Hi everyone and welcome back to Love English i'm Sabrah, your British Uuniversity English teacher. I've got a simple lesson for you today but one that
lots of you have asked me about a lot of you have said or please make a
video about how we can use this word though i hear it all the time and you're
absolutely right we use this word so much it's quite diverse so let's have
a look at the different ways in which we can use
though
if you haven't already guys of course don't forget to subscribe and you can
follow us on social media as well so though is
generally a contrast word it's when we want to say something different
to what we said before so when we often combine
positive and negative statements however it's not the only way that we use it we
can also use it in other ways as well which we'll come to
later perhaps this is why it's a little bit confusing
it's an extremely conversational word we use it all the time in conversation
so it can seem quite informal when compared with
although and even though which are its more formal
counterparts in a way it's like but but we can put it at the
end of the sentence and also we don't need to have the two contrasting things
in the same sentence it can also be a response to
what someone else has said so a contrasting response to what
someone else has said in a separate sentence let's have a look
at how this is done emma's really loud she's really
funny though so there we have the two different
statements in the same sentence however if i said to layla don't you
think emma's really loud she could say yeah she's really funny
though in response and use though there so in that way it's very similar
to butt or i could say it's raining today how rubbish but
someone else could reply and say let's still go out though meaning but
let's still go out or i could say in the same sentence it's
raining today how rubbish let's still go out though so we could
actually combine it in the same sentence as
well when we combine it in the same sentence though we do tend to put a
comma so some more examples might be what a gorgeous day i have to stay
inside though what a gorgeous day i have to stay
inside and work though or did you know that leila and i argue
sometimes we love each other really though now if
we put it at the beginning of the sentence this makes it more similar to
all though and it makes it more formal but we can do this and it's more often
used in writing so you could see things like though a
very small country ecuador is incredibly ecologically
diverse though a small country ecuador is
incredibly ecologically diverse so again that it's like saying although
we could actually replace it there with although and we would put
that comma between the two contrasting clauses or though she was
over 30 she still didn't look a day over 20 or
though i've grown to love england i still can't get used to the food
so we could use it in that way again it's more formal or used in writing
one quite unusual use of though is when we use it to mean
anyway so for example if somebody says to you
would you like a cup of tea you could reply and say no i'm okay
thanks though meaning thanks anyway or if somebody says to you
would you like me to give you a lift to work today you could say
oh no it's okay thanks for the thought though meaning thanks
anyway so in some cases particularly when we're responding to offers
we can also use it like anyway now if we put it with as
this actually means like so when you see the phrase
as though this means like. so this is again a different use of the word though
so you might hear somebody say she looked as though she was about to cry
so it's like saying she looked like she was about to cry
or he acted as though nothing had happened which would mean he acted like
nothing had happened the prime minister looked as though he was going to resign
or we might say it looks as though it's going to rain meaning
it looks like it's going to rain so as though can actually replace
like so another use of though right guys that concludes our lesson on though
it was simple but hopefully effective though do try and use though in
any of the ways we've looked at today in a sentence below and i will try to check
that for you we'll see you soon on love english bye