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  • Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.

  • Yeah, baby.

  • Hi.

  • James from engVid.

  • There's nothing I like more on a weekly basis than having my white wine with my yellow scarf

  • around my neck.

  • It's an interesting magazine.

  • Got a director, Coppala, but I just don't see anybody who looks like me in this magazine,

  • it's kind of funny.

  • Anyway, we got a lesson to do and that's what you're here for.

  • I want to teach you about adverbs of frequency.

  • And you're going to say:

  • "James, I know adverbs of frequency. You've taught it, other people have."

  • And I'm: "Yes I have, but not quite like this."

  • You know, and it's good to revisit some things annually anyway. Right?

  • [Laughs]

  • I just used one.

  • Let's go to the board and take a look.

  • All right. So, once a year, James speaks slowly.

  • I'm going to introduce to you two different types of adverbs of frequency.

  • Okay? Actually, yeah, two and then two small columns.

  • Number one, there's the...

  • The one you're used to: "always", "usually", "frequently", "never", and even how it breaks down.

  • "Always" is 100%, "never" is 0%, and then in between we have stages of "often" is 70.

  • You've seen this a million times, and you're probably pretty good at it.

  • Right?

  • You have to use it with the present tense verbs, yada, yada, yada, and it tells you

  • how often something happens.

  • These are the indefinite adverbs of frequency.

  • What did you say?

  • Indefinite, where did that come from?

  • Well, today we're going to learn about the definite adverbs of frequency because we'll

  • either know the definite time or the number that something occurs.

  • Ready?

  • Let's go to the board.

  • We started with a joke: "Once a year, James talks slowly."

  • Well, you know it happens once a year.

  • The problem with saying "rarely" or "occasionally", you know 5%, but not exactly.

  • What does that mean in a month or a week?

  • "One time" tells you exactly what it is.

  • Right?

  • All right.

  • So, one of the first things we have is: "Once", "twice" or "three times a week".

  • You could say: "I go to the gym three times a week."

  • I know...

  • I don't maybe know the exact days, but I know exactly it's three times.

  • It's better than saying "regularly", or in this case, "usually go" or "often go" because

  • that doesn't tell me what the number is.

  • It just says it's repeated a lot of times enough that it's sometimes.

  • Okay? What does that mean, really, exactly?

  • Nothing, really.

  • But "three times" tells me something, especially if I want to get muscle, I need to go at least

  • three times.

  • Not: "I go sometimes."

  • It's like: "Okay."

  • Don't expect anything.

  • All right?

  • So, when we use the: "once", "twice", or "three times", we tell you how many times it's repeated

  • within a timeframe.

  • Sometimes we say "once" or "twice", we can say: "one time a week", "two times a week".

  • Personally, I like "twice", I don't know why but I do.

  • That's between you and I.

  • But a lot of times people say: "twice" or "two times", and that's okay.

  • It tells you how often to repeat it.

  • All right?

  • So we've talked about it.

  • And if you will look carefully, and I want you to notice we talk about the number, then

  • we have an article.

  • The article makes it general.

  • When we know in English: "a" is a general article that says generally speaking, versus

  • "the", and a week, so in any week.

  • Because it's a general week, it means in every or any week, this is how many times I repeat it.

  • Cool?

  • Yeah, you didn't know that.

  • That little thing there has a meaning, and you just learned how to use it in another frame.

  • Right?

  • Now, let's talk about the actual time periods.

  • This is how many times I repeat it by number, but let's talk about time periods.

  • And the time periods are simple.

  • You already know them.

  • Hours, days, weeks, months, and years.

  • Except here, what we're going to use instead of years...

  • And there is a word called "yearly", but it's really not used that much by most people.

  • Instead, you hear "annually". Right?

  • And I'm going to give you a couple of examples.

  • Like, if you say...

  • Well...

  • I know I'm going to hear it from you, but we...

  • You can say this and it's grammatically correct, but no, a lot of Canadians, and British people,

  • and Americans don't walk around saying: "I go three times weekly to the gym."

  • Okay?

  • Or, you know: "I go weekly to the gym."

  • We don't generally say that, but here's one we do say:

  • "You should renew your license annually."

  • You like that?

  • Because that's something the police will tell you if they pull you over and you're like:

  • "I forgot to do it."

  • Okay?

  • So, "annually" means every year, you should do it every year.

  • "You should see your dentist monthly."

  • Well, that's a bit much and excessive, but you get the point.

  • Right?

