Words that belong together: Adverb-Adjective Collocations in English
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Does your language have words that just sound good together? In English, these are called collocations. In this important English vocabulary lesson, you'll learn 10 common adverb-adjective combinations. These include expressions such as "seriously injured", "highly probable", "totally wrong", "virtually impossible", "cautiously optimistic", and more! If you want to improve your vocabulary and sound like a native English speaker, this lesson is a must, especially for intermediate and advanced level English students. Take the quiz at www.engvid.com/words-that-belo... and see how high you score!
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That is absolutely delicious. Oh, hey. Hey, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on "Adverb and Adjective Collocations". Now, "collocations" is just another fancy way to say combinations. And specifically, these are adverbs like: "very", "really", "seriously", "incredibly", "absolutely", and adjectives like: "hot", "cold", "injured", "wet", whatever. And these are ones that go together commonly. Okay? So, let me put my coffee down, and we'll get started with the lesson. Today we're going to look at 10 of them.
So, first, we have: "Seriously injured" or "Seriously hurt". If you watch a lot of sports, you will hear this. Okay? So, for example: "She was seriously injured in the 2nd half." Now, for me, when I was around 23-24 years old, I used to play football just a little bit, and one time I was playing and I twisted my ankle, and I heard the muscle rip a little bit. It was very painful, and I was seriously hurt, seriously injured, and I couldn't walk for about two weeks. So it was a... It was a tough time. All right? So, again: "seriously injured", "seriously hurt". You could just say: "hurt", "really hurt", "very hurt", but for some reason, the word "seriously" and the word "injured" have been put together time and time again. They sound beautiful together to people.
Next: "highly probable", "highly likely". So, if something is highly probable, highly likely, it means there is an excellent chance that it will happen. So, in the weather report, you might hear: "Rain is highly probable tomorrow." It is highly probable that it will rain. Okay? So, very likely, very possible or probable. So, again: "highly probable", "highly likely".
Next: "cautiously optimistic". Now, if you are an optimistic person but, you know, something is coming and you're optimistic, but you're carefully optimistic, you're not sure 100% how optimistic to be - you can say: "I'm cautiously optimistic." Okay? So, for example: "I'm cautiously optimistic about the next Star Trek movie." So, I have enjoyed the first two Star Trek movies directed by J. J. Abrams. There's a third one coming where he's the producer, and the director is the guy who did The Fast and the Furious. So, The Fast and the Furious director is doing a Star Trek movie, and in the trailer, like, Captain Kirk is on a motorbike? I don't know. I don't know. But I enjoyed the first two movies. I think I'll enjoy the third one, but I'm cautiously optimistic that it will be good. Okay. And if at this time the movie has been released, and hopefully it's great; if it was bad, I'm sorry.
Next: "totally wrong", "totally wrong". All right? So, you could just say something is wrong, but people commonly say: "That is totally wrong." All right? "Your answer was totally wrong." Totally incorrect. Absolutely incorrect. Okay? So, you can imagine you can use this in a variety of contexts.
Next: "incredibly lazy". Okay? So: "He was incredibly lazy as a kid." Like, let's say this kid, whoever he was, just played video games all day, ate Doritos chips, drank Coke, skipped school all the time. I don't know, never did anything. His parents told him to do stuff, he didn't do it. He was incredibly lazy. So you can say: "Oh my god, my sister is so incredibly lazy." Or: "She is so incredibly lazy." My uncle, or my cousin, or my aunt, or my best friend is incredibly lazy. They are so lazy that it is incredible. All right? So, let's go and look at five more.
"Virtually impossible". So, "virtually impossible" means something is practically, or almost, absolutely not possible. So: "This quiz is virtually impossible!" Some video games, if they're very difficult, you're like: "This game is virtually impossible to beat! I can't finish it." Like Dark Souls. Or when I was a kid... What was a game that was really difficult to beat? I had this game for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Time Lord, and I could never get past, like, the fourth level. It was a pirate ship, and I had no idea how to finish it. Or the original Ninja Turtles video game for the NES was also virtually impossible. Bad memories. Okay.
"Absolutely incredible". So, at the time of this video, you know, Star Wars episode seven is kind of a big deal, and I would say that: "Star Wars was absolutely incredible!"
At first glance I thought that it's VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to memorize all the collocations because sometimes I can be so INCREDIBLY LAZY. Then I said to myself, "come on, you can do it". What if I'm TOTALLY WRONG about not giving it a try? It will not SERIOUSLY HURT me if I give it a try. Starting CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC I thought that it would be ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE to memorize the collocations. So I wrote down the left and right words of all the collocations in a txt file and then I erased the left ones to see if I can use my memory and reestablish the collocations. I did the exercise many times and now it's BLATANTLY OBVIOUS that it's not so ABSURDLY DIFFICULT as I thought in the beginning. It's a good thing to be sure in oneself and be FULLY AWARE that if you put your mind to study then it's HIGHLY PROBABLE that you can achive a great result.
