Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 118

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

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  This is Harry, and welcome back to our podcast where I try to help you to improve your english language and particularly your conversational English.

• 00:20

  And what do I have for you today?

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  Well, we're going to look at what I call strong adverbs in conjunction with adjectives and where these adverbs will make the adjective sound stronger.

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  For example, if I said the tall man, tall is the adjective, but if I use a strong adverb because it the very tall man.

• 00:44

  So he's not just tall, he's very tall.

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  So we're going to use some of these strong adjectives, and the adjectives.

• 00:51

  Sorry.

• 00:52

  Adverbs.

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  And the adverbs I'm going to use are inadequately, unavoidably, inexcusably, and fully.

• 01:01

  Okay.

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  Inadequately, unavoidably, inexcusably, and fully.

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  I'm going to use them with two adjectives for each one.

• 01:10

  So if we take inadequately.

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  So I've got inadequately investigated.

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  Okay.

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  This means that something was not investigated properly.

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  So if there was a crime and the detectives didn't find the killer or the criminal, they missed some vital information.

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  So the report might say that the investigation was inadequately investigated.

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  So, not badly investigated, but really poorly inadequately investigated.

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