20 MUST-LEARN Advanced Adverb Collocations | TOTAL ENGLISH BOOST

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Okay. So in this particular lesson, it's an  advanced English lesson and we're looking at  

adverbs. And in particular, we're looking  at adverb collocations. So I've got 20

in total for you.

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Now collocations are really really  good way for you to improve your  

English because not only do you get one word,  

you usually get two words together. And when you  have two words together, you've got a phrase.

And when you've got a phrase, you can express  yourself in a much, much better way. And okay,  

you still have to remember it and you still  have to know how to use it. And that's,  

of course, the purpose of my particular lesson.

So today we've got an advanced English  lesson looking at adverb collocations.  

And then these particular collocations  you'll see pairings of words together.

And it's really really important that the  adverb goes with an appropriate adjective.  

And that's how we use them. And it gives  you much more expression. And you have to  

be very careful because sometimes people use  the wrong adverb with the wrong adjective,  

and it doesn't make any sense at all. So you'll  see the pairings that I have. Practice them,  

go over them if I have any difficulty.

As you know, you know the drill by now. Just  

come back to me and I'll give  you some further explanation.

Okay. So. Adverbs.

As you should know by now,  adverbs always modify modify

the verb or in this case adjectives. Okay,  

so the what we're trying to do is just to  give you a better use of the English language.

And hopefully these collocations  will do the trick for you.

So let me give you a quick example. We often say,

When we use the word concerned, I am  deeply concerned. So it gives you the  

ability there to put more meaning into it.  You might be concerned about your child's  

health. You might be concerned about his  progress or her progress at school. But  

if you want to really emphasise it  and you want to modify it with an

adverb, you can say deeply concerned.

I am deeply concerned. Now, you could, of course,  be very concerned. And very is one of those  

adverbs that goes almost with everything  or really concerned. So really concerned,

Very concerned, but deeply concerned has  greater meaning. Okay, now, you know,  

we wouldn't say I'm sorely concerned, so that  would not make sense. So deeply concerned?  

Yes. Sorely concerned. No. Really concerned  or very concerned. Yeah. You can use them.

As I said, we've got 20 in total,  so I'll go through them slowly,  

as slowly as I can and hopefully you'll  be able to keep up with me. Okay.

Now, first one is to firmly believe  so in an expression we might say,  

I firmly believe that I am correct. I  firmly believe that this is the right  

thing to do. I firmly believe that  you are at fault or he is at fault,  

or that it wasn't my fault. So that's,  you know, I believe it's a strong enough,

verb to use.

But we can say I firmly believe. I firmly believe.

Number two. Happily married. Of course,  somebody can say I'm married. Yeah,  

I've been married for ten years.  15 years, 20 years. Happily is an  

adverb that will underline the fact as to  how strong your relationship is. I have  

been happily married for 15 or 20 years.  Yeah. So there's an old joke about that.

Happily married. When the guy is  talking to his friend and he says,  

I've been happily married for five years. He  says, yeah, but you've been married to your  

wife for 20 years. He said, yes, but only five  years. We're happy now. So yeah, happily married.

Strongly criticise or strongly criticised Yeah. He  

strongly criticised the member of  Parliament or the minister or the

Prime Minister. Or the President was  strongly criticised for his actions.

So he can be criticised by somebody but strongly  

criticised, which suggests that the  criticism was quite deep and very,  

very tough. So strongly criticise is not  toughly criticise, strongly criticise.

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Badly hurt. Well, of course, when there are  accidents and unfortunately many times there are  

accidents on our roads when cars are driving too  fast or people go with great speed, or perhaps for  

weather conditions, the the roads are bad and if  there's an accident, somebody can be badly hurt.

Okay, so we wouldn't say very hurt or  really hurt, but we'd say badly hurt.  

