Whenever and Every Time

OK.

So in this lesson we’ve been talking about lots of different time words and phrases.

And now we’re down to the very last one whenever and every time.

Basically this means there’s an event here an event here an event here an event here.

And each one of these events has a thing that happens in all cases.

It’s not like there’s an event event event event.

And this one this one and this one have something happen but not this one.

OK.

No then we can’t use whenever or every time if we want to use whenever or every time it has to be all of them.

For example whenever I teach a class I make a plan.

Whenever I teach a class I make a plan.

That means there are no times when I don’t make a plan.

I always have a plan.

I always have an outline.

I know what I’m going to talk about.

I don’t just come out and go blah blah blah and start talking.

OK let’s look at some examples of this.

It’s a pretty easy concept whenever and every time are basically the same.

Whenever I feel is more common.

But every time is ok too.

Whenever whenever I visit New York City I go to Danny’s pizza in Queens and Danny’s pizza in Queens.

Very good.

Very tasty.

You’re welcome.

Danny’s pizza for the free advertised man.

Seriously it’s a place in Queens.

It has amazing pizza the best pizza in the world in my opinion.

OK so that means there are no times that I go to New York and don’t visit Danny’s pizza.

OK.

I could also say every time I visit New York City I go to Danny’s pizza in Queens.

Another example every time we have class I see you improving.

We could say whenever we have class I see you improving every time.

OK.

So in these cases we can see that every time and whenever are the same but are they ever different.

The answer is yes we can use whenever also to mean any time or I don’t care.

Just choose a time and that’s OK with me.

For example one friend says to another what time.

What time should we should we leave.

What time should we leave.

One friend is asking to another friend the other Francis.

Whenever that means I don’t care when any time is up to you.

We can’t use every time here.

We can’t say every time it doesn’t work.

It doesn’t work.

So this is a place where whenever has a meaning or a use that doesn’t include every time it doesn’t include every time there’s also a situation when we would use every time but not whenever and it’s usually at the end of a sentence.

For example I’m not looking forward to going to New York.

So why can you imagine I get lost every time.

So here is where we can use every time but not whenever I’m not looking forward to going to New York.

I get lost every time.

That means every time I go.

But we can end the sentence with every time and we couldn’t just replace that with whenever I get lost whenever it doesn’t doesn’t make sense.

We can say every time but not whenever there.

We could say I get lost when ever I go there.

But then it’s kind of a weird sentence.

And we’re saying too much.

I get lost every time that we could add every time I do as well every time I do.

Every time I go there.

But the nice thing about every time at the end of the sentence is that we can end that way.

I’m not looking forward to going to New York.

I get lost every time.

It can also be used to answer a question that somebody asks and we can’t use whenever.

Do you throw up when you drink rum answer every time not whenever we can’t say whenever whenever can go into a whole sentence.

Whenever I drink rum I throw up.

That works.

But if we want to just answer the question with this every time we can.

That’s the answer every time yes every time.

Which means every time I drink rum I throw up.

OK.

So hopefully that’s clear the difference between whenever and every time.

All right.

So we’ve gone through lots of words and phrases related to time.

I hope that you found it very useful.

Again these are all very common to really remember all the words and phrases that we’ve learned in this lesson.

You’ve got to practice so write down all of the examples that we went through in this lesson.

I know there are many because we went through lots of different time words and phrases.

Write them down and then make two sentences of your own.

This will help to get them deeply grain in your mind so that when you need to speak and use them because they’re very common they need to come out on a regular basis when you need to use them they will pop out of your mouth like nothing will be very easy.

OK.

Good luck.