English Vocabulary - EVEN: even though, even if, even when...
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- www.engvid.com Even English users sometimes have a problem with this word. EVEN has specific uses and knowing how to apply it will help you emphasize and point out surprising information. In this lesson we will see the word EVEN used in many ways, even though it might surprise you how. Take a quiz on this lesson here: www.engvid.com/...
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Hi again. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam, and today's lesson comes from a very common question I get from students. Students sometimes ask me... Like they ask me a question about grammar or whatever, and sometimes I say: "You know what? I'm not sure. I'll tell you tomorrow or I'll tell you the next day", etcetera. And then they say to me: "But you're the teacher, you should know." And I say to them, you know: "Even teachers sometimes need to learn and to continuously grow and find out new things for their students." And then of course the next question is: "What is 'even'?" And I say: "Okay, well there's your... our next lesson." Right? So today's word: "even". Many students... like they hear it all the time, but they don't really understand how it's being used. So today, I'm going to give you some examples because that's the best way to understand this word. Most of you have seen it as: "even though", "even if", or: "even when". There are other uses which we're going to look at in a minute, but first let's go over these.
But first, what does..? What does the word: "even" suggest? Okay? When you use the word: "even", you're talking about something that's very surprising. Okay? It's against expectation. What is "expectation"? When you think something will happen because something else happened. For example: if I win a million dollars, you will... You would expect that I will buy a big house or that I will go on vacation or that I will stop working. Okay? So what we're going to see is that sometimes what you think will happen is exactly the opposite or different from what actually happens, and then that's when you use the word: "even".
Let's look at the first example: "Even though I was late, my boss wasn't angry." Now, you would think: "You're late, your boss is angry." But I'm stressing that what should have been the case, he should have been angry or she should have been angry, but wasn't, even though I was late. So it's a very surprising situation. If I used only "though": "Though I was late, my boss wasn't angry." This just shows a regular contrast. Okay? Late should equal angry, it wasn't. This shows surprise because usually my boss gets angry when I'm late, - not that I'm late often -, but when I'm late, my boss gets really angry. But today, no, today my boss was calm, nothing going on. He must have had a good weekend, I don't know.
Now: "if": "If I win the lottery, I won't have enough money to buy a house." That doesn't make sense. If you win the lottery, you have a lot of money so that's why I'm using: "if". And when I use: "if", I'm also adding the negative, the opposite of what is expected. "Even if I win the lottery, I won't have enough money to buy a house." Okay? It depends how much the lottery is. I think Lotto 649, that's the lottery in Ontario, I think it's three million right now. In Toronto, that'll buy you a little house, maybe. So: "Even if I win".
Now: "even when". "If" is a hypothetical; maybe it will happen, maybe it won't happen, probably not. "When" we use for more realistic ideas, when something happens. "Even when he presented the evidence," - when he showed proof that something happened -, "no one believed him." Now, you think evidence, if somebody sees evidence, they believe what you're saying. But even when he presented the evidence, they didn't believe him. Very strange. I can... I put the word here "after": "Even after he showed the evidence..." If you want to talk about time lapse, this is... "When" shows at that time, "after" means later, but both work the same way in this sentence. Okay? So again: "even" means surprising or against expectations, but we are not limited to these three expressions.
Let's look at some more. Okay, now another thing to remember about this word: "even" is that it sometimes gives you extra information. Just by using this word, you should be able to understand something else. Okay? So let's look at these examples.
"No one thought Tom's joke was funny, not even Kathy." Now, only from this sentence, what can you understand about Kathy? One: you can understand that she always thinks Tom's jokes are funny, so that's why it's a little surprise that even she didn't think this was funny or you think that Kathy always laughs at every joke. Okay? So something about Kathy you can understand from this sentence even though it's not mentioned; you understand something about her personality or about her relationship with Tom, etcetera. Obviously, we need more information to know exactly what, but you understand that there's something else because of this word.
Even this video was upload almost seven years ago, it has been very useful for me.
Finally I know what the difference is between EVEN IF and EVEN WHEN. Thanks, Adam. You are super.
Excellent video Adam. You're right when you said that even teachers need to look up information about grammar. I've teaching English for 40 years and I still investigate something that I don't know but there's something important in this investigation "The more you teach the more you learn " and the reward comes when our students tell us Thank you teacher I got it.
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sir, I really enjoy learning a new things in English language.. Thank you very much for helping us.. in addition, I have a question to ask you, where I feel confused is. what is the difference between "far" and "far away".. if you make a video regarding it, that will be very good for all of us..
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I have been waiting for that explanation about usage of even .. much obliged for detailed video.. I really get rid of traumatic confusion. Consequently, I hesitated to use even in my sentences even if I knew it was correct :) Henceforth, I ll be your fun..
Hi, Adam! I am Eva from Russia and your explanation about "even" usage was absolutely clear. Thanks! I have other questions about the sentence
-No one thought Tom's joke was funny, not even Kathy.
Why do you write 'no one' as two words and do we need to put 'not' before 'even' and if we do in what cases. Do you have the rule? Because I usually use even in such sentences without 'not'
So, to say "No one thought Tom's joke was funny, even Kathy"
is wrong, isn't it?
And could you recommend the resource where I can study English punctuation?
friend I think so
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I saw so many videos regarding this lessons but it's very hard for me to understand but this video makes me understand how to use it. Thanks Mr. Adam!
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I understand you. I am a teacher too and people think that I know everything. They don´t get that we also need to investigate in order to give the correct answer. Sometimes, it is hard to be a teacher. I love to way you explain, you do this so clear
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Me gustó mucho tu acento y tu expresion... tu vocalizacion es muy clara para mi. Seguire viendo tus videos. Incluso si no estoy seguro de que sea la explicacion que buscaba sobre "even" en mi humilde opinion tienes mucho talento.
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Just I want to as a question irrelevant to this video
Always I askit to myself
What's thedifference between vacabuary and vocabularies
I've searched a lot .. and read a lot .. but till now i coundn't get the idea
I chose you finally to ask you because i've found answers to all my questions
And unfourtunately your videos miss this information
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Dear Adam, excellente your lessons, as usual. Please, could you please explain when to use EVENTUALLY and when to use FINALLY ???? Thank you so much Adam.
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Please, upload a lecture on > double consonant in the end eg. nned/nning VS single consonant in the end eg. red/ring
Thank you it was very informative , and what is especially good that you make it plain the meaning of the word and you don't should go to translator.Thank you.
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this is pretty clear for russian speaking people, we have the same word and the same rules. thx anyway)
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VidEng have excellent teachers, but Adam is EVEN best than others.
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Sentence -- > The team that you used to play for has done well this year, even though they didn't win all their game.
IC : - The team has done well this year
DC1 : Adjective Clause : that you used to play for
DC2 : even though they didn't win all their game
I can't understand clause type and role of DC2. Is it a adverb clause modifying verb = well ?
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even though I watched this once I prefer to watch it once again as this is really helpful.
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THOUGH EVEN it was too late at midnight, but I watched to this video lesson to the end.))
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4th comment! Thank you, Mr. Adam.
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