You: I'm having a friend. Your friend: Thanks for having me! Love that little moment of Matt Lukas and Stephen Fry in QI: - Knock-nock. - Who's there? - Two. - Two who? - To whom!
Thank you mate. Nobody ever told me this. Native speakers obviously don‘t take the grammar as seriously as learners do. And that causes a lot of misunderstanding and confusion
I'm a little mad that so many UA-camrs undermine the value of teachers. Any teacher worth their salt will tell a student whether a rule is outdated or not. Heck! Even textbooks sometimes mention that this and that rule is not always used by native speakers.
When this showed up in my feed, I was expecting the usual "say this, not that" clickbait-type video or just saying "listen to how they speak in Hollywood movies, anything goes!" But all four of the "rules" you have mentioned are rather advanced and some of my best students still have misconceptions about them. Props to you!
Aly's like a fine wine - becoming better and better. I sincerely enjoy your every lesson, even if I already know pieces of grammar and vocabulary you're talking about. It's just the best! Makes my grammar, vocabulary and life full 🙂❤
Papa, I love and adore you - in the Present Simple because that is a permanent condition 🙂. You have a lot of students from all over the world and a much broader perspective than I do. So I believe it's fair to assume that there are teachers/textbooks that teach outdated/non-existent grammar rules. But I am afraid that's a bit of overgeneralisation. In Poland, where I come from, the textbooks are written by the English and are either 2-5 years old or are regularly renewed. I have never ever heard the rule "Never end a sentence with a preposition" from a teacher (I started learning English more than 40 years ago). And those who regarded "If I was..." incorrect have already retired. So I hope it's not that bad with the English skills of the teachers in Poland 🙂
Aly , the more I watch your vídeos, the more I admire the sort of teacher you are! What a pleasure to have sby. like you to learn English! Thanks a lot!
3:54 It's interesting for me to hear that textbooks say that it's “were” in the first person form as well. Our high school teacher taught us to say, “If I was…”. But then don't I know if he intentionally broke the rule because he knew better?
Thank you very much Aly, I really like grammar in general and you, indirectly, made it even more fascinating. Another often not applied rule that came to my mind is the double negative like in the title of this song (which I love): "(There) ain't no stoppin' us now" As always, see you in the next class 🤩
Very helpful video. I think another grammar rule I was taught is to never start a sentence with the word but or and. I think in formal writing this is correct but I hear a lot of native English speakers use but or and at the beginning of the sentence when they speak. It sounds natural.Thanks for sharing !
Another amazing explanation, Aly! I absolutely love your videos every time!!! I had trouble understanding some lyrics when I was learning English at the very beginning... In some Beyonce’s songs she sings “He don't...” 🤷♀️
Great video and very useful as always. One thing, though, you said at the start of the video it works good in Latin, but I think you mean to say it works well 🤗 As an English language teacher myself you are such a motivation and source of knowledge. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks for this video! I know a lot of textbooks where the authors even cross out such sentences as bad, e.g. "I am going to go", and so one could continue with many other examples. One more example occurred to me. After "if" there is never future tense which is not true because not every sentence with if is conditional. For example: I don't know if he will give me the money.
My alarm is offgoing !🤣😂😝 While watching this video, Aly, I was eating a bowl of ... veg brothe, but without the ramen. Same principle, same ingredients: combu-shitake shoyu and some veg and a little "Dutch maatje" (hering) and tofu, njamie, njamie!
Could it be that 'off' is no preposition in 'going off', but an adverb? At least according to the examples in wiktionary. In any case, having a preposition at the end of a sentence sounds very familiar for German people (like me :)
Many years ago I was tought that when you are greeting somebody you say „ How do you do?” and the answer is „How do you do” 😅 I realny love your lessons, Aly❣️ Greetings from Poland 😍
For the other rles that don't really matter I would say "there's" or "there was" with a plural noun and the so called difference between "must" and "have to" which doesnt seem to be a real rule nowadays
Another rule I was taught is the magic "E". We all know that the sound of the vowels in English is different to their names so, the magic "E" makes this vowels sound same as their names. Example: hat - hate, sit - site, pin - pine, etc. What would you say about that?
I'm going to look very stupid but I didn't understand the last example. What does it mean with "I'm having my friends"? Is it "I'm having my friend's" in the sense that I'm having whatever my friend is eating?
