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hello and welcome to to the point

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english my name is ben

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english teacher with almost 19 years

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experience

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and today i'm going to teach you 10

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advanced or proficiency level adverbs

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that will really

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level up your english okay let's do this

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so today i'm going to teach you 10

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advanced and proficiency level

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adverbs a couple of weeks ago i made a

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similar video on adjectives

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because adverbs and adjectives are two

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parts of speech which

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can really take your english to another

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level

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and i know many of you are preparing for

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the cambridge english exams

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so including a few advanced level

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adverbs and a few advanced level

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adjectives

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can really impress the examiners and

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give you a better chance of passing

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those exams

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now i should mention that these videos

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are really introductions to this this

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vocabulary

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i really encourage you to think of your

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own

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examples when you're taking notes i give

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my examples which i think are useful and

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interesting

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but to really help you remember it's a

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good idea to think of personal examples

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that have an emotional connection

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okay so without any further ado let's

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look at the first

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adverb undoubtedly so this means

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certainly or without a doubt um so

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obviously we use this

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adverb when you're 100 sure about

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something so maybe you're giving your

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opinion

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or it's just a fact um so if you're in a

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conversation

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and you want to emphatically convince

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somebody somebody of something that

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undoubtedly is a useful adverb

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so an example sentence the number of

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copied infections in europe

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is undoubtedly decreasing so it's

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completely certain

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it's a fact basically i mean sometimes

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it could just be your opinion but a very

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strong opinion that you're completely

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sure of

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and the second adverb today is

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astonishingly

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so this basically means very

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surprisingly

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so something that is unexpected it's

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it's

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a complete surprise astonishingly some

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people don't like studying

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english it's completely surprising it's

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unbelievable really that some people

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don't enjoy studying english

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what's wrong with them okay let's look

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at number three awfully

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now this one is interesting because

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awfully you may know the adjective awful

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so awfully means badly or very badly so

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you could say

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he plays the guitar awfully he plays the

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guitar awfully

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he plays it very badly but the

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interesting thing about awfully is that

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if you use it with a positive adjective

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it means the opposite it means very good

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so you could say he's awfully good at

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playing the guitar

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so that's really emphasizing he's very

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good he's excellent

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he's wonderful so that's what we call an

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oxymoron it's kind of contradicting it's

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two words that go together it's a

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collocation

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that's kind of they contradict each

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other

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but in this case it's to add emphasis

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so when you say something is awfully

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good it's extremely good

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and the next adverb is reluctantly

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now reluctantly means unwillingly but

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maybe you don't really understand what

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unwillingly is so

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when you do something reluctantly it

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means you do it

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even though you don't really want to do

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it so you do it in the end you don't

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you don't really like the idea of doing

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it you don't want to do it

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but you do it reluctantly so you do it

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in the end

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so let's let's have a look at an example

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to really understand it better

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i reluctantly agree with you that real

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madrid are better than west ham

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okay so i support west ham the person

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i'm speaking to is

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of the opinion that real madrid are

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better than west ham

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and i don't like that but i have to

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agree

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so i reluctantly agree it's not

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something i want to do but

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i do it in the end i agree okay the next

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one is a nice one it's

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blissfully blissfully and blissfully

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basically means

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happily or peacefully it's kind of like

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a peaceful happiness

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and we use it with an adjective to

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modify an adjective so often with

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collocations

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probably the most common collocation

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with blissfully is

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unaware so to be blissfully

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unaware of something so that means you

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have no idea that

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something has happened or it is going to

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happen

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so an example in february last year we

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were blissfully

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unaware that the world was about to

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change

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so i'm recording this video in june of

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2021

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so february last year was 2022

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and in europe at least we didn't really

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know

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that the pandemic was going to happen

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and the world was going to change the

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kovid was going to spread all over the

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world

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so we were blissfully unaware we had no

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idea of what was going to happen

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so we used blissfully in this way to say

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you know we were happy before we didn't

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know but

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you know we were happy not knowing so

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you can be blissfully unaware about

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something that's going to happen

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in the future or blissfully unaware of

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something

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that is happening now but you don't know

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about it okay let's move on to the next

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one

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utterly this is a good one and i think

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it's very

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british english you don't hear it so

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much in american english or

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other english-speaking countries around

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the world

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utterly it basically means totally or

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completely

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it's really to add emphasis to something

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it could be positive or negative in my

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example is

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positive the banoffee pie we had for

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dessert was utterly delicious

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so banoffee pie have you ever had

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banoffee pie it's

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this fantastic dessert with a banana and

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toffee

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and like a biscuit base when it's done

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well

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it's the most amazing thing you could

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ever eat if you have a sweet tooth

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you can also use it in the negative so

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you can say it's utterly ridiculous

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or utterly disgraceful it's just ready

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to add emphasis more than anything

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okay the next one unabashedly

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now this is a really proficiency adverb

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so this means without embarrassment when

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you do something

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without embarrassment the film was

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unabashedly silly

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but it was great fun okay so it's just a

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silly film

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they had no embarrassment about they

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felt no shame of that it's just

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a silly film but it's good fun and

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number eight

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is deceptively now a synonym for

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deceptively

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is misleadingly so it refers to

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something that

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makes you believe something that is not

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quite true

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so an example is the speaking part of

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the exam

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is deceptively difficult so

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that means that perhaps on first

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appearances it seems

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quite easy the exam seems quite easy

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but in reality it's it's difficult so

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it's deceptively

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difficult it makes you believe one thing

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but in reality it's something

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different so we usually use deceptively

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with

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an adjective like simple easy

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difficult tricky those types of

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adjectives

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and again it's to to refer to something

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that makes you believe something that is

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not quite

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true and number nine now is fondly

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fondly you may be familiar with the

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adjective

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fond to be fond of something to to like

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something

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and fondly it's similar to to have

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affection for something

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and we often use it with remember so

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i fondly remember a time before

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smartphones

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so i'm saying i have nice memories of

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the time before smartphones it was

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better a better time or it's just a good

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time so for me

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i have fond memories i fondly remember

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that's an adverb fondly okay and the

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last one

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number 10 willfully willfully

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so if you do something willfully you do

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it deliberately

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or intentionally so it's usually to

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cause damage or to cause harm

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to something or somebody so we use it in

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a negative context he willfully ignored

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the restrictions and entered the

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supermarket without wearing a mask

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so this person in this example is that

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he knew what he was doing it wasn't an

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accident

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he intentionally and deliberately broke

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the law

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or ignored the restrictions okay

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so again you can use that in many

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contexts but always negative

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so there you go your 10 advanced and

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proficiency level

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and i'll see you again soon for another

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