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okay guys today we're going to look at

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confused adjectives confused because

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they are quite similar in their

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appearance but quite different in their

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meaning now you'll see here I have four

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pairs of adjectives tasteful and tasty

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exhausted and

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exhaustive childlike and child ish

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concluding and

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conclusive all of these eight adjectives

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looking very similar like I said but

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with different meaning and often

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students confuse them uh and it really

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does impact on the level of your English

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so these are just four examples there

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are many many more out there but we're

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going to examine them a little bit in

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their meaning today

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tasteful my mother always dresses very

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Tastefully tasteful if something is

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tasteful it means it is very presentable

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it is very easy on the eye you could say

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as well and it's um almost leaning I

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would say towards something being quite

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glamorous or

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classy tasty as you know at this level

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if something is tasty M it tastes good

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so we use tasty to describe food however

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I would not say oh I had a burger from

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McDonald's yesterday it was so tasteful

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no yes it was full of taste and it was

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very enjoyable it was not tasteful it

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was tasty now when I say I had a really

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tasteful Burger yesterday does it sound

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really wrong or does it sound

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acceptable for many people it does sound

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acceptable but it is wrong so you have

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to be careful when when you're using

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these similar adjectives tasteful and

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tasty as your first

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example exhausted and

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exhaustive I ran a marathon on Saturday

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afterwards I was exhausted meaning I was

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really really

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tired uh the police carried out an

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exhaustive search for the

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criminal exhaustive meaning without

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giving up looking everywhere and trying

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everything going down every Avenue you

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could say so again two adjectives which

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are very very similar but with different

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meaning exhausted meaning physically

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tired exhaustive meaning looking at

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every

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option childlike and childish okay now

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if I describe ah my uh my nextdoor

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neighbor she is in her 60s but she has a

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very

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childlike

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personality my little brother is so

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childish childlike almost has a positive

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connotation meaning to resemble the

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features or the Persona of a child and

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it always has a positive connotation

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it's not normally used in a negative way

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however if we describe a person as being

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childish we are saying that their

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behavior stes many of the

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characteristics of a child and often the

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negative ones so oh Jonathan stop being

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so childish just because you do not get

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your own way so another example of

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confused adjectives ones which I hear

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quite often and our final one that we're

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going to look at concluding and

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conclusive David Cameron said in his

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concluding speech as Prime Minister of

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Great Britain and

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conclusive the doctor's examination was

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conclusive I was okay so what is the

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difference in meaning there

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concluding meaning the final concluding

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speech concluding chapter of a book the

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concluding scene in a film meaning the

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final the last one conclusive meaning

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the summarized answer so we have

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examined a situation we have taken all

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of the evidence and our answer is

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conclusive this is our final uh answer

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to a problem or to a a

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situation so four pairs of adjectives

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which people regularly confuse and even

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at your level at C1 level this is

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something which people struggle to

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understand and sometimes continue to

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make mistakes with so it's something to

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be aware of and it's something to keep

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your eye on there's a little idiom for

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you there

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