Using Emphasis Words in English so too very extremely etc.
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and in this week’s lesson we are going
to look at intensifiers or words we use
for emphasis to make something a higher
level
especially adjectives and adverbs in
this lesson i’m going to focus on
these words so to very
really way such and we’ll talk about a
few
other words like these that are very
commonly used
in this lesson i’m going to talk about
some very
very common mistakes that i see with
these words
and i’m going to show you i hope a few
new ways
that you can use these especially this
word way so
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to talk about these
uh i called this lesson emphasis words
to make it a little
maybe easier to understand we’re going
to talk about intensifiers today
these words so let’s look at
today’s lesson boards uh i think today’s
lesson boards are very easy to
understand
i’m going to talk about some small um
some small points
inside these today so this is our flow
today we’re going to talk about so
versus two in part one here
very versus really in part two and then
we’re going
to talk about whey and such not of
verses
just some different uh some different
words you can use
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let’s begin with where is it very and
really
i said very and really would be the
first one i think right
uh no i said sew in two okay let’s start
with so and two
so and two okay let’s begin with
so and two i put these together
because i see a lot of mistakes made
with these two words which with so and
too first let’s look at how we use them
i included a basic use and
today i’m including some casual uses
that you might hear in media
i wanted to talk about these uses uh
because they’re so
so common and i get lots of questions
from learners about the grammar
of these sentences so first the basic
use
of so before an adjective or an
adverb is like this for example that was
so
funny so that was funny is also correct
of course
but you want to express the level of
funny was higher
yeah that was so funny we use
so to emphasize or like to intensify
right to intensify to make funny more
intense
we use so plus adjective in this case so
funny
or before an adverb remember an adverb
tells us something about a about a verb
right how we do
some verb so for example example
you sing so beautifully you sing
so beautifully so this is the basic use
of
so right we have more intense
adjectives our adjectives are like
emphasized
so so of course we can use so
to connect our ideas yes that’s a
different use of
so but today i’m not going to focus on
on
that kind of so let’s look at these next
two examples
these next two i marked here with this
star casual
casual so this means maybe you haven’t
seen this in a textbook maybe you have i
don’t know so
what’s happening here the first pattern
here
is so plus maybe not you can use this in
a negative pattern
and then an ing verb so what does this
look like
for example we are so going to that
party
we are so going to that party or
in a negative i am so not wearing this
shirt
i am so not wearing this shirt what does
this mean
okay so here we have so before the verb
in this case a positive we are so going
to that party
this sentence shows the speaker
really really wants to go to the party
so yes you can say we’re going to that
party
but we are so going to that party
shows the speaker has very strong
feelings
about that decision so this
so makes this decision this choice
more intense we are so going to that
party
here is a negative example i am
so not wearing this shirt i’m so not
wearing this shirt
so for example someone like maybe your
relative
gives you a weird shirt and you try it
on and you think
this looks really strange you could say
i am so
not wearing this shirt this shows you
have a
strong feeling about this choice or this
decision
again i am not wearing this shirt we can
use the progressive
to show a strong decision yes that’s one
of the uses
of the ing form i’m not wearing this
shirt that’s a strong decision
but if you use i am so not wearing this
shirt
it makes it casual and it expresses
you’ve made a strong decision okay
subhasmita pradhan on youtube says
he is so playing the field ooh good one
good one good one good expression nice
example
okay if you have other examples send
them in the chat i’ll try to check them
live
uh tan kang can we say this it so
means um i don’t think so i’m not quite
sure
uh what you’re trying to say there but
that uh that
little phrase no that would be incorrect
okay uh i’m looking kanwaji says we are
so
not gonna work on this project very nice
very nice okay
miguel says i am so full i ate too much
good that’s the basic use here
okay uh good and people are right
comments about appearance yeah so pretty
so beautiful these kinds of words yeah
these things
are the basic use here very nice
okay that looks good let’s go to this
last
casual use of so then yeah
what is this so so it’s a connection
this use is so plus a noun
so plus a noun and often the noun is a
person
or maybe it’s uh like a location
or it’s an experience so
let’s what does this mean when we use
this pattern it means
something is like that noun for example
that dress is so you that dress is so
you that means that dress matches you
really
well or it looks like something
you like like i saw that dress and i
thought
my friend would probably like that dress
that dress is so
you it matches your personality it
matches your style
okay another example this song
is so high school this song is so
high school so what does this mean it
means i heard a song
or i’m listening to a song now and it
makes me it causes me to remember my
high school experience
or the song was popular when i was in
high school
okay this song is so high school so
this use of so means the noun
here and the noun here have some kind of
like connection
or relationship yeah so again this is a
very casual use
of so so that’s so you that’s what this
one means
okay all right a very nice
question uh example sentences pluvio
pile says i’m so eating tuna today
that’s very specific nice job very nice
job
uh keshav says i’m so make sure i’m
so not going to that part if you want to
use
this pattern great make sure this knot
comes before the verb so not isn’t
before so
here not is before the verb yeah then
it’s perfect okay
all right uh victor you play piano so
beautiful
