How to make simple and complex sentences in English

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Por aqui também.

[@antondonoso]

Sometimes we don't see that the easiest way to say something is just being clear and no complex at all. In all language and culture is the same. Gracias maestro!

[@Euclid1912]

I'm a very beginner of English.I don't know how but, the way you talk is like you talking to my "brain". so, that is very easy to understand. Thank you.

[@jeandcarvalho3916]

Todos somos extraños. Todos estamos luchando por aprender unos de otros. Si conoces a tantas personas a las que les resulta extraño tu acento, debes demostrarles cuánto te esfuerzas e intentas aprender a comunicarte con ellos. Entonces, no eres tú quien es extraño. Pero su actitud muestra una falta de aprecio y comprensión. Usted no es el que necesita cambiar, está trabajando duro y merece muchos elogios. Yo mismo estudio "Español" e "Inglés", y sé muy poco todavía, pero no me importan ni me preocupan comentarios como ese. Mi idioma es portugués-brasileño y sigo estudiando portugués, porque nadie lo sabe todo. Estudio cuatro idiomas. Y si un dia alguien viene a burlarse de mí, no hablo su idioma correctamente, le preguntaré si sabe todo tu idioma, cuántos idiomas hablas y si sabes algo del mío. Vaya, estoy luchando por aprender su idioma. Felicitaciones a ti por intentarlo. Soy Dorgival Dantas Brito, 49 años, Músico, Cantante y Compositor, Brasileño. Vivo en São Paulo. ========================== We are all strangers. We are all struggling to learn from each other. If you know so many people who find your accent strange, you need to show them how hard you are trying and trying to learn to communicate with them. So, it is not you who is strange. But their attitude shows a lack of appreciation and understanding. You are not the one who needs to change - you are working hard and deserve much praise. I study "Español" and "Inglés" myself, and I know very little yet, but I don't care or worry about comments like that. My Languages ​​is Portuguese-Brazil, and I continue to study Portuguese, because, nobody knows everything. I study four languages. And if, one day, someone comes to make fun of me, I don't speak their language correctly, I will ask if he or she knows all of your language, how many languages ​​do you speak and if you know anything about mine? Why, I'm struggling to learn her language. Congratulations to you that you are trying. I am Dorgival Dantas Brito, 49 years old, Musician, Singer and Composer, Brazilian. I live in Sao Paulo.

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Your lessons isn't borring. The lessons are very interesting. It's worth noting, the lessons are also extrimely useful. It seems to me , you aren't a native speaker. But it only better for me. I understand you very well. You speak English very clearly. Thank you for lessons😁

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Thanks for the lesson, Christian.

[@AlessandroBottoni]

Great video, really! Kudos. Structure is the real *core* of grammar and, as a consequence, of languages. Understanding it, is understanding language.

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[@ProxyEA]

Thank you, Christian! You make a complex sentences is simple! Thank you for your creative approach to classes!

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Through you my life has changed.I was wondering why anyone doesn't make a video on this. Some tried to make this kind of video but there is something about your video that allows us to peek through the great Wall of language which we beginners face.Thank you.I am really grateful to you today And most importantly KEEP IT UP we want more videos on complex structures and how to understand high professional books in English Thank you. Supporting you from Bangladesh

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[@cristiancaicedo8830]

Tal vez el mejor canal de ingles que he visto

[@Tony32]

Definitivamente.

A useful analogy is being like the sky!! :D Thoughts of a ballerina!! Simple and fun!

[@moonflower5764]

Such a good lesson👍👍👍🌷

[@andrei_sosnin]

I understood at 9:00 ,. You can explain complicated things to everyone and no matter which level of English people have got. Thank you Christian 😊

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Thank you Christian!your work is inspiring!!!

[@rogeriodornellas2115]

Thank you for your amazing English tips!

[@Ricardo-xg6gx]

The moral of today's video is that "complex sentences are to facilitate our comprehension", at first sounds crazy but your wise explanation clarifies all, now we can only practice in order to absorb these concepts.

[@mariam5605]

As a teacher and student I may say: bravo! 👏🏻 Inspirational lesson, thanks

[@mohsenyousef3885]

very useful lessen, thank you

[@muhammadameen4674]

Very precise explanation ever. Thanks for it.

[@irynaodulo3543]

That was amazing! Thx a lot

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Amazing content, thanks Christian :)

[@hernandanza4765]

Great teacher, greetings from Argentina.

I had never heard about the preposition + verb rule. And it's so simple... Now I get it! Thanks for teaching that in such an easy way to us!

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you are the best teacher!

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Great great and again great🔥🔥🔥

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It was the best video that a have saw recently... or not recently. Amazing!

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We love your articulative pronunciation!

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Fantastic approach! Your videos always make me a reflection.

[@middle882]

Thank you Christian! I want more similar examples! It feels easier to understand this sentences with you than all alone

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Really nice!

