Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The F word is considered by many people to be a bad word in English. Surprisingly, it’s used (A LOT!) in movies, music, and conversations. Whether you choose to use it or not, all English learners need to understand what it means and how it’s used in different contexts. Just as important is to know when you would be expected NOT to use it. The F word is interesting grammatically because it can be a subject, verb, noun, adjective, and adverb. I’ll also teach you in this class many expressions with the F word that you can use with your grandma and boss. Take the quiz on this lesson here: engvid.com/the-f-word
More slang with Emma:
Should you use slang? youtu.be/IFX-lfN4Fk0
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The F word is considered by many people to be a bad word in English. Surprisingly, it’s used (A LOT!) in movies, music, and conversations. Whether you choose to use it or not, all English learners need to understand what it means and how it’s used in different contexts. Just as important is to know when you would be expected NOT to use it. The F word is interesting grammatically because it can be a subject, verb, noun, adjective, and adverb. I’ll also teach you in this class many expressions with the F word that you can use with your grandma and boss. Take the quiz on this lesson here: engvid.com/the-f-word
More slang with Emma:
Should you use slang? youtu.be/IFX-lfN4Fk0
Learn Slang: 10 💩️ Expressions youtu.be/_D0OL_Ssb3Q
![EASY ENGLISH CONVERSATION: “Let’s...”, “How about...”, “Why don’t we...?”
Learn three super-easy and very common conversation expressions: “Let’s”, “how about”, and “why don’t we”. You can start using these in conversations today! These expressions are commonly used in social situations. We use them when we are making plans with people. In this lesson, I will give examples of each of the expressions and you will also learn the grammar behind them. After watching, you can take the quiz to practice what you’ve learned. How about it? https://www.engvid.com/easy-english-conversation-lets-how-about-why-dont-we/
Watch my NEW video to learn 6 easy conversation responses: https://youtu.be/D9kcf6yzQiU
In this lesson:
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Lets
2:42 Lets not...
4:00 lets or lets?
4:53 How about we...?
6:40 How about: Grammar
8:34 How about in the negative
9:10 Why dont we...?
11:01 Why dont we...: Grammar
TRANSCRIPT:
Hello.
My name is Emma, and today I am going to teach you three easy expressions we use in everyday
English.
Im going to teach you lets, I will teach you how about, and I will also teach you
why dont we.
So these are important expressions.
Ill teach you the grammar as well as how we use them.
So lets get started.
The first one were going to look at is lets.
We use lets when we are making a suggestion.
We are presenting a plan or idea to another person.
So my first example is Lets go to the park.
What does this mean?
Well, lets means let us, so it means we.
Let us go to the park.
Lets go to the park.
And it just means my suggestion is we go to the park together.
Now its really important that you notice this little apostrophe here, because without
this apostrophe, lets has a different meaning.
Ill explain that in a moment.
My second example is Lets have lunch at 1pm.
What does this mean?
Well, it means my suggestion or my idea is we should have lunch at 1pm together.
So lets talk about the grammar of lets.
So when we use lets, again, it means let us, its followed by the base form of a verb.
So what does that mean?
Well, the verb does not have ed, it does not have ing, it does not have a conjugation;
its just the base form.
So lets look at some examples.
I could say Lets watch a movie.
Watch is the base form of the verb to watch.
I could say Lets see a show.
See is the base form of the verb to see.
Lets do art.
Do is the base form of the verb to do.
Or Lets eat a piece of cake.
And so, again, these are all suggestions on what you want to do with another person together.
So can you make a negative sentence with lets?
You sure can.
If you add not, you can make a negative sentence or a negative suggestion.
So for example, Lets not, and then you have the base of the verb.
Imagine somebody says to you, Hey, lets eat 30 hot dogs tonight.
I dont think thats a good idea, so you might say, Hmm, lets not eat 30 hot dogs together.
Or maybe somebody says, Hey, lets go camping tonight.
If you dont like camping, you might say, Lets not go camping tonight.
Lets do something else instead.
Maybe somebody wants to pull an all-nighter, stay up all night studying English at the
library.
You might say, Hmm, lets not study English all night at the library.
So these are some examples of how to use not.
So, again, it follows lets, and lets stands for let us, so Lets not do this.
So very important, many people make mistakes with lets.
Specifically, they confuse these two words, lets and lets.
You might think, Oh, well, arent these the same?
They have the same pronunciation.
Thats true, but the difference is this apostrophe.
Lets with no apostrophe means allow, so I can say, Oh, my mother lets me cook
turkey at Thanksgiving.
Or, The kids parents let him use his iPad all the time.
So it can mean allow.
This is different than lets with an apostrophe, which means let us, which is what weve
just talked about.
It means to give a suggestion.
All right, so lets now talk about how about.
How about is another way to make a suggestion for a plan or idea.
I can say, How about we learn English together?
So this means Im suggesting we learn English together.
Its my idea or my suggestion for a plan.
Heres another example.
How about we watch a movie tonight?
One thing I can also say about this is that sometimes in conversation, people will say
how bout.
So even though when we write it, its how about, you might actually hear a native
speaker say, How bout?
How bout we learn English tonight?
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