Paris lockdown day 9 hey you know those radish seeds I started growing a few
days ago well look at this look at that isn't it amazing. In just a few days. Let
me show you and look they're all pink and very colorful and green
bits of green and I'm sure very delicious. So I have very little
face-to-face contact with strangers at the moment and when I do, in the rare
occasions that I do, I've realized that I've started behaving rather strangely.
So for example I went to the bakery and normally, when I go to the bakery, I say
"can have a baguette please?"
- "yeah here you, are"
- "merci au revoir". and then I leave but now, I went to the bakery I said "Oh, your bread
looks nice. what's that? it's a croissant oh it's
nice a croissant isn't it? shall I have a croissant or do you think I should have a
pain-au chocolat? how much is it? 1 euro that's a bargain." and the shop assistants
"...." "ok here's the's the money and oh did I tell you the story about the one-eyed
banjo player? "
"... get out get out" Anyway this confinement is doing
something to my head. I don't know what it is. You know this expression in
English "stir crazy" and stir is an old word for a prison and stir crazy is when
you start behaving strangely because you've been confined for a long
time. Well I think I'm going stir-crazy. Are you having a similar experience?
Right on to your questions and the first one comes from a fat cat who asks
what does IF NEED BE mean is it correct? if need be, yes, it is correct and it
it's just a more formal way of saying IF NECESSARY so for example "if you're
sick I'll come over and look after you if
need be." why BE well this is a subjunctive which
I won't go into today but if you just remember the phrase if need be it just
means if necessary. Ainur A asks the difference between
while and during. Remember the used DURING before a noun
very important to remember that DURING is used before a noun. So for example,
during the lesson, during the day, during the day I drank lots of coffee. During
the lesson we studied some grammar. So always before a noun
now WHILE has two different meanings firstly you can use while to mean two
things happening at the same time so for example "while I was reading you were
singing." "While I was walking you were sleeping." You also use WHILE to show a
contrast so you say one thing then WHILE and then you show the contrast "I'm
British while you're Italian." okay you could also use WHEREAS which in this
context has exactly the same meaning. it's been more formal but you can also use
WHEREAS "I live in the city whereas/while you live in the countryside." okay you got it?
Next question what's the difference between this is Dan Aluv. What's the
difference between forevermore and forever? No difference forevermore is
more literary maybe more emphatic. So for example, I'll love you forever I'll love you
forevermore exactly the same. Forever, of course, is the more common word
but if you want to use forevermore that's fine. Next question this is a good
one this is often comes up in my class. and a common mistake and that's the
difference between Arun Joy Yes I'm answering your question.
What's the difference between relation and relationship?
relation and relationship .Yes well RELATION you use to talk about big
groups so anglo-french relations so relations between countries between
large organizations. RELATIONSHIPS are for small groups offer
individuals so family relationships, you have a relationship with another person.
International relations and international relationships they
mean quite different things. Marie LucieD asks to explain the
difference between fairly, pretty, rather and quite. Oh that's a biggie that's a
big question and I might do a special video on that but I'll give you now just
a short version. Basically, all of these words mean
"to some degree" but there is a second subtext meaning to some of them at least
to FAIRLY and to QUITE and sometimes to RATHER as well, another meaning I'll come
to that in a second. in fact QUITE has three different meanings. QUITE is
a unique work in English because it has so many different meanings but let
me just first, give you the standard version. So I'm fairly tired, I'm rather
tired, I'm quite tired, I'm pretty tired. PRETTY is closer to VERY I would say.
I'm pretty happy. with my results, I'm fairly happy with my
results, I'm quite happy. So to some degree. "I'm fairly hungry
we should eat something." "I'm quite hungry." "I'm rather hungry. we should eat
something." quite hungry. All have a very
similar meaning, as I said, PRETTY is a little bit higher but I said there's a
subtext didn't I? because, especially with FAIRLY and QUITE it can mean the
opposite. okay so for example, "how was the film. you
saw the film was it good?"
"yeah fairly good" you can tell by the way I said
it. it's not very good. is it? quite good. I'm stressing the
adverb they're FAIRLY, QUITE it means not very-- but if I stress
the adjectives it means VERY "that's fairly GOOD" yeah yeah fairly GOOD." that's quite
GOOD it's quite GOOD. "how's the meal?
"QUITE good FAIRLY good" and
So there has a double meaning. RATHER sometimes work like that to you sort of
understatement. "Are you tired?"
"I'm not going am rather tired." you could be very
tired. Now I did say that QUITE is complicated and I've already explained two
meanings of QUITE but also QUITE can mean COMPLETELY
100% and that is if you use it before what's called non gradable adjective
you're thinking. "oh my god don't give me these grammatical terms" well it's quite easy
though non gradable adjective are ones that are either "yes" or "no" a binary state for
example DEAD that's a binary adjective you're either
dead or not dead. pregnant you're either pregnant or not pregnant but also some
other words like EXHAUSTED. You're either exhausted or not exhausted
and you can't be a little bit exhausted. if you can put VERY in front of the
words then it's gradable adjective very happy, I'm very tired,
I'm very exhausted? No, you exhausted or not exhausted you're "very dead." No I'm
coming to my point. If you put QUITE before a non-gradable adjective
adjective it has the meaning of COMPLETELY so "is he dead?"
"yeah he's dead"
"Are you sure he's dead?"
"yes, he's quite dead."
"No she's pregnant?, are you sure she's pregnant?"
"Yes, quite pregnant." it means completely pregnant.
"I'm quite exhausted I'm working so hard I'm quite exhausted."
it doesn't mean exhausted to some degree it means completely exhausted.
Also if you put QUITE before a verb it has this meaning of completely "I quite
understand, I quite understand what you you said" which means "I completely
understand," "it's very difficult being in confinement for two weeks."
- "yes I quite agree." okay So that means I completely agree. And also we put QUITE
before a noun it means EXCEPTIONAL not necessary exceptionally good or
exceptionally bad you have to decide but that's what it means. for example. "Wow
Mildred is quite a woman." it could mean a very good woman a very bad - you
don't like her. It just means exceptional in some sense. So
yeah that's the short version of a very long answer. Let's stop for
today. Thank you once again for watching and carry on sending in your questions
and stay healthy see you soon.