Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 298. Okay. The title of today's
lesson is you don't say crash with. You say you crash into someone or something.
So you should always say that you crash into a person or into a thing , and you
don't just crash a thing as well. That's, that's another one that we cover here. So
let's look at the first example. Of course, with the X this is wrong. The
breaks of that taxi failed. Yeah. If your, if your brakes fail, it means you're
trying to use your brakes but they stop working. You know, if they kept
getting weaker and weaker and weaker and and one day they just won't work on you
at all. Then we say, they fail. So the brakes of that taxi failed. And it
crashed with a bus. No. You don't crash with somebody or something. You crash
into. So of course , the correct way to say it here was the brakes at that taxi
failed and it crashed into a bus. Okay., Let's look at number two. That taxi driver
was drunk and he crashed a lamppost. All right. Now this is a case where it's
not with you just say that you crashed something directly. You can't do that
either. So that's wrong. The correct way would be
to say that truck driver was drunk and he crashed into a lamppost.
He can't crash the lamppost directly. All right , and let's look at the last one.
This is with a person. I tried to run to catch the bus and I crashed with an old
lady, or I crashed an old lady. Both of those would be wrong. Yeah.. We can use it
with people. if as long as one person is running hard or running fast and they
hit the other person, especially if the person falls down. So of course, the
correct way to say it here would be I tried to run to catch the bus and I
crashed into an old lady. Okay. I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank
you for your time. Bye-bye.