1 00:00:01,340 --> 00:00:10,040 In this grammar refresh, we'll just go over some words that we can use to link to ideas that are different 2 00:00:10,610 --> 00:00:16,940 from each other and that are contrasting these words are very useful to link together. 3 00:00:17,420 --> 00:00:23,360 Contrasting ideas and words can be phrases and as a matter. 4 00:00:24,490 --> 00:00:27,970 Now, these examples are a word, but. 5 00:00:29,670 --> 00:00:30,390 Although. 6 00:00:36,230 --> 00:00:37,340 In spite of. 7 00:00:43,750 --> 00:00:44,800 On the one hand. 8 00:00:46,270 --> 00:00:51,940 On the other hand, these are just some of them, there's quite a few more, but these are some very 9 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:53,740 common ones you can. 10 00:00:54,670 --> 00:00:57,160 Take a look at each one and go look up. 11 00:00:57,190 --> 00:01:01,480 Example sentences and try to use them in your own day to day speech. 12 00:01:01,990 --> 00:01:05,320 Let's look at some examples to see how you would use these words. 13 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,830 The first example is we are great together. 14 00:01:09,790 --> 00:01:18,430 But we have a fight here and there, and you can see that this boat is in the middle of two contrasting 15 00:01:18,430 --> 00:01:24,480 ideas in the first idea being that these people are great together, they belong. 16 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:28,210 But the second idea is they do fight them. 17 00:01:28,750 --> 00:01:32,560 Fighting and getting along are interesting, their opposite. 18 00:01:33,990 --> 00:01:38,470 The next example shows how we can put the word in the front of the sentence. 19 00:01:40,250 --> 00:01:42,140 Although we are polar opposites. 20 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,170 And so although we are polar opposite. 21 00:01:48,190 --> 00:01:48,970 We get along. 22 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,480 So now you'll notice here that the word is in the front. 23 00:01:54,150 --> 00:01:57,770 The next example or the last example is Matt. 24 00:01:58,350 --> 00:02:02,880 Matt is a fan of football that is a fan of football. 25 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:09,420 On the other hand, please not stand anything sports related. 26 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,190 So that is a fan of football. 27 00:02:14,510 --> 00:02:19,580 On the other hand, Liz cannot stand anything sports related. 28 00:02:20,290 --> 00:02:22,610 So now we're using a full phrase. 29 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,040 You can trust our ideas before we were just using one word, but here on the other hand. 30 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,480 But on the one hand, these are these phrases that we can. 31 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:42,660 In this grammar refresh. 32 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:46,780 We're going to use the word the. 33 00:02:48,350 --> 00:02:51,050 As a comparative adjective or adverb. 34 00:02:52,290 --> 00:02:53,640 Followed by a clause. 35 00:02:55,390 --> 00:03:03,580 And then another, though, with comparative adjective, an adverb, and then a clause in these clauses. 36 00:03:05,090 --> 00:03:06,470 Are going to express. 37 00:03:07,750 --> 00:03:09,480 Comparison or some contrast? 38 00:03:10,570 --> 00:03:17,950 So you know how far this might sound confusing, so let's look at our examples to really make sense 39 00:03:17,950 --> 00:03:18,370 of this. 40 00:03:19,220 --> 00:03:23,090 I will read the first example, the more fashionable you look. 41 00:03:24,050 --> 00:03:26,150 The cooler you feel. 42 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:31,070 The more fashionable you look, the cooler you feel. 43 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:38,240 Let's break this down, right, we have first the work and then we have more fashionable. 44 00:03:38,930 --> 00:03:40,400 It's a more fashionable. 45 00:03:41,550 --> 00:03:43,530 Is it comparative? 46 00:03:44,610 --> 00:03:48,300 A. Right, it's a comparative A.. 47 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:57,170 OK, and now we have more fashionable now more fashionable is where we put that imperative adjective 48 00:03:57,170 --> 00:03:58,480 or adverb, right? 49 00:03:59,000 --> 00:03:59,780 How do you look? 50 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:01,610 You look more fashionable. 51 00:04:02,590 --> 00:04:09,760 That's the first part, a more fashionable and then our clothes you look at, so the more fashionable 52 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,080 you look. 53 00:04:13,890 --> 00:04:15,040 Then what is the next part? 54 00:04:15,060 --> 00:04:23,460 We have the and cooler, cooler again is the part where we put our comparative attractive or the more 55 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:24,630 fashionable you look. 56 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:32,280 The cooler you feel and now here cooler doesn't mean temperature, not cold. 57 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:34,500 It's like looking stylish. 58 00:04:35,130 --> 00:04:35,550 It. 59 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:45,790 Again, the more fashionable you look and feel and let's look at another example, the older you get, 60 00:04:46,510 --> 00:04:48,820 the less you care about clothes. 61 00:04:50,530 --> 00:04:51,850 So again, these are. 62 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:59,740 This has a cause in relation or cause and effect relationship, the first one, the older you get. 63 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:08,910 So when you get older, what happens, the less you care about close or when you look more fashionable, 64 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:14,920 what happens, the cooler you feel, it sort of in effect relationship. 65 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,990 Again, the older you get, the less you care about the clothes. 66 00:05:21,650 --> 00:05:24,730 Here we have, the older we're older. 67 00:05:24,730 --> 00:05:27,130 Is our heritage a. ever. 68 00:05:28,270 --> 00:05:38,380 And then we have you get is the clause followed by the less so comparative adjective forever and then 69 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:41,020 the clause again you care about close. 70 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:44,710 The next example sentence is. 71 00:05:46,050 --> 00:05:48,510 The more you to hang out together. 72 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:57,370 The more you'll like, Jeff, is, the more you to hang out together, the more you'll like Jeff. 73 00:05:57,970 --> 00:06:02,930 So here are comparative adjective or adverb is the same, right? 74 00:06:03,310 --> 00:06:09,440 Or the more you to hang out together, the more you'll like. 75 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:13,150 Jeff, this means if you keep hanging out with Jeff. 76 00:06:14,030 --> 00:06:14,890 You'll like him more.