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  • While it’s okay to get attention and to do a research. Think about it, how much will

  • you impress your English teacher if you rather saycarry out a research and pay attention’?

  • Think about it. So if you want to impress your English teacher then stay tuned in this

  • lesson with me, my name is Michelle and in this lesson I’m gonna help you choose a

  • better verb for most of the nouns that you know. Right so, let’s do away with the boring

  • get’, ‘make’, ‘have’, andstartand let’s get on to the right of learning

  • better verbs.

  • So the first one that we have with us is todo a crime’. Well you might be saying

  • it, okay, don’t worry. It’s not wrong English. It’s okay to do a crime, that’s

  • correct English. But a better verb for crime would beto commit a crimeokay, rather

  • thandoing a crime’. So you would say, ‘to commit a crime’. Right, and if you

  • want to use it in a sentence you could say that, ‘John didn’t think he was committing

  • a crime when he hit Ricky on the head.’ Right? So this is how you can use it, okay?

  • It’s a much better combination of a noun and a verb and obviously you would know that

  • commit is a verb and crime is the noun. So this is how you can use a verb and a noun

  • combination to sound much more natural and much more interesting.

  • Let’s look at the next one, ‘say jokes’. Do you know someone who tells really poor

  • jokes? Okay, did you hear me carefully? Do you know someone who tells really poor jokes?

  • Did I say, ‘say jokes’? No, I said someone whotellspoor jokes. Okay so you do

  • notsay jokes’, youtell jokes’. Or youcrack jokes’. So if you know someone

  • who tells really poor jokes, you could tell that person, ‘hey buddy, you crack really

  • poor jokes’. Or you tell really poor jokes, I think you should start to crack better jokes.

  • All right so another noun, okay? Noun that you can use with the verbtellislies’.

  • Yes we often tell lies, we do notsay lies’, wetell lies’. Of course we all do, now

  • don’t act so sincere and nice like you don’t tell any lies, sotell liesortell

  • jokesor possiblycrack jokes’.

  • Great! Now let’s look at the next one that we have, and this is toget courage’.

  • Okay, now this is not wrong, do not worry, its fine to get courage and be more courageous

  • and it’s awesome to be more courageous. But the point is here we are talking about

  • a better verb, isn’t it? So why don’t we say, ‘pluck up courageinstead of

  • sayingget courage’? Doesn’t that sound more interesting? Topluck up courage’,

  • okay? And if you want to use it in a sentence you could say, ‘Ross finally plucked up

  • the courage to ask her to marry him’. This means he got the courage to ask her to marry

  • him. So you are actually saying the same thing with a better verb and noun combination, all

  • right?

  • Okay so the next one that we have is, togive attention’. I’m sure you are giving attention

  • to this lesson but it would much better if youpay attentionto me, okay? So you

  • pay attentionand you alsogive attentionbut it’s much better topay attention

  • rather thangiving attention’. Sopay attention’. Yes, pay attention and jot down

  • everything that I’m telling you because these are some really good advice for you.

  • Okay so you could also saypay attentionanother noun that you can use withpay

  • iscompliments’, you also pay compliments. It’s quite boring togive compliments’,

  • it’s better to say, ‘paying compliments’. So you could say that, ‘she paid me a compliment

  • yesterday’, okay?

  • Now let’s look at the next one that we have, ‘caused protest’. Okay, tocause protest

  • means to lead to protest. Okay when there is a reason when something leads to a protest.

  • So what about food shortages? Do you think they lead to protest? Yes! So recently read

  • this headline where it was written that, ‘the food shortages in the city triggered protest’,

  • isn’t that awesome? Instead of saying caused protest the newspaper headline said the recent

  • food shortages have triggered protest, which means they have led to protests. Okay, so

  • we can saytriggered protestinstead of sayingcaused protest’.

