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Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.

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--sentence--

Good idea. 4 p.m. is perfect. It gives us enough time to BLANK and wrap up other tasks BLANK.

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prepare

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This means to get ready for something.

beforehand

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This means earlier than a particular time or event.

--explanation--

To prepare means to make yourself or something ready for an activity or event. For example:

We need to prepare the slides before the presentation. – This means getting everything ready in advance.

Beforehand means earlier than a particular event or time. It's used more formally than before. While beforehand is used as an adverb to describe time in advance of something, before can be a preposition or conjunction. For example:

• Please review the agenda beforehand. – This means the person should check the agenda before the meeting starts.

• I arrived before the meeting. – This means the arrival happened earlier. You don't use beforehand in this case. When you want to talk about something that happened earlier and say what came after, use before instead.

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