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Vocabulary – LIVE, LIFE, ALIVE, LIVING
I make a living by making some people’s lives easier to live. Because English can be confusing, it’s sometimes better to get live instruction that will make the language come alive. In this lesson you will learn new vocabulary by really learning one word.
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as usual before I listen to the lesson I got say
very nice ..thank you so Much dear teacher
may allah bless you
sorry I made a mistake
I “gotta” not I got
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gotta = got to
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if you don’t mind teacher and if it’s not forbidden .here you are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTd_NFOJc0
hi ahain dear adam
I’d like you to make us a lesson on what is the difference between
Difference between Time is up and time is over?
and also “0h vs Zero”
when we pronounce zero and when we pronounce “oh.”
may thanks in advance
Hi Nino,
‘Oh’ is just slang for zero. For example, i live in apartment 501, or five oh one. It’s just easier to say. When we tell time, though, we usually use oh, such as 1:05, One oh five. we generally don’t use zero in telling time.
As for time’s up vs. time’s over: time’s up is when you are given an set amount of time to do something, like a test. When the clock hits zero, time is up (ie. it is used up). When a person’s time is over, it means his turn is over, finished. It’s the next person’s turn.
Does that help?
yeah ..that’s clear ..may allah bless you
thanks a lot
Don’t know how but I did 100%. Thanks for the lesson :-)
Adam,
you are a very pleasnt and an informative teacher. I like following your teaching in a very relaxed mood of enjoyment. Though I have been living in Cambridge,in the UK,for nearly 44 years,but English being my second language,I still have many gaps to fill when it comes to these various rules in the grammer and also in the everyday conversational phrases. In short…I do enjoy following up your lessons from time to time. I am actually from Turkey(Turkiye). All the best!!
Teshekular Toktamis ( hope I spelled it right)
:)
thanks so much
first of all I would like to thank ENG VID very much .You are really helpful ,go on and keep the great job .my question here sir if please tell me the difference between the gerund and the noun .I think there is no difference .finally thanks a lot
Hi Haitham,
A gerund is an -ing verb that is used as a noun. For example, Smoking is bad for you. Smoking is a gerund that means the act of smoking.
Does that help?
good
mr. adam your lesson is very good.
thanks for you.
Really the lesson I was waiting for. I always have problems about the difference between live (verb) and live (adjective) in the pronunciation. I always pronunciate windows live as a verb.
Thank you sir, you know it’s my first time and because of your nice lesson I got perfect score in your quiz. Thanks!
I’ve seen too many The Walking Dead, and I have no problems with distinguishing live, live, life, alive, living. xD
But I have, actually, three short sentences to discuss.
“Don’t everybody speak at once.” — I heard this in Breaking Bad, and I understand it well despite that the subject doesn’t match the verb, but this isn’t the main problem I’m dealing with. Another example: “Don’t you dare look at him in the eye”. Why the word order in those sentences looks like the word order in a question? For example: “Don’t you have better things to do?” I saw some sentences like those, and I started to wonder why is that. :)
The second one is: “I’m done.” I usually hear it from a person whose job is finished. For example:
– I’m cleaning a window.
30 min. later…
– I’m done.
I would say that the window or the activity “is done” because of passive, and we are the person who cleans the window. So, why do we use passive here? Why “I’m done.”? Shouldn’t it be “I’ve done…” or something?
I’ll throw in my 2 cents.
“Don’t everybody speak at once” is a phrase in the imperative mood. You use the imperative mood of a verb (the infinitive form of the verb – without to – is used for all persons) to express command, entreaty, appeal, prayer, advice, exhortation, etc.
“Don’t dream it, be it” from the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show is a classical example. I always ask to try translating that in Italian, and the results are very funny!
As for ‘done’, it’s an adjective.
I think that it is what I’m looking for. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_mood#English
As to “done”, ok, this is “do” in pp, acting like an adjective, but this is, I don’t know how to describe it, passive adjective? xD It describes us when we say “I’m done”, or if we say “Job’s finished” — the word “finished” describes “job”. And I’m wonder why, when we talk about job, we use “I’m done”.
Look at this: If I am a corrupt politician and someone finds this out, he can blackmail me, and when I don’t want to cooperate with him, he can say “You’re done”, and this means that I probably go to prison. xD Am I right, or am I confused something?
My other 2 cents.
I don’t think Internet (including myself) is a good primary source for information when someone is studying a (foreign) language. My advice is: get good grammar books (in paper)!
