So how do you describe something that's really, really tasty? Do you say, very tasty? Or very,
very tasty? But does it really convey your message? If you keep using the word, very
in order to convey your exact emotion or to convey your message, it's not really always
going to help. very is an intensifier, it's a word that you use to emphasize on something
but today with me, Sonia you are going to learn how to drop very from your conversation
where it's not required and use much better words in your English vocabulary. So let's
have a look together?
The very first one, very beautiful. So what do you say, when you see a very pretty girl
walking down the road? You would tell your friend, well you know what, I saw a very,
very beautiful girl but instead of that, you could just say, I saw a gorgeous girl walking
down the road or I saw a stunning model at the mall yesterday. So instead of just using
the word, very in order to emphasize what you're trying to say, you could use words
like gorgeous or stunning. They sound really good when you use them in a sentence.
The next one here, very loud. You know sometimes when we hear firecrackers that are burst,
they are so loud. The sound is so very loud, right? But if you use a word like, deafening,
this word makes much more sense than just saying very loud. It actually conveys the
exact message that you want to actually put across. So may be in a sentence, you could
say, well last night around 11, we heard a deafening sound in the backyard. So deafening
can replace very loud.
Next one here, very happy, this is very commonly used, right? Very happy, I'm very, very happy
but you can't always say the same thing every time. Instead of very happy, you could say,
elated. Yes, elated means to be very happy. So say if you are, you know, you've participated
in a competition and you put in all of your hard work and you won the first place, so
how would you feel? You would feel, elated. Instead of just saying, very happy. So in
a sentence, you could say, well I was so elated when I won the competition, I did not know
how to express my emotions.
The next one here, so if you can be very happy, you could also be very sad sometimes. So if
you want to say, very sad. Instead of that, you could say something like, depressed. I
know, the word is like that, okay. Depressed could be used in place of very sad. so say
may be if you have a friend who's recently broken up with his girlfriend, so you could
say, well, you know what, my friend seems very depressed since his break up but you
know what, if you have a friend like that, please tell them to move on, time heals everything.
The next one here very confused. You don't know what to decide. Like I remember about
a week ago, I wanted to buy a new phone. so I did some research and I checked a couple
of models on the internet and I thought that I knew what I wanted to buy but when I actually
went to the phone shop, there were so many models on display and I was so very confused.
I was really, really confused. Here instead of saying, very confused, I could simply say,
I was baffled. Doesn’t this word sound so cool? Baffled, so when I want to say it in
a sentence, I could say, I went to buy a phone at a phone shop but there were so many models
on display that I was totally baffled and I just came back home without anything.
The next one, very big. Okay, so in place of very big, you can use words like, massive
or gigantic. Yes, if you notice, if you just look at this word, massive, it actually sounds
much better than just saying, very big. So, I have a friend who has a really bungalow
in the countryside but it's really huge. So maybe I could say, my friend, Chloe has a
massive bungalow in the countryside. When I say, massive, it really shows to be, I mean
to say, very big.
Finally, if I could say, very big, I could also say, very small but what could I use,
in place of very small? I could simply say, tiny or I could say, teeny-tiny or I could
say, minuscule. Okay, all these three words, mean the same thing. They mean very small
like really small. So may be in a sentence, I could say something like, I need to pack
this gift in a box but the box is really tiny. The gift is not going to fit into it. Okay
or the box is really teeny-tiny, the gift is not going to fit into it. So this way if
you look at the words, you can use so many different words in place of just saying, very.
So for example, you could say, gorgeous instead of very beautiful or elated, look at this
word instead of very happy. In place of very confused, you know when you don't know what
to do, or you don't know an answer, you could sound really smart and say, baffled, alright
or in place of very big, you could say, massive or gigantic.
So friends make sure that you use these new words that you've learnt today in your day
to day conversation. Don’t sound boring and drop very from your vocabulary where it's
not required. I’m done with today's lesson and I hope you enjoyed watching, make sure
you keep practising and I’ll see you soon, bye.