb, which is: "come from". Somebody asks a question to you: "Where do you come from?" That means: "Where were you...? Where were you born and where did you live when you were younger?" So, I come from London. Where do you come from? "Where do aliens come from?" Aliens are the ones with the big eyes and sometimes they're green, or sometimes they're reptiles. "Where do aliens come from?" Aliens come from outer space, out there where the UFOs live.

Timespan. "Timespan" means between this time and this time. "Yoga is from 7 to 9am in the pagoda." Yoga pagoda, it rhymes. A "pagoda" is a kind of... A kind of... Imagine the kind of building where some Hippies would go and do some yoga, with a pointy roof, and maybe made from wood or something like that. That's a pagoda, anyway. "The wedding season is from May until September." This means that between May and September that's when most of the weddings happen. We're really busy with weddings between May and September. So, the wedding season is from May until September.

Now we're using timespan for an historical event, something that happened a long time before, something that happened in history, something that we know as a fact. "World War I was from 1914 to 1918." And: "Queen Elizabeth 1st", let me say that one again. "Queen Elizabeth 1st reigned from 1558 to 1603". "Reigned" is a word... "To reign" is the word we use to say a queen or a king was in power for that time. So we could say: "Queen Elizabeth 1st was in power from 1558 to 1603", but "reigned" is a specific word that means that.

Now we have "made from". This one is also a phrasal verb. When something is made... We use "made from" to say how we get a thing. So, my jumper is made from wool, and wool comes from sheep. Here's some other things: "Plastic is made from oil." You take oil, you do something to it, after you get plastic. "Paper is made from wood." Wood is the first thing you have, and you do something to it in the factory, and after you get paper.

Now let's look at distance. We use "from" as a preposition to talk about the distance to a place. "We are 10 minutes from the lake." Here's the lake, we are 10 minutes over here. A lake, if you don't know it, is a natural, large area of water. It's bigger than a pond. A pond... A pond... A pond you would never swim in, and a pond is usually what you see in a person's garden if they have a nice garden. But a lake is much too big for most people to have in their gardens. Maybe if you were Queen Elizabeth 1st, you would have a lake in your garden, but not many other people.

"The moon is 385,000"-zero, zero, zero-"kilometres from the Earth". Here's the Earth, let's get in our rocket and go 385,000 kilometres, if we survive, we make it to the moon. And the last example here: "How far away is Tom's house from Steve's?" What that sentence means is: How far away is Tom's house from Steve's house? But we don't need to repeat the word "house". So, we could answer the question: "Tom's house is 10 miles from Steve's house." Coming up: More examples of "from".

Now we have the origin of something when we're using "from" as a preposition. "Origin" is a more formal way of saying where something begins, where something starts. So: "I have a letter from the bank." Here's my letter, coming from the postman, he puts it in my letterbox, here's my letter from the bank. "I have a present from my Mum." Oh, thank you for my present. What a lovely... What a lovely scarf you gave me. And: "I got a call from Tom", as in phone call. Now, a phone call isn't a real object, like a scarf or a letter that we receive, but we can use "from" in this case.

Now let's look at using "from" to describe a transport route. This is also a preposition. "You can catch a train from London to Brighton." Perhaps you want to know how to travel to Brighton, you haven't been there before. That's a town in the English seaside. The answer is: "You can catch a train from London to Brighton." We can also use the verb "take": "You can take a train", and actually we can also use the verb "get" if we want: "You can get a train from London to Brighton." But I feel the most common use is "catch", because "catch" is when you're travelling somewhere, it at least has the sound that you do it quickly, so you want to catch the train. In my opinion "catch" is the most natural one to use in that sentence. "Take the bus from the mall."

So, perhaps there's a bus stop at the mall, if you go there you can take the bus from there. The mall, we don't usually say that a lot in the U.K. because we don't have so many malls, but in places like the USA, they would say: "mall" and also in Dubai where there are lots of malls, you would hear that, but in Dubai you probably wouldn't take the bus from the mall. Anyway, moving on. "I'm getting the coach from Amsterdam to Paris." That's the way I'm travelling, and if you... You can also take the coach. Same as before, you can take the coach or catch the coach. Let's look at the cause of an ailment or disease. "Ailment" means something, like, sickness. The thing that's wrong with you at the moment, and it's not generally as serious as a disease.

An ailment is something that you have at this moment, it's not as serious. I can say: "I've got a headache from the noise." Or: "I've got a headache from all the noise". "I caught the flu from grandma." Grandma is always coughing around, she's a bit gross like that, and she... Because grandma is always coughing, I caught the flu from grandma. And I could also say, talking about someone who's always smoking their cigarettes, cigarettes a day, I could say: "He got lung cancer from smoking."