Great lesson! :) I have a question. In the example with "I'm loving this pizza", can I say "Oh, I love this pizza"? Why I shouldn't? Why it should be "I'm loving..." or "I'm love..."? Pozdro z Polski! :)
Oh I know one rule that never existed. Using "shall" for future simple with I and we. We shall come instead of we will come. When we talk about our own will for the future we never use shall 👩🎓
In modern Romance languages, like French, prepositions just don't sound right at the end of sentences like in English, and phrasal verbs don't really exist, but English is English, not Latin
Hi Ali! How do you pronounce gaslight in british english? Could you please make a lesson on words like awesome, amazing and such and explain what they mean and when to use them? Example sentences… cheers 🙋🏼♀️
And I also think that some grammar rules are not clear to non native speakers because some categories are extremeley vague to them For example no stative verbs After would for past habits? I wouldn't know how to classify some verbs in English
Teacher you absoluty true ,but all textbooks and all teacher wants grammar I dont know why this is as this🤦🏻♀️for speaking grammar is not veryy major,l think
Yes, people say "If I was..." when they should be saying "If I were...," but it isn't because they're just being less formal -- it's because they never learned the rule.
May I ask a question , plz ? Which one of these sentences is correct ? I failed in remembering to thank you . I failed to remember to thank you. I failed in remembering thanking you. " I failed to remember thanking you."
As a native speaker, I disagree that "were" in your example is less natural. I still hear it in casual conversation even from kids and teens. But "was" is also common and natural as you mentioned, of course: I think it's just dialect and style dependent. If I were/was teaching English I would just say that both are equally correct and natural (unless my students were really advanced and had to learn how to write formally, in which case I'd teach them about the preference for "were" in formal writing.)
One of my American English teachers in college once rudely told us to not say "my English is not good" because "the English language is not yours". My English wasn't good enough to argue with him at the time, if that happened these days, I would ridicule the living $h|t out of him. Seriously, a lot of English teachers are not just terrible at teaching, they are plainly terrible human beings.
Well , another 'grammar rule' that I would like to add is the 'It's I' instead of 'It's me', me and my friend just have argued over this rubbish and I can't even believe the 'It's I' does exist after googling it.
Great video, thank you. 😘 I was listening a rap song. Snoop said: "...he DON'T drive a Cadillac." Can we use "do" or "don't" or "does/doesn't" are the only correct words (next to he/she/it). Thank you.
oh WHOM and Ross but this lesson also reminded me of:"I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye. " Hannibal Lecter ;)
They also teach us at schools that we cannot start a sentence with a conjunction, don't use "they" when talking about a person who's gender is unknown or wasn't mentioned before. Replying I'm fine, thank you when people greet you. And on top is "Use this structure only, 'cause it was in your book"' 😄
Thank you 😍. I always had that feeling that the 2nd condition phrase “ If I was… “ exists🙃. BTW you said “dark example” - what is the proper meaning of it?
Some English learners say 'I haven't a dog' or 'Have you a dog?' without 'got'. I always considered it wrong. And then I saw it in a text book. I googled that and found out that it's possible to say so, but this structure is kind of outdated. Is that true? What would you say, Aly?
Actually, there are textbooks on advanced grammar, which cover these topics. For example, «Advanced grammar in use» with the green cover says about using stative verbs in continuous form in one if its very first units. So the title of the video seems a bit click bait to me, sorry.
Solid lesson. Reminded me of a few things like "For whom...?" However, isn't "going off" a phrasal verb? Therefore, isn't the word "off" a particle then?
Exactly what I was about to say. I'm skeptical of the claim that the rule against ending sentences with a preposition "never existed," but the rule doesn't "fail completely" in the case of a phrasal verb -- the rule doesn't even apply.
Hey, I am familiar with all of these. One of the teachers in my uni said I cannot let sentences end in preposition. Fortunately, I ignored this “rule” back then, because I liked how it sounds with the preposition at the end :D And I've been just recently corrected by my teacher when I said 'If I was...' xD Now, about stative verbs in continuous tenses. I've actually watched one of ur previous videos about this, and I am using it properly now. Really helps to express my feelings better ^-^
Suppose I could say: "What are we going to have for dinner? I'm having some friends round tonight they'll keep us company". Would that be grammatically ok?
The -ing moment with Papa saying that having doesn't apply to possessive meaning of having. Me: yeah but I'm having my bf over tomorrow Papa brings the example Me ...
You: I'm having a friend.
Your friend: Thanks for having me!
Love that little moment of Matt Lukas and Stephen Fry in QI:
- Knock-nock.
- Who's there?
- Two.
- Two who?
- To whom!
