English Grammar - By or Until?

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Hi, my name is Emma and today. We are going to talk about expressions with the word hell
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You'll notice. I don't know if you know what the word hell means, but you'll notice some flames
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To help you understand the meaning of hell
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So first what we're going to do is we're going to talk about
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the phrase what the hell and then once we finish that we're going to look at some common idioms and
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Phrases that contain the word hell, so let's get started
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Before we begin with what the hell I just want to talk about
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Pronunciation and also what the word hell means
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so hell
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Is a noun
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It's a place
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In certain religions if you're very very bad you go to hell for people who are very good. They go to heaven
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Hell is supposed to be a very hot place with a lot of flames with fire
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Lot of evil people are supposed to go to hell
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so that's
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Just a bit of a background on the word hell
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Hell now here is a word that people might confuse with the word hell
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hill
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Does anyone know what this means well?
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It's a contraction you see this apostrophe. It means he
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will
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So these two words have completely different meanings, so don't mix them up
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In terms of pronunciation you don't want to mix these two words up so remember hell
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Rhymes with Bell and
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Hill is pronounced the same way as
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Like a hill
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Hill
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Okay, good
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So let's look at the first expression. I have had a lot of ESL students ask me about this expression
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What the hell?
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What the hell and you'll notice an exclamation mark?
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So what does this expression mean? I'm sure if you watch American movies
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TV shows friends
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Sitcoms you are going to see this a lot. You're going to hear it a lot
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Well, what the hell is?
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What's known as an interjection?
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So we use this to show we are surprised
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We're angry
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We're frustrated, but you but usually with the surprise and anger
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so for example
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Maybe I'm walking
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down the street and
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All of a sudden in the sky. I see something fly past me
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Maybe it looks like an alien spaceship. I'm going to be shocked. I'm going to be surprised
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So right away. I'm going to say something like what the hell? It's it's surprising. What the hell?
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So we use this a lot with surprise
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So now let's look at
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using
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Hell as what's known as an intensifier?
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So in this case, it's used as an interjection
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Other interjections are
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interjections are
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whoa or
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These are interjections
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now we are going to look at hell as
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what's known as an
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Intensifier
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Because hell is intense
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So what do I mean by this well?
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Look at the following sentence. Well. It's a question. What happened?
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What happened?
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now
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Say if I want to add emotion to this sentence
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I want people to know that I feel something when I'm saying this
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Maybe it's surprise. Maybe it's shock anger frustration
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Usually those four emotions we use hell with instead of just saying what happened I can say
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What?
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the hell happened
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What the hell happened last night?
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I don't know if any of you guys have seen the movie The Hangover
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but in that movie three men wake up hungover with no memory of the night before and
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So they have this type of moment
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What the hell happened last night? They don't remember they're shocked
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By what they see around them
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another example is I
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Had a friend in high school who had a big big party
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her parents were away for the weekend or so she thought so she invited a whole bunch of people to her house and
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It was a Saturday night her parents were supposed to come home Sunday
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They came home Saturday
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so when her father walked in to
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Their house. He said what the hell is going on here. He wasn't happy
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so
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Again, we use this for anger surprise frustration
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Now let's look at another question. Who is that?
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Who is that?
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well
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What if I add the word?
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The hell who the hell is that?
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It really changes the meaning of this question
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before the question was
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more polite
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When I add who the hell is that it's a bit rude
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So you don't want to use this with your boss. It is rude
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But I'm showing either. I'm angry or surprised so what might I use this well
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Maybe I see my best friend's husband at a bar with another woman
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Well if I'm shocked I might ask him who the hell is that
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When
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When did you get married?
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Maybe I find out my friend just got married. Oh, when did you get married?
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Well, what if I'm really really surprised or I'm angry because she didn't invite me to the wedding. I might say when
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the hell
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Did you get married?
