Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Want to sound more fluent in English? Binomials are expressions made of two words connected with ‘and’. These word pairs will enhance your vocabulary, improve your fluency, and boost your exam scores. In this class, you’ll learn “first and foremost”, “pros and cons”, “live and learn” and 18 more expressions. I’ll even show you how to score high on your IELTS or TOEFL exams with binomials. Let’s take your English to the next level right now! Next, test your understanding with the quiz: engvid.com/improve-your-english-fluency-with-binomials
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In this lesson:
0:00 Use binomials to improve your writing
1:37 Binomial Types: Synonyms, Antonyms, Repetition, Advice
2:46 pick and choose
2:59 peace and quiet
3:08 bright and early
3:26 first and foremost
4:05 neat and tidy
4:27 safe and sound
5:01 here and there
5:15 off and on
5:27 pros and cons
5:55 up and down
6:04 this and that
6:38 sooner and later
6:58 more or less
7:09 rain or shine
7:38 win or lose
7:51 live and learn
8:19 forgive and forget
8:41 day by day, step by step, little by little
8:52 hustle and bustle
9:34 How to use binomials to improve your writing
15:18 Full writing example with binomials
TRANSCRIPT:
I'm Rebecca from engVid.
In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to get a higher score on the speaking and
writing section of your IELTS or TOEFL or PT or any other exam, English exam that you
might be taking, and also just a way to speak more fluently in general, okay?
And that is by using something called binomials.
Now, what are binomials?
Binomials are two-word expressions that are joined by a conjunction.
A conjunction is a word like "and", "or", "by", and so on, okay?
Now, what are the characteristics of these binomials?
So, as I said, they're two words, they're joined by a conjunction.
Usually, they are the same category of words, so we may have a noun-noun, verb-verb, adjective-adjective,
adverb-adverb, okay?
And they have to follow a certain order.
You cannot really change the order because people are used to hearing them in a certain
way.
So, now, let's look at lots of examples, then after that, I'm going to show you exactly
how to use them in an IELTS exam.
In the speaking section, we're going to take eight different topics, we're going to show
you how you can get a higher score just by using these expressions, and then we'll look
at a piece of writing and see how that is enriched by using these simple expressions,
okay?
Here we go.
So, first of all, what you see here is that binomials are of different kinds, okay?
These are just some of them.
If you look them up on the internet, you'll see lists of lots and lots of binomials, okay?
But the categories are something like this.
There are binomials, which are synonyms.
What does that mean?
It means both words mean basically the same thing, okay?
So, if they mean the same thing, you're asking me, "So, why do we need to repeat the word?"
Well, because this is the beauty and the music of the language, okay, of the English language,
and sometimes we use these kind of pretty expressions just to make things more interesting,
more lively, more dramatic, more fluent, okay, and more expressive.
So, they could be synonyms where the two words mean the same thing, they could be antonyms
where the two words are opposites, they could be where one word is repeated after another word
for emphasis, or it could be some kind of advice, okay?
So, let's look at some of these examples.
Synonyms, pick and choose.
So, here we see two verbs, right?
I love to go to the library where I can pick and choose any book I want, okay?
Or, peace and quiet, two nouns.
I love to take a walk in the park because of the peace and quiet.
Or, bright and early, we're going to see.
Here, these are two what?
Two adjectives.
We're going to see in our next section how we can use this expression, bright and early,
in one of your IELTS speaking questions, okay?
Very possible for you to use it.
Next, first and foremost.
So, first and foremost is a very kind of educated and cultured expression.
It's also used in a lot of business situations.
So, instead of just saying, "First, I want to tell you about this."
We say, "First and foremost", it's like first and most important, okay?
I want to say whatever.
So, if you were to use this expression when you're speaking, when you're writing, it's
an excellent way to begin any particular explanation or topic, okay?
In any part of your IELTS exam or TOEFL.
