hi there I hope you're having a
fantastic day I'm Drew Badger and in
this video we're going to cover seven
word pairs that are confusing both for
native speakers and English learners the
first one is could have should have and
would have now we contrast this with
could of should of and would of when
we're speaking obviously these don't
really make much difference and
typically the sound of it it sounds like
I should have done something I should
have done something like I should have
done something or I could have done
something where I would have done
something but grammatically correct
speech we'd have there so I would have
done something or I should have done
something or I could have done something
but when we form contractions of these
it becomes would've could've and
should've so again when you're speaking
these don't really make much of a
difference because it really obviously
you're not spelling anything but when
you're writing something down this
becomes incredibly important you should
not be using should of could of and
would up you're talking about oh I wish
something maybe I'm regretting something
about the past like I should have I
should of and again this is should have
like I should have locked my door before
i left my house I should have locked my
door before i left my house so the
blending of it the pronunciation is
actually really great if you want to
think about it as should of but when you
write it it's either should with the
apostrophe and ve you're making a
contraction or you have should have if
you're nervous about this you don't
remember which it is don't make the
contraction just make the actual full
two words should have would have and
could have next this is one of the most
commonly confused things and this is for
both native English speakers and
non-natives and this is except vs except
except and except it's basically the
same pronunciation so it's an
understandable thing that people would
have trouble using these in their
writing but when you talk about
accepting something just think of except
as a verb you accept something like
you're receiving something but except
with an e you're talking about like a
result and this is typically a noun so
you're saying oh I like like the
exception to the rule or something again
we're using it this way where we're
talking about a noun as
to whether we should be using like a
verb like I accept the consequences of
my actions so I'm receiving something
and that's the actual verb versus the
noun form so think about whether you're
talking about a noun or verb are you
talking about an action or a result if
you're talking about an action think
about a with action so you've got accept
and you're talking about the opposite
then you wouldn't use a you would have e
for that so that's the exception to the
rule except next we've got loose and
loose lose and loops lose just means the
opposite of whim and if you think about
oh I lost the game I'm losing something
right now LOSC to lose something but
loose loose and listen carefully to the
difference in these pronunciations lose
it's like LOC or Lu Zhi or something
lose versus loose now to have something
that's loose means like if i look at the
neck of my shirt like hear the caller
here my collar is quite loose like the
color is quite loose it's not tight like
it's choking me right now so if it is
tight or the opposite of loose i'm
talking about something that's like
flowing freely or maybe you've got pants
that keep falling down because they're
just not very tight rounded so those
pants are loose but listen carefully to
how these blend and try using them in
your conversations as well as putting
these in the comments below the more you
practice using these the more you will
get used to using them automatically
incorrectly in your conversations so my
pants are very loose but I will lose the
game or we are losing the basketball
game right now next complement versus
compliment this is another hominem and
hominem just means like the same sound
so hum old same home old same so we've
got the same sound for two different
words compliment and compliment and
again this is one of those things where
in a conversation when you're speaking
it doesn't matter because you don't know
what the spelling is but it is really
important for your writing because if
you make these mistakes you really look
well kind of dumb I suppose so people
are maybe looking even at like a resume
or a teacher grading your writing
they're going to think why does this
person not know the difference between
these two words it should be quite
obvious
anyway a compliment when you're talking
about receiving a kind word from
somebody else that is a compliment with
an eye and a compliment where you're
talking about two things going well
together that's complement with an e so
compliment if you think about just a
good way to remember this you're
complimenting or someone is
complimenting you like I am receiving a
compliment so I we've got the compliment
in I the I letter is in that so it's a
compliment for I or a compliment for me
so this is a great way to remember that
so when you're writing this think about
it is someone saying something nice
about I about myself and this is a
compliment where if you're talking about
two things going well ah these two
dishes for our meal complement each
other so this is where you would use the
e complement compliment next is another
