2020-01-11
7 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to my english podcast, where I try to help you with your understanding of certain phrases, expressions, and grammar points in the english language.
So today I have a number of strong adverbs, and I'm linking them with certain adjectives to give some collocations.
We've looked at some of these before.
These are different adverbs and adjectives, but the sense is the same.
Okay, so let me, let me start.
The first word is greatly.
So this is the adverb greatly.
And I've linked that with two adjectives, greatly exaggerated and greatly inconvenienced.
Greatly exaggerated and greatly inconvenienced.
The news that the president had resigned was greatly exaggerated.
Okay, so in fact, it wasn't true.
So somebody had spread a story or some gossip that the president had resigned, but that story proved to be false, what they call false news.
So it was greatly exaggerated.
Greatly inconvenienced is when somebody is delayed or something happens that caused them a lot of upset.
So instead of just saying inconvenienced, we can say greatly inconvenienced.
So if a plane is late, or a bus or a train, something that you need to get urgently to get you home, or to get you to an appointment, and it's delayed or cancelled due to weather or a breakdown or some problem with the schedule, then a number of passengers, including you, were greatly inconvenienced.
So you might write a letter of complaints to the company looking for some compensation.
And in that letter, you would say, well, I was greatly inconvenienced on that particular day because I had to get to an urgent meeting.
I was late, I was embarrassed, and it caused me some problems.