Thank you mate. Nobody ever told me this. Native speakers obviously don‘t take the grammar as seriously as learners do. And that causes a lot of misunderstanding and confusion
Thanks for posting such an amazing lesson 😊
I'm a little mad that so many UA-camrs undermine the value of teachers. Any teacher worth their salt will tell a student whether a rule is outdated or not. Heck! Even textbooks sometimes mention that this and that rule is not always used by native speakers.
So real
When this showed up in my feed, I was expecting the usual "say this, not that" clickbait-type video or just saying "listen to how they speak in Hollywood movies, anything goes!" But all four of the "rules" you have mentioned are rather advanced and some of my best students still have misconceptions about them. Props to you!
Thank you for this interesting lesson
Aly's like a fine wine - becoming better and better. I sincerely enjoy your every lesson, even if I already know pieces of grammar and vocabulary you're talking about. It's just the best! Makes my grammar, vocabulary and life full 🙂❤
6:36 OMG 😂 I instantly remembered Ross when you were talking about how almost no one uses whom in everyday English
Love your lessons 🤍
Papa, I love and adore you - in the Present Simple because that is a permanent condition 🙂. You have a lot of students from all over the world and a much broader perspective than I do. So I believe it's fair to assume that there are teachers/textbooks that teach outdated/non-existent grammar rules. But I am afraid that's a bit of overgeneralisation. In Poland, where I come from, the textbooks are written by the English and are either 2-5 years old or are regularly renewed. I have never ever heard the rule "Never end a sentence with a preposition" from a teacher (I started learning English more than 40 years ago). And those who regarded "If I was..." incorrect have already retired. So I hope it's not that bad with the English skills of the teachers in Poland 🙂
Aly , the more I watch your vídeos, the more I admire the sort of teacher you are! What a pleasure to have sby. like you to learn English! Thanks a lot!
Thanks so much Luisa! Have a great day!
3:54 It's interesting for me to hear that textbooks say that it's “were” in the first person form as well. Our high school teacher taught us to say, “If I was…”. But then don't I know if he intentionally broke the rule because he knew better?
7:10 remember the day we had this rule in the lesson. Later that day I saw the McDonals moto which was 'loving it'
I’m loving this video!💪🏽👏👏👏
Thank you very much Aly, I really like grammar in general and you, indirectly, made it even more fascinating. Another often not applied rule that came to my mind is the double negative like in the title of this song (which I love):
"(There) ain't no stoppin' us now"
As always, see you in the next class 🤩
Another enjoyable English lesson! It's so easy to learn English with you. A bunch of thanks, Aly!
Cheers deisy!
Very helpful video. I think another grammar rule I was taught is to never start a sentence with the word but or and. I think in formal writing this is correct but I hear a lot of native English speakers use but or and at the beginning of the sentence when they speak. It sounds natural.Thanks for sharing !
Oh god that’s a good one yeah!!’
"Off my alarm is going" is what Yoda says every morning
Another amazing explanation, Aly! I absolutely love your videos every time!!! I had trouble understanding some lyrics when I was learning English at the very beginning... In some Beyonce’s songs she sings “He don't...” 🤷♀️
Thanks for the video! 😃
Thank you so much sir for this amazing lesson!
Great video and very useful as always. One thing, though, you said at the start of the video it works good in Latin, but I think you mean to say it works well 🤗
As an English language teacher myself you are such a motivation and source of knowledge. Keep up the amazing work!
No no. I meant to say “good” ✌️
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏You are the best in the West ! El número uno ! Un abrazo, from Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina🇦🇷🏴🇬🇧🇦🇷🏴🇬🇧🇦🇷🏴🇬🇧
Graciaaaaas !
Thanks for this video! I know a lot of textbooks where the authors even cross out such sentences as bad, e.g. "I am going to go", and so one could continue with many other examples.
One more example occurred to me. After "if" there is never future tense which is not true because not every sentence with if is conditional. For example: I don't know if he will give me the money.
I had a teacher colleague during a meeting once argue that “gonna” and “wanna” were wrong 😂😂
Always great teaching, always fun, always perfect!!!
4:36 quite a truly hillarious moment 😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for being awesome and clarify lots of doubts.
Thanks, Papa!
I really like your lessons...
They like you too! ✌️ happy studying!
Great lesson Aly!!!! Love your channel! Greetings from Argentina! 😊😘
Graciaaaaaas!!
I'm having a whale of a time with this video of yours. Thanks!
Can you suggest a good vocabulary book📕.