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Again, it's not the nicest thing to say you say it with your friends a lot actually
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But it can be taken rudely depending on your tone of voice
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Where are my keys? Every morning I wake up and
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Before work, I cannot find my keys. I searched the whole house for my keys. I can never find them
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Well, maybe one morning. I'm very very stressed out. I'm late for work. I need to get there by a certain time I
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Might instead of just saying oh, where are my keys? I might say where the hell?
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Are my keys? How do I fix this? Maybe I broke something if I add the hell
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Shows maybe I'm frustrated. I don't know how to fix this. How the hell do I fix this?
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So again, we have all of the question
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Who what when where why oh, we don't have why up here. You can also use it for why why the hell did you do this?
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You can use it with any of these question words and what it does again is it shows you're either surprised
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shocked frustrated or angry
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Now two other things we can intensify our common words like no
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Yes, and yeah
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Now if somebody asked me a question
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say for instance if
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They asked me a question
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Say for instance if they asked me do I think George W. Bush?
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Did a great job as president of the United States now for some of you. They'll say yeah. Yeah, I think he did a good job
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For others, maybe you don't really care you say ah no. I don't think he did that good of a job
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Well if you're very opinionated like me you might say hell no
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Hell no
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Which is a very strong way of saying no?
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similar to that
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If you feel very strongly about something and you want to say yes, you can say hell yeah, or hell yes
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Do you want cake with that with dinner? Hell yeah?
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Do you want to go to the movies tonight? Hell yeah?
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Do you want to do your homework?
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Hell no
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So you can use these to intensify
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Yes, and no answers
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All right, so we've covered some question words
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We've seen what the hell as an interjection
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We've looked at
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Adding the hell as an intensifier
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Well, there's another
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common
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Meaning to what the hell
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so it can also mean I
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Don't know if you can see this I
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Don't
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care
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Which is pretty opposite to what we were just talking about we were just saying
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When we add the hell it really makes a sentence strong it makes a question very strong it shows you're angry or surprised
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well
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Depending on our tone of voice it can also mean. I don't care
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So say for instance somebody wants to borrow my car
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If I don't really care, I might say yeah, what the hell go ahead. Here's my keys
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Another example is if somebody you know I have a test on on Monday, and I should be studying and
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Somebody says do you want to go to the bar tonight?
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Yeah, what the hell okay? I should be studying, but I don't really care so what the hell
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All right, I hope none of you do that by the way
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All right, so next we are going to look at some common idioms and phrases
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Expressions with the word hell in them
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Alright, so here are six expressions
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Some of them are more common than others, but you will hear all of these that have to do with the word hell
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Now the first one I really like to give someone hell
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When you give someone hell so again, here's the verb to give give someone how it's it's all together
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It means to reproach to reprimand to yell at someone
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Severely so for example
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To really understand this concept
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I have a dog if my dog ate some of my jewelry
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I have a dog if my dog ate some of my jewelry. I would be very very angry
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So I might give my dog hell meaning I might yell at my dog and say why did you do that? You know bad dog?
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parents I
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Told you earlier that my friend had a party one weekend when her parents were out for the weekend and her dad
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Came home early
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her dad
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Gave her hell
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Meaning her dad was very very angry with her yelled at her screamed at her
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Really really disciplined her
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When you give someone hell, it's a bit negative. You're not happy when you give someone hell it means
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You you really?
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Put them in their place so for example
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Bosses if a boss is very very upset with something you've done
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Maybe an employee stole something from their company the boss will give that person hell
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So again it means reproach reprimand to yell at someone to scream at someone
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Give someone hell
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Okay, expression number two
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Now this expression go to hell is not polite at all
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It's very very very rude, so try not to use it
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But you will hear it a lot especially in on movies and TV
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Go to hell, so I've drawn a very angry face
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If you tell someone to go to hell
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You're probably going to be very angry when you say it, and you're pretty much saying
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I don't want to deal with you right now get away leave me alone, but it's a very very very
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Mean and angry way to say it
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Because again hell is not a nice place
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It's a place where bad people go so if you're saying go to hell to someone
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It's a very strong thing to say
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number three
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Number three is to hell with it or the hell with it
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So you have a choice you can say to hell with it, or you can say the hell with it
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Now this expression is often used when you give up on something you decide you don't want to do something anymore
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so for example, maybe I've been studying all day, and then I decide I want to go out and party I
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might say
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To hell with studying so the it is what you change so to hell with studying
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I'm going to go party, so you give up on studying to help with studying. You don't care about studying. You're going to go party or
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To hell with you can also use a person
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Will replace it with her to hell with her
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I might say that if I give up on someone. I'm kind of tired of them. I tried to call my friend all weekend
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She didn't pick up her phone
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To hell with her meaning. I don't care anymore
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I'm giving up. I'm not calling her anymore
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Number four
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For the hell with it
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I really like this expression actually for the hell of it. What does it mean? Have you ever done something for no reason?
