Describing and Comparing Things Using AS and AS in English

So in English, we sometimes use the word as, and we

put an adjective or adverb, and then we put another as,

and we say things like as flat as a pancake.

I drove over this bottle, and it's been

chewed on by the dogs as well.

But now it's as flat as a pancake.

Do you know what a pancake is?

It's a very thin cake that you fry in a frying pan.

So sometimes we use the word as and the word flat to

describe things like this as being as flat as a pancake.

In this English lesson, I'll help you learn how we do

this by giving you several examples of how we use as

with as with another word in the middle.

So here's another example of how to

use as with an adjective with as.

It's really early in the morning right now.

My family is still sleeping, although

Jen did just walk by.

So when I got up, I was as quiet as a mouse.

You know what a mouse is, right?

Like a little rodent.

Usually they're quiet.

Sometimes, though, you can hear them.

But when I got up this morning, I was as quiet as

a mouse because I didn't want to wake up my family.

So I took the word as, the word quiet and the

word as again, in order to describe how my actions were

similar to an animal that makes very little noise.

I was as quiet as a mouse.

So, as most of you know, Jen and I grow flowers.

And pretty soon, Jen will be as busy as a bee.

If you look down here, you'll see in these crates that

the tulips are starting to come out of the ground.

This is very, very cool.

But it also means that pretty soon, Jen

will be as busy as a bee.

By the way, a bee, I'll put a picture here.

Works really hard to go out and visit

all the flowers in the field in order

to bring pollen back to make honey.

I think that's how it works.

So when we say that someone is as busy

as a bee, we're comparing them to a bee

who works really, really hard to do their job.

Pretty soon, Jen will be as busy as a bee.

So as you can see, when I compare the size of my

dogs, you can see that Oscar is not as big as Walter.

So when you're using as and as in the

negative, you then are saying and talking about how

something isn't the same as something else.

Oscar is not as big as Walter.

I could say that Walter is not as small as Oscar as

well.

If you look behind me, there are two silos here,

one silo is not as big as the other silo.

So when I use the negative to compare the two, I'm

basically using as and as to tell you how they are

different instead of telling you how they're the same.

You can also use an as ... as phrase in

the negative to talk about the weather.

It's a little colder than I expected out here today,

but it's not as bad as it was last week.

So there was a day last week where it was below

zero during the day and then it got warmer again.

But there was a day where it was really, really cold.

So today isn't as bad as last week.

I can use an as phrase with as with

bad in the middle to compare the weather today

to the weather from a week ago.

It's not as bad as it was last week.

It's not as cold as it was last week.

So you can also use as ... as with an

adverb in the middle to describe an action.

If I took this can of soda, this

can of pop, this is Canada Dry.

And if I shook it, I would want

to open it as gently as possible because

it's going to kind of shoot everywhere.

I would want to open it as carefully as possible.

I would want to open it as slowly as possible.

And then if for some reason it did explode in my

face, I would probably run away as quickly as possible.

So you can use as and as with adverbs as well.

So you may have heard this phrase before.

It's as easy as pie.

For me, making videos is as easy as pie

now because I've done it for so many years.

I don't know why we say this phrase, though.

It isn't actually that easy to make pie.

But when we say something is as easy

as pie, we mean it's really, really easy.

So making videos for me is as easy as pie. Okay.

It isn't always as easy as pie.

Sometimes it's hard to come up with a good idea.

Sometimes it's a little windier than I expect

or it's a little colder than I expect.

But usually for me, when I make an English

lesson for you, it's as easy as pie.

Well, thanks for watching this English

lesson about as and as.

It probably would have been a bit longer.

I feel like I spoke a little too quickly

sometimes because it wasn't as warm as I thought

it was going to be out here.

It was a little colder than I thought it was going to

be, so I think maybe I spoke a little too quickly.

But anyways, I hope you enjoyed the lesson regardless.

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