Step 4.2 - Adjectives and Adverbs are Alarmingly Awesome

Transform Your English Step IV - Vibrant Vocabulary
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Let's talk about something very simple, you can start doing right away. That will paint your English communication with exciting colors in will allow you to increase the impact and the dis descriptiveness of your English by a million times. I'm talking about adjectives, and adverbs. Now, I don't usually like to talk about grammar formulas and concepts and explanations, but let's make sure we perfectly understand these two concepts, adjectives and adverbs and adjectives is simply a word that describes something. Right? A person, an animal, an object, something good.

While an adverb is something that describes an action. adverbs describe movement. So I can say that my friend is beautiful. What is that an adjective or an adverb. Of course, beautiful is describing my friend. So it's an adjective right?

Or I can say that my other friend runs quickly. As you can see, now, I'm describing the running of my friend, but not my friend. That's why quickly is an effort. That's it. Now, take a look at this word again and pay attention to the last two letters. So the L y at the end of a word, transform an adjective into an adverb.

Most of the adverbs in English finishing l y. And you can discover this adverse very easily, because you simply have to pick an adjective and add Li to transform it into the effort. So, can you tell me what would be the adverb? of beautiful? Exactly. Now focus on the pronunciation, let's say beautifully.

Okay? You know how adjectives and adverbs work, right? And here's the secret. If you select powerful adjectives and adverbs, the impact will drastically increase. Because remember, everybody uses adjectives but Not everybody uses deep, exciting, descriptive, powerful adjectives. So let me give you an example.

Okay, so let's take a look at this example. The man is on the street. These are perfect, perfectly correct example right? And you can obviously understand it. But let me ask you this. How much detail do you have in your head?

About this man and this street? Maybe not too much, right? You're understanding it. There is no color in the mental picture. I am helping you create. So let me try again.

You're ready. Okay, so the bold, fat, hairy, smelly, sweaty, wrinkled, short and slow man is slowly and stupidly. What King on the dark, broken, all ugly, dirty streets. Now, what's the difference? Right? I'm basically saying the same thing.

I'm giving you the same information. The only difference here is I'm using better adjectives, I'm using powerful adverbs that really help you create an image in your head while you're listening to me. This is a power of adjectives. Right? When we're speaking, we're not only helping people analyze and think, but we're saying, we're helping people feel and see pictures in their mind. We have the power to create images and help people imagine things with the words that come out of our mouth.

Now, if you combine what we talked about in the first pillar, Step number three about intonation and add emotions to your intonation. Plus, combine them with power words. And these descriptive adjectives and adverbs. Well, this is a winning formula, you'll find that your English communication will be unimaginably more powerful, persuasive and influential than you have ever imagined. So, how do you use adjectives and adverbs powerfully? Well, it's not difficult at all.

The only thing you need to do is, like we saw in the last step, become a word Hunter. In this case for adjectives and adverbs. start paying attention to these words that catch your attention, that have some power over you, that make you imagine or feel something and don't forget them. Write them down and men memorize them and start experimenting with them. Let's work with some examples. All right.

Okay. So last week, I went to a theater play. I was very excited because I love theater. And I had front row seats. Now, I was lucky, because this play was completely fascinating. And the actors, all of them were tremendously skilled at acting.

I just felt completely riveted and dumbfounded by this play. Am I transmitting some emotions to you? Or would you rather that I said something like, yeah, last weekend, went to a theater play. was good. And the actors were nice, and they're good actors. And I had fun.

It was good. Right? I'm saying exactly the same thing with pay attention to how differently you perceive my communication. If I carefully select my adjectives and adverbs. Good, let's look at another example. So yesterday I assisted a seminar, and I was absolutely excited about going to the seminar.

I was preparing for weeks, and I was waiting with excitement. And I was hopeful that I would find something very terrifically useful for my life and my job. So I went to the seminar. Sadly, the seminar was disappointingly boring and useless I got bored five minutes after the seminar started. And when it finished, I didn't feel any benefits any use and productive insights or lessons that I got from it. So sadly, it was so disappointingly boring and wasteful.

It was a waste of my time. By the way, also, the speaker was disgustingly ugly. I'm sad to say it, but he was horrifyingly ugly to look at so much that I couldn't stop looking at him. I was dumbfounded by his ugliness. Of course, this person doesn't exist and I didn't go to any seminar. I'm just using it as an example.

But do you see how we can use these words to translate that very clear, descriptive and colorful idea? About the people we meet and the situations we encounter in life. Awesome. Okay, so what can you do to start using your adjectives and adverbs more powerfully, more rationally? Well, we should start by using the same trick that we learned on the previous session, right? Become a word Hunter, in this case for adjectives and adverbs.

So every time you hear an adjective or an adverb that catches your attention, that gets some idea into you in a powerful way. Don't forget or ignore these words, write them down, memorize them, and start using them and experimenting with them in your real life communication in English. So remember, you can download the PDF file At the end of the lesson on the webpage, and you will find a list of example adjectives and adverbs. To help you get started, you can select your favorite 234 and make it as an objective to start using some of these words in your real life. test how you feel using them, test how people respond to you when you're using them. And if you like the results, keep them if not modify, or add all the words accordingly.

Fantastic. So you now know how to implement power words, and how to use adjectives and adverbs, vibrantly, to really keep growing, personalizing structuring and specializing your vocabulary to make it powerful, influential. Useful for your life and your needs. I hope you keep growing your vocabulary. I hope you keep using and expanding your communication arrange and meet me for the final part of this step where we'll put everything together so you can start using it and applying it in real life. I'll see you on the next lesson.

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