  • "See him monthly", go to a visit.

  • Actually, no, no, no.

  • "You should call your mother daily", at least once a day.

  • "Hi, Mom."

  • She gave you life, the least you could do is pick up the damn phone and make one phone

  • call, because that's what she's telling all her friends. Okay?

  • [Laughs] Anyway, you get the point, here.

  • In this case when we're using these adverbs of frequency, we want to talk about repetition

  • by number, how many times you do it in a given time period.

  • Is it once in a week, twice in a week, three times a week?

  • You can say the same for once a month, twice a month.

  • Same for a year, three times a year or four times a year.

  • That's the actual number.

  • Here, what we want to talk about is the actual time period, and how often we repeat that

  • time period.

  • Is it done monthly?

  • Right?

  • Do you check the reports monthly?

  • Right?

  • Or do you get your license renewed annually?

  • We want to know about the time period more than we want to know how many times you repeat

  • it, because to be honest, this time period tells us what happens.

  • If you're doing it monthly, that's 12 times at least in one year.

  • "Annually" means once.

  • Daily.

  • Right?

  • There's 30 days, that's 30 days, so we actually get the reverse or the number by doing it

  • that way.

  • Pretty cool, huh?

  • We can either talk about the number here and then say in the time period, or actually talk

  • about the time period and then we know how often it's done.

  • Now, if you have to go to the washroom hourly, that's a problem.

  • See a doctor.

  • I may play one on engVid, but I'm not actually really a doctor.

  • Anyway, so those are the indefinite, when we talked about this, which is funny because

  • you probably thought these are definitely because you could see the...

  • The percentages, but you learnt today that it doesn't tell you how many times something's

  • repeated, nor does it tell you over the time period, and that's why these ones are considered

  • definite, because you either know the time or the exact number they're repeated.

  • You like that?

  • That's cool.

  • Because what I want to do right now is I want to give you a little test.

  • Test?

  • What is this, engVid?

  • Yeah, it is.

  • You came here, you know there's a test.

  • All right?

  • Now, just a quick note before I do that: Adverbs of definite frequency, two basic rules.

  • Think of Mr. E. He's got a head and a tail.

  • Usually it goes at the tail, the end.

  • Right?

  • "You should get your license renewed annually."

  • It's at the end of the sentence. Easy enough. Right?

  • Or: "I go to the gym three times a week."

  • End of the sentence.

  • Not really rocket science.

  • But sometimes-this is rule number two-it's at the head, and that is usually used for emphasis.

  • Right?

  • "I've told you twice not to do that!"

  • Right?

  • How many times have I told you? Twice.

  • Now, if we say, you know: "Weekly, 10 people die in Iran from executions."

  • That's like, wow, I want you to understand this is happening at a very regular basis.

  • It's something you can understand, as opposed to "always", which means nothing, nebulous.

  • But "weekly", you're like: "Oh my gosh, that's a lot of people in one week.

  • That's one a day."

  • Right?

  • So when we want to use emphasis, we'll put it at the top or the front of the sentence,

  • and usually you'll find these definite adverbs of frequency at the end, and that's standard.

  • Cool?

  • All right.

  • Time for the quick quiz.

  • Are you ready?

  • Clock's going now.

  • [Makes ticking noise].

  • Quick test.

  • "__________ a week I go to the gym."

  • Is that: "Regularly a week" or "Three times a week"?

  • What do you think?

  • Definite versus indefinite.

  • Ding, it's:

  • "Three times a week".

  • Remember I spoke about "a week", that article tells us time period and repeated number?

  • "Regularly" doesn't give us a number.

  • It gives us no information, so you can't use it there.

  • That's the lesson on definite versus indefinite.

  • Quick recap: Definite ones will give you number of repeated or the actual time period so you know.

  • Indefinite tells us it's repeated, but we don't have that accurate information; we have

  • a guess, it's "usually", but you can't tell me frequently is twice or three times.

  • We just know it's frequently.

  • "Always" is 100% and "never" is 0.

  • Cool?

  • You know the rules about the head and the tail?

  • That usually the definite adverbs of frequency usually end up at the end.

  • And if you hear it at the beginning, it's for emphasis.

  • Good.

  • What is there to learn?

  • You learned everything.

  • You're an amazing student.

  • Anyway, look, I got to go.

  • I'm always running late, and I got to try and change that, so...

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英語語法:頻率的定語副詞 (English Grammar: Definite Adverbs of Frequency)

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