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Okay, let's start. Today you will learn how to replace the word look in a sentence if you want to be more concise. I'll give you an example depending on the context. In the previous episodes, I gave several examples of terms or expressions that you may use instead of look.

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learning English with me. We'll start with the word to scan.

When we look over something quickly, we scan it.

Let me explain.

Imagine that you have to get out of the house and you're in a hurry.

Surprise, surprise.

You can't find your keys or your sunglasses. By the way,

that never happened to me. I was just kidding. Unfortunately, that occurs to me quite often.

So what do you do in this situation? You start looking for your keys or your sunglasses.

Or you could say that you're scanning the room for your keys. Can you see? That's a more precise

word to use in this situation. We might scan a room at a party to see if our friend is there. For example,

I scan the room to see if Mary was there. Or, I need to scan some diagrams for my PowerPoint

presentation. Okay, let's use another word. For example, the word I.

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