Learn The 10 Words for Persuading People

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hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is alicia and today we’re going

to talk about

10 words for persuading people so let’s

go urge the first word

is urge urge so to urge

someone to do something i urge you to

blah blah blah i urged him to blah blah

blah

i urged her to blah blah blah so you’ll

hear i’m using

i urge you to or i so we use

urge plus the object uh so him or her

or them whatever to do something to take

an action so

i urge you to buy a new car i urge you

to get a new job i urge you to talk to

your boss

so to urge someone is to strongly

recommend them to do

something i strongly recommend blah blah

blah um

we’ll talk about the word recommend in

just a moment but i

urge you to do something urge is not

really such a common word for persuading

i think

in casual conversation you might see

this in

like news reports from for example

politicians

or maybe like policy makers or kind of

people in influential positions like i

urge you to

vote for such and such person you might

hear it in those cases

but in everyday conversation we don’t

use

urge so much so in a sentence i urge you

to make a change

recommend the next word is recommend

recommend is a very common very simple

way to make

a suggestion a suggestion based on your

opinion

so i recommend you uh drink a lot of

water or i recommend you eat healthy

or i recommend he so you’ll notice i

recommend you

i recommend he i recommend she not i

recommend

to uh blah blah blah but i recommend you

do something i recommend you take a

vacation i recommend you get a new

haircut

i recommend plus uh who who are you

recommending this to you can do that

um also you can say you can follow uh

the recommendation you can follow the

verb with

like a noun phrase like i recommend

toothpaste

i recommend restaurant abc for dinner

tonight so you can follow recommend

with the item you are recommending so i

recommend

product a for this i recommend product b

for that

or you can follow it with a a pronoun so

i you me

i recommend well not i i recommend you

blah blah blah or i recommend

noun okay in a sentence he recommended i

see a doctor consider

the next word is consider consider so

consider to consider

something means to think about something

consider is a little more formal than

think about so this is think about maybe

consider is a step above uh think about

so please consider blah blah blah so

please consider

uh plus some noun phrase usually comes

after the verb

consider so uh please consider my new

plan or please consider

your mother’s feelings so again use

consider

in formal situations so please consider

my proposal please consider a

change in the department for example so

use consider in more

formal situations to ask someone

to think about something so please

consider blah blah blah

in a sentence please consider all the

options

you should the next word is you

should you should or the next expression

is you

should blah blah so you should is

perhaps

the most common way to try to persuade

or to give a suggestion to someone

you should blah blah blah i think you

should get a new apartment i think you

should find a new job

i think you should be dating a different

person i think you should

ask for a refund so you should you

should is a very common way to give

advice

what do you think i should do is a way

to ask for it you should blah blah blah

to give your advice or to

try to persuade someone of your opinion

in a sentence i think you should find a

new apartment

suggest okay next word

the next word is suggest suggest so be

careful with your pronunciation with

this word

there are two g’s here it is not sagest

or sagester i don’t even know i’ve heard

some very strange pronunciations

of this word it’s suggest so there’s a g

sound and then it’s followed by a j

sound

suggest quickly happens there suggests

what do you suggest

um that’s a tricky one so practice

slowly sugg

just suggest suggest fun okay

anyway so to suggest something is to

give a very soft recommendation for

something so i suggest you

study every day i suggest you see a

doctor

uh he suggested in the past tense

he suggested we take a vacation or

we suggest a new policy or

why don’t you suggest this to your

manager for example

so suggest is to give a kind of soft

recommendation to just sort of share an

opinion

it’s a sort of soft persuasion okay in

another sentence

can i make a suggestion try

the next word is try try so try

is commonly used just in the command

form try something so like try this food

try that drink

try something so we can use try to

kind of give these very direct

recommendations

it’s a more direct way to try to

persuade someone

of something so it’s probably

best used in cases where you are fairly

close to the other person

so try my new cake or

did you you should try i’ve used you

should you should try

uh this pasta for example or

try my new product if you’re trying to

sell something or try out our new

online course so try is a very

direct and quick and clear way to

