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So in English, we sometimes use the word as, and we put an adjective or adverb, and then we put another as, and we say things like "as flat as a pancake."
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I drove over this bottle, and it's been chewed on by the dogs as well.
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But now it's as flat as a pancake.
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Do you know what a pancake is?
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It's a very thin cake that you fry in a frying pan.
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So sometimes we use the word as and the word flat to describe things like this as being as flat as a pancake.
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In this English lesson, I'll help you learn how we do this by giving you several examples of how we use as with as with another word in the middle.
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So here's another example of how to use as with an adjective with as.
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It's really early in the morning right now.
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My family is still sleeping, although Jen did just walk by.
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So when I got up, I was as quiet as a mouse.
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You know what a mouse is, right? Like a little rodent.
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Usually they're quiet.
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Sometimes, though, you can hear them.
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But when I got up this morning, I was as quiet as a mouse because I didn't want to wake up my family.
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So I took the word as, the word quiet and the word as again, in order to describe how my actions were similar to an animal that makes very little noise.
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I was as quiet as a mouse.
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So, as most of you know, Jen and I grow flowers.
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And pretty soon, Jen will be as busy as a bee.
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If you look down here, you'll see in these crates that the tulips are starting to come out of the ground.
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This is very, very cool.
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But it also means that pretty soon, Jen will be as busy as a bee.
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By the way, a bee, I'll put a picture here, works really hard to go out and visit all the flowers in the field in order to bring pollen back to make honey.
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I think that's how it works.
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So when we say that someone is as busy as a bee, we're comparing them to a bee who works really, really hard to do their job.
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Pretty soon, Jen will be as busy as a bee.
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So as you can see, when I compare the size of my dogs, you can see that Oscar is not as big as Walter.
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So when you're using as and as in the negative, you then are saying and talking about how something isn't the same as something else.
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Oscar is not as big as Walter.
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I could say that "Walter is not as small as Oscar" as well.
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If you look behind me, there are two silos here, one silo is not as big as the other silo.
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So when I use the negative to compare the two, I'm basically using as and as to tell you how they are different instead of telling you how they're the same.
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You can also use an as ... as phrase in the negative to talk about the weather.
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It's a little colder than I expected out here today, but it's not as bad as it was last week.
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So there was a day last week where it was below zero during the day and then it got warmer again.
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But there was a day where it was really, really cold.
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So today isn't as bad as last week.
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I can use an as phrase with as with bad in the middle to compare the weather today to the weather from a week ago.
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It's not as bad as it was last week.
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It's not as cold as it was last week.
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So you can also use as ... as with an adverb in the middle to describe an action.
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If I took this can of soda, this can of pop, this is Canada Dry.
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And if I shook it, I would want to open it as gently as possible because it's going to kind of shoot everywhere.
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I would want to open it as carefully as possible.
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I would want to open it as slowly as possible.
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And then if for some reason it did explode in my face, I would probably run away as quickly as possible.
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So you can use as and as with adverbs as well.
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So you may have heard this phrase before.
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It's as easy as pie.
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For me, making videos is as easy as pie now because I've done it for so many years.
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I don't know why we say this phrase, though.
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It isn't actually that easy to make pie.
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But when we say something is as easy as pie, we mean it's really, really easy.
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So making videos for me is as easy as pie. Okay.
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It isn't always as easy as pie.
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Sometimes it's hard to come up with a good idea.
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Sometimes it's a little windier than I expect or it's a little colder than I expect.
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But usually for me, when I make an English lesson for you, it's as easy as pie.
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Well, thanks for watching this English lesson about as and as.
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It probably would have been a bit longer.
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I feel like I spoke a little too quickly sometimes because it wasn't as warm as I thought it was going to be out here.
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It was a little colder than I thought it was going to be, so I think maybe I spoke a little too quickly.
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But anyways, I hope you enjoyed the lesson regardless.
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