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Hello everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression. Today's expression is, well, you need to listen carefully, okay?

It's two expressions, two words, two phrases.

The first one, drop off, and the second one, drop off.

One more time, drop off and drop off. Now, now if you listen carefully there is a difference slight difference

in intonation drop off a phrasal verb d r o f f f two words-off, drop-off, that's a noun.

And some people write it as one word, D-R-O-P-O-F,

but most people, I think, write it as hyphenated D-R-P-O-F.

So two words is a verb.

It's a phrasal verb.

One word, it's a noun.

It could be an adjective, too.

So, to drop off means to put something someplace,

especially when you're driving to take someone someplace and let them out of the car. So every day the mailman drops off my mail in the mailbox.

And everyday school buses drop off children at schools.

Okay, this is the idea to drop off.

You take something somewhere and then put it there.

Or someone.

You take someone somewhere and let them out of the car or truck or bus or whatever.

Okay?

So this is the idea to drop off.

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