persuade someone in a sentence

try new things why don’t

the next expression is why don’t why

don’t blah blah blah

you can use why don’t in the negative

don’t why

don’t we use this this negative form why

don’t you

uh why doesn’t he of course if the if we

uh if we change the sentence a little

bit

why doesn’t he why doesn’t she why don’t

you why don’t we

why don’t they uh so we use this

as a very soft way to make a suggestion

why don’t we see a movie this weekend

why doesn’t he just talk to his

girlfriend

why don’t you tell me more about your

amazing plan uh why don’t we

go to bed so why don’t you or why don’t

we

why don’t why doesn’t he why doesn’t she

we can use these expressions to make a

suggestion please be careful there are

uh depending on your intonation you can

change the meaning of this sentence

for example if i say

why don’t you call me back if i ask in

like that complaining tone like why

don’t you call me back

it sounds very different from ah why

don’t you call me back

like uh it’s make if my second sentence

there ah why don’t you just call me back

later for example

uh sounds like a suggestion however if i

use a complaining tone of voice why

don’t you call me back

it sounds like there’s a uh like a

problem i’m trying to

uh to communicate so be careful here

depending on your intonation you might

um

cause some miscommunication so make it

make you make sure you use

a suggestion intonation why don’t you

blah blah

upward intonation why don’t you call me

back later or why don’t you meet me for

dinner

for example why don’t you meet me for

dinner sounds a lot different than

why don’t you meet me for dinner so

please be careful here

okay in another sentence why don’t you

take a break

how about next expression is how about

how about so you use how about to make a

suggestion

how about we go hiking this weekend how

about we have dinner tonight how about

we get a coffee how about a drink after

work

how about is very casual very

simple easy to use friendly way to make

a suggestion to try to persuade someone

in a very

friendly manner how about an activity

so in a sentence how about a trip to the

mountains this weekend

what do you think about the next

expression is

what do you think about what do you

think about

so what do you think about so not what

do you think about but

what do you think about what do you

think about

activity so what do you think about

going swimming what do you think about

going for drinks tonight what do you

think about studying for the test

together tomorrow

so again we use this as a soft

persuasion

expression so what do you think about

something so asking the

listener what do you think sounds like

you’re asking for their opinion

what do you think about doing this

activity together

it’s like you you’ve made a suggestion

you want to persuade that person

and you’re getting their opinion in

return so in another sentence

what do you think about italian for

dinner tonight

let’s the next word is let’s

let’s so let’s is very interesting

there’s a one common mistake i see a lot

with the word

let’s let’s by default

let’s on its own implies that you are

going to do

something with another person let’s

means

let us let us uh is the expanded form of

let’s let’s is the contracted form of

let us the key here being us so

let’s implies let’s means therefore

that it is the speaker plus uh the

listener

involved in the action so for example

let’s cook something together or

let’s eat or let’s get a drink or

let’s study it sounds already like

there’s

the listener and the speaker are

involved sometimes i hear

let’s study with us something like that

not correct

let’s study you don’t need with in this

case

unless unless you’re talking about a

third party there’s someone else so

let’s study

with uh stevens or like let’s talk

let’s talk about this with stevens let’s

talk about this with the boss

so let’s means the people who are

involved in the conversation

let’s blah blah blah you can add with to

talk about

somebody who is not involved in the

planning conversation right now

so don’t use us here this should be

somebody not

involved in the conversation let’s is

the people involved in the conversation

be very careful here so we use let’s

again as a very

soft way to persuade someone just a

suggestion

a more casual expression let’s talk

about this at the next meeting

let’s talk about this with our manager

tomorrow let’s talk about

i’m doing lots of talking let’s go to

bed i’m tired

for example so using let’s shows that

there are a couple of people

at least the immediate group whoever can

listen at that point in time they’re all

involved there

so keep that in mind let’s is a very

interesting word all right in one more

sentence

let’s go to the movies all right those

are 10 words and 10 expressions you can

use when you’re persuading people i hope

that those are useful for you

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this is how i persuade people i just

advance menacingly towards them until

they agree

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