In this English lesson,
I wanted to help you learn the English phrase such a.
This is a little phrase we sometimes add to a sentence
when we want to emphasize something.
I could say to you, "It's a nice day today,"
but it's actually a really nice day,
so I could say, "It's such a nice day today.
It's such a nice day."
If I was insulting someone,
and you shouldn't do that, but here's an example anyways.
If I was insulting someone, I could say, "He's a jerk,"
but if I wanted to emphasize that,
I could say, "He's such a jerk."
And you can even use this for experiences.
You could say, "Oh, I went to the Ed Sheeran concert,
and I had such a good time.
It was amazing."
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
is the phrase no such thing.
When we think something doesn't exist,
we'll say, "Ah, there's no such thing."
If someone was to say,
"Last night I was walking in my house
and I saw a door open by itself.
I think there's a ghost in my house,"
you could say, "There's no such thing.
Ghosts don't exist."
If someone said, "Oh, I was driving last night,
and I saw strange lights in the sky.
I think it was a UFO, an unidentified flying object,"
you could say, "There's no such thing as aliens,
and there's no such thing as UFOs."
So to review, when you use the phrase such a,
it means that you're emphasizing something.
It's such a nice day today.
He's such a jerk.
By the way, don't use the insult.
I think I already told you not to do that,
but you do need to know insults, don't you,
in case you hear them on TV.
And when you say there's no such thing,
you're simply saying that you don't think something exists.
Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from Sidd.
"We didn't get enough time to observe
that beautiful tree in the back.
Thanks a ton for these short and simple episodes."
And my response.
"You're welcome, Sidd.
Good to know you watched until the end."
If you don't know what Sidd's talking about,
it means you didn't watch 'til the end of the last video.
In the last video, I was running out of time,
but I was standing by a beautiful tree,
so I quickly just said, "Here's a beautiful tree,"
or, "Here's a really nice tree."
It was such a nice tree, by the way.
You should go back and maybe watch it.
But it's just a little thing I noticed.
If I do something funny at the end of the video,
sometimes I look for a comment
so that I know people watched all the way to the end.
By the way, if you wanna see nice trees,
oh, let's do it this way.
Let me flip you around.
These are our lilac trees.
We have three lilac trees.
This is a white lilac tree, and it smells beautiful,
and then we have my favorite lilac,
which is this light purple lilac tree.
I really enjoy the lilacs.
I know we live on a flower farm,
but you might be interested to know,
we don't actually sell lilac.
Kind of stuck out in the trees here.
We started to a long time ago,
but they don't last very long when you put them in water.
Lilacs are not...
They don't have good vase life.
Vase life is something we use
to describe a flower in a vase.
If we say it has good vase life,
it means it lasts a long time.
If we say it doesn't have good vase life,
it means when you cut it and put it in a vase,
it doesn't last very long.
So anyways, one of the other things I wanted to show you
is that all of the trees on my property now have leaves.
We have shade.
It's much nicer.
The weather's actually cooled down a bit, too,
but I love the fact that we have shade now.
It's just a little easier to come outside and make a video.
I can stand in the shade and make an English lesson.
I don't need my sunglasses or anything like that.
And I think the animals, like this cat here,
are enjoying this as well.
I think the cat realizes
that I'm trying to get it in the video,
and maybe doesn't like that.
Anyways, thanks for watching
this little short English lesson.
I hope you're having a good day,
and I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye.