Hi friends I'm Sonia and I'm back with a new lesson for you today. So what are we going
to talk about today guys? We are going to talk about expressions with one. Now the word
one, it’s so common, you know One house, One dress, One car. We use it to express quantity
very often. But have you ever thought of this, the word one is so versatile it can be used
in various ways? And that's why we are going to discuss about different phrases of expressions
that we can use with the word one today. So let's have a look.
The very first one I have for you is, One of these days. Now how could you use this
sentence or this phrase? You could use one of these days followed by going plus an infinitive.
Now what's an infinitive? An infinitive is the word to plus any verb any action word,
so for someone like me. I tend to mess around the desktop at my workstation a lot. My files,
folders are all over the desktop and it looks really messed up. When I want to look for
a file, I can't really look for one. It's very difficult. So what I plan to do, one
of these days, I'm going to clean or clear the clutter on the desktop. So over here if
you notice this is an actioner plan that I'm going to do in some days. After the word going,
I've used the word to followed by a verb, which is clear or clean. If you know for example,
you want to meet a relative or a friend, you could say, one of these days I'm going to
meet one of my friends or one of my relatives. So always remember, when you use this phrase
one of these days to talk about something that you're going to do. You will use the
word going and then an infinitive, which is too followed by any simple verb.
The next one is, one by one. Now in order for me to clear that clutter on my desktop.
I need to check the files one by one, which means one after the other. Let me write that
down, so I could make a sentence like, When I get sometime during my break today. I'm
going to check each file on my desktop one by one, which means one after the other individually.
The next phrase is not very common, but very effective. It say's, I'm not one to complain
but. Now when would you use something like this? If you are someone, who’s not very
crib by, who does not complain a lot, whose quite satisfied and happy with everything.
However a person like this would also get irritated or want to complain about something,
I'm sure at least once, so imagine this, If you have a phone and the network on that phone
most of the times is bad. Your phone just doesn't work when you want it to and obviously
that's something important. Now if you finally decided that you've had it, you will probably
walk up to your network. The store of your network and you would tell them, Well Hey
I'm not one to complaint, but your service just doesn't work in my area. Here you’re
trying to say that your complaint is really serious, it's a serious complaint. So in order
to show that you’re really dissatisfied, you could use the phrase like this saying,
I'm not one to complaint, but your network just does not work.
The next one says, A one off payment. Now what's a one off payment? A one off payment
is simply a payment that you make just once. You will hear this particular phrase used
a lot by sales agents or customer service agents over the phone. Someone would tell
you; well you need to make just a one off payment in order to process this sale. Especially
if you are a customer service agent also, you could use a sentence like this on your
calls, when you’re speaking to your customers. A one off payment is a payment you make just
once; there are no installments just a one off payment.
The next one is, a one hit wonder. Now what's a one hit wonder? This is a phrase first of
all that you would use, you know you would hear a lot of radio jockeys, presenters and
such people use. A one hit wonder is basically either a pop singer, you know a solo singer
or a pop group or any artist in that sense, who makes music. Who just made one extremely
famous song? Everyone heard this song, everyone loved it. People were hoping for some more
songs from such group or such a singer. But that never happened that particular artist
or that group of artist just disappeared of the scene completely. When you want to describe
a group or an artist like that you could say, well hey I used to really like that group.
But they turned out to be a one hit wonder. They never came back, they never made another
song. That's how you can use this particular phrase.
The next one is also very famous. It say's the one and only. Now the one and only could
mean a person an artist, who is very unique, special, very famous. Now if you're someone,
who watches a lot of TV, you would hear many hosts or presenters use, the one and only.
Whenever they want to introduce an artist or introduce a person to an audience or to
a group in order to create that curiosity in the audience to know, who's going to come
up on stage?They would make a sentence like, Well hey let's welcome the one and only and
mention that person's name. And it sounds really good too.
The next phrase is a one track mind. Now when would I use a phrase like this? A one track
mind. This is when I want to talk about someone, who only thinks in a particular way. Who can't
change the way they think or they only think about one particular thing? For example, if
you know someone, who only thinks about sports? Who's only interested in sports and nothing
else? So you could say that, Well hey Peter he has a one track mind. He only thinks about
sports and nothing else, so one track mind is something, where you only think of one
thing or of one topic and nothing else. That's a one track mind; it's quite a catchy phrase.
So you can use this one.
The next one say's, one way of putting it. Now before I explain this, to you remember
that this phrase needs to be used very carefully, because it can sound a little rude, so make
sure that your tone is soft is pleasant, firm but not rude. So imagine this, If you are
a manager and you're in a board meeting and there is a decision that's taken by everyone,
which you don't really agree with for whatever reasons. However you need to say that you
agreeing with this decision, so when you're putting across your point. You could say,
Well hey that's one way of putting it; however I think that that this could have been done
differently. So here you're letting the person know that you don't really agree with what
they've decided, but you're just going ahead with it for the sake of it. But remember you
need to make sure your tone is really firm and pleasant, when you making this particular
sentence using the phrase like this, so basically it means to disagree with something.
And finally we have the phrase which say's, It's one thing to say it. Now what does this
mean? You'll use this phrase, when you want to talk about something, which is extremely
easy to say or extremely easy to talk about, but very difficult to do. For example, if
someone's looking to quit a bad habit. It's very easy to tell that person, you need to
quit smoking or you need to quit this. It's easy to do that, but it’s extremely difficult
for the person to actually do it. So if you want to make a sentence using this phrase.
You could say, well its one thing to say that I need to quit smoking, but its extremely
difficult to do it. Something that's difficult, something that's easy to say or that's easy
to talk about, but difficult to do. There are many things like this, like smoking or
losing weight for some of us. So that's when you could use a phrase like this.
So here we have nine phrases using the word one. All of them mean different things; they
can be used in different sentences. So I hope that you guys go through these phrases, understand
them and use them in your day to day conversation. Well this brings me to the end of the lesson.
I hope that you enjoyed watching it. I'll be back soon with a new lesson. Till then
take care of yourself. Ba Bye.