The Killer Trailer
Transcript
Stick to your plan.
Trust no one.
Stick to the plan.
Forbid empathy.
Stick to the plan.
Anticipate, don’t improvise.
Stick to your plan.
Never yield an advantage.
Stick to the plan.
Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight.
Ask yourself, “What’s in it for me?”
Stick to the plan.
Trust no one.
Empathy is weakness.
Weakness is vulnerability.
This is what it takes if you want to succeed.
Simple.
Vocabulary List
stick to
(phrasal verb) to continue doing something
forbid
(verb) to refuse to allow something
empathy
(noun) the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person
improvise
(verb) to create or perform something without prior planning
yield
(verb) to give way to someone or something
vulnerability
(noun) the state of being exposed to danger or harm
Grammar Lesson
In this lesson, we will:
- observe to as infinitive marker and preposition
- observe an adjective clause and build sentences using the pattern
- observe a noun clause and build sentences using the pattern
1. TO
Stick to your plan.
Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight.
This is what it takes if you want to succeed.
To can function as:
- an infinitive marker (to + base form)
- a preposition (to + noun)
Stick to your plan.
your plan = noun phrase
to = preposition
Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight.
fight = base form
to = infintive marker
This is what it takes if you want to succeed.
succeed = base form
to = infinitive marker
2. ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight.
the battle = noun phrase
you’re paid to fight = reduced adjective clause describing the noun phrase “the battle”
This is a reduced adjective clause because the relative pronoun that is omitted.
Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight.
= Fight only the battle that you’re paid to fight.
that
= relative pronoun which start the adjective clause
We can form sentences with these patterns:
- Subject + verb + noun + that + subject + verb
- Subject + verb + noun + subject + verb
This is the book that I was talking about yesterday.
= This is the book I was talking about yesterday.
That is the company that she worked for last year.
= That is the company she worked for last year.
Choose the course that you like.
= Choose the course you like.
3. NOUN CLAUSE
This is what it takes if you want to succeed.
This = subject
is = verb
what it takes = noun clause (acting as subject complement)
Subject complement is an element that describes the subject of a sentence.
We can form sentences with these patterns:
- This + is + noun clause
- This + is + question word + subject + verb
This is where I live.
This is what I know.
This is what he gave me.
This is who I am.
This is where I met her.
This is what they don’t understand.