are you learning English?
Do you see some progress? Well, if you’re gradually learning English,
eventually you’re going to speak fluently.
Hey, I’m back with a new lesson. Well, are you learning English?
Do you see some progress? Well, if you’re gradually learning English,
eventually you’re going to speak fluently.
Well, this is what today’s lesson is about, the difference between the two common words.
But I think they are a little confusing at times - ‘gradually’ and ‘eventually’.
Okay, first let’s understand the meaning of ‘gradually’.
‘Gradually’ means slowly, step by step, little by little,
something that doesn’t happen suddenly. Okay. So, the opposite of suddenly is gradually.
That means slowly, step by step.
Okay, friends. So when things happen slowly,
they take their own time, that means it happens gradually. Like this,
gradually he learned to live alone.
Now, think of John who has left his parents and gone to a new city to
complete his education. So, definitely he’s away from home and in a new city
you don’t make friends so soon. So, uh he’s little bored; he feels lonely,
but with times, as time passes, he gradually leans to live alone. That means,
it’s a slow process of accepting the fact that ‘I have to live alone’.
Okay, but you do slowly. So as days pass, you get busy
and you have less time to miss your family, not that you don’t miss them, but still,
it’s a slow process of getting used to it.
So I tell you gradually, slowly. It’s not like one fine morning,
he woke up and said ‘I no longer miss my family’. No, gradually. So, it’s a very slow process.
Gradually he learned to live alone. Okay, that means it took him time, okay to live alone.
But, he did. Okay. My vocabulary is gradually increasing. That means step by step.
Probably you learn two new words everyday and by the end of the month you have sixty,
a collection of sixty new words. So, slowly you increase your vocabulary.
Well friends, I’m sure watching Let’s Talk lessons, you’re English is gradually improving now,
right? Okay, so slowly you do improve, so gradually step by step, right? You learn words,
then you learn how to make sentences, then you learn how to make questions,
you learn how to make negative sentences. It’s a step by step process.
You cannot wake up one fine morning and say, “hey, I can speak English fluently.”
It doesn’t happen like that, right? So it’s a gradual process. That means,
you are learning slowly or you are learning gradually, okay.
Now, the young boy left his bicycle out in the rain for weeks.
So it gradually began to rust, okay. I’ve just got a word here,
gradually began to rust, okay. So, now imagine a cycle that has been left out for what,
5-6 weeks, and then it slowly begins to rust, right? You leave it out in the rains,
you do not clean it, you do not use it, so slowly gradually, it began to rust.
So, it’s not like you wake up in the morning and you see the cycle full with rust.
It is not so, it is not, it does not happen suddenly. So,
definitely slowly it starts or it gradually began to rust.
That means it was a slow process. So well, little by little, right, it began to rust.
Well, after a huge, uh, bad phase of uh, you know facing economic crisis,
the economy is gradually getting better.
Now, you have these phases, uh, you know I mean the world faces this.
You have bad uh, you have economic crisis. So, it’s not that one day
you wake and then there is, you feel okay wow!
You know the economy has boomed overnight. It does not happen like that.
It takes time. It’s a cycle, right? What goes up has to come down and
vice versa and it’s a gradual cycle. So, it is gradually,
slowly getting better. That means it’s a slow process. It’s consistent but slow,
gradually, step by step or little by little, the economy is getting better.
Okay, friends. So, I hope the meaning and usage of ‘gradually’ is clear.
Remember, it is the opposite of suddenly, something that is slow,
step by step or little by little is gradually,
okay. Now, we’re going to take a look at how to use ‘eventually’.
So, eventually means ultimately. It means finally.
Or sometimes we use it to say ‘after a long time something happens’ okay.
So, that’s like ultimately or finally, okay.
He will eventually take control of the company when his father retires. Okay,
so right now his father is running the business, but when his father retires, he will eventually,
ultimately, the end result of something or you can say finally,
he’s going to take over the company. That means, he will eventually,
at the end of something, the end result of something, the outcome of something.
Okay, so use eventually. Now, eventually the world will run out of fossil fuel.
We, I, I won’t be shocked if this happens soon. Eventually, ultimately,
finally, the result, the end result of the way we are, you know,
the way we value our resources today, don’t be surprised if eventually
the world will run out of fossil fuel, okay. That means ultimately this is
going to happen or this is going to be the end result of something. Okay, so maybe after a
long period of time or maybe after some time this is going to happen.
So, you can use ‘eventually’ when you want to say ‘after some time,
something is going to happen’ or ‘after a long time period of time something is going to happen.
Okay, she will eventually get married and have kids. Well,
right now my friend Maria is single, happy and she is working, she’s doing very well at her job.
But, what from what I see things, now she’s not married yet, but it’s a future projection.
Here in the present, you look into the future and you think eventually this is going to happen,
okay. That means, after some time or after a long period of time. So well,
here I’m going to put it down as a future projection. Okay, so she will eventually or you’ll
say well ultimately or maybe some fine day she will get married and have kids, okay.
Well, so if I tell you uh my nephew will eventually be a doctor some day, that means,
after a long period of time or finally he will be a doctor, okay.
So, yes he is a young boy now, but this is what he aims.
So, a future projection-he will eventually be a doctor.
And well, one more example, exhaustion eventually took over Maria and she slept.
Now, exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness eventually, the end result was this.
Or you can even say, it finally took over her, ya. Exhaustion eventually,
finally took over Maria and she slept. So that was the end result of her exhaustion,
yeah, it takes over you, you can’t ,I mean you can’t do anymore work,
you’re so tired and well eventually you just fall asleep, okay friends.
Uh well, so remember, when you use ‘eventually’ , it means, ultimately,
finally, the end result of something or maybe after a long period something happens.
Okay friends. This brings me to the end of this lesson.
I hope you enjoyed watching it. Well, I do have a test for you,
take it and let me know your scores. I’m going to be back soon, till then take care and bye.