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Hello everyone. My name is Robin.

And this video we're gonna talk about very common, important, useful slang

sucks!

Okay?

You must know it.

It is so common.

You probably already heard it in American TV or movies.

Alright?

Now suck or sucks is not a bad word

but it is slang and it is little bit rude or impolite

so you should only use it with your friends. Ok?

Be carefully using suck or sucks.

Be carefully using suck or sucks.

Let's look at the grammar.

Now the grammar is the most students make mistake using it. Okay?

So you have to follow this

I suck You suck We suck They suck

Alright?

She sucks He sucks It sucks X sucks

What's x?

Well x is maybe someone's name… like Steve sucks.

or some book. This books sucks. Alright?

So we have to follow this grammar.

You know it is a verb.

These are the rules for using a verb

Never say, “they sucks”. Okay?

Some of my students, "They sucks".

It sounds very strange. Okay? Don't do that.

She suck. She suck.

oh, don't do that. that is terrible. Okay?

They suck. She sucks.

Okay. Be very clear and careful with the grammar.

Please.

Alright. Lets look at the meaning of suck.

There are two main meanings

The first one. You're not good at something. Okay?

You're not good at doing something. You're terrible.

And in my example here. "I suck at math." "I suck at math."

So...this means very simply I'm terrible at math

Okay. I suck at math

So after suck you probably want 'at'.

This means not good at this subject.

I suck at math.

So remember the grammar.

I suck. I suck.

The next one, "He sucks at French".

He sucks. Okay?

So he sucks at French.

He sucks at French.

Okay? He's not good at french.

Okay. So you're not good at something. You suck.

The other meaning… you don't like something.

Okay, your very disappointed .

You don't like something.

This movie sucks.

Okay?

This movie... this movie we would put under the x category.

This movie sucks.

This movie sucks.

This movie is terrible.

This sucks.

It sucks.

Okay?

Many ways to express you don't like the movie.

Homework sucks.

Of course. Homework sucks.

I hate homework.

I don't like homework.

Homework sucks.

Alright that's the two meanings of sucks.

Alright you gotta be very careful using 'suck' or 'sucks'.

Follow the grammar.

It's a very good to use. Very useful.

Lets look at some examples right now.

Alright, here are the example.

The first one,

"You suck at playing basketball. You're terrible"

"You suck at playing basketball. You're terrible"

The next example.

"This food sucks! Do you have some other food?"

"This food sucks! Do you have some other food?"

The next example.

"My new iPhone sucks! It has too many problems."

"My new iPhone sucks! It has too many problems."

The next example.

"Your car sucks! It is dirty and old."

"Your car sucks! It is dirty and old."

The next example.

"My job sucks! I will quit soon."

"My job sucks! I will quit soon."

And a last example.

"This restaurant sucks! Let's go somewhere else."

"This restaurant sucks! Let's go somewhere else."

Okay. So I hope you have an excellent understanding of how to use suck or sucks.

Make sure you know the grammar.

And I just want to talk about that again because so many my students say it wrong.

They wanna express something is bad so they say, "this suck".

"Oh this suck!"

Okay...

This is so wrong and you sound silly. Okay?

You sound stupid when you use wrong grammar with this slang.

So you gotta be careful.

This has to be 'sucks'.

This sucks.

This sucks.

That "s" is so important. Okay?

Don't forget it

And you want to insult someone and you want to say a bad thing to someone and you say "you sucks".

Okay if you say "you sucks" to me, I'm not angry.

I'm laughing. Okay because it is so funny.

Because you're using wrong grammar.

You sucks. That's funny.

It has to be "you suck". Okay?

So if you want to say something bad to someone, "you suck".

And they're going to be very angry.

If you say, "you sucks", they're laughing at your grammar. Okay?

Be careful with this grammar.

It's a good slang word to use. You must know it. Okay?

So good luck and i hope you learned a lot in this video.