Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

In this lesson, I'm going to talk about the differences between Amid, Among, and Between.

I'm also going to talk a little bit about some old-fashioned uses of these words too.

Let's get started.

All right, I want to begin this lesson by talking about the word Amid. Amid. So Amid refers to being surrounded by something

and it refers to being in a condition. So when we use the word amid, it's not like we're talking

about many different objects, but rather we're talking about being in a

condition or being in a situation. So you can imagine yourself surrounded by a condition or being

inside a condition. That's when we use this word. The second point is that omit is a rather

formal word. From these words I'm going

to talk about today, amid is the most formal. You may also know the word amidst, amidst. This

is quite formal and we really don't use it that much. It sounds kind of archaic, which means

old fashioned or like old-style English.

You might see this word in like poems or in maybe books that were written a long time ago.

We don't use this word very much today, but Amid generally does sound more formal, more polite.

We use Amid then with uncountable nouns, and these uncountable nouns are often like abstract

nouns, so they're often like an idea or a concept instead of an object specifically.

So let's take a look at a few examples of this.

First one, I lost my keys amid the confusion at the end of the party.

So here, amid comes before the noun, the confusion.

So confusion, this is not an object this is an

abstract noun this is an idea confusion a confused condition so we imagine

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