Name: ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS: 12 Confusing Words
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The imperative

Gerund

Let's play the game of confusing adjectives, shall we?

We're coming to you live over the internet, and we're going to play the game of which adjective do I choose in this sentence, because they're really confusing and I don't know, so let's do it.

So, I hear people say, my bigger brother or my bigger sister, and I'm like, is your sister, like, physically a lot larger than you are, or is your brother or sister older?

So, this is confusing in English, because in a lot of different languages, you have one word to describe someone who's not as young as you are, but in English it can get confusing.

So, when we talk about someone being older, it's always about age, and when we talk about something being bigger, it's a size.

So, if I said my brother is taller than me, and I want to tell you that I'm not as old as he is, I would say my brother is older than me.

We don't want to say bigger, because usually we don't talk about the size.

So, I have an older brother and a younger brother.

It gets confusing because you hear people say I have a big brother.

So, if you say my big brother, it's kind of childish, but that's okay.

I got my big brother and my small sister.

So, again, when we talk about someone being younger, it's their age, and again, smaller is always size.

You're not going to go to McDonald's and get a younger fries, you're going to want smaller fries.

So, my sister is probably younger than you.

She can be smaller, but that's not what we're talking about right now.

This one hurts my brain sometimes, and if it hurts my brain, can't imagine what it's doing to yours out there.

So, the difference between high and tall.

So, you can go someplace and go, wow, building, yep, up there, yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Is it a high building or is it a tall building?

So, high is the distance above the ground.

So, if you measure something, you go, like, how high is it?

A shelf is a thing on a wall where you put some books on, or bongs, whatever you're putting on your shelves.

This is the ceiling, and this is the floor.

How high something is means how far above the ground it is.

We've got very high walls or high ceilings.

And men, sorry to exclude you there for a second.

You can also have high heels, which are shoes.

I'm not really good at drawing shoes, but I'll try.

I'm actually not going to draw anything, let alone shoes.

So, if you have high heels, we don't say they're tall, we say they're high because you're physically above the ground.

Humans, most of the time when we're talking about this thing, how...

But humans can be high, it's slang, and it means that they've taken some drugs.

So, when we talk about something that's tall, we talk about the height, above average height.

When we ask people, we say, how tall are you?

So, average height, we talk about people.

He's, like, 6 foot 7, man, or, like, 187 centimetres.

Skyscrapers, those are the super tall, not high buildings.

Don't say those towers that got ripped down.

The CN Tower, yes, is a very tall building in Canada.

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ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS: 12 Confusing Words

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