I don't kind of have that.

I don't have something like that to pay for it.

Hey, you're reading my mind.

Hi, James Ming vid today.

I'd like to work on the word.

Some a simple enough word, but like many things that seem simple to actually explain it properly is not easy.

So we're gonna take the time today and we're going to go through this word now.

Why are we doing some?

Well some is used in english as a determiner but it's also used as a pronoun and adjective and an adverb and that's what I meant.

But it's not quite easy.

So you'll see it in sentences and you'll think what's it doing there.

The other thing is we can take the words some and added towards to make the world more formal or we can make it much more casual, right?

So we can go from business english, two bar english just by using the words some and that's kind of cool.

So I thought it'd be really good that we took the time to go over it and he agrees with me because he wants to be helped me out here.

Alright, anyway, before this lesson gets tiresome to started on it, why don't we go to the board check out how some is used.

We can talk about how where you shouldn't get confused by it because there's another word that's similar to it and we'll break into the four parts and give you examples.

Don't forget we always do a quiz.

So make sure you stay at the very end.

Okay let's go to the board and get started.

So some it's an unspecified amount.

This is a nice fancy word for meaning we don't know.

It's not specific.

Remember if you've heard the word specific specific means something like one or two or this rag.

This bracelet, it's very very specific when it's not it's an approximate.

Right?

So some is an unspecified amount.

So we don't know really what the number or the sizes.

We do know something about somebody we know it's more than one or two but it's less than many.

An example.

If I say can you give me some money?

I'm doubting you guys are going to give me a million dollars.

You might give me a dollar or two.

You might give me five, probably more than a dollar or two because I said give me some money, right?

You might give me 56, maybe 34, but you're not going to give me a million.

And that's how we know some falls in that ball park or that area there.

That gray area.

Now we don't want to confuse some with its homonym.

Some um this has two particular meanings which is different than the unspecified meaning of this sum.

So let's get through it quickly.

They sound the same, right?

But what's the difference when you see this word here, it means a particular amount of money and that means it could be a large sum or a small sum and you'll hear people say it like that.

And if it's a large sum, it means a lot of money.

It's not being specified.

So it's kind of similar in that case.

But we are talking about money specifically.

That's what makes it specific.

So a large sum would be a lot of money and a small sum would be a small amount of money.

Cool.

Alright.

So if you say he asked a large sum for a bottle of water, that means he asked for a lot of money for this water or the house was a small sum.

It wasn't very much not a lot of money.

The second meeting for this some is the total result of adding items or numbers.

You'll primarily find this word here in mathematics when you add two numbers together, when you have that plus sign and you say two plus two.

The sum is for double peace sign.

But anyway, so that's the sum.

When we put things together, you can also have some venting any two items.

Right?

The sum of a man is not his parts meaning when you take all the things together, there could be more to that man than just the sum of his parts.

All the parts added together.

And that's when we take items because it doesn't have to be just numbers for instance, the some of your skills doesn't equal who you are as a person.

That's a big philosophical statement for saying just because you can run re jump play baseball, that's still not who you are.

You're bigger than that.

That sum the addition of the parts.

Cool.

Alright.

So now that we've got this one out of the way, but you've learned a second word, you're welcome.

Let's go back to some and we'll talk about how some Is this simple yet.

I'd like to say simple elegance but it's got so much complexity to it.

And we'll look at how some can be used as a pronoun, an adverb adjective and a determiner.

So the first we're gonna look at is some as a pronoun.

As you see in this sentence, we have some have left already.

Well we could say they have left already.

So remember how I said it can replace words and if I didn't mention it at the beginning, some can actually replace another word.

And this is how we do it with pronouns instead of they have left already.

We say some have left now.

How many have left?

Let's go back to the board an unspecified amount.

So we don't know if it's 345 or six but some have left.

Okay.

So they left the party already.

Some have left the party already.

For an example, as a determiner, determiner tells us what we're talking about.

It determines the object we're talking about and you know the or the and or a are also determine hours, right?

So this falls in that category.

So when I say please bring some chairs, this is what's determining how many chairs.

Now, once again, I'm gonna go back to the top of the board.

I'm going to ask you a question.

How many chairs should you bring?

30 50, 100.

That would be many chairs.

Bring some.

Maybe I'm having some friends for dinner and I've got a small house or maybe a medium house probably want 345 chairs.

So bring me some chairs please.

Cool.

Alright then we determine that number being less than many, but more than one or two by some chairs.

It's not modifying the chairs.

It's not saying this is a some chair.

