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Old and elderly

and she's old or nicely put elderly so elderly is a little bit more formal um and something else you'll notice in english too so when something is perceived to maybe be bad you...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Basic sentences and descriptionsSubtitles: en

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lady

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and she's old or nicely put elderly

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so elderly is a little bit more formal

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um

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and something else you'll notice in

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english too so

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when something is perceived to maybe be

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bad

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you

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can make it into the comparative form

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um

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making it have an er at the end so can

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we go back a slide

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um i think it was in the last slide can

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we um probably up or

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oh okay well anyway in the last slide we

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saw it's fine if not okay cool

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um you know we have the word bigger

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um bigger there it's like

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it makes it a little softer and more

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polite we have the same thing with

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you could say she's older

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yeah she's an older woman so

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older than what

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i don't know but it's it's you know

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she's older than maybe most people were

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talking about it's just a more polite

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way to say it

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um yeah

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yeah hello fatima from iran thanks for

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joining

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um all right

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and i think that was it so

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i hope you guys oh and also in their 20s

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oh yeah good to add too

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so you can say the specific number um

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but you could also say um so if i don't

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want to say

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especially say i'm like

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35 for example

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and someone asks how old i am i can pay

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oh you know i'm in my 30s

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i'm not giving a specific answer but you

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know i'm either i'm somewhere between

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30

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and 39

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i'm in my 30s she's in her 20s

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he's in his 70s

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yep

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okay so i hope you guys took some notes

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because we are going to do a worksheet

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together now

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oh exciting yes so

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getting some good practice let's

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hello again

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so

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like we said earlier

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the app has

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the lingoni english app has tons of

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different ways to practice the things

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you learn in our videos

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and the worksheets are

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one of them

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and there's not shared yet just so you

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know i know okay um the worksheets are

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one of them so with these you can

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download them not right now but in the

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app you can download them and print them

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and write on them yourself which is what

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i would do i like to write

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um or you can or you can do it on the

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computer like we are going to do it now

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so so both options are there

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um

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yeah and so we're showing you this this

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is in our app um if you click in the

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link

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