The Most Common Words in English: 8 ways to use ‘THAT’
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- ‘That’ is one of the most common words in English. You already know this word, but you probably don’t know its wide variety of uses. In this lesson, I will teach you eight different uses of ‘that’. We’ll look at grammar as well as common expressions THAT you can use start using in your English conversations. You can test your understanding with the quiz at www.engvid.com/the-most-commo...
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Hi, everyone. In this lesson I'm going to tell you everything you need to know about "that". "That" is one of the most common words in English. Let's have a look at how we can use it in conversation and in writing.
First use is something close or distant. When something is close, we can say... "This" is a pointing word; it means close to me. "This man", "this room", "this pen". "This pen is close to me." But when something is further away, I can show that in language by saying: "That woman", "that house", "that pencil". "This pen; that pencil" - more far away.
We can also use "that" when we want to reduce the length of a sentence. Because "that" is a pointing word, we can take a longer sentence, such as: "The song that is playing sounds great", and instead we can just say: "That's a great song." In a sentence like this, "that" means the song that's playing now. You already know about it, so I don't need to say those extra words. I can make it shorter: "That's a great song."
Another example: "What's that thing in your hand?" I can simply say: "What's that?" If I'm looking at it, my eyes will show what I'm talking about: "What's that?" Another example: "The outfit that you're wearing looks great." You're dressed up, you're wearing something nice. I don't need to say all those words; I can simply say: "That looks great. That looks really great."
The next use of "that" is to intensify something; make it more strong. I can say... An example... An example situation: "Trust me. It's that bad", and I use my tone of voice to add the intensity on "that", and also a bit on "bad". "Trust me. It's that bad." Another example: "I'm not joking. His cat really is that fat." And when we use "that" with our tone, it's something that native speakers would do to emphasize something. When we're making a joke perhaps or we're exaggerating something in a story, we'll say "that" with a lot of emphasis.
Next use of "that" is the difference between writing and conversation. In conversation we don't always say the word "that"; whereas in more formal writing, we often will write "that" in a sentence. "I thought that it was a mistake." That's what I'd write. "I thought that it was a mistake", but perhaps I'd just say: "I thought it was a mistake." I could... I could also say, if I wanted: "I thought that it was a mistake." It's not right, it's not wrong; it depends on the speaker. But typically, if we do something in writing, that's because it's considered more formal, or more standard English, or more proper English.
Another example: "They said that the package has not arrived." Perhaps I would write that sentence: "They said that the package has not arrived", whereas I would say: "They said the package has not arrived." Another example: "You promised that you would be home by 9." A written example, maybe we'd see that in a novel. Maybe not actually because this seems like spoken... Spoken dialogue. We could simply say... We could simply say, instead: "You promised you would be home by 9."
Now let's look at example number five of when to use "that". We can use "that" in situations to comment and share our feelings about something that's happened. First example: "That's insane!" If I use that tone, I'm surprised. This could be you tell me that you've won 20 million pounds on the lottery - I'm so shocked about that, I say: "That's insane!" But equally, I can use this expression when I'm really shocked that something happened, and I think that it's crazy and insane. Let's say you knew about a criminal incident that happened - a crazy guy came and smashed up your friend's car. Maybe a jealous boyfriend or something like that - he smashed up the car, but when the police came, in the end they didn't charge him for anything. So, nothing happened to this guy who smashed the car. When you hear about it, you can say: "That's insane!" because you think it's a bad thing that happened. It depends on your tone.
The next ones: "That's a pity", "That's too bad", and "That's a shame" all mean a similar thing, which is that something unfortunate has happened to you, you've been disappointed. This could be you had a job, you loved the job, you thought it was going really, really well and then two weeks after you've been doing this job the boss suddenly comes to you and says: "Sorry, but we can't keep you on", so you lose your job. […]
It's amazing. In a few minutes, I understand all about “that”.
Congrats. You are a good english teacher and your lessons are very didactic!
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I really love the way you speak , your pronuntiacion is amazing and the intonation is perfect. Thank you.
And your spellings
She is a native speaker.
Thanks for this video. It has given to me so much more confidence when I am speaking.
In my particular case, I have been corrected for native speakers claiming that I am misusing the word THAT, which is why I started trying to find a lesson to understand what am I doing wrong. However, after seeing this lesson, I understood that for some people, in conversational speaking, using THAT is not correct, but now I can see why they think like that, and that it is grammatically correct to use it.
THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUUUUUUCH!!!!!! You have no idea how your explanation gave me back my confidence again. This is an amazing lesson!!!
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Please make more videos Jade. Your accent is perfect to listen and your videos are always very well explained. You are the best.
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Wonderful explanation how to use THAT.
Thank you
Amazing！ “that” is a pause in the conversation. It makes sense and helps me to solve a big English learning problem. Thank you Jade.
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The examples you gave comparing writing vs conversation were veey useful. Could you do an entire video talking about that, maybe giving more examples?
Thank you in advance!
Thank you so much for that video!
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Thank you Jade. You should take note about our grammatical mistakes….
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Thank you Jade! Love you Jade! That's that
Its nice when you learn english with a english teacher, that speak in english and the video's legend is english too, but you understand even though!
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Thank you, you really helped me.
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That’s great lesson I love it 🥰 thanks jade
Thanks very much
I got it the right way around. Very cool!
Great lesson!
Thats a great engvids expposing me in typical English conversation
Yay! Many thanks! This is very useful! 😺💖
I like it. This lesson is awesome! The teacher is awesome too)
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Hi teacher it's been long.. thank you I understand better now the use of that.
Thank you.
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u r have unique character u own body language explain the meaning without translation
Great job
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That´s a really good job!I love your English lessons, really nice too! thank you! that´s all.Bye Jade.
Thank you ma'am
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Awesome teaching mam
Thanks you
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That's great!
We missed you welcome back
jade looks like she's REALLY annoyed lmao
thank you for yet another helpful video!
She seems annoyed at *that*
Thank you to help me I love you
Thanks for the video, could you please make deeper content videos??
It's good to know that, the word that can be used in many situations. That's it., that's why I comment on it. That's cool., thank you for that 😉
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Can I say it is good or that (is =full form) good!
Maby this sentence: the song that (is playing) sounds great. It must be in passive voice, the song that (is being played) sounds great, or the song that you are playing sounds great.
For me 'that' is very difficult to learn,but after this video I think I can understand better how use this world thank you Jade
I learn how to teach from you, you went straight to the uses.
Might you do a follow-up video on the grammar behind "that" please?
#1 demonstrative adjective
#2 demonstrative pronoun
that...might? (purpose/result clause?)
Thank you for the wonderful explanation 👍 by the way you're beautiful 👧
Jade you're welcome ...i am very happy to see you again
Wow, I love this class is 2.10 AM here in Brazil and love learn with you, you are an excellent teacher and I just to thank you bye-bye.
Nice video ..
That sounds about right about those that’s
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great video, I had that confusion about how to explain it, thanks a lot...and on the other hand, You are so beautiful Jade. :)
That was a perfect explanation. I love it!
Nevertheless, I have a context where I don't know what to use 'that' or 'this' or maybe both options are right.
I'm explaining that now: There is a question: What does the symbol stand for? Can I answer this question by using that, e.g.:That symbol stands for a resistor. (I would like to emphasize additional information as a context. The symbol for a resistor is illustrated on a piece of paper that I'm holding in my hands, so it's not far away.)
Thank you :))
That was a really good lesson!
Thank you!
Thank you Ma'am, for your amazing videos. Please clear my doubt as to this sentence i read in a newspaper. It reads as....
Perhaps, the ruler himself also COULD NOT HAVE HAD SEEN the future valour, achievement and foresight of his own self.
Please tell are those capitalised words grammatically correct? What the HAD is working as in this sentence? What does it mean? I am confused. I want to know how those two third forms of verb are used together in the sentence? shouldnt it have been written as Could Not Have Seen instead of Could Not Have Had Seen?
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Point taken.
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Please also tell about the use of 'have and had'
Very sweet girl! Keep it up! Your accent is so English))
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It seems to me "that" is used when a subject-verb clause is acting as a complement to the main transitive verb in a sentence. However, in that scenario, the word "that" is usually omitted from everyday speech. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Jade , are you British? Could you explain the diference between that and who , when we are using for links phrases??
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Thanks for your explanation teacher, but teacher would you mind to teacher us how to use irrelevant
is it any Brazilian around?
i would like to know if this phrase it’s correct : “that's what she said “... what do you think about that (it)?thanks for your kind assistance
Yes, that is correct.
Should it be : They said that the package had not arrived or has not arrived?
Using Past indefinite + that+ past perfect