Thank you Alex! Greetings from Russia.
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I'm glad you liked the lesson, Ajay. Thank you.
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for me at the beggining, the phrasal verbs used to be very difficult to understand, native english speakers uses phrasal verbs pretty often.
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That's very kind. Thanks for watching, Vika.
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Since 2010! That's amazing! Thank you for your continued viewing and support after so many years. I hope you feel that you have improved your English, and that my explanations are clear. Good luck with your studies. :)
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That's awesome to hear, yeremy. Thanks for your support and for studying with EngVid. Good luck with your future studies!
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One of the big obstacles for us ESL learners is collocation. The problem is it has nothing to do with grammar. We just have to "know". Your explanation greatly helps. Thank you!!
You're welcome, Ju. I agree, it's one of the toughest parts of learning a language, but, like anything else in life, it comes with time and consistent practice.
AWESOME TEACHER thanks for sharing such great vids
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My pleasure. Thanks for checking it out. I'm glad you enjoyed the lesson.
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I will! Thank you for studying with EngVid! :)
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Any time. Thanks for checking out the video.
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My pleasure! Thanks for checking out my lessons.
Thx for subtitles but you IT s a pleasure your pronunciation... I understand everything
Sorry i wanted to say : you don t need subtitles cause your pronunciation is ok !!!
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the lesson was absolutely incredible :-) thanks alot
I appreciate that. Thanks!
I believe that this lesson is much more important than grammar ones.
Thank you
Many thanks.
No problem!
Great video! Now it will be much easier to understand the meaning of these combinations and even to use them from time to time. Than you!
No problem, Alfonso! As always, thanks for checking it out!
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As always, your videos are absolutely :) amazing. I'm from Turkey and since I find your channel on youtube, my English is improving every second time thanks to you. please keep on making these videos :) Thank you
That's fantastic to hear! Thanks for checking out my videos, and good luck studying in the future!
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My pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
amazing teacher, I have nothing else to say. 👍👍
Thank you Alex, I started watching your vídeos a few days ago and you have helped me so much also my gramatic as my listening. I like how you sound when you teach us a lesson, I think your pronunciation in every word is perfect, clear, high and easy to understand for a non english speaker. You're amazing! Greetings from Venezuela! (and sorry any mistake by my writting)
By the way, how must I to say, "I started watching" or "I started to watch"?
"I started to watch",I think.
You can use either one with almost no difference in meaning. It's similar to "like." Check out this link for more verbs that fall into this category: www.grammaring.com/to-infinitive-or-gerund-begin-start-continue-cease-dread-intend-love
+English Lessons with Alex (engVid AlexESLvid) Oh, thank you very much professor Alex!!! I really apreciate your reply, you're the best! Have a good night!!!
+English Lessons with Alex (engVid AlexESLvid) I'll be checking out that link, thanks so much again!
What an amazing free video lesson Alex, I rather enjoyed it. Thanks a lot for your help. Bye-bye :)
amazing lesson
Thanks for clicking and commenting.
Thanks to you alex i enjoyed the lesson...
Great! I'm happy to help.
Thank you so much, sir. ❤
Most welcome!
Very useful lesson from pretty expert teacher..thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
thank you very much. useful as always 😊
No problem. Thanks for your feedback.
thanks you teacher !
My pleasure.
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Really , It's amazing and much more than wonderful... Thank you.
No problem! Thanks for watching.
It's also possible to say "utterly impossible" :)
Tnx for this lesson. I'd like to watch more lessons on collocations. It's often difficult to chose a correct word combination.
Good idea! I'll see if I can make more similar lessons in the future.
Nice shirt, great video, great pronunciation and explatnation, very helpful. Congrats
Alex, thanks a lot for all your amazing lessons which me and my students enjoy very much. Did you know that Russian students listened to you ? Do you give any lessons via Skype?
Great explanation: It was very usefull for me ! ... Thanks a bunch !
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Dear, thank you for your video and please try to put a subtitle for your speech that will be really helpful
Thanks, this video help me a lot, to take advantage to English language
That's great to hear! Thanks for studying with me, Ahmed.
Thanks
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Any time. Thanks for studying with EngVid.
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"It's an amazing lesson." Thank you for studying with EngVid!
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Thanks for checking it out.
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You're very welcome.
Very good!
Thanks for the kind feedback!
would you please make a video about reduced clauses and phrases, participle, infinitive, and gerund ? thanks
Sure, but could you give me some examples of what you're specifically asking for?
i simply love the way you explain❤...good job Alex. keep up ...greetings from morocco..i hope you still remember me😊
For sure! As always, thanks for checking out and leaving feedback on the video, Kawtar!
very helpful
Thanks a lot.