‘Done’ is an adjective (please check its meaning on good dictionaries – Hope this doesn’t sound rude to you – sorry). Maybe in your language the pp of ‘do’ (‘done’) is used similarly in such cases, maybe you use ‘finished’ instead, or whatever. Check this: “It’s a done deed, and it can’t be undone (neglected)”; and also: “Have you finished eating your breakfast? – Yes, but I’m not finished, I’d like some more pastries!”.
This is from a site that I’ve been learning English grammar:
“There are three main uses for past participles in English:
1. Perfect Tenses – I have broken my arm.
2. Adjectives: My window is broken.
3. The Passive Voice: My window was broken by that boy with the rock.
Once, I asked Adam about similar thing, and he said something about “participial adjectives”.
And I disagree when you say that internet is a bad source of information, especially when you learn foreign language. You should really go sometimes to forum.wordreference.com
Hi Morfik,
First, Mauro made a good point about the imperative. Don’t (you) dare do it! is an imperative with the added (though unnecessary) subject added for emphasis. It’s more a stylistic tool than a grammar rule. You’ll find English allows a lot of rule-bending for the sake of style.
Which leads to the second point. ‘Done’ used in this sense, suggests finished. Even if i tell the politician he is done, I mean he is finished (doing the things he does because I will end his ability to continue). Again, more about style than grammar.
When I finish a long, hard piece of, work, I sometimes say ‘I’m done like dinner,’ or ‘stick a fork in me, I’m done’
:)
GREAT LESSON I ACED, YOU ARE AN EXCELENT TEACHER
Good Night Adam,
I have seen that, but I’m not sloving that I promise I will have sloved quiz at the morning. Take Care :)
thank you very much for hearing from this lesson of the teaher ,that will be nice if i learn other lessons like this
This is realy useful! Thanks :)
thanks
thanks Adam but i think u should expand this lesson more than this video
Nicely done, this must be recorded and not live ..:)
Adam, God bless you and i can not thank you for enough this help me a lot and i am still waiting for another learning
Good Night Adam :)
I come back you
I have been sloved them, but I don’t took 100 score :(
What would you advice for I learn a lof of vocabulary at the sort time 05:26z
THX
Hi Nihal,
I can only say practice, practice, practice. Every day. Mostly, read a lot.
:)
thanks
thank you so much Adam for your useful lesson
I did quiz and I got one mistake :-(
please give me some advice for getting better than this..
Dear teacher Adam,
I’d like you to write the example sentences of each word on the board and I can teach another people.
Thank you for your teaching
THANK YOU ADAM, REALY ENJOY ALL VIDEOS IN ENGVID.COM THANK YOU SO MUCH,GOD LOVES AND BLESS YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK.NO PRIZE!
Thank you so mush Mr.Adam also I subscribe in ur channel in YouTube
Thank you for this video especially how to say live &live (v) and live (adj)
Thanks Adam. U r good:)
Hi Adam! Please, tell me. What do you advise from books for study english?
Thank you!
thanks a lot Adam . it’s very important and useful lesson .
many thanks to aminate
Thanks. Keep it up!
please tell what the plural form of life and the pronunciation
Hi Badami,
One life, many lives. Sounds like the adjective form with the s ending.
(lie vs)
“living the life just to make a living
its not to be alive,
the live sound of spirit,
the live sound of a real living
gives you what you need inside”
(C)2013 forest song
Awesome!
Beautiful :)
very nice
Thank you teacher ADAM,
It’s a first time I take your lesson. I’m so glad. Exercise done more or less. Tks. Lily Dias from Brazil
Thanks ADAM.
I’ve got 9 correct answer except for No.5 question.. xD. I answered as alive.
your site is excellent . my regards to all your teachers. you are highly appreciated for increasing lessons every day. thank you and expecting your reply now.
i don´t know how , but i did 100%. thank´s
Hi Adam, I have a question and hope u would explain it to me . Could you tell me the difference between “Providing that” and “Provided that”? Please help me, thanks so much!
Hi Aboo,
From Meriam Webster’s dictionary:
Although occasionally still disapproved, providing is as well established as a conjunction as provided is. Provided is more common.
In other words, both have the same meaning and are correct. Provided is just more commonly used.
Good Q
oh, now i see, thanks Adam so much! :D:D:D
yeahhh, thanks Adam :)
hi, Adam. thank you so much. these words are really confusing, but now, thanks to you, i clarified my queries about them. hugs.
thanks Adam it is a marvellous lesson .
