Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 119

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

• 00:10

  This is Harry.

• 00:11

  And welcome back to our podcasts where I try to help you with your understanding of the english language.

• 00:17

  Introduce some phrases, some expressions, phrasal verbs, grammar aspects to try and help you improve, more importantly, your fluency and your conversational English.

• 00:28

  So, what do I have for you now?

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  Well, what we're going to look at are some adjectives that we're going to convert into verbs by adding en to the end of them.

• 00:42

  Okay?

• 00:43

  So the four adjectives that I have are strong, long, fright, spelt fright, and tight, spelled t I g h t.

• 00:57

  So strong, long, fright, and tight.

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  And for each of those we're going to add on en, we have to make a few little changes, but this will then create a verb.

• 01:08

  Okay, so for example, strong, that's a strong man.

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  But if we put on the end en, we change strong to strength.

• 01:20

  Yeah, strength.

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  The strength then becomes is a noun.

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  Add en and we have strengthen.

• 01:28

  So to strengthen something.

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  So if we want to make something stronger, we strengthen it.

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  So we go to the gym to strengthen our muscles, to get fitter, to get stronger, to strengthen our muscles.

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  When they're building a tall building and they're using concrete, they put reinforced concrete with steel tubes in the concrete to strengthen the support, to strengthen the walls, to strengthen the foundation, to carry the weight of the extra floors.

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  So when we want to build something strong, we strengthen it and add that en.

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