What is the difference between Ordinary, Normal and Usual ??

What is the difference between Ordinary, Normal and Usual ?? Here you will learn the difference between ordinary, normal and usual.Common vs usual vs ordinary.Usual vs normal. And how to use these words correctly in English. Ordinary, Normal and Usual - What is the difference? Hi there Im Harry and welcome to  English in a minute.Today,  I want to talk to  you about three words that my students  often get confused but the words are  similar but they have different uses and  those words are COMMON, USUAL and ORDINARY.If you look it up in the dictionary, youll find synonyms for each of them  are the same.  So when you look up common, youll see synonyms usual and ordinary. When you look up ordinary,  you see that its  synonyms are usual and common  also.There are similarities there but there  are certain differences.  Lets take  them one by one.Lets start with the  word COMMON.  Common is something that is  used by everybody.  It can be  something that is public.  Like the park  is a common place for everybody to use  because its open for everybody.  Its not  a membership,  you dont have to pay to  get into it so its common.  Or its  accessible by the public.  Something that is common is something that is normal. Something that is the normal thing to do.Well, sure its common for everybody to use the English language so this is why people are learning English because its the common language spoken throughout the world.  When Im  teaching my students English,  I like them  to use common ordinary everyday English.For example,  when were  greeting people  hi or hello,  theyre  common words we use to address people.Were not saying  Good morning, sir that would be uncommon or quite unusual  to how to express yourself.  Unless youre talking to somebody in some business capacity. Or its much more formal like a lord or a lady. So common is something that you do every day. Difference between Ordinary and Usual If you look at British history, for example,  you have two houses in the  Houses of Parliament. You have the House  of Lords which is the upper house. And you have the lower level which is the House of  Commons for the common people.  So as in  history the House of Lords represented  the elite and the House of Commons was  as I said the lower level which  represented the common or ordinary  people.  And thats how they looked on  people the difference between the high  and the low.  So this is another  definition of common.And the opposite of  common is uncommon.  Something that is  different or something that is unusual. If we look at the word  USUAL, another  word for that would be NORMAL.It’s  usual  for you to do something  that you do every day.You get up and you clean your teeth  and you have your breakfast. You go to  work.  Thats your usual event.What is a  normal or usual week for you?Every day  of the week I teach my English lessons.For you it might be to go to university. For your friend it might be to go to  their office or it might be usual for  them to go to the gym first thing in the  morning or last thing in the evening. These are things that we do every day as  a sort of a habit. Something that is  established as part of our routine.So it’s  usual for you to have your dinner at  7:00 in the evening.  It’s usual for you to  visit your family at the weekend, if  you  dont live at home.  It’s usual for you to  walk the dog before you go to the office  or university or before you go to bed in  the evening.  So usual and everyday  habit and everyday event.And if we look  at the wor d ORDINARY.  Again,  as I said  earlier,  the synonyms for this are  USUAL and COMMON.So ordinary is  something that happens every day.  Its a  normal activity.  Its a normal event.  Its  not so unusual. Somebody can say:I  have a very ordinary life,  nothing  exciting happens to me.So ordinary is  something just the usual things:  I go to  work,  I come home,  I look after the kids,  I  put them to bed,  I have a beer on a  Friday or at  the weekend with my friends.Just an ordinary everyday life.  Nothing changes.And when something is  unusual,  we can say its out of the  ordinary.  Meaning its different than  what I normally do.So it can be  extraordinary. Meaning really really  different.So you have extraordinary   out of the ordinary, to describe  things that you dont normally  do.  And then ordinary everyday  things.Remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel Learn English with Harry and join me on www.englishlessonviaskype.comAnd dont forget if you  look down below youll see the  subscription to our wonderful courses on  English grammar and the most recent one  about common mistakes made in English  you can buy them today and youll get up  to speed with your English very very  quickly.  Join me again soon.