hi there this is Harry welcome back to Advanced English lessons with Harry where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language I help you to improve conversational skills your business English improve your vocabulary Expressions whatever it is wherever you're having problems well you can find the answer right here on this particular Channel okay so in this particular lesson it's an advanced English lesson and we're looking at adverbs and in particular we're looking at adverb collocation so I've got 20 in total for you as you know I believe that onetoone language learning is the most effective way in which you can improve your language skills prle is the complete solution for Effective language learning a onetoone tter platform where you can actually learn how to communicate a language faster prle has thousands of tutors who are native in Spanish Portuguese English French German in fact over 50 languages and with 32,000 tutors to pick from you can also use 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you usually get two words together and when you have two words together you've got a phrase and when you got a phrase you can express yourself in a much much better way and okay you still have to remember it and you still have to know how to use it and that's of course the purpose of my particular lesson so today we've got an advanced English lesson looking at adverb collocations and in these particular collocations you'll see pairings of words together and it's really really important that the adverb goes with an appropriate adjective and that's how we use them and it gives you much more expression and you have to be very careful because sometimes people use the wrong adverb with the wrong adjective and it doesn't make any sense at all so you'll see the pairings that I have practice them go over them if you have any difficulty as you know you know the drill by now just come back to me and I'll give you some further explanation okay so adverbs as you should know by now adverbs always modify modify the verb or in this case adjectives okay so they what we're trying to do is just to give you a better use of the English language and hopefully these collocations will do the trick for you so let me give you a quick example we often say when we use the word concerned I am deeply concerned so it gives you the ability there to put more meaning into it you might be concerned about your child's health you might be concerned about his progress or her progress at school but if you want to really emphasize it and you want to modify it with a adverb you can say deeply concerned I am deeply concerned now you could of course say very concerned and very is one of those adverbs that goes almost with everything or really concerned so really concerned very concerned but deeply concerned has greater meaning okay now you know we wouldn't say I'm sorely concerned so that would not make sense so deeply concerned yes sorely concerned no really concerned or very concerned yeah you can use them as I said we've got 20 in total so I'll go through them slowly as slowly as I can and hopefully you'll be able to keep up with me okay now first one is to firmly believe so in an expression we might say I firmly believe that I am correct or I firmly believe that this is the right thing to do I firmly believe that you are at fault or he is at fault or that it wasn't my fault so that's you know I believe it's a strong enough verb to use but we can say I firmly believe I firmly believe number two happily married of course somebody can say I'm married yeah I've been married for 10 years 15 years 20 years happily is an adverb that will underline the fact as to how strong your relationship is I have been happily married for 15 or 20 years yeah so there's a there's a an old joke about that happily married when the guy is talking to his friend and he says oh I've been happily married for 5 years he say yeah but you've been married to your wife for 20 years he said yes but only 5 years were happy so yeah happily married strongly criticize or strongly criticized yeah he strongly criticized the Member of Parliament or the minister or the prime minister or the president was strongly criticized for his action so he can't be criticized by somebody but strongly criticized suggests that the criticism was quite deep and very very tough so strongly criticized not toughly criticized strongly criticized and don't forget to click on the link in the description below to get your 50% reduction in the first lesson that you purchase with preply.com badly hurt well of course when there are accidents and unfortunately many times there are accidents on our roads when cars are driving too fast or people go with great speed or perhaps for weather conditions the the roads are bad and if there's an accident somebody can be badly hurt okay so we wouldn't say very hurt or really hurt but we'd say badly hurt to suggest the level of the injuries that he has suffered so if he was just hurt perhaps he broke an arm or an ankle then okay it's serious but it's not very very serious but if he was badly hurt it would suggest that the level of the injuries was quite serious and perhaps he had to spend some time in the hospital so badly hurt to sleep soundly well we all like to sleep soundly in our beds coming up to Christmas time we always tell our children you should sleep soundly because Santa Claus will be coming on Christmas Eve and he'll be creeping around the room so you have to be sound asleep or you have to sleep soundly or somebody would say oh I had had a great great sleep last night I slept soundly I you know as soon as my head touched the pillow Voom I was out like a light so I slept soundly for the first time in many many weeks number six completely destroy something so a fire could break out in a shopping center for example and it will destroy the shopping center but if we use the word completely destroy we get a much better feeling as to the level of destruction perhaps all of the buildings were damaged all of the shops were ruined the roof collapsed or whatever happened but it was completely destroyed yeah but if the the report said only part of the shopping center was destroyed you'd get a general impression that it wasn't so serious but completely destroyed tells you that yeah this the level of seriousness or the the fire swept everywhere