Name: Stop Using AND & BUT - Learn Better Linking Words | Improve English Speaking | Speak Confidently
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Past simple

Bill paid for the car damage, he was very angry about the accident. What word will you

The imperative

use to connect these two sentences? You might use the word “but”. But I suggest that

Basic quantifiers

we have many other alternatives except “but” and “and” because to connect sentences.

If you want to learn different words to connect ideas and sentences then stay tuned and keep

So let's start with the first one that we have, “similarly”,

we can use this word to connect ideas when we want to compare two things that have the

same idea, okay? So “similarly”, actually comes from an English word “similar” which

means “same”. Let me give you an example, what is the cause of heart disease? I mean

if someone has a heart attack there could be two reasons, the first could be ‘family

history’, which means someone in their family may have had a heart attack earlier or else

they might be really ‘overweight’ or having ‘too much alcohol’, so if you want to

connect these two ideas using “similarly”, you can do it, I'll show you how, so you can

say that, “family history is a reason for heart disease, similarly the act of being

overweight or having too much alcohol also contributes to heart disease”. So here I've

used the word “similarly” to connect two ideas that have the same reason or the same

purpose. So you can use “similarly” to connect two ideas with the same purpose. Okay,

with that we look at the next one, “comparable with”. So if you are trying to compare two

things, are you? Mm-hmm! “Comparable with” is actually used to compare only one thing

to others, okay? It comes from an English word “compare”. So do you know any singer,

that you like so much that you think, no one else is better than her. If you know any such

singer you could say, “Celine Dion is not comparable with anyone else.” Which means

that she's the best. So you can use “comparable with”, when you want to say that someone

is the best. You could say, “not comparable with” you can replace “with” with the

word “to”. You could say, “Celine Dion is not comparable to anyone else”. Which

means she is the best. We have connected two ideas here that you really like Celine Dion

and she's the best. Okay now the next one that we have is, “in contrast” “Contrast’

means “opposite”, alright? So what is the color of the board? It's white, right?

And what's the color of my marker? That's black. So black and white are a contrast,

which means they are opposites. Think of a situation where you can think of two opposite

things, well if you have clear blue skies and thunderstorm these are two opposites,

two contrasts, two different situations and if you are in an island where you have clear

blue skies but on the other side of the sky you can see there's a thunderstorm coming

you could say that, “I can see the clear blue skies in contrast to the thunderstorm

on the other side.” So here you're comparing two different situations. To compare two different

situations. But what if you have to compare two things about the same situation? Are you

getting confused? Don’t get confused, I'll give you an example, so I really want to buy

a horse because I enjoy riding, the problem is that it's really hard to take care of the

animal. So how do I join these two ideas? It's the same situation I love horses, but

it's hard for me to take care of one. So I will join this by using, “on the other hand”.

I would say, “I really enjoy riding, so I want to buy a horse on the other hand, it's

really hard to take care of the animal.” Think of a coin, it's just one coin but it

has two sides, the same way “on the other hand” is used to compare two different ideas

in the same situation. Two problems and same situation. With this we move on and here we

have, “for example”. You have heard me use this term throughout all my lessons. Whenever

I explain something to you I always use “for example” to make it easy for you to understand.

So if you're writing an exam or if you're speaking to someone to help them understand

what you're trying to say, you should use this word. So this word is obviously used

to give a lot of examples so I'm going to give you an example to show how to use, “for

example”. So my example is, “I love playing musical instruments”, okay? So I'd say that

“I play a few musical instruments, for example guitar, violin and drums.” So here I'm using

“for example” to describe and tell which instruments do I play. You can also use “for

instance”, “such as”… “I play a few musical instruments such as guitar, violins

and drums”. And very commonly we also use, “like”, “I play few musical instruments

like guitar, drums and violin”. Okay now we look at the next one, “in the meantime”.

So this one is used to talk about a time limit, okay? But it talks about a time limit between

two incidences, okay? So let's say that your phone crashed and you've sent it for a repair

but until it comes back, what do you do? You need a phone, so you could say that, “my

phone has crashed but until it comes back to me in the meantime I will use your phone

Jude”. So here you're giving two situations, your phone broke down and it's going to come

back in sometime, for that time you will use Jude's phone. So “in the meantime” is

used for two incidents. Okay now we have the next one, “for time being”. While we use

“in the meantime” for two incidents, we use “for time being” only for a set time

limit. An example for this would be, “leave the cleaning for the time being, I'll do it

later”, which means that for this time limit do not clean, I'll do it later. So for the

time being is used for a time limit. Okay now as you remember I start the lesson with

Bill, when I said that “Bill paid for the car damage, he was very angry about the incidents

or about the accidents, oh sorry accident. How do you join these two sentences? I'll

repeat myself and we have only one more option try to fill this in so, “Bill paid for the

car damaged, “at the same time” he was very angry about the accident.” So when

you feel two things at a time that's when you use “at the same time”. When you feel

two things at the same time. So “Bill paid for the car damage, at the same time he was

very angry about the accident”. Now we are going to quickly go through what we have learned

today and the first one is “similarly”, this is used to talk about the similarities

and “comparable with” is used to talk about how amazing somebody is and that they

are the best. The next two that we have “in contrast”, this is used to talk about an

opposite, opposite in two different situations, for example thunderstorm and clear blue skies

are two different situations and if you're trying to talk about these two at the same

time you could say, I can see the clear blue skies in contrast to the thunderstorm. The

next one that we have is “on the other hand” and you use this to talk about two sides of

the same problem. “For example” is very clear we always use it, you can replace it

with “for instance” and the other three are usually used to talk about time. So here

you have a lot of transition words” and next time when you want to connect ideas even

when you're writing or speaking you can use these and talk more fluently. So thank you

so much for watching this lesson with me come back for more, till then you take care, bye-bye.