  • Now let’s look at the next one, yes you can definitelycause interestin something,

  • okay? But it’s better to saygenerate interest’, all right? So if you want to

  • use it in a sentence you could say, ‘you need to think of new ideas togenerate

  • interestin your products’, all right? Sogenerate interest’. You could also

  • saygenerate ideas’. You need to generate new ideas to get people more interested in

  • your lessons. Oops I hope that’s not true for me? I think I have enough new ideas for

  • you to keep interested.

  • Okay, let’s look at the next one that we have, toget injuries’. Yeah we often

  • use toget injuriesbut it’s much better to say, ‘sustain injuries’. Okay,

  • and if you want to talk about someone who got injured, you would say that, ‘Tom sustained

  • severe injuries in the accident’, okay? Which means to experience injuries or to get

  • injuries.

  • All right, now the next one that we have is tokeep a job’. Okay nowthere are

  • some people, who are very bad at keeping a job’. But what does it mean tokeep a

  • job’? So to keep a job means toget hold of a joborto hold a job down’, which

  • means not to hop from one job to another. So there are so many people who cannot just

  • work in the same place for a very long time, they keep hopping from one job to another.

  • And if you want to tell them something you could say, ‘hold a job downinstead of

  • sayingkeep a job’. So you could say that, ‘you just cannot hold a job down’,

  • which means that you cannot work at the same place for a very long time period.

  • Great! Now we come to the next one which is tostart a conversation’. Okay we really

  • need to do away with starting something, okay? Let's stopstarting a conversationand

  • let's startstriking a conversationwhich is so much more interesting. So we can

  • saystrike a conversation’. And if you want to use it in a sentence you could say,

  • Anna struck a conversation with a girl at the restaurant’, okay? Which means that

  • she started a conversation but it's much better to strike a conversation rather than to say

  • start a conversation which is pretty boring and will surely not impress your English teacher.

  • Okay with that we moved to the last two. Okay now I want you to pay some attention okay

  • and listen to me carefully, all the combinations that we have used here are verb and noun combinations

  • okay which means that the verb comes first and the noun comes second like this onestrike

  • which is a verb andconversationwhich is a noun and this is true for all of these

  • okay you can check that for yourself. In the next two that we havefirst comes the noun

  • andthen comes the verb’. So these are different ways of combining verbs and nouns

  • together. So here comes thenoun + verb’. Okay so let's look at the first one, ‘fire

  • started’. Yes fire does start but fire alsobreaks outwhich means that it starts.

  • Sobroke outif you're talking in the past andbreaks outif you're talking

  • in the present and if you want to use it in a sentence you could say, ‘the fire broke

  • out in the middle of the city’. So here fire is the noun and broke out is the verb.

  • There's another thing which breaks out you might have heard in the news it's a war okay

  • a war often breaks out rather than starting. So you could say that a war broke out between

  • the two countries, all right?

  • Okay with that we come to the last one and that is a ‘gamble succeeded’. So gamble

  • is a huge, huge risk, okay? It's a game where you put all your money at stake in order to

  • win more money, okay? But in real life gamble means that when you invest something in order

  • to gain something, okay? So it's a huge risk sometimes you might lose all that you have

  • invested but in other cases you don't lose and you win something in return, something

  • even larger than what you have invested. In that case the gamble succeeds. Okay but there's

  • a better way of saying this instead of sayinggamble succeededyou can say, ‘gamble

  • paid off’. So my friend started a new business, all right? So when she started the business

  • I thought she was getting into a huge risk but ultimately the business succeeded and

  • I told her, ‘lady your gamble paid off’, which means that your risk was not a risk

  • you actually succeeded in it.

  • Awesome, so with this we come to an end is this lesson where we have learned awesome

  • verb and nounandnoun and verbcombinations. Now you know which verb to choose.

  • So reap the benefit and win the praise of your fluent English. Come back for more lessons

  • with me this is Michelle signing off bye-bye.

