9 Phrases To Remove From Your Vocabulary Immediately

Of course, you're here because you  want to expand your vocabulary with  

new phrases that help you communicate  fluently and confidently in English.

But what about removing phrases  from your vocabulary because  

they're either grammatically  incorrect or sound unnatural?

That's what we'll discuss today.

You'll learn 9 phrases that you should  remove from your vocabulary immediately,  

and you'll also expand your  vocabulary with the correct  

phrases that will help you sound  fluent and confident in English.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course, I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

The first phrase that you  should remove is I will do it.

Let's take this scenario.

Imagine I say to you, can you do me a favor?

Can you do me a favor and share  this lesson with your friends?

You might reply and say I will do it  Jennifer, which is such a nice thing  

of you to do, but that is not how a  native speaker would accept that task.

To accept that task, a native speaker would  simply say, do you know you only need 2 words?

A native speaker would say,  will do, will do That's it.

So you can consider this a phrase  or an expression, a group of words.

In this case, only two words  will do that have a meaning.

And the meaning is I will do the task.

I will do whatever you asked me to do.

In this case, share this lesson with your  friends because I want all of your friends,  

everyone you know who is also improving  their English to benefit from this lesson.

So what can you say will do  Jennifer will do Jennifer.

That's the natural way to communicate This you can  use will do in both spoken and written English.

It's very common to reply to a text message  and or an e-mail and simply say will do.

This sounds both professional and natural.

So now if I say, can you do me  a favor and like this video?

What will you say?

What will you reply back with  will do or will do Jennifer?

So make sure you do it and like this video.

The second phrase you should remove  from your vocabulary is how is it going?

If you've been following my lessons for a while,  you may know that I love saying how's it going?

And I love teaching my students this  phrase because native speakers use  

it in our daily speech in both a  social and professional context.

You might be wondering why I want you to remove  this from your vocabulary only because when I hear  

students use it, they either have incorrect  pronunciation or unnatural pronunciation.

And in order to sound fluent and confident  in English, you need correct grammar,  

you need the correct context, you  need to use the expression in the  

right situation or at the right time,  and you also need correct pronunciation.

So unfortunately, if you use this  expression but your pronunciation  

is incorrect, it won't help  you sound fluent or natural.

So let's fix that.

You can either remove it from your  vocabulary and use an alternative.

How are you doing?

This is also a professional and  friendly and very natural expression.

How are you doing?

Or you can keep how's it going in your  vocabulary but pronounce it naturally.

So let's work on the pronunciation.

How's it?

Notice that zit?

How's it going?

You need to combine those sounds together.

How's it going?

Repeat after me.

How's it going?

Now let's listen to some native  speakers saying this phrase.

How's it going?

Because the best way to learn  pronunciation is directly from  

native speakers in a natural context.

So let's listen now.

How's it going for you and the department?

So ask them how's it going?

Are you delivering value?

Hey gossip, how's it going?

So you can keep this phrase in your vocabulary if  

you're confident that the  pronunciation is correct.

Don't worry about taking notes because I  summarize everything in a free lesson PDF.

You can find the link in the description.

The third phrase you should remove from  your vocabulary is where's the toilet?

You should remove this because it sounds awkward  because it's too direct and it's slightly rude.

This is a toilet, but the room  where the toilets are located.

The room where you can use the  toilet is called the restroom.

The restroom.

So don't say where's the toilet.

Again, it sounds slightly rude.

Say where's the restroom?

This is the phrase that you will use in public  locations such as restaurants, malls or offices.

Where's the restroom?

But if you're in someone's home,  their house, apartment, flat, condo.

If you're in someone's home, you wouldn't  say where's the bathroom bathroom.

So change the word restroom to bathroom.

But if you are shopping for toilets,  

you want to buy a new toilet and you're in  a store, you can say where are the toilets?

The 4th phrase to remove is the movie is bored.

Do you know why you should remove this?

It's the incorrect adjective choice to be bored.

The movie is bored.

To be bored is a feeling, a feeling of a  lack of interest, a lack of engagement.

But a movie cannot have a feeling.

People can have feelings.

So you can say I'm bored.

I'm bored.

The adjective choice for  the movie would be boring.

To be boring with an ING this is to  

describe something or someone that  isn't interesting or engaging.

So you can say I'm bored.

I have the feeling because the movie  is boring, The movie is boring.

Let's try this one.

The class was So what do you need?

The class was so boring.

Again, you can say she's bored.

She has the feeling.

She's bored because the class is boring.

So remember bored with an Ed  bored is a feeling or state.

Boring with an ING boring is  what causes the feeling or state.

Hopefully this isn't the feeling you have now.

Hopefully you aren't thinking  to yourself, I'm bored.

So what's the opposite?

