Name: English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (101) Gas Guzzler
Uploaded: 2019-06-25T15:40:41.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 101.  The noun phrase today is

gas-guzzler. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. When a person says that a

particular vehicle is a gas guzzler,  he or she means that a particular vehicle

uses up a lot of gas quickly and it's expensive to run. So usually you're

complaining about the car in some way.  You're a little annoyed that it goes

through gas so quickly and that you know you have to pay a lot of money in gas in

order to run that vehicle. Then we say it's a gas guzzler. Okay. Let's continue

here. Of course the verb "guzzle" by itself means to drink a lot of something with

great excitement and enthusiasm. So you might guzzle something down.  (gulping sounds )

You know like you're gulping it down.  Drinking it very quickly and with a lot

of enthusiasm. So that's what the idea of guzzle comes from. If you say gas

guzzler. So it's like the car is drinking it down very,  very quickly. Okay. All right.

Something with great excitement. So yeah. So we might go something down,  especially if we are

extremely thirsty. Okay.  so you just you don't even want to let go. You just want

to keep gulping , gulping.  You can almost see ... the the muscles and the neck

you know moving as you're drinking it down. You're gulping. All right. Let's

continue. This noun phrase alludes to the idea that the vehicle is so thirsty it

consumes gas to satisfy its thirst. That's, that's the idea. That's why we call it a

gas guzzler. All right. Let's just look at three examples we have here. That old

motor home is a real gas guzzler.  Yeah.   any motor home really they're so big

and they're so heavy that usually they don't get very good gas mileage. Maybe

some of the newer ones might do a little better. But still they all use up

a lot of gas. They get very bad gas mileage. So they're all really gas

guzzlers. Just some are a little better than others. Well,  let's look at number

two. Many people consider most SUVs to be gas guzzlers. Remember SUV stands for

sports utility vehicle. So any sort of like large you know,  Jeeps or vans or

anything along that line is usually referred to as an SUV. And again they

tend to use more gas than regular cars.  All right, and let's look at number three here.  I

decided to trade in my old gas guzzler  for a more economically-efficient

car. So it's probably a car that gets very good gas mileage. You're getting rid of

the old car for one where you get good gas mileage. Maybe you don't need it as

much. Maybe you don't need a big car anymore. Maybe before you did. A lot of

times people in the US will get big cars usually for families that sometimes

they got to carry a lot of people somewhere or you know carry a lot of

items. They're also very popular for work if somebody has a work vehicle. It's

probably going to  be an SUV. But if you're just throwing you know an everyday

person that goes to the office,  back and forth you probably could easily get away

with an economically efficient car. A car that gets very good gas mileage. Okay.

Anyway,  I hope you got it. I hope it is clear.  Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.