I advise you listen to this whole podcast. I know that I have suggested
this before, and I often recommend listening to podcasts as a way of improving
your English. Well, today I would like to propose you grab a pen
and a notebook and listen up. Welcome to another Happy English podcast coming to
you from New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael. All
right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here from Happy
English and I help people speak English better. This is Happy English Podcast,
Episode seven twenty. Advise, propose, recommend, and suggest. When you
have advice that you want another person to consider. There are four verbs that
you can use. These are advice, propose, recommend, and suggest.
Interestingly, these verbs can be used with three different grammar patterns, which is
when we're going to look at today. By the end of this podcast English
Lesson, you'll be able to use all four verbs in all three grammar patterns
with ease. Let's dive in. The First thing I want to talk about
is the difference between these four words. Advise is the most formal. Usually
people with some authority use the word advice, like doctors and bosses, as
well as people doing official business, like the police and government officials. You've
probably heard TV commercials that say things like four out of five doctors advise a
low fat diet. Sounds official. Right. Propose is also official sounding,
and for me, propose is a word often used by people in charge.
In the Star Trek TV series, Captain Kirkwood turned to Spock and ask,
mister Spock, what do you propose? In everyday English conversation, you can
use suggest and recommend. When you suggest something, you think it's a good
idea. When you recommend something, it's probably because you think it's a good
idea based on your experience. And now let's look at the three grammar patterns
that we use with advise, propose, recommend, and suggest. First of
all, you can use these words followed by a noun. Here are some
examples of that. The teacher suggests a podcast to learn English. Naw Goo
recommended a book about dogs. I think most doctors advise a fat free diet
for your health. At the meeting, the HR manager proposed a change in
the policy. The next grammar pattern is these four words followed by a gerrand.
That's the ing verb. For example, the teacher suggests listening to a
podcast to learn English. Now Go recommended reading a book about dogs. I
think most doctors advise staying on a fat free diet for your health. At
the meeting, the HR manager proposed changing the policy. And finally, you
can use these four words followed by that and then a subject and a base
verb. Here are some examples of this pattern. The teacher suggested that she
listened to a podcast to learn English. Notice I said she listened, and
not she listens with these four verbs. In this grammar pattern, it's always
a subject followed by a base verb. The teacher suggested that she listened to
a podcast to learn English. Here are some other examples. Now Go recommended
that he read a book about dogs. I think most doctors advise that you
stay on a fat free diet for your health. At the meeting, the
HR manager proposed that they change the policy. By the way in conversational English
that is often omitted from sentences like these. For example, the teacher suggested
she listen to a podcast to learn english. Now Go recommended he read a
book about dogs. The doctor advised, I stay on a fat free diet.
Keep in mind the best way to remember this and any other word or
phrase in English is to take that word or phrase, write it in a
sentence that's true for you or true in your world, and then memorize your
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