You could say I'm engaged.

I'm engaged.

Put that in the comments.

I'm engaged because this lesson is engaging.

You got it #5 I went to home.

You should remove this from  your vocabulary immediately  

because it's incorrect sentence structure.

The correct sentence structure is I went home.

You don't use the preposition to.

But if you said I went to her home, his home,  

John's home, Jennifer's home,  you need that preposition to.

You cannot say I went her  her home it sounds incorrect.

You have to say I went to her home  so use to accept when it's your home  

I went home it's your home number  six she goes to the work at 9:00 AM.

You should remove this from your  vocabulary immediately because again,  

it's incorrect sentence structure.

She goes to work to work, not to the work.

But yes, you need the preposition to you  go to a location, except if it's your home.

She goes to work at 9:00 AM.

Omit the before routine nouns such  as work, home, school, and church.

Let's look at this.

She goes to university.

University is a type of school  and it's a routine place.

She goes to university in the mornings,  

she goes to work in the afternoons,  and she goes to church in the evenings.

After a long day, she goes home because remember,  

with home you omit to, and with all  routine places you omit the article.

Remember, though, it's possible to use an article,  

the OR ah, with these nouns  when they're not routine.

For example, we took pictures  of a beautiful church.

This isn't the church I routinely go to.

It's just a church, any church.

So you can use the article or she's giving  presentation at the university downtown.

So in this case, it's not the  university she routinely goes to.

It's just a university, but it's  a specific one, the one downtown.

So you use the article.

The #7 let's make a rest.

I hear this from students all what?

But you should remove it from your vocabulary  immediately because it's a direct translation.

It's unnatural.

It's not the way a native  speaker would communicate this.

So let's say I'm teaching a class and I'm about  to say, OK, everyone, let's what would I say?

Do you know, let's take a break?

Let's take a break.

That's how you communicate this naturally.

That's the phrase.

I could also say let's take a quick break.

So I add the word quick or  let's take a 5 minute break.

To describe the break, native  speakers mainly use the verb take,  

but it is possible to use have let's have  a break, but we do not use the verb make.

Now also notice I said break.

I didn't say pause or rest to take a break.

This is to have a short period  of rest from an activity.

Now, I might say I'm tired.

I need to rest.

In this case, maybe I need to take a nap or  

I'm doing some strenuous physical  activity and I just need to sit.

That is to rest.

Or I could say, let's pause the  movie, which means temporarily stop.

You may pause this video to use what the  bathroom, not the toilet, the bathroom.

You may pause this lesson to use the  bathroom and also notice to rest, to pause.

Those are verbs, but all break is a noun and it's  

take a break or less commonly but  still acceptable, have a break.

Make is not used #8 every  morning I walk with my dog.

You should remove this from your vocabulary  

immediately because it's an  awkward direct translation.

You can grammatically walk  with someone or something.

This means to accompany and  it's more for companionship  

purposes to spend time with each other.

You can also walk someone or walk something,  

and this is to show that you have  responsibility for this task.

For example, I walk my kids to school.

I'm responsible for this task, for  making sure my kids get to school safely.

I walk my kids to school.

I walked my grandmother to the store.

So I walk someone.

I walked my grandmother.

I had responsibility for this task because  my grandmother is elderly and needs support.

But if I say I walked with my grandmother to  the store, this sounds more like companionship.

Purpose.

We wanted to spend quality  

time together and that's why you should remove I  walk with my dog because that isn't the purpose.

Companionship isn't the purpose.

A native speaker would say every morning I walk my  dog because I have responsibility for that task.

Every morning I walk my dog.

You can also say every morning I take my dog for  a walk and for companionship purposes, I would  

say every morning I go for a walk with my husband  or every morning my husband and I go for a walk.

So to go for a walk is for the  purpose of leisure or exercise.

It's not simply to reach a destination  #9 Thanks you teacher for help me.

I hear this a lot, but it's  grammatically incorrect and  

that's why you should remove it  from your vocabulary immediately.

There are two correct forms.

You can say thanks teacher with an  S or thank you teacher without an S.

Those are the correct forms.

Thank teacher is incorrect.

Thanks you teacher is incorrect.

Thanks teacher for helping me.

You need to say for helping me.

You could also say thanks teacher for your help,  

because for is a preposition and you  need a gerund verb, the verb in ING.

Or you can use a noun, your help  that's a something that's a noun.

So to remember that and to show your appreciation  for the help I provided, put Thanks, Jennifer.

Thanks, Jennifer.

And make sure you have that S or say thank you,  

Jennifer, And don't use an S Put one  of those options in the comments.

And if you like this lesson and you want me  to keep sharing more phrases that you need  

to correct or change, put yes, yes, yes,  put yes, yes, yes in the comments below.

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