Improve Your Vocabulary - Stop Saying "Yes"

yes yes yes I know it's important to say yes to accept offers and to agree with

people but we don't have to use the word yes because there are so many other

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right let's learn some English so there are many ways to say yes and some of the

informal versions that you'll hear are yeah and yeah and uh-huh like I said

these are informal Anna do you like watching films yeah Anna did you eat

breakfast this morning yep I really think mom and dad will

enjoy watching Game of Thrones what do you think uh-huh so how do we respond to

a request for example may I take this seat well if the request starts with may

I or can I then you could reply with you

may or you can so if you say to me Anna may I take this seat I could say you may

or if you say Anna can I borrow your pen I might say you can other common ways of

responding are of course sure no problem

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inquiry using will for example will you be joining us for dinner or will your

dad accept my request well you can respond with the following absolutely

certainly or sure this can be expanded to I sure will depending on the question

of course will you be joining me for dinner I sure will

will your Father accept my request he sure will when accepting an offer like

would you like a coffee or do you want to come to the cinema then you could

simply say definitely or that would be wonderful

of course you can change this word to fantastic great good you could say I'd

love to or I love that or I'd love one depending on the question of course so

if you say would you like a coffee I'd say I'd love one

or would you like to join me at the cinema I love to join you at the cinema

or if you say would you like me to help you I could say I'd love that you could

simply say all right notice that I'm giving a little nod and

smiling at the same time all right that would be lovely thank you or you could

say okie dokie okie dokie is another slightly informal way of accepting an

offer okie dokie let's do that when you are in agreement with a statement like

the view is beautiful isn't it now you might simply say agreed totally

I'm with you sure is of course sure is will change depending on the statement

so if I'm talking about a person she is fantastic isn't she she sure is

it was wonderful wasn't it it sure was they were delicious weren't they sure

were so there you go a handful of common ways to say yes to show you're in

agreement and to give confirmation if you know any other ways of saying yes

which I haven't covered then please do put it in the comment section below

along with an example question and response if you found this video helpful

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