Speaker 1: I have to be honest. I do need a vacation. Wait,
what did you notice that I said I do need
a vacation? Do need two verbs? One after another? Do
we need to talk about this?
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: 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 fifty Emphasis in English.
Before we get started, I'd like to give a big
shout out and thank you to the members of my
English learner's community. This topic cap during our Zoom class
this week, and I'm always grateful for the inspiration that
I get from my students. Are you tired of using
very and really for emphasis? For today's podcast English lesson,
I'm going to help you take your English up to
the next level by using do and other verb patterns
to express emphasis. Let's dive in. I'm sure that you
have learned that you can use really to emphasize a
verb like this, Wow, you really like pizza? You ate
five slices? Well, instead of really, you can use do
to emphasize a verb like this, wow you do like pizza.
You ate five slices. Oh, don't worry. Jane does like you.
She told me so yesterday. I'm sorry, but I do
need to go home now, it's getting late. Using do
like this happens quite often when the person you are
talking with has a doubt about something like this. Oh,
I didn't know you like reading. Yeah, I do like reading.
Oh what are you eating? I thought you don't like celery? Me. Oh, no,
I do like celery. Hey, whose dog is that? It's mine?
I thought you like cats, not dogs. No, no, no,
I do like dogs. In summary, put do before the
verb to give emphasis to that verb, and be sure
to stress do when you speak I do like reading.
I do like dogs. I do like celery. Another way
that we use do for emphasis in spoken American English
is making an emphatic statement. This is a question from
a grammatical point of view, but we use it as
a statement with stress on the subject. Here's an example.
The other day I was having lunch with a friend,
and of course we were having pizza. I turned to
him and I said, wow, do I like pizza? Listen
to that one again? Do I like pizza? The structure
is a question, but the intonation is an emphatic statement.
The stress is on the grammatical subject. Do I like pizza?
Not do I like pizza? But do I like pizza?
This kind of statement is spoken a little slower, and
that's what gives it the emphasis. Here are some other examples.
I saw Jack for the first time in a long time. Wow,
did he gain weight? Did he gain weight? This means, wow,
he really gained a lot of weight. I just came
back from the amusement park. Boy, did we have fun?
I found an old piece of cheese in the back
of the refrigerator. My goodness, did it smell bad. We
use other auxiliary verbs to make emphatic statements as well.
Here are some examples of those. Jack came to the
office late today. Boy, was the boss angry? I saw
the rolling stones at Madison Square Garden. Mick Jagger is
eighty one years old. But man, can he sing and dance?
When those kids here that we're taking them to Disneyland? Wow?
Will they be excited? Just remember the intonation here. The
stress is on the subject. Was the boss angry? Can
he sing and dance? Will they be excited? Keep in
mind the best way to remember this and any other
word or phrase in English is to practice by taking
that word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's
true for you or true in your world, and then
memorize your sentences. Hey, did you know that you can
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