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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