Top 10 Ways to Give Criticism in English

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hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome

back to top words today we’re going to

talk about 10 ways to give criticism so

let’s go what do you think about the

first expression is what do you think

about wha blah what do you think about

something something so you say what do

you think about and then you suggest a

change to the item you are criticizing

or to the work you’re criticizing so

what do you think about bla bla bla

you’re giving advice or you’re giving a

suggestion so for example what do you

think about removing some of the effects

I think it would be better if I think it

would be better if I think it would be

better if so try to make this shirt I

think it would be better if bla bla bla

so again you suggest a change so

something you think is an improvement or

would be an improvement to the current

work or to the current situation in a

sentence I think it would be better if

you made the videos shorter I’m not sure

I like I’m not sure I like I’m not sure

I like so you can say hmm this is sort

of like an unsure feeling and I don’t

know feeling about a certain work or a

certain situation so I’m not sure I like

this I’m not sure I like that and you

can point to or mention a specific thing

you dislike or maybe you don’t like very

much

about the situation or about the work in

a sentence I’m not sure I like this part

how about if you the next expression is

how about if you bla bla bla how about

if you do something so how about a few

and recommend a change so recommend a

different course of action recommend the

listener do something or change

something so how about a few order pizza

instead of cooking that difficult meal

tonight it takes too much time or how

about a few

dye your hair back to its original color

I think you looked nicer that way so

give some suggestion give your advice

after this expression how about if you

it’s a little bit soft but it’s a good

way a soft way to give your criticism in

a sentence how about if you include more

information about your project you can

improve this by the next one is is quite

a direct way to give criticism so you

might hear this maybe from a teacher or

a professor or maybe an editor of some

kind like you could improve this by you

could improve this by blah blah blah so

I would use the gerund form of the verb

here you can improve this by changing

you can improve this by adding you can

improve this by subtracting something

like that so using the gerund form of

the verb there could be good so this

expression suggests this work the

situation whatever you’re discussing

could be better

this or the speaker thinks it could be

better and they are suggesting how to

make it better so you could improve this

by talking slower you can improve this

by cooking some interesting side dishes

to accompany the meal for example in a

sentence you could improve this by

explaining in more detail have you

thought about have you thought about

have you thought about is a good way to

kind of as another soft way to give

criticism to give a recommendation to

the listener like have you thought about

spending a little more time on this

project or have you thought about

studying this topic a little more in

depth or have you thought about talking

to this person so give your criticism as

a light suggestion have you thought

about blah blah blah in a sentence

have you thought about adding some

images to your presentation for example

so that’s a way to give constructive

criticism maybe you could the next

expression is maybe you could maybe you

could Papa blah so maybe you could again

very soft suggestion a way to give some

constructive criticism so for example

maybe you could maybe you could write

this in a different font or maybe you

could prepare this in a different

software or maybe you could call a

little earlier next time for example so

again a very light suggestion but it

implies criticism that things the

situation could be improved in another

sentence maybe you could share with the

marketing team for some more specific

feedback I think you should the next

expression is I think you should I think

you should I think you should is just a

useful opinion phrase or a useful

recommendation phrase I think you should

go home or I think you should stop

drinking so these are small criticisms

right like a little bit of criticism

something the speaker thinks can be

improved you should go home you should

stop drinking you should exercise more

these are small criticisms a little in a

way so I think you should is a very easy

way to give constructive criticism in a

professional setting also so like I

think you should think a little more

deeply about this plan or I think you

should talk to your team about this

project for example in another sentence

I think you should revise this section

for clarity this sucks

now let’s go to a couple expressions for

criticism that are very rude until now

up until this point I’ve talked about

constructive criticism so how to explain

you think an improvement is possible

however to criticize without being

constructive just to criticize just to

make a negative comment these are a few

ways to do it two ways I’ll talk about

the next one is this sucks this sucks or

that sucks that sucks as well sucks

does not mean like to pull air from one

place to another the expression this

sucks that sucks it sucks means it is

very bad the situation is just is not

good it’s a very very casual very direct

somewhat rude phrase that expresses

criticism so if you are unhappy with the

situation you

could say huh this sucks about the

situation like my train is late this

sucks I’m late for work now or my boss

forgot to pay me this sucks

so something that just is not a good

situation we can use it in that case but

you might also see this on TV especially

in like reality TV shows to express

criticism for like show contestants so

maybe you’ve seen like a cooking show

where like the chef the chef in the show

the judge is super mean is super angry

the contestant cooks something and it’s

bad and they might say this sucks so

it’s a very direct rather rude

expression to express criticism of

someone’s work too so like your

presentation sucks or you can use it in

past tense that sucked

your performance sucked today so again

very direct very rude I would feel very

very unhappy if someone told me that but

it is an expression you can use so if

you’ve heard that like this sucks

especially on TV that’s what it means

the situation is bad or something that

happened was unpleasant not good very

bad this sucks

in a sentence really mom I can’t go out

tonight that sucks this is not good

another one that’s just it’s just pure

criticism no improvement nothing

constructive another expression is this

is not good this is not good so again

especially for like food or drink like

I’ve had a I drink a beer a couple

months ago there was like greenish blue

colored and the flavor was bad and

actually my friend said yeah that beer

is not good it’s just there’s nothing we

can do we can’t change the flavor of the

beer it’s just not good so in those

situations you can say huh and this is

not good or that’s not good so like a

restaurant for example you can criticize

a restaurant by saying yeah that

restaurant is not good like we can’t

speak directly to the restaurant and say

you should improve your restaurant by

doing this and it’s like just to share a

critical opinion you can say this is not

good that’s not good these are not good

those

not good you can use not good to express

just flat criticism just regular

criticism in that case in attendance I

had a bite of the steak and wow it is

not good so those are 10 ways to give

criticism some of them most of them are

constructive ways to give criticism some

of them are very casual and direct ways

to give straight criticism just to

complain essentially so think about them

carefully the next time you want to help

someone improve I hope that these were

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