hi everyone its Sabrah from love English here your British University English
teacher so how is your English guys? are you speaking English well? Or do you
think your English is good ?Or maybe like so many other learners you're still
having some problems understanding the difference between good and well now
these may seem like quite simple words so you may think why am I not getting me
is correct or you may think you are getting them correct however the
difference between them is a little bit complicated at times so I still hear
students even at advanced levels making mistakes with these two words but today
I'm going to make it crystal clear for you and you are going to master it
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master the English language so do you think about that guys the link is in the
description box below right good or well the first thing to say about this guys
is that good is actually an adjective and well is an adverb now to go back to
basics an adjective goes with a noun and an adverb goes with a verb the adjective
tells us more about the noun and the adverb tells us more about the verb if
you listen adverb we add it to the verb so in the case of the adjective we might
say oh that was a really good film what a good story describing the noun in the
case of the adverb we described the verb so we might say the story was well
written they wrote it well there we are describing write the verb were telling
how well they did it how well they wrote it so adverbs go with the verb so some
more examples would be I speak English well she dances so well you can't say I
speak English good or she dances so good that is grammatically incorrect but if
you're talking about a noun you need to use the adjective so you can
say my English is good because English is a noun you could also say that
restaurant is so good Leila's a good teacher in all of those
sentences we're describing the noun so we don't need to use well let's compare
these two sentences my father is a good cook
here we are describing cook he is a cook a good cook so we don't need to use well
if we use well we would say my father can cook very well typically adverbs
come after the verbs and adjectives come before nouns but be careful with this
rule as this is a complicated grammar area and it isn't always the case okay
so that's simple right so far so good I think it's going quite well well you may
think that but actually there are a few complications with this which is why
learners still make mistakes at advanced levels first of all one of the
exceptions is that we can use good to describe some state verbs because we are
describing a state of being not an action so for example it is correct to
say I feel good today even though we're describing a verb you
can also say this restaurant seems good that is all correct we're describing a
state of being so that's one of the exceptions another thing which might
confuse you is that you'll often see good at and then an action like I'm good
at playing football here we're describing the state of being good at
playing football but it would be a mistake to think that you could put I'm
well at playing football you can't do that because well must connect directly
with a verb because it's an adverb it's not actually an adjective like good is
so you would have to change the sentence if you want to use an adverb and you
would have to say I play football well so this is where it gets a little bit
confusing but you can say I'm good at playing I'm good at doing that is
correct because you're describing the state of being that's the first
exception the second thing is that well can
actually be an adjective where it talks about health so it's two meanings really
of this word if I say I'm well I mean I'm healthy if I say my mother's well my
father's well and talking about their health so you can actually say I'm good
and I'm well both are correct because they are both adjectives here so if
someone asks you how are you it is correct to say I'm good or I'm well okay
I hope you're with me so far guys and that isn't too complicated we're going
to try a little test now to see how much you've learned from this lesson so I've
got five questions for you to see how well you've understood number one my
teacher teaches English so what do you think it is guys of course it is well
because we are describing the verb teaching my teacher teaches English so
well number two how fashion sense is so
what do you think this is it is how fashion sense is so good here we are
describing the noun phrase fashion sense so we're describing a noun so we need
the adjective her fashion sense is so good number three he's really at sports
he's really at sports what do you think this one is it is he's really good at
sports because here we're describing the state so he's really good at sports if
you want to change it to well what would you do you would need to say he plays
sports well number four my spanish lessons are going this is my Spanish
lessons are going well they are going well okay we're describing how well
they're going the verb they're going well number five my mother doesn't feel
today my mother doesn't feel today what could this be
actually in this last one both are correct my mother doesn't feel good
yeah or she doesn't feel well both are correct because both are adjectives my
mother doesn't feel good and she doesn't feel well however there is a slight
change in the meaning my mother doesn't feel good could be that she doesn't feel good
mentally my mother doesn't feel well is probably more about her physical health
being well it's more about our physical health but if we say we don't feel good
this can be about our mental health our our mood as well okay everybody we've
come to the end of that explanation of the difference between good and well I
hope you understood it well please do feel free to ask me any questions you
may have in the comments below and also try writing some sentences using good
and well and comparing the two in the comments below and I will check those
for you as always guys it's a pleasure to be
with you and we'll see you soon on love English bye bye
this Magnum is so good I'm so good at food shopping I did really well