Suggest the level of the injuries that  he has suffered. So if he was just hurt,  

perhaps a broken arm or an ankle, then  okay, it's serious, but it's not very,  

very serious. But if he was badly hurt, I would  suggest that the level of the injuries was  

quite serious and perhaps he had to spend  some time in the hospital so badly hurt

To sleep soundly. Well, we all like to sleep  soundly in our beds. Coming up to Christmas time,  

we always tell our children you should sleep  soundly because Santa Claus will be coming  

on Christmas Eve and he'd be creeping around the  room. So you have to be sound asleep or you have  

to sleep soundly. Or somebody would say, oh, I had  a great, great sleep last night, I slept soundly.

I know as soon as my head touched  the pillow when I was out like a  

light. So I slept soundly for the  first time in many, many weeks.

Number six completely destroy something so  a fire could break out in a shopping centre,  

for example. And it will destroy the  shopping centre. But if we use the word  

completely destroy, we get a much better  feeling as to the level of destruction.

Perhaps all of the buildings were damaged, all  of the shops were ruined, the roof collapsed  

or whatever happened, but it was completely  destroyed. Yeah, but if there. The report said  

only part of the shopping centre was destroyed,  you'd get a general impression that it wasn't so  

serious, but completely destroyed. Tells you that?  Yeah, that's the level of seriousness or the.

The fire swept everywhere in that particular  shopping centre, and it was completely destroyed.

Totally agree. I totally agree with you.  Now we could say I completely agree and  

that's another collocation you could use.  I totally agree with the last suggestion.  

So perhaps you're sitting in a meeting with  some of your colleagues, and everybody is

chipping in with their ideas as to how things  can be improved. And you would like to make  

some contribution and you say, yeah, I totally  agree with the last person's comments. So I  

totally agree with the point about relaunching  the project. Or I totally agree with the idea  

about providing customers with a refund or some  help line, whatever the suggestion might be.

So I totally agree.

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Number eight hopelessly Devoted. There's a song  I can't remember who was who sang the song,  

but the line in the song was  hopelessly devoted to you,

Hopelessly devoted to you.

hopelessly devoted to you. So when  someone is hopelessly devoted,  

it means that they are, you know, really,  really devoted. They spend all their time,  

all their waking hours doing  things to suit their partner.

Hopelessly devoted to them. So it's all about  what you can and what you can't do. Actually,  

I tell you exactly who sang the song. Now  I remember it. It was Olivia Newton-John.  

She's she's dead now. She died a few months ago,  but she had a song and it was hopelessly devoted  

to you. Okay, so that's if you check it out  on Olivia Newton-John, you'll find the song.

So when someone is hopelessly devoted,  they are very, very much in love with the  

the person that they are devoted to. And they  will do anything they can to help them. So it  

could be their partner for life. It could be  a parent talking about a child. And oh indeed,  

you could be talking about your pet  dog hopelessly devoted to your pet.

But in this sense, it's usually about love  and romance. Hopelessly devoted. Now, again,  

you could say really devoted. And  it doesn't give you that same sense,  

whereas Hopelessly Devoted underlines the  fact that you can't help it. You're just  

head over heels in love with the person, and  you want to do everything you can to help them

To completely forget about something. Okay, now,  

this is something that we use all of the  time. You know, we can often in our busy  

lives forget to return a telephone call to  somebody. Forget to pick something up in the

Supermarket on the way home,  even though we promised we would,  

we could forget somebody's birthday or. Hopefully  not. You could forget your wedding anniversary,  

your partner's birthday, and then you have to put  your hands up and say, oh, look, I've been so,  

so busy. I just completely forgot all about it. I  really, really sorry. I'll do anything you need.

I'm really, really sorry. So when you completely  forget, it means it goes out of your head. Yeah.  

So it's not just that you forgot for an hour or  two hours. You completely forgot. You were so  

caught up in whatever situation at work or family  matters, you completely forgot about this very,  

very important date and anniversary.  Your birthday, whatever it might be,

to care passionately.

This is number ten on our list. Remember,  you've got 20, so we're almost halfway there  

to care passionately about something. So what do  you care about the most? So we find out things  

in your life that you care about. And if you care  really deeply, then you can say, I care. He cares

Passionately about football. He cares  passionately about his kids. He cares  

passionately about his country, about his  job. Whatever it is you like the most,  

or whatever you spend your most time doing. This  is something that you care passionately about,  

okay? So to care passionately  means really, really deeply.