in that particular shopping center and was completely destroyed totally agree I totally agree with you now we could say I completely agree and that's another collocation you could use I totally agree with the last suggestion so perhaps you're sitting in a meeting with some of your colleagues and everybody is chipping in with their ideas as to how things can be improved and you would like to make some contribution and you say yeah I totally agree with the last person's comments or I totally agree with the point about relaunching the product or I totally agree with the idea about providing customers with a refund or some helpline what whatever the suggestion might be so I totally agree number eight hopelessly devoted there's a song I can't remember who who sang the song but the line in the song was hopelessly devoted to you I'm hopelessly devoted to you hopelessly devoted to you so when someone is hopelessly devoted it means that they are you know really really devoted they spend all their time all their waking hours doing things to suit their partner hopelessly devoted yeah so it's all about what you can and what you can't do actually I tell you exactly who sang the song now I remember it it was Olivia Newton John she's she's dead now she died a few months ago but she had a song and it was hopelessly devoted to you okay so that's if you check it out on Olivia Newton John you'll find the song So when someone is hopelessly devoted they are very very much in love with the the person that they are devoted to and they will do anything they can to help them so it could be their partner for life it could be a parent talking about a child U or indeed you could be talking about your pet dog hopelessly devoted to your pet but in this sense it's usually about love and Ro romance hopelessly devoted now you again you could say really devoted and it doesn't give you that same sense whereas hopelessly devoted underlines the fact that you can't help it you're just head over heels in love with the person and you want to do everything you can to help them to completely forget about something okay now this is something that we use all of the time you know we can often in our busy lives forget to return a telephone call to somebody forget to pick something up in the supermarket on the way home even though we promised we would we could forget somebody's birthday or hopefully not you could forget your wedding anniversary your partner's birthday and then you have to put your hands up and say oh look I've been so so busy I just completely forgot all about it I really really sorry I'll do anything you need I'm really really sorry so when you completely forget it means it goes out of your head yeah so it's not just that you forgot for an hour or two hours you completely forgot you were so caught up in whatever situation at work or family matters you completely forgot about this very very important date an anniversary a birthday whatever it might be to care passionately this is number 10 on our list remember we've got 20 so we're almost halfway there to care passionately about something so what do you care about the most so you find out things in your life that you care about and if you care really deeply then you can say I care or he cares passionately about football he cares passionately about his kids he cares passionately about his country about his job whatever it is you like the most or whatever you spend your most time doing this is something that you care passionately about okay so to care passionately means really really de deeply number 11 now we have two words here we can say badly or shaby yeah and we collocate with dressed badly dressed shaby dressed if you were trying to describe the the dress of the people in a certain country or town or city that you visited you might comment on the fact that yeah I think the economy in that country isn't doing so well at the moment because a lot of the citizens certainly the ones I saw in the streets were very badly dressed or shaby dressed and they both really mean the same that the quality of the clothing isn't good the age of the clothing is quite old perhaps worn suffering from some wear and tear so they are shaby or badly dressed number 12 to need something desperately or desperately need so here we can change the order I desperately need blah blah blah I need something desperately okay so when you desperately need something you really really need it now oh I desperately need a coffee I've been absolutely waiting for the taste of a coffee for such a long time I got really busy this morning with some meetings and there was no coffee ready when I went into the canteen so I really really need to run out now and get a cup of coffee because I just won't be able to function anymore I desperately need an injection of coffee okay if you desperately need some help or the company desperately needs a new investor to invest some much needed liquidity or cash into the business otherwise the business is going to have difficulties okay so to desperately need something now just take a pause there and if you find out that you like this particular lesson then please like the video and if you can subscribe to the channel because it really really helps okay so we're on to number 13 okay and 13 is to break deliberately or delber L break something so you might have a young child that's being a little bit bold or is mischievous or he's misbehaving and perhaps he's feeling a little bit left out of things so he deliberately breaks it to get some attention he drops your favorite cup or mug on the floor and deliberately breaks it so it's not that he broke it by accident he deliberately breaks it now if we're looking at the word deliberately and we were looking for a synonym for deliberately we could say on purpose or purposely yeah but we wouldn't say purposely broke deliberately is a much better word and the collocation is much stronger so deliberately broke or to break something deliberately so in the example I had the young boy was feeling a little bit mischievous and he picked up the cup and dropped it on the floor and it he broke it deliberately and his mother or father was really really annoyed so somebody could deliberately break a contract okay perhaps he didn't want to go ahead with the contract so he just didn't honor whatever the contract said and he broke the condition so