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Similar adjectives, different meanings

okay guys today we're going to look at confused adjectives confused because they are quite similar in their appearance but quite different in their meaning now you'll see here I...

Course: Clear and accurate EnglishSection: Commonly confused adjectivesSubtitles: en

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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

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