Name: Learn the English Phrases "makes sense" and "doesn't make sense"
Uploaded: 2024-06-17T05:55:41.000Z
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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "makes sense." When something makes sense, it just means it's logical.

If it's something that someone designed, they designed it in a logical way, in a way that makes sense.

Past simple

There's a store in North America called Costco.

It's a large store, and everything there makes sense.

The size of the shopping carts makes sense.

The way the parking lot lines are put out makes sense.

They leave extra room between vehicles, probably because the carts are wider.

The way the store is laid out makes sense.

Everything just makes sense when I go there.

It's designed to be efficient and logical, and I'm usually happy when I'm shopping there.

I'm sure this is the same in every country around the world.

I went to a government office today to renew one of my cards.

You know how you have driver's license and health cards and all that kind of stuff?

I went to renew a card, and the way that that office was set up just doesn't make sense to me.

There were numbers, like I got a number, but my number was like PC801.

But then there were numbers that started with T and S and all different letters.

And then for a while there, everyone with numbers with the same letters in front as me, we didn't get called up.

I was there for, I think it was almost three hours.

I'm not sure how well that place was designed.

So to review, when something makes sense, it's very logical and easy to understand.

When something doesn't make sense, it's just very confusing, and you don't understand why it was designed that way.

Anyways, I got everything done I needed to, but I was a little frustrated.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Aerosmith77, also known as Judith. "I loved when I could take the long way home, but not nowadays.

I gotta go." And my response, "From my understanding, you have quite the commute now.

So Judith, thank you for that comment and for using the phrase 'long way home' from the previous lesson.

But yeah, I understood from another comment you made, I think you change jobs and I think you drive for over an hour each way now to work.

So hopefully you have lots to listen to, some good music, maybe you listen to a few podcasts on your way there.

I just hope it's going well because that's a pretty long drive to go every day.

But hey, what was I gonna talk about today?

It's exactly 11 minutes every day, my commute.

Because I live out in the country and I work in a town, not a city, there's just not a lot of traffic out this way.

Those sometimes slow down my commute a little bit.

But I have appreciated the fact that there's no real commute where I live.

I did though a few years ago, a few years ago, like 20, over 20 years ago, I worked at a school, okay that's exaggerating, about 18 years ago, I worked at a school in a nearby city just for a couple of years.

And the road that you drove down, you couldn't pass anybody.

It was just like one lane each way and you couldn't pass.

And so you would drive the speed limit all the way to work and all the way home from work.

Sometimes traffic doesn't make sense to me either.

But currently, my drive to school makes sense.

I leave when I want to leave, and I'm there 11 minutes later every day, like clockwork.

I hope you're having a good day, and I'll have another short English lesson ready for you in a couple days after you watch this one.

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