Okay, neat and tidy. […]
Want to sound more fluent in English? Binomials are expressions made of two words connected with ‘and’. These word pairs will enhance your vocabulary, improve your fluency, and boost your exam scores. In this class, you’ll learn “first and foremost”, “pros and cons”, “live and learn” and 18 more expressions. I’ll even show you how to score high on your IELTS or TOEFL exams with binomials. Let’s take your English to the next level right now! Next, test your understanding with the quiz: engvid.com/improve-your-english-fluency-with-binomials
Perfect your English with my course, Correct Your English Errors in 10 Minutes a Day: 10.bexenglish.com
More lessons like this:
English Vocabulary Hack: 15 words, 30 meanings! youtu.be/RjFCl7Mvofo
7 easy English idioms for giving advice youtu.be/3ULpEDB623o
In this lesson:
0:00 Use binomials to improve your writing
1:37 Binomial Types: Synonyms, Antonyms, Repetition, Advice
2:46 pick and choose
2:59 peace and quiet
3:08 bright and early
3:26 first and foremost
4:05 neat and tidy
4:27 safe and sound
5:01 here and there
5:15 off and on
5:27 pros and cons
5:55 up and down
6:04 this and that
6:38 sooner and later
6:58 more or less
7:09 rain or shine
7:38 win or lose
7:51 live and learn
8:19 forgive and forget
8:41 day by day, step by step, little by little
8:52 hustle and bustle
9:34 How to use binomials to improve your writing
15:18 Full writing example with binomials
TRANSCRIPT:
I'm Rebecca from engVid.
In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to get a higher score on the speaking and
writing section of your IELTS or TOEFL or PT or any other exam, English exam that you
might be taking, and also just a way to speak more fluently in general, okay?
And that is by using something called binomials.
Now, what are binomials?
Binomials are two-word expressions that are joined by a conjunction.
A conjunction is a word like "and", "or", "by", and so on, okay?
Now, what are the characteristics of these binomials?
So, as I said, they're two words, they're joined by a conjunction.
Usually, they are the same category of words, so we may have a noun-noun, verb-verb, adjective-adjective,
adverb-adverb, okay?
And they have to follow a certain order.
You cannot really change the order because people are used to hearing them in a certain
way.
So, now, let's look at lots of examples, then after that, I'm going to show you exactly
how to use them in an IELTS exam.
In the speaking section, we're going to take eight different topics, we're going to show
you how you can get a higher score just by using these expressions, and then we'll look
at a piece of writing and see how that is enriched by using these simple expressions,
okay?
Here we go.
So, first of all, what you see here is that binomials are of different kinds, okay?
These are just some of them.
If you look them up on the internet, you'll see lists of lots and lots of binomials, okay?
But the categories are something like this.
There are binomials, which are synonyms.
What does that mean?
It means both words mean basically the same thing, okay?
So, if they mean the same thing, you're asking me, "So, why do we need to repeat the word?"
Well, because this is the beauty and the music of the language, okay, of the English language,
and sometimes we use these kind of pretty expressions just to make things more interesting,
more lively, more dramatic, more fluent, okay, and more expressive.
So, they could be synonyms where the two words mean the same thing, they could be antonyms
where the two words are opposites, they could be where one word is repeated after another word
for emphasis, or it could be some kind of advice, okay?
So, let's look at some of these examples.
Synonyms, pick and choose.
So, here we see two verbs, right?
I love to go to the library where I can pick and choose any book I want, okay?
Or, peace and quiet, two nouns.
I love to take a walk in the park because of the peace and quiet.
Or, bright and early, we're going to see.
Here, these are two what?
Two adjectives.
We're going to see in our next section how we can use this expression, bright and early,
in one of your IELTS speaking questions, okay?
Very possible for you to use it.
Next, first and foremost.
So, first and foremost is a very kind of educated and cultured expression.
It's also used in a lot of business situations.
So, instead of just saying, "First, I want to tell you about this."
We say, "First and foremost", it's like first and most important, okay?
I want to say whatever.
So, if you were to use this expression when you're speaking, when you're writing, it's
an excellent way to begin any particular explanation or topic, okay?
In any part of your IELTS exam or TOEFL.
Okay, neat and tidy. […]