My alarm is offgoing !🤣😂😝
While watching this video, Aly, I was eating a bowl of ... veg brothe, but without the ramen. Same principle, same ingredients: combu-shitake shoyu and some veg and a little "Dutch maatje" (hering) and tofu, njamie, njamie!
I'm loving it😊
Ali
I always love your lessons
And right now … I’m loving this one so much!
Thanks for everything 🥰
I'm loving this lesson❤️
Thank You 😁😁
I was having lots of fun until 9:30
Could it be that 'off' is no preposition in 'going off', but an adverb? At least according to the examples in wiktionary. In any case, having a preposition at the end of a sentence sounds very familiar for German people (like me :)
I love you, Alastair, you're great!
Many years ago I was tought that when you are greeting somebody you say „ How do you do?” and the answer is „How do you do” 😅
I realny love your lessons, Aly❣️
Greetings from Poland 😍
Same here 😂
Здраствуйте алй/ Hello aly,
Keep going, you looks great today
Never end a sentence with a preposition? Never heard of this rule, never seen it in any coursebook. Unless for a different language.
For the other rles that don't really matter I would say "there's" or "there was" with a plural noun and the so called difference between "must" and "have to" which doesnt seem to be a real rule nowadays
2:11 If you say it, you're going to be either ridiculous or as wise as Master Yoda
Another rule I was taught is the magic "E". We all know that the sound of the vowels in English is different to their names so, the magic "E" makes this vowels sound same as their names. Example: hat - hate, sit - site, pin - pine, etc. What would you say about that?
Great!!!!👏👏
спасибо! Thank you!
I'm going to look very stupid but I didn't understand the last example. What does it mean with "I'm having my friends"? Is it "I'm having my friend's" in the sense that I'm having whatever my friend is eating?
Great lesson! :)
I have a question. In the example with "I'm loving this pizza", can I say "Oh, I love this pizza"? Why I shouldn't? Why it should be "I'm loving..." or "I'm love..."?
Pozdro z Polski! :)
Sorry for the misunderstanding! You absolutely CAN say “I LOVE this pizza”. My point was that in this context you can say BOTH 🤘😁
going off my alarm is, yoda said...
As for prepositions.....which books say it?
Oh I know one rule that never existed. Using "shall" for future simple with I and we. We shall come instead of we will come. When we talk about our own will for the future we never use shall 👩🎓
The problema are grammar rules/,,usage which Is different in British and American English, e.g. tenses with just or recently
"For whom the bell tolls" to be used by Metallica only - kidding and Papa you rock 🤟
🤘
8:42 - apart from this one. How about 'I am having ten friends for dinner next weekend' to mean visitors rather then food?
I would add "over" to specify they're coming to your place. Like so: "I am having ten friends over for dinner next week"
@@chouettechocapic you're right! Just these four letters make a big difference to ten innocent lives
Or 'ten letters makes a difference'? (-:
I'm "having" loads of applauseS 4 u mate!
Jeez, I'm loving this video. I want more. 🫡
More coming 🫡
In modern Romance languages, like French, prepositions just don't sound right at the end of sentences like in English, and phrasal verbs don't really exist, but English is English, not Latin
What about coloured future?
Hi Ali! How do you pronounce gaslight in british english?
Could you please make a lesson on words like awesome, amazing and such and explain what they mean and when to use them? Example sentences… cheers 🙋🏼♀️
And I also think that some grammar rules are not clear to non native speakers because some categories are extremeley vague to them
For example no stative verbs After would for past habits?
I wouldn't know how to classify some verbs in English
Gracias, nene.
Teacher you absoluty true ,but all textbooks and all teacher wants grammar I dont know why this is as this🤦🏻♀️for speaking grammar is not veryy major,l think
Yes, people say "If I was..." when they should be saying "If I were...," but it isn't because they're just being less formal -- it's because they never learned the rule.
something on green-washing vocab please
Or ' or "s after names ending in -s in the possessive case
May I ask a question , plz ?
Which one of these sentences is correct ?
I failed in remembering to thank you .
I failed to remember to thank you.
I failed in remembering thanking you.
" I failed to remember thanking you."
Use a sentence with propositions at the end. Sounds so sophisticated, British and cool. Either get it or don't - what are your waiting for?
As a native speaker, I disagree that "were" in your example is less natural. I still hear it in casual conversation even from kids and teens. But "was" is also common and natural as you mentioned, of course: I think it's just dialect and style dependent. If I were/was teaching English I would just say that both are equally correct and natural (unless my students were really advanced and had to learn how to write formally, in which case I'd teach them about the preference for "were" in formal writing.)