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When somebody asks you why did you do that? You don't really have an answer an
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Answer is for the hell of it meaning you did it
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for either no reason
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Or you did it for no reason
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For the hell of it meaning you did it for either no reason
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Or just for fun
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So for example
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Maybe
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I'm not working tomorrow. I don't have anything to do and I decide to drive
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To Montreal I live in Toronto Montreal is five hours away, so maybe one day
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I just think I'm going to drive to Montreal today
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Somebody might ask me. Why did you do that? You know what were you doing in Montreal?
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Well, I drove there for the hell of it meaning. I didn't really have a reason
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Maybe I just did it for fun
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Number five like hell
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When we use like hell, we're talking about doing we're describing
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Something usually it has to do with driving running
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Studying so it has to do with a verb it describes the verb
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So how did you do it?
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How did you drive? I drove?
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like hell
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How did you run? I ran like hell so like hell describes the verb
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And it means you did it either with great speed so very fast or
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Recklessly meaning you weren't careful
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So when would we use something like like hell for example?
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well
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Maybe
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You have a wife. She's pregnant
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She's about to give birth and you're very very stressed out. You're a bit in a panic
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How would you drive your car to the hospital?
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Do you think you drive at 40 40 kilometers an hour?
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No, you're probably going to drive as fast as you can to to get there on time before she gives birth
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You drive like hell
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Maybe some of you have been late for class before
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This this has happened to me before
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And if you have a very strict teacher
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You don't want to be late. So what do you do?
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Well you run
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And how do you run you run like hell?
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Meaning you run as fast as you can you just sprint you you run hard
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So you run like hell
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You could use this with studying
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How do you study?
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I study like hell means I'm a good student
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How do you study? I study like hell meaning I study with great speed. I
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Maybe you didn't study
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For weeks and your test is tomorrow. How are you going to study for your test? I'm going to study like hell
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Number six when hell freezes over
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now this is a
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fun expression
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because
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Hell like I said before is a very hot place notice the flames
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Well freezing is what happens in the winter
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It's when ice
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Comes so when hell freezes over mean means hell is going to be covered in ice
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Now this is another way of saying never because hell will never freeze over
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So this is a fun way to say never
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So let's think of some examples
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Well, maybe I have a friend
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And a guy wants to go on a date with her
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I ask her
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Will you go on a date with Bob? We'll call it Bob
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Will you go on a date with Bob?
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Maybe if she really doesn't like Bob she will say I'll go on a date with Bob when hell freezes over
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Hell freezes over which means she will never go on a date with Bob
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Will you go see
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You know, what's a good movie?
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Maybe you hate lord of the rings
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I I don't know why I love lord of the rings, but maybe some of you out there thought it was a very boring movie
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very long
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so maybe
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Somebody will ask you
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Will you see the hobbit?
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The new lord of the rings movie coming out
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You might say I'll see the hobbit
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When hell freezes over meaning you will never see that movie
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It's a very strong way to say that
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Okay
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So today we have looked at expressions like what the hell?
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We've looked at
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Interjections what the hell again?
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Hell no hell yes
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We've also looked at some common expressions with hell
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So I hope you come visit our website and take our quiz on these expressions at
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www.engvid.com
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And I hope that if I ask you are you going to continue watching our videos your answer will be hell yes
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Take care
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