Number eleven. Now we have two words here.  We can say badly or shabbily. Yeah. And we  

collocate with dressed badly, dressed shabbily  dressed. If you were trying to describe the,  

the dress of the people in a certain country or  town or city that you visited, you might comment  

on the factors. yeah. I think the economy in that  country isn't doing so well at the moment because  

a lot of the citizens, certainly the ones I saw in  the streets, were very badly dressed or shabbily  

dressed, and they both really mean the same,  that the quality of the clothing isn't good.

The age of the clothing is  quite old, perhaps worn,  

suffering from somewhere in Texas, or  they are shabbily or badly dressed.

Number twelve.

To need something desperately or desperately need.  So here we can change the order I desperately need  

blah blah blah. I need something desperately.  Okay, so when you desperately need something,  

you really, really need it now. Oh, I desperately  need a coffee. I've been absolutely waiting for  

the taste of a coffee for such a long time. I  got really busy this morning with some meetings,  

and there was no coffee ready when I  went into the canteen, so I really,  

really need to run out now and get a cup of coffee  because I just won't be able to function anymore.

I desperately need an injection of coffee. Okay,  

if you desperately need some help, or  the company desperately needs a new  

investor to invest some much needed liquidity  or cash into the business, otherwise the  

business is going to have difficulties.  Okay, so to desperately need something

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Okay so we're onto number 13 okay. And 13  is to break deliberately or deliberately  

break something. So you might have a young  child that's being a little bit bold or is  

mischievous or he's misbehaving and perhaps  he's feeling a little bit left out of things,  

so he deliberately breaks  it to get some attention.

He drops your favourite cup or mug  on the floor and deliberately breaks  

it. So it's not that he broke it by  accident, he deliberately breaks it.

Now, if we're looking at the word deliberately and  we were looking for a synonym for deliberately,  

we could say on purpose or purposely. Yeah, but  we wouldn't say purposely. Broke deliberately is  

a much better word, and the collocation is  much stronger. So deliberately broke or to  

break something deliberately so. In the example  I had, the young boy was feeling a little bit  

mischievous, and he picked up the cup and dropped  it on the floor, and he broke it deliberately.

And his mother or father  was really, really annoyed.

So somebody could deliberately break a contract.  Okay. Perhaps he didn't want to go ahead with  

the contract, so he just didn't honour whatever  the contract said. And he broke the condition,  

so he deliberately broke it. And then  you have to consider whether you sue  

that person for breach of contract, as  it's called, to deliberately break the  

conditions of the contract would be  to break the terms and conditions to,

in breach of the contract.

Number fourteen. To apologise profusely, I love  this word profusely gives the impression that  

you're constantly oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Look  what I've done. I'm really, really sorry. How  

can you ever forgive me? Oh, and you go on  and on and on. So there's a constant stream  

of apology. So that's what apology profusely  means. Okay, so it's not just a simple apology.

I'm really sorry. I forgot your birthday.

That's okay. Oh, I'm so sorry. I  forgot your birthday. What are you  

ever going to do to forgive me? What  can I do to make it up to you? Look,  

I'm really sorry. It will never happen again.  I don't know what I was thinking. I've never  

done it. So you apologise profusely. So  you get the idea of these collocations.

They're really important because they  say the phrases, their expressions,  

the two words together. And they really help you  with your English. So to apologise profusely,

Bitterly disappointed as number 15 on  my list. Bitterly disappointed. Well,  

it can be bitterly cold. That's another way  that we can express. Bitterly. But bitterly  

disappointed means something really,  really strong. You can be disappointed  

that you missed the match. You can be  disappointed that you didn't get the  

promotion. You can be disappointed in  lots of things. Bitterly disappointed.

Takes it one step further. Oh, you should see  his face. I mean, he's bitterly disappointed  

that he didn't make the team. He's bitterly  disappointed that his team got knocked out in the  

semifinals. He's bitterly disappointed  that he didn't receive that bonus. He  

was expecting because he had earmarked to buy  a new car. And now that's not going to happen.