Thanksa lot teacher, that was explain very well
i like the presentation that you take in each lesson.i will have seen engvid videos till i live on the earth ,each and every lesson is nice to learn.i like all the masters those who learn us english in this website.
I gotta a question. If u said that if something was recorded u can’t say “Live”, it means that something was sent to the store to the fans buy it, so why i usually see on dvds I buy: “Live in London”, “Live in Las Vegas”, “Live in Rio”….? Thanx, i love your lessons!!! =)
Hi Angelroses,
Excellent question :)
Most albums are recorded in a studio with a lot of technical help and effects to “clean up” the music. When an album is recorded live, it means they record the concert, without the “clean up,” so it’s more natural.
Does that help?
Yes a lot, now i’m 100%, thank you so much =)
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thank you so much at-least I’ve learned more..
Thank you teacher Adam. I appreciate that.
My Quiz is corret 70%, not very good but so so.CY
on the lessons. Lily Diaz from Brazil
nice nad hepful work
Thanks teacher ^_^
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། Tashi Delek
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.
Hello Adam!
I like your lessons!
Could you explain to me why you said “I started LIVING in the apartment building 3 months ago” instead of “… TO LIVE …”. When should I use the infinitive and the gerund after verbs “start”, “begin”, “keep” “keep on”, “go on”, “go ahead”, “continue”, “finish”, “stop”.
Hi Yan,
That’s an excellent question. Mostly you just have to remember which verbs are follow by to, which by -ing, and which can take both. With some verbs the choice can change the meaning.
look online for a list of these. example:
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/verbs-followed-%E2%80%98ing%E2%80%99-or-%E2%80%98-infinitive%E2%80%99-2
Thank you, Adam!
Ooops i am really confused before …I did not know that .Now i know it . Thank you so much dear teacher .
Thank You Adam ..As always You make me better day.
Exelent!! Thanks.
I got 80% ..really thanks for this great lesson and my wishes to adam
awesome lesson Adam, it’s great 2 be alive with these kind of topics. thanks.
Thank you so much Sir !! I got all correct 10/10 and very happy about it . I my English is encountered when it comes reading and pronunciation and minor in grammars. I just introduced to this site and I find it very helpful. KUDOS!!
Ecxellent lesson, very clear explained it…thanks so much…
Thanks for the lesson.I enjoy it.
Thank You Adam)
Adam, thank you for your lesson.
I’m still confused. If I tell about my 90 years old grandpa, what should I say? “He is still alive” or “he is still live” or “he is still living”?
“He is still alive”
is it evident,, it`s the best one of`em
Hi Orangelass,
He is still alive is best, but He is still living is correct as well. Different use of the ‘is’ verbs here. One is the main verb, the other is a helping verb.
Does that help?
I watched your video and realized that Canada is too cold to live.
Hi Ayumi,
It’s only -15C here today. Not bad ;)
I would say “He lives!”.
Also correct, but a declarative sentence (different purpose) :)
Hi Adam! Please, tell me. What do you advise from books for study english?
Thank you!
Hi Ilyas,
To be honest, books that don’t put you to sleep are the best ;)
( I personally recommend novels because they show you how to play with the grammar and allow you to practice learning words in context)
thanks alot Adam
Thank you Adam, it was a great lesson.
I love too Pink Floyd and this is a present for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceJ3v8-S2Ic
Thank you :)
live(adj)=do you mean life? don’t you?
Hi Roberto,
these are two different words. One is an adjective, meaning in real time, not recorded. The other is a noun, meaning the opposite of death.
Excellent lesson, excellent site!!! Thank you!!!!
i have got 8 correct out of 10 its nice and thank u for this ammazing lesson its very useful
tks Adam. Good night from Vietnam
oh thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks
i hope i become a perfect teacher like you.
thank you Adam
right! I have understood. thank you.
this lesson on live, alive, life and living is very important. thank you Adam! I wish you the best for this new year……
Thank you Adam!.. I really enjoy with your class!!
Good lesson teacher ! I’m very glad to take your lesson every time you do it.I’d like Engvid so much !
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very nice i got 90%
90% only…….
Hi,
Adam,I have a question.Could you tell me about past participle (Third form of the verb)I know according to grammar past participle gets used
1-in perfect tenses
2-in Passive voice
3-as a adjective
But in the following structure,I am not able to get that in what sense past participle is getting used.
Here are examples.