I wouldn't know what that meant in english, but I know I need a number of chairs but not too many.

Next we can use some as an adverb.

What do you mean A man to modify how a verb is being utilized or used in this case?

We say the sentence.

He had grown some since last year.

Well your boy, your son was about this tall, but now he's taller.

He's grown some, he has changed in height, growing is what things do biological things.

People and plants, Animals, they grow.

So he has grown some and I'm saying there's been a change in the growth unspecified.

Once again because I'm not saying he has grown.

Okay, depends where you're watching.

Okay.

If you were in North America, he could have grown two ft if you're in.

If you're in europe asia, he has grown, I don't know what two ft would be 25 centimeters.

You figure it out?

No, that would be like 10 inches.

Yeah, Okay.

A foot whatever.

But you get the point, there's been a change unspecified.

So the person isn't saying specifically, he has grown 75 centimeters in one year.

He's grown some an approximate amount and finally we can use it as an adjective, right?

And here's one of my favorite.

Let me read it first and I'll explain why it's one of my favorite lines in literature.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other animals.

So in this case we're modifying animals.

Some animals, we're not just talking about a number of animals were saying a specific group of animals, but that group hasn't been what it's unspecified.

So which animals are there?

Now, this line is a great line because it comes from a book called Animal Farm and if you want to enhance your reading skills, I would suggest you pick it up.

It's by Georgia all Well, it's very timely.

He wrote it way back.

I can't remember if it was after World War One and World War II and he was talking about I guess it was communism and how communism at that time.

So if you live in a state of a Communist state, I'm not putting it down, this is over wells work.

But he was talking about how sometimes communism can lead to having first all people are equal, but then having a separation where some people get to be a little bit better than the others, which is kind of against the idea of communism.

So it was his critique about communism.

So this is a great line because he says it starts off with comrade, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal, you know what I'm saying?

Right?

So of course that's not being equal and that was the whole point of that particular line.

So George orwell, Animal Farm pick it up.

It's a great read, especially if you want to get better understanding our idioms or cultural references.

You say that to a Canadian american british person, they're like, oh yeah, I get it right away.

Okay, so it will help you deepen your english understanding while you are getting to know about us.

Cool.

So now I've broken down some and it's four parts.

We talked about something that would be not exactly the same because it's a homophone and we have to do something interesting and I said something right, unspecified.

Don't you just love it as I said, this word is found.

So we use it in.

So, oh geez, here I go go, so many different ways, you know?

Yeah, we use in so many different ways.

It's actually kind of fun.

So let's go to the second part.

We're going to do the quiz.

I'll introduce you into a way to make some a little bit more formal and throwing a little bit of vocab that you can use it in the next part of your business meeting.

Right?

Yeah.

Let's go to the board and do the quiz.

You ready And we're back now.

I had made an unspecified mistake on the first board.

Did you catch it?

Did you see what I forgot to do or were you unspecified?

Let's go to the board.

Yeah.

On the first board.

I forgot to put the I in there.

So yeah, I'm human, I make mistakes but let's go to the board because we want you not to make mistakes and we're gonna do our quick quiz with a bit of a bonus.

And of course, yeah.

Alright.

So I want to put some in the correct place in the sentence.

So in these these four or five sentences, five sentences.

That's interesting.

Some can replace, remember we talked about some can replace words as well as modify in that case.

We can put some in these sentences and I want you to figure out where it would be.

Okay and then I want you to tell me because this is the way rolls around here.

What kind of modification was it?

Because I said not only can you replace the word, it can be modified.

So it's not just a determiner, right?

It could be a adjective and pronoun and finally adjective adverb Throw down and determine all four.

Alright cool.

So let's take a look at the first sentence and by the way they were on the first board even though I made an unspecified mistake.

So we did it.

And if you understood it this should be a piece of cake.

Like really easy for you.

If you're having a problem, go back listen to what the lesson was.

Okay then come back here.

But let's go to the board for now.

# one he had grown a moderate amount since I last saw him.

What is that?

Mhm.

Well let's get an ear market.

What part do we have to change?

Well he had grown here a moderate amount.

Remember we said when we use it in the what kind of way the adverb way we used as an adverb.

How did he grow?

He had grown some in this case means a moderate amount not being determined.

I think I was talking about two ft or 25 centimeters or something like that.

That was that one there.

Let's look at the second one.

I made an unspecified amount of money.

What would that be.

Look at this, we're gonna go left.

I made whoa, whoa look at that.

We can get rid of all of that and we can just say some.

All right and what would that be?

Some?