Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 363 The title of today's lesson is don't say a joke tell a joke. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. You should not use the verb say with joke. You can use the verbs tell, make , or crack. So somebody could tell a joke, make a joke or crack a joke. All of those are actually pretty common. I think crack sounds the funniest, but actually tell and make is probably more common. Okay. Let's continue. You can say a line in a joke that would be okay. For example you could say the punchline in a joke. Somebody could say the punchline. Okay. Good. All right and let's look at some examples here. Of course with the X this is wrong. So this is where a student might make a mistake. If the student said, he said a good joke. No. You shouldn't say he said a good joke. You should say he told a good joke. Of course all these were the checks , these are correct. He made a good joke. That's fine. He cracked a good joke. Yeah. Any of those are okay. All right. And we have another example here. Of course with the X, this is wrong again. He said that joke many times. No. You wouldn't say he said that joke. He told that joke many times or we might ... In this case we might even change to the verb repeated. He repeated that joke many times. But you wouldn't say that he said that joke. Okay and now we just give one example with punchline too. Like especially if there was like always sometimes call like um comedy duo. You know, there's two comedians, two stand-up comedians telling jokes at the same time. Somebody might ask this question. Which comedian is going to say the punch line. In this case. So yeah because there's always just only one of them can say the punch line. That's the line that as soon as you say it you know, that makes the joke funny and people laugh right after that. That's referred to as like the punch line. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
A2 US joke punchline punch crack line lesson English Tutor Nick P Lesson (363) Don't Use Say a Joke Use Tell a Joke 34 0 anitawu12 posted on 2019/09/15 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary