From and Between

Now we should feel very comfortable with a lot of words and phrases related to time and duration, prepositions that are very common.

Let’s now get into a little bit more complexity although still pretty easy, Still pretty basic and how we can talk about a range a range of times you’ve probably seen this before.

When should we use from to when should we use Between and.

they mean the same thing, It’s just about how you use them from goes with to between goes with and.

Just remember that and you’re pretty much OK.

You can use it to talk about both of these to talk about months, years, times.

So it’s extremely useful.

as long as you feel comfortable using these, We’re talking about a range, beginning here, ending here.

OK so let’s try it.

from June 8th 2014 to July 17th 2014, The Website will be down.

OK from June 8 2014 to July 17th 2014, The Website will be down.

One thing we can do here when we’re talking about, this range this range when the Website will be down or not working, is that we can notice the year here and here, these two are the same.

if they’re different we have to say both.

In fact we can probably leave out the second one and we usually do that when we’re reading a list of things which has the same noun for each one.

I want to eat Italian food, Spanish food, French food and Indian food.

Or we could just say one of those, I want to eat Italian, French, Indian and Spanish food.

OK, Now for this one we could go from June 8th to July 17th 2014, The Website will be down

from June 8th 2000 14th to July 17th, The Website will be down.

That’s OK too.

That’s OK too.

for things like food, it would be the second one or the last one and for the dates or the times, it can be it can be either one honestly.

Now how can we do this with between an end.

Well it’s it’s pretty easy.

I would say between, between June 8th 2014 and July 17th, that’s it.

Everything else is the same.

So it’s exactly the same.

The only difference is, this one has two and this one has and they’re both talking about a period of time.

Now let’s let’s just do a quick example with actual times we are only open from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

And if someone is speaking this they probably won’t say pm, they’ll probably just say we are only open from four to seven, because no place is open from 4:00 am to 7:00 am.

Well, maybe some fast food restaurants.

We could also then say, we are only open between four and seven.

You get the idea.

You get the idea, pretty simple, pretty basic.

Same thing for years from 2013 to 2018, Then you can say something that happened.

Mary was living in Canada.

Whatever you want to say there.

OK.

So this is pretty simple.

Exactly the same.

Just need to remember which one goes with and which one goes with too.