Next we have: "Come up from behind". This is a... This is a phrasal verb, and we use this phrasal verb when there are two... Two things, perhaps in a race, where one comes in front of the other one, so it speeds up, it goes faster, or in some way it comes in front of the other one. So, in this sentence: "Redrum came up from behind to win the race." Redrum was a famous English racehorse that won a long time ago. I think this happened when I was a child, but this horse is still famous. It ran... It ran in a race called the Grand National, which is the most famous horse race in England and it won the race. I don't know if it did win the race in this way; I just made that sentence up. So I don't know if Redrum came up from behind to win the race or he just won it, he was such an amazing horse. Anyway, he's a famous horse. And if you think about...

Look at this word: "redrum" and you read it backwards, it says: "murder". Anyway, famous horse. Another example is: "The truck came up from behind"... I'm driving here in my car, the truck came up from behind and then hit me. If you had a car crash, perhaps that could be how it happened. Now, the last example here, this one is... I needed to tell you this because I often have heard non-native speakers of English use something like this phrasal verb: "Take from behind" in a way where they don't realize they're saying something that sounds something really sexual, so they might be saying, like: "In my car I take from backside. I driving over here, I take from backside". "Take from behind" or "Take from backside", and always when you hear it it's like they don't mean... I don't think they mean something sexual, but it is a little bit funny. So if you ever say: "Taking...

Taking something from behind", it does sound like a sexual act, which our kind doggies here are describing for us, but I'm not going to say any more about that. We're going to move on to more words with "from". Now let's look at advanced expressions using "from". Starting with the expression: "From A to B". Let's say you were going to a big park and you were going to walk around, and you wanted to know... Or I'm coming in this gate, but I want to know... To leave over there. You could say: "How are we going to get from A to B?" Meaning: How do we get from here to over there?

The next expression: "From A to Z", in my pronunciation, some people might say: "From A to Z", that means including everything. There used to be a map... It probably still exists. There used to be a map of London called: "The A to Z", and this map used to-if it still exists, I don't know-have all the street names of London in it. It was a big map, many... A big, thick map and you could always find where you needed to go in that map. This was before Google Maps came along and I suppose now more people use their phones or maps on the internet. But the map was called "The A to Z", because that map included everything.

So, another example could be if you wanted to study something about computers, you could take this book and learn everything from A to Z about computers in this book, it includes everything. Now, the next example is: "From dusk to dawn" or "From dusk till dawn" it could be. "Dusk" is when the sun goes down at night, and "dawn" is when the sun begins to rise again the next day or at the beginning of the day. So when we say: "From dusk to dawn", that means all the time, never stopping, so this... This place could be open from dusk to dawn, never stopping. We could also say: "From zero to hero", this is somebody who's turned their life around. Before they were zero, they were nothing; but now they're a hero, they're a champion. So it could be that they've gone from just having nothing in their life and no girlfriend, no money, being really, really fat, and then they've become some famous male model or something like that. That man would have gone from zero to hero.

Next we've got: "From beyond the grave". "Beyond" means after, and "the grave" is where you go when you die. So, to receive a message from beyond the grave would be when you've been contacted by a spirit or receive an intuition from a dead relative or something like that, this would be a message from beyond the grave; not from living people. And it's usually... It's usually about a message, but it could be just seeing... Just seeing a ghost as well. You saw a ghost, you saw something from beyond the grave. And the last example here: "From now on" means all the time after now...

From now all the time in the future. So, from now on you're going to learn English with me on my channel every single day. And I have here some examples of using "from" that come from popular culture, so they come from films, "f" for film, "s" for song, and "b" this is the name of a band. "From" is often used in titles, I think because it's quite catchy is the first reason to use it in a title, and also because "from" is a preposition has that idea, you know, we start here and we go over there. If we use that in a title of a film it makes us think of a journey or something changing in that film. The first film, From Russia with Love is a James Bond movie. The next one is a famous film, I've never seen it, From Here to Eternity. "Here" is here obviously, here and now. "Eternity" means forever and all time. So... And never-ending.

So you start here and, you know, I guess maybe it's a really long film, I don't know, I've never seen it. I don't think it is, but it just gives us the idea that something really big and important must be happening in that film. From Dusk till Dawn, I already explained what "dusk" and "dawn" mean. This is a film about vampires in a... In a bar. And I watched this film probably about times when I was a teenager. I used to really love George Clooney back then, and I thought it was really cool to be in the kind of bar where you just fight vampires. Then there's a song: "From Paris to Berlin", it's a kind of dancey, dancey track I think about.... more than years old now. And the last one is a band: "From First to Last". So, you can leave a comment if you've seen any of these, any of these films or heard these songs, let me know. And what you can do now at the end of the lesson is go and do the quiz on this. And I'll see you again soon. Bye.

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