Name: English Tutor Nick P Lesson (374) Never Say When I Was a High School
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Hi  this is Tutor Nick P  and this is Lesson  374. The title of today's lesson

Adverbs of frequency

is never say I was a high school. Okay.  Yeah. Students of ESL sometimes do this.

Over the years,  I've caught it a number of times.  I think just in the past week

it may depend on the article I'm covering , but I had several students use

this. Either they said you know , when I was a high school or when I was an

elementary school. Where they should be saying ... we should be rephrasing it in

other ways or ... Let's look at the notes.  Let's cover it . Sometimes students of ESL

will say I was a high school or an elementary school etc. In English a

person cannot be a school.  It's that simple. So here are some examples with

the X. This is wrong. When I was a high school I had a lot of pressure or you

know,  they probably had a lot of pressure with tests. Things like that. So with the

X. That's definitely wrong.  With the check.  We have a number of ways

you could rephrase it and say it. No problem. So you could say when I was in

high school,  I had a lot of pressure.  That's fine.

Because then you're not saying that you're a school. You're saying you were

in the school. So that's okay. When I was a high school student . Now you can be a

student. A person definitely is a student.  So when I was a high school student,  I

had a lot of pressure.  Sure perfect no problem. When I was a

high schooler. Yeah.  For high school , we do use high schooler. Be careful,  we don't

say an elementaryer  or a colleger But we do say a high schooler. Okay

So that's another way you could say it.  So when I was a high schooler,  I had a

lot of pressure.  Or another one here, When I was a student

in high school. So you could rephrase it with the "in" later. That would be fine too.

Or you know,  in high school in the u.s. we always you know,  name the years. So you

could go that way too. You could say when I was a freshman in high school,  I had a

lot of pressure  or when I was a junior or all my years ..  throughout all my years in

high school I had a lot of pressure. You could say it like that as well.

Okay,  and here's an example where a student did it with elementary school as

well. When I was in elementary school,  I liked to watch cartoons. Yes. So again. A

person cannot be a school. Okay. You,  you have to be you know,  you have to use the

word for a person. Okay. So the correct way of course you know here all of these

should have checks. When I was an elementary school student I liked to

watch cartoons. That would be fine. When I was a student in elementary school I

liked to watch cartoons. That would be good as well. Or again here you go back

to grades. You could say when I was in third grade you know,  you can mention the

year. You can say I like to watch cartoons. All right. And this is another

one too. I did another video before if you you know, if you like this one you should go

check out that one too.  Sometimes students say when I was in first grade of high

school. You can't say that. Or first grade of college. Remember we use the word

freshman,  sophomore,  junior,  senior for those. So you'd never say that. Check out

that video or you might want to also check out my video on graduate

undergraduate. And you know postgraduate students. You might want to check out

those as well.  if you're confused about some of these terms. All right. Anyway,

that's the last little bit of a note here. The same rule applies for grade

school. So you can't say you were a grade school. You can't say you're a primary school or

a middle school or a junior high school.  Whichever term your school is using. You

can't use that as well. You always have to say you were a student in ... When I was

a student in grade school or when I was a student in primary school. All of those

would be okay. Okay. Anyway, I  hope you got it . I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time.