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Amazing class, thank you!

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Hi Christian It's really a great topic. Thanks for it.

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Thanks for sharing this was an interesting video.

[@kevynnful]

I don't knew that technique in English grammar, but I loved it, because help us to understand complex sentences of a funny way. Thanks for you help teacher, you are the best! :D

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Thanks again Christian! As always, nice lesson "nocturnal and elliptical".

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As always extremely good!

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I love this type of videos because i am trying to prepar my B2 exam. Any advice for writing part? many thanks....

[@livuniverse]

It helps me a lot =) thanks

[@Alefenobrega]

Thanks!!!

[@kristinakris2410]

Hi Christian, could you please make more videos on creating meaningful sentences without repetition and complex sentence structure? Your teaching is fun and inspiring, Thank you! 😊

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Gucci video sir I am fan of your learning style.

[@RodrigoSilva-uf8df]

Very interesting this class, thank you! I spent one hour analyzing the structures, and Iearned a lot.

[@anokhaaoka2954]

Thank you for this explanation: of and ing, THANK YOU!

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[@camiloaguirre6057]

Good video. Thank you.

[@jakemaltz1780]

Hey, Christian, would love to hear your thoughts about Arrival, the movie. Could you make a video about it, maybe?? That would be amazing. Anyway, thanks for what you are doing, love you =)

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What a incredible video

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Thanks Christian!

[@tarekaidi981]

Hello Christian, can we eliminate the first " and " at 11:50 and put a coma instead?

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Thank You! )

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Great tips!

[@elkyubi4281]

Wow, this exactly my style of expressing in Spanish

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Thank you!

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Great! I really enjoyed this

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Wow. I need to watch this video 2 o 3 more times.🎉😅

[@markdonovan1540]

That is an excellent explanation. Much better than fobbing off the student who dares to ask such questions with the stock phrase: "It's because English is like that"....... ;-)

[@Canguroenglish]

Thank you sir.

[@matchymatchy5978]

Dear, hope you, kindly, make an elaborate video concerning prepositions, particularly regarding for, of, about and the interchangeable use of some of them plus how to differentiate between various usages?

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That's great

[@cintiazapata1932]

Thanks Christian! It solved many sentences I never understood 😊. Can you do more of this video analysing "complex" sentences? Just missing the meaning of "being" as a noun 🤔

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Good morning Christian. I love when you laugh at the beginning of the video, it makes me laugh too

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Brilliant

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I appreciate it

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i like always your mood on online class

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[@Fiend1sh3]

It is a reduced relative clause. 'A useful analogy is the mind which is like the sky' can be reduced to ' a useful analogy is the mind being like the sky'. For example, 'another example is a man who is like a superhero' can be reduced to 'another example is a man being like a superhero'.

[@marcosdiez7263]

I had a slightly different way to take it before your explanation. I see the phrase "an useful analogy is of [the mind being like the sky]" as a sort of metonymy by reduction (I just googled, it's called synecdoche, the use of a part for the whole): what would make this a metonymy is the fact that the only way to produce an analogy is by means of thinking, so the act of thinking can be implied and become redundant. Hence the whole sentence would be "an useful analogy is THINKING of [the mind being like the sky]", and in turn, since we now have the verb, it's clear that the object is the name of an action (or the non copulative verb "to be") to be compared among alike things. Following the same line, I believe a step further should be valid, once already known we're talking of the mind: "an useful analogy is of the sky", since this is another valid metonymy: the only way to make an analogy is to compare two objects that must be alike, so by mentioning just one object the second must be the one being discussed (the mind), and since there's no action, it'd imply we're talking of either an already discussed action (not the case) or the fact of just being alike.

[@Mr-se1cg]

Hi there Christian, May I request a video on "Being" usage in Full. Thank you

[@david11984]

I love your videos! Can you tell me what grammar point is the one you takled about in this video :"of + noun + verb -ing? Its a very interesting strcuture

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Smell like a verb 😂😂😂😂🤭🤭🤭 made my day 🤣🤣🤣

[@_dev_insight]

Can I use a semicolon instead of "and that"?

[@GerardoHernandez-we5ol]

This coments are so interresting to avoid repitition

[@coo1day]

Why not say: And a useful analogy of the mind IS being like the sky?

[@elkyubi4281]

Because is an analysis of that style of communicating, you could apply your sentence without any complication.

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@@juluatanaya thanks a lot for your explanation 🤝🏽

[@peterbutter2054]

@@juluatanaya Well explained. Thank you.

[@marcosdiez7263]

Actually, IMO, since the only way to make an analogy is by means of a thinking process, the redundant way to put it would be "an useful analogy is TO THINK OF the mind being like the sky", the "of" here assume it is implied we're talking of thinking and the byproduct of the thinking process by which you make the purposed comparison between the mind and the sky.

