Lena's Slow English #68 Going Over to the Other Side

"GPT, I'm on the bus home now. When I heard the sounds, castles, birds, summer came, and then a storm. The concert is over."
----Chat GPT

Welcome back, Lena😊🚌

The sounds of the concert are still in your heart, aren't they?🎻 The concert
is over, but the sounds are still there inside you.

The beautiful sounds are still in my heart.

"Is the concert over in the past?"

😃🖐️
That's right!
The concert is over.
So, it's a thing of the past😊

🎻 The concert is over.
(The concert has finished.)
When you look at it now,
it means it's already finished.

In Lena's "English Clock," it's like this:

🕐 The concert is about to start
→ The concert is starting.
→ The concert is going to start.

🕐 Now
→ The concert is over.
(It's already finished now.)

🕐 Remembering and talking about the concert
→ The concert ended.
(The concert finished.)

Therefore,

* is over → the state of things now
* ended → something that happened in the past

🖐️ Lena, can I ask you one thing?
Earlier you said,

The beautiful sounds moved me.
Is this 'moved',

💛 about now?
Or
⏰ about the time of the concert?
Which one do you think it is?🌸

"It's both."

😳🖐️✨
Exactly!!
It's both😊
That's the interesting part of English.

🎻 At the time of the concert

the sounds moved your heart.

➡️ The beautiful sounds moved me.
This is an event from that time😊
⸻
But, even now on the bus,
"My heart is still being moved."

If you want to say that feeling more clearly,

The beautiful sounds are still moving me.

You can say this too😊
⸻
Therefore,

🌸 moved me
→ My heart was moved at the concert.

🌸 are still moving me
→ My heart is still being moved now.

Today, Lena,

you discovered that the "past" and the "now" exist together😊

The concert is in the past.
But,
the resonance of those sounds is still in your heart now.
That is a very wonderful thing🌸🖐️

"The concert is over."
"Over what?"

🌸 The very first image of 'over' is,

➡️ To cross over.
➡️ To go to the other side.

✈️ The plane is flying over the sea.
(The plane is flying
over the sea.)

🌊 Over the sea to the other side
⸻

🌸 And...
🏁 Goal!
🚶➡️🏁➡️

It starts and reaches the goal, so it ends.

"To the other side of the finish line?"
"Going to the other side?"

Yes!😃
That image is very good✨

So,

🌊 over the sea
→ Crossing over the sea.

🏁 The game is over.
→ The game crossed the finish line.
So it's finished.

🎻 The concert is over.
→ The concert went to the end
and is now finished.

"Does 'going to the other side' mean it's included in 'over'???"

Yes!!!
That's it😊

If you think of 'over' as having the image of

"to the other side,"

many 'overs' will connect for you.

For example,

🌊 over the sea
➡️ To the other side of the sea.

🏁 The concert is over.
➡️ Crossing over the end, to the other side.

🌳 The tree fell over.
➡️ Crossing over the straight position, falling to the other side.

🌍 all over the world
➡️ Here and there all over the world.

💧 Water is all over the floor.
➡️ It spread here and there on the floor.

"Because it goes to the other side,
because it goes all over the place,
it ends.
When the concert was over, everyone went from the stage to the door on the other side. So, the concert is over."

----Chat GPT

You connected what you saw,
Lena, with 'over'.

Over means:

* To cross
* To pass over
* To the other side
* To finish
* Everywhere, but

🌊 over the sea
➡️ To the other side of the sea.

🏁 The concert is over.
➡️ Crossing the end, to the other side.

🌳 The tree fell over.
➡️ Crossing from a straight position to the other side.

🌍 all over the world
➡️ All over the world.

💧 Water is all over the floor.
➡️ Spread all over the floor.
But

For Rena, they all connect
with the same image.

"Yeah, the Earth is round,
water spills and is round too,
and 'to the other side' feels like
a big curve.
So, you cross a line, go to the other side,
and it's all over."

----Chat GPT
There are people among those studying English
who find things like this.
That's a very good way to remember it.😊

Rena felt happy yet
a bit lonely after the concert.
I kept asking GPT, 'Is over round?'
and it said, 'If you want to write that Rena thought so, you can write it,'
so it remained a bit unresolved.

English continues