The 3 everyday words you should try to AVOID

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with Lucy today I’ve got an

important lesson for you about the three

words you should never ever say or use

in English this lesson is going to help

you improve all aspects of your English

but in particular your vocabulary and

your writing but it will also help with

speaking listening and storytelling as

well it’s also going to be especially

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get on with the lesson the first word

that you should never ever say all right

in English is dare I even say it it’s

very now I’ve spoken about this horrible

little word before but I think it’s

essential that you understand why you

should never use it especially when

writing and god forbid in essays in

exams very is a very weak word see what

I did there

it doesn’t communicate enough

information and in my opinion it’s one

of the most useless words in English

language all it does is magnify another

word so how can you avoid using it and

what should you say instead if anything

I’m going to give you some options and

I’m going to give you loads of

vocabulary that you can use that will

make you sound like a total pro short

for professional first I’m going to ask

you a question which of these sounds

better the audience were very scared by

the very loud noise or the audience were

very scared

by the deafening noise I mean I think

the second one sounds better what have I

done I have replaced very and the

adjective very loud with one powerful

adjective that serves Barry’s purpose

but what about the audience were they

very scared can we think of something

better

how about petrified the audience were

petrified by the deafening noise so much

better and we’ve used less words which

is much better for essay writing because

you have word limits here are some

examples of words that you can use

instead of very plus adjectives very bad

atrocious very poor destitute very risky

perilous very tired exhausted very

hungry

ravenous that is one of my favorite

words I think what a fantastic word

ravenous and very clean spotless

I actually think finding these more

powerful adjectives is loads of fun and

it makes your writing and your speech so

much more descriptive plus you

automatically sound like you know so

much more English because you’ve got all

these words that sometimes even natives

don’t know I think this calls for some

homework yes even in 3 YouTube videos

you do get homework I want you to

comment below with at least three

alternatives for very plus an adjective

let’s see how many we can get under the

video and make sure to check out

everyone else’s responses so we have

this huge resource for everyone to use

go go go comment 3 write the next one oh

what a terrible word said said it’s such

a boring word it doesn’t tell me

anything

now the word replacements I’m going to

tell you are more geared towards writing

but it will help you with your speaking

and definitely your storytelling when

you’re recounting a lot of dialogue so

why shouldn’t you say said because it’s

bloody boring that’s why read this I’m

leaving you forever

she said no he said how dull is that

let’s try again

but changing up the dialogue words I’m

leaving you forever she announced he

cried see so much better right we could

take it one step further with adverbs as

well but be careful with these because

sometimes it can make the writing a

little bit busy scatter them in every

now and again I’m leaving you forever

she announced powerfully no he cried

pathetically see so jazzy now isn’t it

now I am a very generous teacher and I

have curated a list of amazing dialogue

words that you can use in your writing

and in your speech but a quick Google

search will leave you with hundreds of

alternatives so make sure you do your

revision I’ve organized mine

intersections anger bellowed snapped

cautioned affection consoled comforted

soothed excitement babbled gushed

exclaimed fear stammered gasped screamed

determination declared insisted

commanded can you tell I’m really

enjoying this lessened happiness side

gushed laughed sadness sobbed moaned

lamented show conflict sneered scolded

the Howard to show amusement teased

chortled guffawed and for storytelling

recounted recalled resumed i hope those

were really useful for you as i said

before a quick google search and you’ll

have pages and pages of alternatives 2/3

are you ready for the last word that you

should never ever use it is thing yeah I

know awful isn’t it isn’t it just the

most awful word the most frustrating and

annoying word in the world my boyfriend

always shouts to me loose where did you

put the thing and I reply what thing and

then he says you know let’s

it’s infuriating words like sing and

stuff are convenient placeholders when

we can’t remember the name of something

or we get distracted we use them instead

it’s actually really hard to kick this

habit in conversation so I’m not so

strict with that but it’s so important

that we don’t use them in writing that’s

just lazy

there is always a better word for

example I looked at all of the things I

felt sad you don’t know anything about

what’s making me feel sad how about if I

say it like this I looked at all my

mother’s childhood Teddy’s and

possessions I felt sad there I tell you

loads of information about the situation

and you understand why I feel so sad

seems obvious but it’s amazing how many

people use thing in their writing in

conclusion stop saying these three

things I’ve said it before but it’s very

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aspects of your English but in

particular your vocabulary where’s my

finger okay so how can you avoid using

it and what should you say instead

scrap that scrap that Connor no I have

curated a list of some fantastic

dialogue baboon show amusement babbled

gushed but stop saying these three

things places are limited so make sure

you sign up soother rather than super if

you have any questions about there man

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