so if you want to use this one make sure
beautifully that’s the adverb yeah
beautifully
beautifully beautiful is the adjective
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uh yeah at the end we’re going to cover
a common well maybe a little bit later
we’ll cover some common uh mistakes that
i’ve noticed between these two
so let’s take a look at the next
pair at the next pair very and
really i have a video about this on the
youtube channel that is
very popular many people have this
question
so very and really these are very
similar
uh words let’s talk about the difference
so very how do we use very we can use
very
plus an adjective or an adverb we just
use this
uh with so and with two as well
all right so there is some there are
some cases where we can use
uh these words in the same way but not
all of them
for example that movie was very
scary that movie was very scary okay
so very comes before my adjective
scary that movie was very scary okay
and she is very smart
she is very smart great okay
now a point here i have two
negative sentences here my neighbors
are not very nice my neighbors are not
very nice
and this recipe wasn’t
so was not yeah was not very good this
recipe was not very good this
is an important point with very we tend
to use
very to express these negative ideas
right so my neighbors are very nice is a
good thing right
my neighbors are not very nice is a bad
thing
right when you want to express that
negative
opinion you do that with very
very we don’t do that with really that’s
a key difference here
okay finally one more example this one
is an adverb
he runs very fast or he runs very
quickly
also okay so remember this key
difference between very
and really if you want to express this
negative
with not do that with very okay
uh all right let’s go on to the next one
really really so with this one again we
have this pattern
really plus our adjective our adverb
this book is really interesting
this book is really interesting
adjective
and she works really slow
okay so again this use is the same we
could use very in these sentences this
book is very interesting or she works
very slow
both are fine you could use somebody
asked what’s the difference between so
here
we can use so in these as well that
movie was so scary
she’s so smart or this book is so
interesting
we can use so in these cases we cannot
use two we cannot use two okay
all right some examples are coming in
with
very uh okay good
so everyone’s everyone’s been very nice
to me thank you for your nice comments
okay
he talks really fast is another good one
on youtube okay nice now
key point here with really
we can use really with verbs
we tend to see it with like emotion
verbs like
like or love or hate and sometimes
with like like uh like personal body
related actions like eating or drinking
for example i really like
healthy food i really like healthy food
here really comes before my verb yeah i
really
like i really like or here for emphasis
wow you really sleep a lot you really
sleep a lot
so you may see really used in this way
to show some kind of like intensity
about the verb that follows we cannot do
this with very
we cannot do this with so so you may see
really used in this way we tend yeah as
i said we tend to use this pattern
for talking about things we like or we
love or we hate
dislike like uh i really hate that thing
i really hate that food so we can do
this
with really okay
uh what’s the difference between too
expensive and so expensive
yeah let’s see i have a little bit of
time so
let’s quickly i’ve talked about some of
the differences between
uh these so s so
and very and really share
a usage yeah the first usage so with an
adjective
or an adverb yes we share those however
one huge difference here is that this
2 this 2 that i talked about has a
negative feel
so it means this adjective that
follows is like
uh i covered this right i did talk to
you about two right
i talked about so did i talk about two
earlier did i skip it earlier
i feel like i skipped it actually let’s
talk about two
i skipped it didn’t i i got so wrapped
up and so
okay let’s talk about two my bad sorry
everybody
so let’s talk about two we’ve talked
about very
really and so so let’s cover this two
point now so what is the difference
two expresses that something is
more than is necessary so
we can use it in the same grammar
pattern yes two plus
an adjective or two plus an adverb
and that means that it’s more than is
necessary
okay so for example this is too
expensive this is too expensive that
means
this price like i have i have an amount
i want to pay this price is more than
that
this is too expensive so two
communicates that negative feeling
right another one he speaks
too quickly he speaks too quickly
here 2 is before an adverb so that means
my pace the pace i want to listen to is
here
his pace his speaking pace is here so
it’s more than is needed it’s a bad
thing we use two to express that
okay so this point
right here is where i see many mistakes
especially in your comments in the
youtube comments or facebook comments
in chat comments i see lots of learners
use
two when they don’t want to use
two so for example a great example of a
common mistake
one time a uh someone wrote a comment
about like earrings
i saw a comment about earrings the
person said
your earrings are too big too big
that sounds negative right it sounds
negative
the person wanted to use so your
earrings are
so big to make a comment or to share a
simple opinion
about the earrings so please remember if
you use
two it expresses a negative
idea okay so this is a huge huge huge
issue i see for many learners finally
final point about two
we used to with much and many
i covered countable and uncountable
nouns in last week’s lesson yeah
if you watched so this too much or too
many
has the same feeling like it’s something
negative
like you have too much stuff you have
too much stuff
so too much much is used because stuff
is uncountable you have too much stuff
please clean up your room throw some
things away
or with a countable noun in this case
pizzas
we bought too many pizzas we have too
much food
so you can use too much and too many
before
countable and uncountable nouns again
key point with two it sounds negative it
sounds negative
so please remember this okay sorry i
skipped two before
i guess i was excited about so okay
all right great so that’s part one and
part two