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Video vocabulary

Keywords

ultimately

US /ˈʌltəmɪtli/

UK /ˈʌltɪmətli/

  • adverb
  • In the end; finally.
  • Done or considered as the final and most important
  • In the end; finally.
  • At the furthest or most remote point or time.
  • To the greatest extent; extremely.
  • In the end; finally.
  • In the end; finally.
  • At the most basic level; fundamentally.
  • Fundamentally; at the most basic level.
  • At a basic level; remotely.
awesome

US /ˈɔsəm/

UK /'ɔ:səm/

  • adjective
  • Great; wonderful; stupendous
  • Extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.
trigger

US /ˈtrɪɡɚ/

UK /'trɪɡə(r)/

  • verb
  • To cause (an event or situation) to happen or exist.
  • To start a process off e.g. a memory
  • other
  • To cause something to begin or happen.
  • noun
  • A procedure that automatically executes in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database.
  • A small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a mechanism, especially in a gun.
  • A pulse or signal that initiates an action or process in an electronic circuit.
  • An event or thing that causes something to happen.
  • A device on a fishing rod that releases the line.
  • Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
  • Something that causes a person to have a strong emotional reaction of fear, shock, anger, or anxiety.
  • Device that starts a process
  • other
  • To cause a sudden, involuntary reaction.
compliment

US /ˈkɑmpləmənt/

UK /'kɒmplɪmənt/

  • verb
  • To express praise or admiration to (someone).
  • To say someone looks nice, plays well, etc.
  • noun
  • A formal expression of respect or admiration.
  • A remark that expresses approval or admiration.
  • Remark saying someone looks nice, plays well, etc.
  • other
  • Express polite praise or admiration to.
severe

US /səˈvɪr/

UK /sɪ'vɪə(r)/

  • adjective
  • Very bad; harsh
  • (Of clothes, etc.) plain; simple; not decorated
conversation

US /ˌkɑnvɚˈseʃən/

UK /ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃn/

  • other
  • A series of related interactions between a user and a computer system.
  • A formal meeting for discussion.
  • A discussion between two or more people.
  • other
  • A session of communication with a chatbot or AI.
  • Informal talk involving a relatively small number of people.
  • General communication or interaction.
  • Skill in talking to others.
  • noun
  • Talking with other people; discussion or chat
strike

US /straɪk/

UK /straɪk/

  • noun
  • A punch or hit
  • Fact of not hitting the ball when playing baseball
  • In bowling, the act of knocking down all the pins with the first ball.
  • A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in order to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.
  • A military attack, especially an air raid.
  • Refusal to work to get more pay, protest something
  • verb
  • To hit something
  • To suddenly become (e.g. rich)
  • To hit forcefully and deliberately.
  • To have an idea occur to you
  • To remove or erase.
combination

US /ˌkɑmbəˈneʃən/

UK /ˌkɒmbɪ'neɪʃn/

  • noun
  • The process of two or more substances chemically uniting.
  • A set of clothes worn together.
  • A number of different things considered together.
  • An item of furniture designed for more than one purpose.
  • A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a lock.
  • A selection of items from a collection, where the order of selection does not matter.
  • A mixture of different things.
  • A group of people or organizations joined together for a particular purpose.
  • A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a lock.
  • A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a lock.
  • Series of letters or numbers needed to open a lock
  • Act or result of mixing things together
  • A mixture or blend of different things.
fluent

US /'fluːənt/

UK /ˈflu:ənt/

  • adjective
  • Doing something well and with ease
  • Able to speak or write a language fully and easily
commit

US /kəˈmɪt/

UK /kə'mɪt/

  • verb
  • To do something bad, usually a crime
  • To promise your permanent love or loyalty (to)
  • To promise or decide to do something for a purpose
  • other
  • To entrust or give into someone's charge or keeping.
  • To send (someone) to a hospital or prison.
  • To do or perpetrate (a crime or other reprehensible act).
  • To pledge or bind (oneself) to a certain course or policy; to make an engagement.