Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 338. The title of today's lesson

  • is instructions on how to do something not instructions how to do something. So

  • especially students of ESL, they probably will often omit the "on, " but that's very,

  • very important. So we should always say instructions on how to do something. Not

  • just instructions how to do something. Again you know, a native speaker would

  • probably understand this, but he would catch that doesn't sound quite right.

  • It doesn't sound quite proper. So this is why you want to correct this problem.

  • All right. So again let's look at the note here. With the X of course, this is wrong.

  • So here's the first example. The game came with instructions how to play. Yeah.

  • You know, a Westerner would definitely understand this. But of course, the proper

  • and the correct way to say you know, with the check here, would be the game came

  • with instructions on how to play. That's the way we would use it. That's correct.

  • All right. The second example. The car came with a manual that had instructions how

  • to fix or change parts. Yes. So of course again with the with the check this would

  • be correct. You should say the car came with a manual that had instructions on

  • how to fix or change parts. So make sure you use that 'on." This is another common

  • mistake by ESL students. They will omit the "on" here. And the third one. Can you

  • give me instructions how to fix my computer? No. Can you .... So of course

  • with the X that was wrong. With the check this is correct. Can you give me

  • instructions on how to fix my computer ? Okay, good, I hope you got it. I hope it's

  • clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 338. The title of today's lesson

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it