1-Get started (Why past participle is getting used after get)
2-Get itemized
3-Get organized
and other examples like that
Please,if you make me clear this,I would really appreciate it.
Kinds Regards,
Farooq
I learn American English mostly, and I can tell you that Americans often use “get” instead of “be” in passive voice and both are acceptable. I don’t know why, maybe “get” is more modern or something. Look at these example:
“The dog gets fed every morning.”
“The dog is fed every morning.”
and negative:
“The dog doesn’t get fed every morning.”
“The dog isn’t fed every morning.”
as far as I comprehend your question :
here`s the thing ,,
with “get” there is a rule
1- get + adjective
e.g. I`m getting hungry . let`s eat soon
get gives the idea the idea of change , the idea of becoming or the idea of beginning .
in the example it means that I wasn`t hunger before , but now I`m beginning hungry .
2- get + past participle ^ this is what you asking for ^
e.g. I stopped working because I got tried
get may also followed by past participle . the past participle function as an adjective it describes the subject .
another examples :
get drunk ,, get sunbrunt ,, get engaged ,,get arrested … etc.
Hi Farooq,
Morfik and Hisham gave good answers. But at the end of the day, you must realize that Americans have their own sense of the language (as do Canadians, Brits, Aussies, etc). American English tends to favor brevity, ie. the shorter the better. ‘Get’ is often used instead of ‘become’ + p.p.(where the p.p. is used as an adjective) because it’s shorter.
Does that help?
it the first time to me i got 10 thank you :)
its a gr8 lesson, tnx
This lesson is a very interisting band the teacher si very prepared. I nave understood the differences between tese words.Thank a lotta.
Found this site on Youtube video.
Thanks Adam, your impressive demonstration enables me to get 100% correct in the quiz. I will visit this site again and again.
Good night from Hong Kong.
I got 10/10.I am enjoying your lessons.
Hi Adam
I am really struggling to differentiation between “At All and At Whole” “OR All and Whole”.
If this is possible to make clear for me and others I do appreciated. Many Thanks
Hi Furesr,
That’s a great question. I’ll make a video lesson about that soon. Look out for it.
:)
9/10
First of all, all i wanna say is ‘Thanks’ for all the lessons.you’re method of teaching is so great.Dear sir i’m confused how do native people use ‘Also’ in their daily conversation? I always watch your lessons and in fact i improved a lot and day by day i’m getting better. Please do not forget to tell me how to use ‘Also’. AND again thanks for all these amazing videos.
– Sonu rai [INDIA]
Hi Sonu Rai,
‘Also’ can mean ‘and’ or ‘too’ or ‘furthermore,’ and others. Can you give me a more specific example?
I hope I can help
Thanks lot.
Hi Adam! Thanks for lessons. I believe You are the Best. Could you make a lesson, in which, would be very simple explanation about using “have,had,had had,have have,had have,have had etc” and what exactly that sentence would mean(in books one can’t find, what exactly mean using “had had” ). Thank you so much!
Hi Ruslan,
Had had is the past perfect form of the verb Have. I’ll see if I can make a specific lesson for that.
:)
Thank You very much Adam. I’ll be wait(it is so difficult to have understanding, sentences of that kind, especially when one have only three parts of time in own language).At any rate, thanks for answer, even if You won’t be able to.
Good. I got 50% but I’ll be there!!….
hello. i have to say that was very useful. thank you so much and stay happy ._D
first and foremost thank you for creating this its very useful than spending time on fb :D btw, teachers all of you are great than my professors in college :D
Thanks a lot for this exercise, eventually I’ve understood a difference between those words.
thank you it was very usefull
Very nice explanation! I got 100! It is very easy to understand you, Adam! Thank you.
Life is what happens around while you are making other plans ))) Thanks a lot Adam!
Thanks for the lesson, indeed life would be less interesting without your classes!
Asslamu Alukom all, hi, thank you, Adam !
You’re really awesome, thanks again.
Thanks a lot.Keep up good work.
thank you
thank you very much for your lessons
thanks a lot….
It is good you explained good vocabulary.now I know the difference and usases.Thank you for your class
I can understand English but I cannot speak fluently
Very easy, thanks :D
thank you teacher.
I got 100% I like your way of teaching.
Thank you very much. May God bless you
Thank you Adam
Thanks alot , i do the quiz and i have 9
Thanks everybody.