he deliberately broke it and then you have to consider whether you Su that person for breach of contract as it's called to deliberately break the conditions of the contract would be to break the terms and conditions to in breach of the contract number 14 to apologize profusely I love this word profusely gives the impression that you're constantly oh I'm sorry I'm sorry look what I've done oh I'm really really sorry how can you ever forgive me oh oh oh and you go on and on and on so there's a constant stream of apology so that's what apologizing profusely means okay so it's not just a simple apology look I'm really sorry I forgot your birthday that's okay oh I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday what are you ever going to to do to forgive me what can I do to make it up to you look I'm really sorry it'll never happen again I don't know what I was thinking I've never done it so you apologize profusely so you get the idea of these collocations they're really important because say they're phrases they're Expressions they're two words together and they really help you with your English so to apologize profusely bitterly disappointed is number 15 on my list bitterly disappointed well it can be bitterly cold that's another way that we can express bitterly but bitterly disappointed means something really really strong you can be disappointed that you missed the match you can be disappointed that you didn't get the promotion you can be disappointed in lots of things bitterly disappointed takes it one step further oh you should see his face I mean he's bitterly disappointed that he didn't make the team he's bitterly disappointed that his team got knocked out in the semi-finals he's bitterly disappointed that he didn't receive that bonus he was expecting because he had earmarked to buy a new car and now that's not going to happen so he's really really upset to be bitterly disappointed number 16 severely affected now usually we severely affected by something okay so perhaps the transport system has been severely affected by bad weather Frozen points on the railway tracks means the trains can't depart or arrive on time lots of snow on the runway means that the airports are closed for periods of time and flights are cancelled ice on the roads mean people can't drive at all or they have to drive very slowly so all weather or all means of Transport are severely affected by the bad weather okay severely affected so it means not just partly not just for a little period of time time but severely means really really badly severely affected by number 17 to distinctly remember or remember distinctly I remember distinctly telling you that I would not be home tonight for dinner yeah I distinctly remember sending an email to cancel the meeting and the guy turned up today I was so embarrassed I distinctly remember ordering a takeaway but it never arrived so something that you thought happened or you believe happened and you've got a very good memory because you remember the person you spoke to or the message you left or the time you sent the email whatever it is that gives you that little bit of a understanding that yeah I'm right I distinctly remember doing that so but if other people don't remember of course it causes a problem so distinctly remember very clearly I clearly remember distinctly but you could then again as I said you could say clearly I clearly remember telling you distinctly means very very accurately fatally injured fatally injured now fatal usually means unfortunately somebody has died so the horse was fatally injured in the race something happened the horse jumped over the fence but then landed awkwardly broke a leg and the horse had to be as they say put down or destroyed so the horse was fatally injured so it wasn't just an injury to the leg and hopefully the vet will cure it but fatally injured usually means that the horse H could no longer run or even walk and therefore the horse had to be put down on the racetrack very very sad so fatally injured or if there was some really really serious accident by train or plane and the number of people were fatally injured meaning they lost their lives so again it's a form of words a collocation that you'll come across all of the time in news reports journalist Reports online reports on Internet sites so many people were fatally injured not badly injured because badly injured usually means they will recover eventually fatally injured very little chance number 19 perfectly clear I made it perfectly clear to you that I did not want to take part in this protest I thought I made it perfectly clear to the class that I wanted the homework completed and handed up to me on the Tuesday not on the wedy no excuses I made it perfectly clear to everyone so it was clear because I told everybody and they nodded or they H acknowledged it by way of an email but I made it perfectly clear means there was no room for misinterpretation there was no room for ambiguity you understood it was perfectly clear perfectly clear to me that you understood what I was asking and perfectly clear to you what I was asking of you perfectly clear and then finally number 20 virtually impossible that's a nice collocation what is virtually impossible well climbing Mount Everest for me and for lots of people would be virtually impossible being able to go off and play golf on the Christmas day would be virtually impossible because you might end up in the divorce courts that would be virtually impossible so virtually means almost completely almost 100% not quite 99.9999% so virtually impossible okay so those are the 20 collocations the adverb collocations it's Advanced English but they're not so difficult so what I'd like you to do and what you should try to do is to practice some of them pick a sentence see how you can put them in see how it sounds work your way around it if you have any problems come back to me don't try to look at all 20 pick three or four or five and then the next week pick pick another three four or five and just get to use them and you'll see situations that are really really set up to use this type of collocation okay you can enjoy it you can play around with it if you have any problems contact me always happy to hear from you and I'm always there to help okay this is Harry saying goodbye for now thanks for joining this lesson and join me for the next one