hello everyone welcome back to the english danny channel i'm teacher sarah have you ever
wondered what the differences between the words live live and life today we're going
to look at the pronunciation and usage of some different forms of these words let's get started
today we're going to learn about the words live and life in four different forms
we will learn about life as a countable noun life as an uncountable noun
live as a verb and live as an adjective so let's begin first let's look at life as a countable
noun countable means you can count it so here the definition of life as a countable noun is the
whole of a person's existence right we often talk about my life your life and so on we're
talking about our whole existence so let's look at this countable noun in two forms
first let's look at it in the singular form right one life so we might use it in a sentence like
my grandmother had a difficult life or her life was difficult right
so here we're talking about her existence her whole existence and adding that adjective
difficult she had a difficult life right something we can count one life
next i love my life right so here we're talking about my whole existence i love my life
second let's look at it in the plural form so when we're talking about
lives so let's begin again with using an adjective here they had interesting lives
or my friends worked in new york for their entire lives so here pay attention to the pronunciation
we can say life right my life your life a difficult life her life and so on or lives in
the plural form they had interesting lives they worked in new york for their entire lives okay
now let's look at life as an uncountable noun this will refer to a particular way of
living or the concept or idea of life in general so let's take a look at some examples
you may have heard these terms before do you prefer city life or country life
here we're looking at a particular way of living right city life so what is
life like in the city maybe it's very busy um there are more shops and businesses and
and schools and so on or country life right maybe life generally is slower and so on
so here we're looking at a particular way of living do you prefer city life or country life
next he has experienced much of life so here we're looking at life as a concept right life
in general he has experienced much of life so when we think of life in the as an idea
and all the many things you can do in life he has experienced much of life he has done many things
uh that you can do in your life right in your countable noun life
finally this is a phrase you might hear quite often she is living the good life so here again
we're thinking of life as a concept or idea right when we think about the word life right what is
our life like she is living the good life so whatever your idea of life is or a idea of
what life would be if it's good she is living the good life so here we see because it is uncountable
it's life life life life right so again life as an uncountable noun
refers to a particular way of living or the concept and idea of life in general
next let's look at the word live so here this is a verb and probably the most common use of the word
live right but there are two meanings two meanings for this verb it can be number one to remain
or stay alive or two probably what you're most used to to make one's home in a particular place
so first let's look at to remain alive for example he got into a car accident and fortunately
he lived this means he stayed alive right did not die very lucky he lived he remained alive
another common use of the verb live as a word meaning to remain alive we might hear at a
doctor's office the doctor said she has one year to live so maybe uh this is some your grandmother
who's very old and has become sick they might say she has one year to live to remain alive
we also use this word when referring to where you make your home the act of making your home
in a particular place so for example you are you have probably been asked this question many times
where do you live where did you make your home and you might answer something like i have lived
in spain for five years so notice here that we're using the same pronunciation for each time we use
it as a verb live lived live live lived okay let's take a look at the last usage for today
finally let's look at the word live so here this is an adjective or describing word
live can relate to a performance that you see in person it is not recorded
it's also a term we might use to talk about something that is connected to
an electric current so we'll talk about what that means first let's look at related to an in-person
performance how we would use live i might say i really want to see that band live this means i
like listening to their music but i want to go see them play in person i want to see them live
or i'm going to a live broadway performance so not a recording i will see the performance
in person and last live is also commonly used to in a sentence like be careful that's a live
wire so maybe after a big storm some power lines fall down oh stay away they are live
wires means there's still electricity in them still electricity going through them
okay everyone i hope that you learned about the important differences between
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