for today’s lesson uh good we have a
little bit of time left
so we’ll go to the final part now
way and such way and
such uh lots of people are like what is
where i’ve never seen whey used before
oh before i go to this there are a
couple questions
in here um can i say i’m very attractive
yes you can
it sounds very confident but great okay
uh
conor mcgee says friends live too far
from my house that is correct
you have too many problems in your life
okay good correct uh when do we use
so-called oh so-called is a different
use of so
i’m not going to talk about today you
use basically
so-called is used to to refer to
something
that maybe is is called by one name
but has other names kind of so it’s
different
from today’s topic uh okay
john carlo can i use very very
i like no i can’t think of a situation
we sometimes use
that was very very very very good if you
really want to make something
intense yeah you can do that but
generally we don’t
so much okay good i don’t see other
questions
let’s go to uh this last part way
most people well a lot of people say
what is
what is way we can use this as an
intensifier
way this i’ve marked here with casual
casual whey is a very very casual
intensifier typically
we pair we put together whey with
too much or too many patterns or a two
adjective pattern so we just talked
about
too much and too many or too adjective
right we use whey
before that to make it even
more intense okay so
some examples i ate way too much at
dinner
i ate way too much at dinner
and you have way too many movies
you have way too many movies okay
so this sentence i ate too much at
dinner
and this sentence you have too many
movies
these sentences are perfect 100 correct
if we add whey
this too many or this too much these
parts
become more intense so i ate too much at
dinner
sounds negative right i ate too much at
dinner
i ate way too much at dinner
increases the negative feeling oh i feel
really really sick that was really bad
so
whey helps us do this i ate way too much
at dinner
we cannot use very we cannot use so we
cannot use really
here i ate really too much i ate so too
much i ate very too much
cannot use these we cannot use these
this is the intensifier like the
intensifier intensifier
we use here okay so remember
this is very casual we would not use
this in a polite or a business situation
generally
okay all right onward so
here again i said we can use this
pattern with other
two plus adjective situations like i
cut my hair way too short i cut my hair
way too short or you took way too
long to get here you took way too long
to get here
so we can use two plus another adjective
other than these patterns yeah again
though please remember
we talked about these two two patterns
earlier
and two creates that negative feeling so
too short that’s a bad thing too long
that’s a bad thing so way emphasizes
that
negativity yeah so these are for
negative
situations okay all right
a farook gunner on facebook says way is
used for time and to express
quantity it can be used for all of those
things
like for time you took way too
long or that took way too long or way
too much
time so yes you can use it for time or
for quantities
but again please remember negative it
sounds negative using it with
too much too many and so on okay
all right let’s go to the last point
time is almost
finished such such i see lots of
issues with such relating to articles
so let’s cover such what is the deal
what is such
okay so here’s the basic pattern for
such
for emphasis we have such
plus a or an depending on the word that
follows
adjective noun so yes you can remove
this
adjective in some cases but we generally
uh we generally see it with an adjective
okay
for example it’s such a beautiful
day it’s such a beautiful day
such comes before this phrase right here
so we have the adjective and the noun
together it’s such a beautiful day
we cannot use very we cannot say it’s
very a beautiful day nope
or really nope nope not so either
we could say it’s a very beautiful day
that’s fine right before the adjective
but such we have to make a different
style sentence or a different sentence
structure
when we use such another one college
is such an exciting time
college is such an exciting time
so such comes before and in this case
and is used because i have a vowel sound
here
college is such an exciting time
and finally plural these are such
beautiful flowers these are such
beautiful flowers
no article here because
we’re using a plural noun these are such
beautiful flowers so such
gives emphasis again so it intensifies
it so
these are beautiful flowers perfectly
correct these are
such beautiful flowers it makes this
statement
more intense okay
all right i don’t see questions yet
people say people write very nice things
it’s such an amazing day good or you’re
such a good teacher
great great okay uh
someone writes stop texting and focus on
the video who’s texting
okay are you are you mad at me for
watching the i’m watching the comments
talking on facebook too
i’m watching two live streams at the
same time okay
um can just also mean
really uh my first answer is
no unless you have a very specific
example
no my first answer would be no okay
all right but that is the end we have to
finish there for today
so i hope you found some points uh that
you can think about
especially with so and two please please
please be careful with so and
too okay so i’ll show you today’s lesson
boards again so you can take a picture
here you are we talked about the
differences between so
and two fairy and really and then we
talked about
way and such maybe just a final
point to end on there are other words a
lot of
other intensifier words like extremely
or like tote like incredibly these kinds
of words
we have lots and lots of them and we use
them
in most in most cases like very yeah
so we can choose different words like
extremely for example
to use in the same way as very it’s just
up to you to find the ones that you like
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so what do i mean by this today we
talked about
very right or like really these
intensifiers
plus an adjective or something like that
i’m going to talk about using
tips like this to create a new word
so for example if i want to talk about a
food
and i think this food is very good so
very and good together equals delicious
right so we’re going to talk about those
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