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
useful if you want to sound more
professional but more about that later
before we get started I’d like to
mention one other thing that can
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language skills
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that’s up to 807 euros but first let’s
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
important oh I did a funny I made a jig
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you soon for another lesson yeah all
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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