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[@requestlevelchange1505]

'BEING' is not a noun here. It's a Present Participle (adjective) modifying the noun 'mind'. 'Be of something' here means 'comes from something' or 'belongs to something'... so I would rephrase it as: a useful analogy comes from the mind which (that) is like the sky.

[@BlissAndGoodness]

Yep, it makes more sense now. Thanks

[@jankovarik9116]

This solves the riddle :). It wasn't clear from the video to me. The problem was this “be of sth“. Cheers

[@irynaodulo3543]

I think 'mind' is an adj.(it's impossible in Russan), and 'being' is a noun.

[@ИгорьБеда-о8н]

I like a phrase that I didn't know that English has a gerund, while I didn't be a teacher.

[@luxxgtz]

Could you please teach us how to use punctuation marks? Because when I write complicated sentences my teacher says that I have a lot of mistakes. Sometimes I have to write essays and I don't feel comfortable writing them. Please... I really like your classes, thank you for all 👍

[@ichbinhier355]

Search for run on sentences 😉

[@abuhuraira3685]

The level of language input (listening) must be higher than the level of language production

[@emolitvin]

Absolutely agree with you

[@kellybesen312]

It depends on the objectives...

[@elkyubi4281]

Not necessary, a deaf person can acquire the ability of reading-writing.

[@neigarcia5008]

I agre with you if that sentence were " the level of language input ( understending) must be higher than the level of language production becose in all language we understend better than producing it.

[@MarcoAntonio-zu2zr]

I love it.great explanation by far.

[@mrholmes2855]

Being like the sky is a present participle(adjective) which is providing some extra info about the noun "the mind" and this is what i know about this sentence..!🤔🤔

[@beyzanura6772]

I don't understand noun+gerund Mind being It is weird. I do not the structure

[@phumkiatwananuraksakul7815]

I agreed with you completely as present participaial phrase acting as an adjective modifying noun phrase,the mind, come from reduced adjective clause:which or that is like the sky by chance ommiting which or that as relative pronoun then changing verb to be "is"to be base form and putting ing

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[@anupamghosh5641]

Source of the confusion: "A useful analogy is of the mind". How about rearranging the last part of the sentence a little like-"A useful analogy of the mind is being like the sky," instead of "A useful analogy is of the mind being like the sky".

[@peterbutter2054]

Grammatically, both are correct. If I hadn't seen that original sentence, I would say a useful analogy of the mind is being like the sky. However, they carry different meanings. "A useful analogy of the mind is being like the sky" emphases the analogy. But "a useful analogy is of the mind being like the sky" emphases the mind. The analogy can't be like sky, but the mind can, right?

[@andrzejukowski8262]

Would it not be consistent to say 'predicate', 'subject' and 'object' rather than 'verb' and 'noun' whilst one refers to parts of sentence and not of speech?

[@Canguroenglish]

Yes, but I try to keep the explanations as simple as possible. ❤️

[@lilianagallo8771]

Thanks Christian. Is it correct : “AND A USEFUL...” ?? It should be: “AND AN USEFUL...”. In that phrase sounds rare “IS OF”, I wouldn’t use OF.

[@beyzanura6772]

Yuseful so it has to a useful Like, a university An honest

[@lilianagallo8771]

Beyzanur ack Thank you. Yes. Google says: “Question: A useful or an useful? Answer: A useful. Although U is a vowel, the pronunciation of useful begins with a Y sound (yoos-ful) which is a consonant sound.

[@philipohmes9395]

Somehow I missed the feature of the word "and" being a conjunction?

[@holdkds9823]

analogy is of mind - mindable analogy? This 'is of' is quite tricky. From the context i understood that author sees mind as skylike. But 'is of' confuses me. It could mean that all he explained above is made up out of his skylike mind. Cambridge dictionary says this is English level C2 by the way.

[@Tematrilia]

why do you need "of" I would write that sentence without the "of". Does analogy need the prep "of"?

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[@beyzanura6772]

what does "mind being like th sky" mean?

[@anony27oO1]

Hello. Personally, I understand sky and mind have in common the fact that they are invisible and haven't forms

[@beyzanura6772]

@@anony27oO1 hello actually I dont understand the structure. Noun +gerund it doesn' t familiar to me." Mind+being "

[@igrinito]

I think that your mind is so clear and huge and have a lot experience like the sky :D

[@anony27oO1]

@@beyzanura6772 It is not natural for me too. Instinctively, I would have said something like "... and a useful analogy might be to think that the mind is like sky. I have always a problem about the preposition (?) "of" Maybe the "of" here means that a useful analogy could be materialized by the expression (or could be that expression) : "The mind is like the sky" as one might say this stool is made "of" wood.

[@Tony32]

I think it refers to the idea that the sky and the mind are abstractions.