Learn the English Phrases SUCH A and NO SUCH THING

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase such a.
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This is a little phrase we sometimes add to a sentence
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when we want to emphasize something.
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I could say to you, "It's a nice day today,"
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but it's actually a really nice day,
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so I could say, "It's such a nice day today.
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It's such a nice day."
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If I was insulting someone,
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and you shouldn't do that, but here's an example anyways.
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If I was insulting someone, I could say, "He's a jerk,"
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but if I wanted to emphasize that,
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I could say, "He's such a jerk."
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And you can even use this for experiences.
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You could say, "Oh, I went to the Ed Sheeran concert,
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and I had such a good time.
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It was amazing."
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase no such thing.
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When we think something doesn't exist,
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we'll say, "Ah, there's no such thing."
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If someone was to say,
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"Last night I was walking in my house
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and I saw a door open by itself.
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I think there's a ghost in my house,"
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you could say, "There's no such thing.
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Ghosts don't exist."
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If someone said, "Oh, I was driving last night,
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and I saw strange lights in the sky.
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I think it was a UFO, an unidentified flying object,"
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you could say, "There's no such thing as aliens,
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and there's no such thing as UFOs."
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So to review, when you use the phrase such a,
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it means that you're emphasizing something.
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It's such a nice day today.
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He's such a jerk.
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By the way, don't use the insult.
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I think I already told you not to do that,
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but you do need to know insults, don't you,
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in case you hear them on TV.
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And when you say there's no such thing,
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you're simply saying that you don't think something exists.
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Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Sidd.
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"We didn't get enough time to observe
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that beautiful tree in the back.
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Thanks a ton for these short and simple episodes."
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And my response.
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"You're welcome, Sidd.
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Good to know you watched until the end."
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If you don't know what Sidd's talking about,
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it means you didn't watch 'til the end of the last video.
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In the last video, I was running out of time,
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but I was standing by a beautiful tree,
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so I quickly just said, "Here's a beautiful tree,"
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or, "Here's a really nice tree."
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It was such a nice tree, by the way.
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You should go back and maybe watch it.
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But it's just a little thing I noticed.
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If I do something funny at the end of the video,
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sometimes I look for a comment
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so that I know people watched all the way to the end.
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By the way, if you wanna see nice trees,
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oh, let's do it this way.
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Let me flip you around.
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These are our lilac trees.
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We have three lilac trees.
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This is a white lilac tree, and it smells beautiful,
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and then we have my favorite lilac,
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which is this light purple lilac tree.
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I really enjoy the lilacs.
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I know we live on a flower farm,
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but you might be interested to know,
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we don't actually sell lilac.
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Kind of stuck out in the trees here.
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We started to a long time ago,
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but they don't last very long when you put them in water.
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Lilacs are not...
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They don't have good vase life.
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Vase life is something we use
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to describe a flower in a vase.
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If we say it has good vase life,
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it means it lasts a long time.
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If we say it doesn't have good vase life,
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it means when you cut it and put it in a vase,
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it doesn't last very long.
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So anyways, one of the other things I wanted to show you
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is that all of the trees on my property now have leaves.
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We have shade.
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It's much nicer.
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The weather's actually cooled down a bit, too,
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but I love the fact that we have shade now.
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It's just a little easier to come outside and make a video.
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I can stand in the shade and make an English lesson.
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I don't need my sunglasses or anything like that.
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And I think the animals, like this cat here,
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are enjoying this as well.
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I think the cat realizes
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that I'm trying to get it in the video,
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and maybe doesn't like that.
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Anyways, thanks for watching
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this little short English lesson.
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I hope you're having a good day,
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and I'll see you in a couple days with another one. Bye.
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