Name: Trump apologises to Kavanaugh: BBC News Review
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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review The program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

Our story today is about the ongoing controversy surrounding the appointment of Brett Cavern are to the U.

Okay, let's find out some more about that story from this BBC World Service news bulletin.

President Trump has apologized on behalf of the American people to the newly appointed U.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for what he called the campaign of political and personal destruction that the judge had had to endure.

So the story is about Brett Cavern are being appointed as a Supreme Court justice in the United States.

Now, Mister Cavern are has had sexual assault allegations made against him.

Because of these, some people think it's inappropriate that he has been nominated for this position now President Trump.

He got the job on President Trump at the ceremony to welcome him, apologized in the name of the American people for the treatment that mister Cavern are received from his critics.

Ah, you've been looking at this story how it's being covered on the various news website.

I have picked out three items of vocabulary.

I have on behalf off made up on the final piece.

Correct your first headline, then with on behalf of please.

So my first headline, New York comes from the Huffington Post On it reads Twitter users erupt after Trump apologizes to cavern are on behalf of our nation on behalf off as a representative off instead off.

And so what this means is basically because the the American people cannot speak with one voice.

President Trump decided to speak for them.

If you speak on behalf off somebody, you do it in their name.

And a lot of the controversy comes from the fact that the American people don't have an opinion together.

Yeah, it's probably a nicer example yet There are askew.

And on the bright side, the father of the bride will make the speeches.

Yeah, well, I went to a wedding and the father of the bride, it was just too emotional and speak tears running down his cheeks and he just couldn't speak.

And so his son made the speech on his behalf on behalf off his father and which means that he stood up and he said the things that his father wanted to say for him in his place.

Eso Another way we can use on behalf off is without the proposition off.

We can replace off with a pronoun, a personal pronoun.

So with your example, you could say the sun made the speech on behalf off the father.

For if you want to say in a shorter form, you could say the sun made a speech on his behalf.

Now something important to note about this expression is that it doesn't mean a simple substitution.

Yeah, so we wouldn't say that you are doing this on his behalf.

However, if Dan fell off his bike on the way to work on couldn't do news review and he called me and he said, Tom, I'm got a real problem.

Then I would be speaking on Dan's behalf.

Isn't there that if you do some agreement between two or more parties, if you do something on someone's behalf, you are expressing the same ideas?

Has them precisely a what I would feel about Dan's opinions, etcetera?

I wouldn't say Yeah, because I just be speaking for him.

Let's move on now to our second headline par second headline.

Neil is from BBC News and it says, Trump Cavin.

Our sex assault claims were all made up, made up imaginary false invented.

So we've got three words I just used imaginary false and invented and I know what they mean.

Why do I have to use this word made up, Which doesn't make any sense to me, it's two words instead of one.

Now the headline is a quote from President Trump, and President Trump is famous for speaking in a natural manner.

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