So he's really, really upset  to be bitterly disappointed.

Number sixteen. Severely affected, and I usually  was severely affected by something. Okay,  

so perhaps the transport system has been  severely affected by bad weather. Frozen  

points on the railway tracks means the trains  can't depart or arrive on time. Lots of snow  

on the runway means that the airports are closed  for periods of time, and flights are cancelled.  

Ice on the roads means people can't drive  at all, or they have to drive very slowly.

So all, whether all means of transport,  are severely affected by the bad weather,  

severely affected. So it means not just  partly, not just for a little period of time,  

but severely means really, really  badly, severely affected by

Number seventeen. To distinctly  remember or remember distinctly,  

I remember distinctly telling you that  I would not be home tonight for dinner.

Yeah.

I distinctly remember sending an  email to cancel the meeting and  

the guy turned up today. I was so  embarrassed. I distinctly remember,

ordering,

a takeaway, but it never arrived. So something  that you thought happened or you believe happened,  

and you've got a very good memory because  you remember the person you spoke to or the  

message you left or the time you sent the email,  whatever it is that gives you that little bit of,

understanding that, yeah, I'm right.

I distinctly remember doing that. So  but if other people don't remember,  

of course it causes a problem so  distinctly. Remember very clearly.  

I clearly remember distinctly. But you could  then again, as I say, you could say clearly,  

I clearly remember telling you  distinctly means very, very accurately.

Fatally injured. Fatally injured. Now.  Fatal usually means, unfortunately,  

somebody has died. So the horse was fatally  injured in the race. Something happened.  

The horse jumped over the fence but  then landed awkwardly, broke a leg,  

and the horse had to be, as they say,  put down or destroyed. So the horse was  

fatally injured. So it wasn't just an injury  to the leg and hopefully the vet will cure it.

But fatally injured usually means that the horse  can no longer run or even walk, and therefore the  

horse had to be put down on the racetrack. Very,  very sad. So fatally injured or if there was  

some really, really serious accident by train or  plane and a number of people were fatally injured,  

meaning they lost their lives. So again, it's  a form of words, a collocation that you come  

across all of the time in news reports, journalist  reports, online reports on internet sites.

So many people were fatally injured, not  badly injured, because badly injured usually  

means they will recover eventually.  Fatally injured, very little chance.

Number nineteen. Perfectly clear. I made it  perfectly clear to you that I did not want  

to take part in this protest. I thought  I made it perfectly clear to the class  

that I wanted the homework completed  and handed up to me on the Tuesday,  

not on the Wednesday. No excuses. I made it  perfectly clear to everyone. So it was clear  

because I told everybody and they nodded  or they acknowledged it by way of an email.

But I made it perfectly clear means there was  no room for misinterpretation. There was no room  

for ambiguity. You understood. It was perfectly  clear. Perfectly clear to me that you understood  

what I was asking and perfectly clear to you.  What I was asking of you. Perfectly clear.

And then finally number twenty. Virtually  impossible. That's a nice co-location. What  

is virtually impossible? Well,  climbing Mount Everest for me  

and for lots of people would be virtually  impossible. Being able to go off and play

golf on Christmas Day would be virtually  impossible because you might end up in  

the divorce courts. That would be  virtually impossible. So virtually  

means almost completely, almost 100%, not  quite 99.9999%. So virtually impossible.

Okay, so

Those are the 20 collocations, the adverb  collocations. It's advanced English,  

but they're not so difficult. So what I'd  like you to do and what you should try to  

do is to practice some of them. Pick a  sentence. See how you can put them in.  

See how it sounds. Work your way around it.  If you have any problems. Come back to me.

Don't try to look at all twenty. Pick 3, or 4,  or 5. And then the next week, pick another 3,  

or 4, or 5. Just get to use them and  you'll see situations that are really,  

really set up to use this type of.

collocation.

Okay. You can enjoy it. You can play around  with it. If you have any problems, contact me

Always happy to hear from you and  I'm always there to help. Okay,  

this is Harry saying goodbye for now. Thanks for  joining this lesson and join me for the next one.