hi i'm rebecca from engvid after
teaching English for more than 30 years
my goal in all my lessons is to help you
to learn English more quickly and easily
so in the next few minutes you're going
to be able to take your English to a
higher level by learning 7 advanced
expressions with intensifiers now what
does that mean what are intensifiers
let's find out okay so let's start with
this example in a general situation okay
John likes music we can say that or we
could say John really likes music
in this example the word really is an
intensifier and what an intensifier does
is that it strengthens or emphasizes the
verb she doesn't just like music she
really likes music and that's fine to
say okay that's called an adverb
intensifier alright doesn't matter but
maybe for those of you who like to
understand grammar I'm just telling you
what the words are alright let's look at
another example from a business context
we appreciate your offer okay no
intensifier there the next example we
really appreciate your offer now again
the word really was the intensifier but
do we use only really as intensifiers no
we use many many other words because it
would be very boring to keep saying
really all the time also really might be
fine in this example because it's kind
of informal and conversational but here
it's a little bit more formal but a bit
more businesslike so you want to use
better English you wanna use more
advanced English and you want to use
more advanced expressions so what do we
usually say instead of that with the
verb appreciate we usually say something
like this we truly appreciate your offer
okay now
in this example the word truly is the
intensifier instead of really right and
the verb stays the same so that's
appreciate so when you have an
intensifier like truly or really plus a
verb like appreciate that's called a
collocation okay
or a word combination two words which
are used together very frequently
all right so people expect to hear them
together all right so when you use them
you sound much more natural you also
sound a little bit more formal more
polite more educated a little bit more
refined and cultured and just um more
advanced in English all right because
obviously if you say I truly appreciate
your offer instead of saying I really
appreciate your offer then you're going
to sound more advanced now of course it
depends on the situation if you're just
talking to friends maybe you want to
keep saying really really appreciate but
I'm going to show you seven other
expressions six other expressions you've
already learned one all right which you
can use and which are used very often in
academic circles and also in
professional circles because you can use
these expressions in speaking and
writing you can use them in social and
business situations like especially in
customer service in meetings
negotiations presentations discussions
right and of course we can use them in a
lot of academic situations like in your
essays or your IELTS or TOEFL imagine if
you start using this kind of vocabulary
instead of regular vocabulary of course
you're going to get higher marks alright
so let's look at some of these
expressions all right so let's first
start with an overview of these six
advanced expressions all right I'll just
read them right now don't worry about
understanding them or how to use them
I'm going to explode explain that in
just a minute okay all right so the
first one strongly recommend
honestly believe deeply regret fully
recognized sincerely hope and positively
encourage okay so what did you notice in
those each of them had an intensifier
right strongly honestly deeply fully
sincerely positively and each of them
had a verb recommend believe regret etc
okay so why are they expression why are
they called collocation because these
expressions these two word combinations
are used together and they are
recognized as good expressions to use
together alright so let's go through the
mouth you understand exactly how to use
them so the first one we strongly
recommend you back up your file alright
you see this instruction very often to
do with your computer right so you don't
want to lose your file so they tell you
we strongly recommend you back up your
file alright another example I strongly
recommend you go to the hospital all
right now I've used the examples with we
and I you can use any pronoun or name or
anything like that okay let's go we
honestly believe he is innocent
he's not guilty he is in or I honestly
believe you deserve a raise you've been
doing such a great job you deserve a
raise what's a race a race means when
you get more of money all right you can
get a promotion a higher position or and
sometimes with that you get more money
which is called a raise all right
sometimes you get a promotion but
norway's sometimes you get a raise but
no promotion but sometimes yes both
alright number three we deeply regret
the inconvenience to our customers or to
our passengers all right if something
went wrong if you're on an airline and
there's a delay you might hear an
announcement
the airport that says we deeply regret
the inconvenience to our passengers
however we will be boarding in the next
half an hour okay something like that so
this is a formal very polite way of the
airline telling you they're really sorry
okay
next I deeply regret missing your
wedding now just to review a little bit
so regret what is regret means it
basically means I'm sorry okay it's a
more formal word for that and saying
here we honestly believe means I
honestly think and here We strongly
recommend means we strongly advise or
suggest okay just in case you weren't
sure what these words meant all right
number four we fully recognize sorry we
fully recognize your contribution to the
project okay somebody did a lot of work
on a project and the company or the
management says we fully recognize your
contribution to the project or I fully
recognize the importance of learning
English that's why I'm watching these
videos okay all right
fully recognized means I really know I
completely know I understand that I got
it I'm aware of it okay
all of these words basically mean really
but there are just different words and
more advanced words number five we
sincerely hope you will fly with us
again after many flights especially I
noticed on American Airlines they say
this before you get off the plane they
say we sincerely hope you will fly with
us again
we really hope okay so sincerely just
means really also or you could say I
sincerely hope you achieve your goals
okay I really hope that you achieve your
goals and hope is basically like a wish
all right and the next one we positively
encourage our students to use the
library positively encouraged to
encourage move again to recommend
all right positively again means really
strongly very much really or we could
say I positively encourage you to speech
speak English as often as you can in
order to improve your fluency all right
so again all of these expressions are
more advanced and they are considered
good ways for you to get a higher mark
and also to advance in your career
because you're using better more
sophisticated English alright let's do
one last review to help you to remember
these expressions and how they go
together all right okay now one more
point even though it's very good to use
these advanced expressions don't use
them all the time okay in the same piece
of writing because sometimes they come
across a little bit heavy so you can use
one you can use another one but don't
use too many of them at one time because
they are strong okay but to have a
little fun and to review the seven
expressions that you've just learned
we're going to read something that I
wrote especially for you
so I sincerely hope you start using
these expressions I fully recognize
they're a little challenging I deeply
regret there is no magic pill for
learning English but I honestly believe
you can do it I strongly recommend you
take the quiz at WWN vidcom I truly
appreciate the opportunity to help you
to optimize your English and last I
positively encourage you to subscribe to
my youtube channel okay now one other
thing you can do if you want to make
sure that you really have learned these
expressions is choose one even just one
expression and leave a comment on our
Ingrid comments okay on our Ingrid
website I do read all the comments there
and very often I answer different people
who have written the comment
so hope to meet you there take care bye
for now