Is it many or much? Less or few? Are you interested or are you interesting?
confused? I'm going to show you exactly how to use these confusing adjectives
accurately and give you lots of examples in today's video so let's go I'm Deirdre
Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV teacher speaker and your personal
English language coach so English grammar is very tricky sometimes and
some of the most common mistakes that learners make are with confusing
adjectives so listen to this conversation between two friends hi
Charlotte how's it going did you go to the party last night hi Kate I'm great
thanks yes I did what was it like well I was pretty boring hmm does that sound a
bit strange should Charlotte have said that she was boring no she meant the
party was boring not that she was boring that would have been really funny what
she should have said was that she was bored confusing don't worry this video
will show you how to know which adjectives to use in every situation
now adjectives are those words which we use to describe things the nouns so for
example it was a sunny day a bit like today the adjective is sunny and this
describes the day which is a noun so using adjectives correctly is really
important to sound accurate and to be a good speaker and writer of English but
adjectives are confusing because they often sound similar and mean similar
things as well but they're used with different nouns so let's dive right in
with some of the most confusing adjectives of all Edie and Eng
adjectives let's think back to that conversation when Charlotte
she was boring there are a lot of adjectives like this where there are two
very similar adjectives with IDI and endings for example bored boring
interested interesting excited exciting but what's the difference and how do you
know which to use simple here are the rules
rule number one use adjectives ending in IDI to show how a person is feeling so
words like bored excited interested amazed disappointed tired so in a
sentence Tom was excited when he got a new bike
now rule number two is use adjectives ending in Eng to show the characteristic
of a person or a thing often a thing so these are words like boring exciting
interesting amazing disappointing tiring and an example sentence for this might
be this lesson is very interesting so the lesson is the thing so it has an in
ending so to show you a bit further I was very interested in the interesting
lesson so I used interested to describe my own feelings and interesting to
describe the lesson the thing okay great so far so good but what about those
other adjectives like many and much less or few don't worry I'm gonna share with
some really simple rules with you which are easy to learn so you won't get these
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deirdre at palm tree teaching comm okay so now let's talk about much and many
now the simple rule is use many with plural nouns so things with an S on the
end when you want to say there is a lot of something like for example many
mistakes many chairs many horses many restaurants so in a sentence
this student made many mistakes in the exam now you use much with singular
nouns singular things where you can't use an S and collective nouns when you
want to say a lot of something such as much water much sugar much money so in a
sentence he didn't buy the car because he didn't have much money see easy when
you know how isn't it so let's move on to another pair of adjectives which are
often confused so my next adjectives are lost and
latest ok so let's look at these two sentences number one I want you to read
the first and last paragraphs number two the latest edition of the newspaper is
out now so what's the difference well the first one I want you to read the
first and last paragraphs which usually uses the adjective last is the opposite
of first so for example if you have a Q which we in England like to do a lot the
person in the front of the cube is the first and the person at the end of the
queue is the last so last is the opposite of first
now what about latest the latest edition of the newspaper is out now now this
means latest is the most recent so what about less and fewer let's look at this
one less is used with uncountable nouns where you can't add an S collective
nouns and volumes of things such as less water less pollution so have less sugar
in your tea it's healthier whereas fewer is used with countable
nouns so those things where you do add an S and individual items such as there
were fewer apples in the shop today so of course this is the secret to knowing
you just know the rules and it's easy when you know the rule then it's a piece
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