One of my American English teachers in college once rudely told us to not say "my English is not good" because "the English language is not yours". My English wasn't good enough to argue with him at the time, if that happened these days, I would ridicule the living $h|t out of him. Seriously, a lot of English teachers are not just terrible at teaching, they are plainly terrible human beings.
Truth. That teacher sounds like an absolute nob
Well , another 'grammar rule' that I would like to add is the 'It's I' instead of 'It's me', me and my friend just have argued over this rubbish and I can't even believe the 'It's I' does exist after googling it.
I guess I can say "I'm having lots of problems with that", for example?
Great video, thank you. 😘
I was listening a rap song.
Snoop said: "...he DON'T drive a Cadillac."
Can we use "do" or "don't" or "does/doesn't" are the only correct words (next to he/she/it).
Thank you.
oh WHOM and Ross but this lesson also reminded me of:"I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye. " Hannibal Lecter ;)
hey-ho, my like is the first one. I hope the video is of great help for me
They also teach us at schools that we cannot start a sentence with a conjunction, don't use "they" when talking about a person who's gender is unknown or wasn't mentioned before. Replying I'm fine, thank you when people greet you. And on top is "Use this structure only, 'cause it was in your book"' 😄
"don't use "they" when talking about a person who's gender is unknown or wasn't mentioned before" Shakespeare is spinning in his grave.
4:32 y si alguien se burlara de mi ignorancia eso no importa por qué estoy aprendiendo la crítica sería gasolina para mí 😎💪
Thank you 😍. I always had that feeling that the 2nd condition phrase “ If I was… “ exists🙃. BTW you said “dark example” - what is the proper meaning of it?
Ну, если это действительно "dark", смысл должен быть вполне очевиден. Dark humor, dark comedy.. just like that
"I'm having my friend for dinner" Hehehe!
Some English learners say 'I haven't a dog' or 'Have you a dog?' without 'got'. I always considered it wrong. And then I saw it in a text book. I googled that and found out that it's possible to say so, but this structure is kind of outdated. Is that true? What would you say, Aly?
Так и есть. Названная вами конструкция вышла из употребления лет 50 назад, не меньше
Actually, there are textbooks on advanced grammar, which cover these topics. For example, «Advanced grammar in use» with the green cover says about using stative verbs in continuous form in one if its very first units. So the title of the video seems a bit click bait to me, sorry.
A clickbaity title? Me?! 😂
Solid lesson. Reminded me of a few things like "For whom...?" However, isn't "going off" a phrasal verb? Therefore, isn't the word "off" a particle then?
Exactly what I was about to say. I'm skeptical of the claim that the rule against ending sentences with a preposition "never existed," but the rule doesn't "fail completely" in the case of a phrasal verb -- the rule doesn't even apply.
4:33 😂😂😂
Dear Aly, if you were my teacher at school, I would have learned English in a couple of years.😊
Oh Filipinos would actually love to watch others’ grammar all the time and call them out if they think they’re grammatically incorrect. 😂😂
I fight for whom.
✊ fight for what you believe in!
I remembered that dark joke from ... Dunno exactly...
2:11 The sentence "Off my alarm is going" doesn't make sense.
"I'm having an old friend for dinner..." ;)
💙💙💙
Hey, I am familiar with all of these. One of the teachers in my uni said I cannot let sentences end in preposition. Fortunately, I ignored this “rule” back then, because I liked how it sounds with the preposition at the end :D
And I've been just recently corrected by my teacher when I said 'If I was...' xD
Now, about stative verbs in continuous tenses. I've actually watched one of ur previous videos about this, and I am using it properly now. Really helps to express my feelings better ^-^
Yeah I don’t understand when people get super opinionated about what’s “proper” English. It seems classist and ridiculous
Suppose I could say: "What are we going to have for dinner? I'm having some friends round tonight they'll keep us company". Would that be grammatically ok?
Was? Rally? 🤕 Whom? 🥺
"there are"
So, if I start saying I am understanding you instead of understand and somebody corrects me, can I just ask him to stop being a nerd?
I'd learned some wrong grammar rules that I never konw before watching the movie.
The -ing moment with Papa saying that having doesn't apply to possessive meaning of having.
Me: yeah but I'm having my bf over tomorrow
Papa brings the example
Me ...
👏👏👍
One more on "having": fear not, English-learner friends, "I'm having a baby" simply means someone's pregnant - not eating one!
Is it correct to say "I'm having lots of friends coming over tonight" ?
"Grammer Books Doesn't Exists" voilà (-:
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