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Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 435
Speak Better English with Harry
How to Critique Someone About Something They Have Said
There are different ways in which you can criticize somebody about something they have said, but you want to be quite polite. These expressions often come at the end of the sentence. They're usually used when we want to suggest that something is actually worse than how we are saying it. So I think his behavior at the office party was completely out of order to put it mildly. Or you could say, I found the mail at that restaurant last week absolutely disgusting to say the least. It wasn't even disgusting. It was worse than disgusting. The situation could be a lot worse or a lot more extreme than what we are actually saying. We use these expressions when we're trying to express that view
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