pair of words that's really confusing
both of these words are correct but
they're often just misused in
conversations and these are less and
fewer less and fewer now people will
often talk about less and fewer when
they're talking about maybe the amount
of something but one is used for the
amount of something where you can't
count it and the other is used for
counting the amount of something where
you actually have an individual thing or
individual things you can count now
we're talking about let's say if you're
at the grocery store and you see the
sign that says 10 items or less the sign
actually should say 10 items or fewer
now the reason people don't use this in
conversations is because people just
want to express themselves more quickly
and it's easier to say 10 items or less
10 items or less than it is to say 10
items or fewer it just has kind of a
maybe a more awkward way of pronouncing
it and people actually get the sense for
less being correct in that way but when
you're talking about les like les
information this is something that you
can't count so I have less money than I
had yesterday but I have fewer dollars
in my pocket so if you're talking about
the amount of something like you can
lower your hand like this but you can't
count it exactly you got less and less
space in your hand but if this way
you're talking about the amount of
something you've got fewer and fewer and
fewer you're talking about the actual
number
something like that so to remember it
nice and easily if you think about fewer
you've got the ER at the end of that for
number so fewer you've got numbers for
that so you can actually remember it
more easily that way and again this is
really important for writing but in your
conversations as well if you can use it
correctly it certainly help you and make
you look more intelligent or at least
maybe not look dumb like we sometimes do
when we express things in an incorrect
way anyway so if you're talking about
less than something we're talking about
the amount of something but fewer and
something we've got that er for number
we can count that things you should have
fewer items in your shopping cart
instead of less items next we've got
amused and a bemused amused and bemused
both of these are a little bit more
advanced and you might not hear them as
often in conversations or see them as
often in writing but they will appear
when you were amused by something it's
funny to you it's interesting i'm like
amused by that clown that's dancing and
doing something maybe I've got like
something stuck on my face right now and
that's amusing to you but when you are
bemused by something this means maybe
you're confused by something so you're
actually like I don't really know what
to do i'm dealing with a problem over
here that's bemusing it's troubling for
me or confusing for me in some way so
when you think about be something like
be like become or bemused you're talking
about like being in a position of
something so you're bemused you're in a
position of like muse montork like kind
of confusion in some way but amused
you're just talking about having
something that's funny or interesting
for you and the final tricky pair that
we'll talk about is disinterested versus
uninterested disinterested versus
uninterested now if the the key to
understanding these really is in the
prefix and this is a little bit of the
word at the beginning we've got diff and
on so disinterested and uninterested
they sound like basically they're the
same word but the meanings are actually
quite different if you think about just
being interested in something like wow
I'm like focused on something hopefully
you're interested in this lesson if you
are not then I'm guess I'm doing a bad
job but if you are interested in the
lesson it means you're focusing and your
giving me your attention but if you're
uninterested that would be the opposite
so maybe you're just like oh look there
goes a bird and I'm watching something
like you're not paying any attention to
this lesson also it is not interesting
you it is uninteresting so this is when
you're talking about using the UH this
is typically when we would talk about
the opposite of something interested
uninterested but this interested means
you're just kind of impartial and you
want maybe a disinterested judge in a
court case where you've got two
different people if they are both
arguing if you have a person that maybe
cares about more about one side or one
group of people than the other than you
haven't like an interested party
somebody that's actually caring about
one person or group more than the other
one and that's going to make for a very
very bad judge in that case so you want
a disinterested person any disinterested
person is not interested one way or the
other it doesn't really matter so when
you're thinking about like oh like I was
talking to my brother and he seemed
uninterested in what I was saying I'm
saying that he is he's not interested or
he doesn't care but if I'm talking about
maybe I need some like advice from
someone I need some advice from a disk
interested person so it doesn't matter
like they're not trying to sell me
something or get me to do something it
doesn't matter to them so they are
disinterested disinterested well I hope
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you have been interested in not either
either disinterested or uninterested but
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