Just a couple of pieces of advice, (though I know you already know it):
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
READ! EVERY DAY. READ ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOU CAN IN ENGLISH
APPLY ENGLISH TO WHATEVER YOU ENJOY IN LIFE. IF YOU ARE BORED, YOU’RE NOT LEARNING.
HAVE FUN!!!
:) :) :)
Thank you Adam, I had some mistakes in my quiz but I leart from them. :=)
please get me more example about alive thank you :)
Sir always i wanted to learn english through videos but i can’t bcz of youtube buffering videos….
so can u plz upload all your videos into torrent sites or any other link……..
I want all videos from engvid (reply please)
this is my own english if there is any misktake forgive me sir
Adam, Thank you so much for this informative video. I learn a lot from here and you are a great teacher.
thank you a lot :) after seeing the video, i made the exercise without mistakes! :) good for me :D
Thanks a lot Adam! You taught very well :)
What can I say. I just love your videos. I m sure i will be able to speak english very soon. I whatch the videos EVERY DAY. Thank you for helping me to improve my life…
this is the first time for me here and i took 70 really i am happy i love it thank you Mr Adam soooo much for every thing i think this time not be the last for me here i will come thank you again you are very interesting teacher …
Your all lessons are so good.I can understand everything clearly. Thanks.
Nice lesson! 100% for quiz. Thanks a lot! :)
Hi dear Adam,
your lessons are great!Hereby, I would like to know how can I downloaded the video lessons? hope to hearing from you soon.
thank you,
Hamidullah
Thank you for lesson! I got 9
So clear that i got D in the quiz
that is very great thanks Mr.Adam
thanks for the nice lesson.
I am Pen from Tawi-Tawi, Mindanao, Philippines. i’m just new in engVid and found it so powerful to learn correct English. Thank you very much sir Adam and to engVid.
8/10. Not bad
Hi Adam! Thx for you lesson. I try to read a lot as I can and after your lesson I cought up myself I read ‘live’ (adj) in wrong way. Almost all things are clear except for one. Could you please make me clear is any difference between alive and living?
Many thanks for you videos and for you answer in advance.
thanks,teacher adam
I liked the lesson! Thank you! ^^ It’s all okay, but I didn’t understand ” live ” as an adjective. I heard that sometime in the past with the words about concerts, but in general I don’t understand what that means :(
2annis: You should just catch the difference between live and alive. It can be used live when you want to relate to, for example, concert record. It means that record wasn’t done in audio studio. It was concert somewhere on the scene for instance and someone did the record. ‘Alive’ usually uses for living beings so you can’t use it for the previous situation.
Many thanks Adam, I just got to know your lesson area, and I have enjoyed and will continue to follow your teaching until I fill up some gaps in my every day conversation and grammar.
Thank you Adam for your lessons, they are very interesting. I want to invite you to visit Russia and your winter will seem warmer)))))))
Hi Adam,
Thank you so much. I have confused these words for many years. Your lectures always very great. Thank you!
Hi Mr.Adam
In English, each word have many similar words in its family.
Ex: marry (v) – married (adj) – marriage (n)
I usually confuse and it’s difficult to remember
can you tell me the rule to separate them?
it’s really very helpful of me
thanks alot!
thank very much.
10/10 ^^ thank you a lot
Thanks gentleman.
Wow! I did 100% :) Thanks, Adam!
hi Adam
thanks Mister
Dear sir Adam,
Thank you for the useful lesson. I’m still a lil puzzled with how to use “lively” properly. May you response to me. Thank you very much.
Quy Nguyen
hi how can learn english
sr may i ask you the different between “for what” and “what for”? thank you for your lasson! <3
Dear Adam,
Would you be so kind to explain the following meaning of “live”, which I’ve found in BBC article: “One of the ways in which we can understand better is to look at other losses in our lives, each of which requires a period of adjustment.”
Thank you in advance,
Denis
I take bad result because I don’t undestand the lesson carefully.
Hi Adam .
Thanks you.Your lesson’s very helpful.Your job’s very great .I read book grammar ,It’s very bored but when I watch your lesson , I enjoy learing english.Thanks you so much
Thanks Adam, this is the words I used to confused.
Thanks for your lesson.
Thank you. Very useful lesson and test.
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10/10 :)
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Hi Adam, i have an only question 4 you. Why do you have just only 17 lessons??? Im starving for your lessons. You are meant to be a teacher. Thank you very much.
Dear Adam Sir, day by day i become fan of you and engvid.com. Thank you so much. Is there any lesson for using as well as?
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