TEST Your English Vocabulary - Do you know these 15 Confusing English Words?

Hello and welcome to this lesson. Today I'm  going to test your English vocabulary and see if  

you know these 15 confusing English words. Of  course, I'm Jennifer from JForrestEnglish.com  

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Are you ready to see if you know these 15  confusing English words? So here's how this  

video is going to work. I'm going to show you a  sentence and you're going to have two options,  

and you have to decide which option correctly  completes the sentence. Now I'll only show  

the sentence for a couple seconds. So make  sure you hit pause, take your time to read it,  

to answer it, and then hit play and I'll show  you answer. And I'll explain why that answer is  

correct. Are you ready to go? Number one, there  were people at the party than I had expected.  

The answer is fewer. There were fewer people at  the party than I had expected. And the reason  

is we use fewer with countable nouns. You  can count how many people there are. And we  

use less with uncountable nouns. So I would say  there was less rain. You can't count rain. There  

was less rain this year compared to last year.  Number two, I'm just in the of a big project.  

And the answer is midst. Midst. This is a tricky  one simply because of pronunciation. When you  

hear this in spoken English. I'm in the midst of a  big project. It's easy to confuse this with mist.  

And to be in the midst of something is  simply to be in the middle of something. So  

I'm in the middle of a big project. Number  three. Wow, that shirt really your hair.  

And the answer is complements within an E. These  two words sound exactly the same in pronunciation.  

It's the spelling that's different, but they have  different meanings. Complement in this example is  

when one thing, your shirt, combines really well  with another thing, your hair. Compliment with an  

'I' is when you say something nice to someone.  I love your shirt. Thanks for the compliment.  

If you want to learn more about compliment and  complement, you can look at the description for  

a link on a video on that topic. Number  four, that movie had quite an on me.  

The answer is effect. It had quite an effect  on me. The pronunciation is very similar,  

affect effect. There's a slight difference. But  the spelling is important because affect is a verb  

and effect is a noun. And we need a noun. You know  that because there's an article in the sentence.  

With the verb, I could say, that movie affected  me. If you want to learn more about affect and  

effect you can look in the description for a link  on that. Number five, quizzes are a great way to  

your skills. To hone your skills. Again similar  in pronunciation but the correct choice is hone.  

This is an expression to hone one's skills. This  is simply to improve one's skills. Number six,  

I didn't know at the party. I  didn't know anybody at the party.  

Didn't is negative. In the English language,  we do not like double negatives. You can  

only use one negative in a clause  and since I already have 'didn't',  

I can't use the negative 'nobody'. I have to use  'anybody'. Number seven, I don't like carrots.  

I don't like carrots either. Now this is the  same as number six because I 'don't'. 'Don't'  

is a negative. 'Neither' is also a negative. So  we can't use it. We want 'either'. I don't like  

carrot either. To use 'neither' I could say, you  don't like carrots. Neither do I. Neither do I. If  

you want to learn more about either and neither  you can look in the description for a video I  

created on this. And number eight, she has more  she needs. She has more than she needs. Similar in  

pronunciation, than then. But they're two totally  different words. 'Than' we use in comparisons.  

More than, less than, fewer than. Comparisons.  Then is an adverb. It's used in time references.  

First I'll eat lunch, then I'll go for a walk.  Number nine, joining a social club is, for all  

purposes, the solution to loneliness. For all  intents and purposes. This is an expression in  

English, for all intents and purposes. This  simply means in almost every situation, in  

virtually every situation. But when you say this  at a natural pace, for all intents and purposes.  

For all intents and purposes, it sounds like  intensive. Intensive is a word that people are  

very familiar with. 'Intents and' is not something  that people are familiar with. But the correct  

expression is intents and purposes. This is a  very useful business or academic expression. It  

isn't really used in casual conversation  too much. Number 10, we can discuss this  

after the meeting. We can discuss this further  after the meeting. Further and farther both mean  

more. We can discuss this more, in more  detail, after the meeting. We use 'further'  

when we're talking about figurative and we use  'farther' when we're talking about literal.  

For example, we need to walk farther, we  literally need to walk more, we need to walk  

farther to see the waterfall. If you want to  learn more about this, look in the description  

for a link on a separate video. Number 11, you  can down here. You can lie down here. Lay and lie,  

they have the same meaning. But lay is transitive.  It needs an object. For example, lay the baby  

down here, lay the blanket down here. You lay  something. But lie is intransitive. So there's no  

object. Lie down here. Lie yourself down here. Lie  down here. Number 12, that sweater is too on you.  

That sweater is too loose on you. This one is  confusing because of the spelling. Do I need  

one or two Os? It's easy to forget. Lose with one  O is the opposite of win. Did you lose the game?  

Did you win the game? Did you lose the game? Loose  with two O's, when we're talking about clothing,  

is when it doesn't fit closely to your body.  So this shirt I'm wearing is not loose.  

It fits closely to my body. But this sweater, for  example, is loose. Number 13, we should worked  

harder. We should have worked harder. Now this  is a mistake that many native speakers make  

because in spoken English we take have, which  is the grammatically correct choice, but we  

reduce it. We say it quickly and it sounds like  'of'. You should of, you should of, you should  

of worked harder. So sometimes native speakers  forget that it's actually have and not of because  

that's what it sounds like in spoken English.  So in spoken English, you can absolutely say,  

you should of. You should of worked harder.  But in written English, just remember that the  

correct choice is have. Number 14, I shouldn't  have to the party. I shouldn't have gone to the  

party. Our verb here is go. The past simple is  'went' and the past participle is 'gone'. This  

structure requires the past participle, the third  form of the verb. Yesterday I went to the party.  

I've gone to three parties this month. And  finally, number 15. do you trust the most?  

Whom do you trust the most? Who and whom, it can  be very tricky for students and native speakers to  

know the difference. Just ask yourself, do  you need she or her? Do you need a subject  

or an object. She or her, he or him? I  trust her the most. We need an object,  

not a subject. So you use whom. Who is your  friend? She is my friend. In this case,  

we need a subject so we use who. So how did you do  with this quiz? Share your score in the comments  

below. And if you got any wrong don't worry.  Just do some practice sentences and remember to  

look in the description because I shared many  links to other videos that go into more depth  

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