How to Use ITS vs ITS Basic English Grammar

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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and I answer them

maybe first question comes from Mohammed

ruffle Hasan hi Mahmoud Mohamed says hi

Alicia how do I say these kinds of

things naturally zero one double 9 1 or

0 1 9 9 1 similarly coffee Co double F

double e or Co ffe actually everything

that you listed here is normal and

natural

some people prefer using that double

pattern that you described like double F

double e or double 9 some people prefer

to use that other people do not I

personally do not use that double or

sometimes triple pattern with numbers

but it’s perfectly fine to use it’s just

a personal preference so thanks very

much for the question

I hope that this helps you ok let’s move

on to your next question next question

comes from Luis Reggie ory hi lease

Lewis says hi Alicia can you tell me

when to spin words and when not to for

example when to use king of the jungle

and when to use jungle king are both

correct thank you ooh good question

unfortunately there’s not really a rule

for this but there’s not going to be a

communication problem if you use the of

pattern instead of the pattern that

doesn’t use of there probably won’t be a

communication problem this is something

that just kind of comes with practice so

in your reading and your writing you’ll

start to notice which words are commonly

paired together I will say though like

if you’re looking for something that’s

kind of a guideline it’s not a perfect

rule but maybe it’s helpful is to think

about how using the of pattern makes

things sound more important it can make

things sound a little more formal so if

you’re talking about an everyday object

and you use the of pattern it’s gonna

sound really funny really silly like

it’s too important so if you’re talking

about

desert for example saying apple pie is

very normal if you say pie of Apple it

sounds way way too formal kind of funny

and silly so if you have situations like

this people might laugh a little bit but

there won’t be a communication problem

the only mistake is that you sound way

too formal

anyway I hope that this helps you

understand this point thanks very much

for an interesting question ok let’s

move along to your next question next

question comes from Mon Mon hi Mon Mon

hi again Mon Mon Mon Mon says how do I

use its with an apostrophe and its with

no apostrophe also what are abstract

nouns and how are they different from

non abstract nouns thanks ok it’s with

an apostrophe means it is or it has

examples it’s been a fun day it’s a bird

it’s a plane it’s Superman so then it’s

is the possessive form of it

examples the cat is licking its foot the

dolphin escaped from its tank at the

aquarium ok so I hope that that helps

you with that it’s it’s difference your

second question about abstract nouns and

non-abstract nouns an abstract noun is

something that we cannot see we cannot

touch it’s not tangible these are like

concepts or ideas so some examples are

like sadness concentration anger those

kinds of things so things that we can’t

actually see but we can understand in

our minds so that’s an abstract noun a

non abstract noun then is the opposite

so it’s like objects it’s people it’s

things so we can see them we can touch

them we can interact with them so like

phone is a non abstract noun or a camera

person or Beach these are things that we

can actually interact with that’s a non

abstract noun so abstract nouns concepts

ideas non abstract nouns actually things

that we can touch and interact with so I

hope that this helps you understand the

difference thanks very much for these

questions ok let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from

Shintaro - taro Shintaro says hi I have

been studying English with your videos

on YouTube my question

what two adults call their mothers and

fathers in the US is it mom and dad or

their parents names ah good question um

yes usually we use mom and dad to talk

to our parents directly if you use your

parents name to talk to your parent it

creates like this distance in your

relationship with them so in most cases

I think people feel comfortable saying

mom or dad directly to their mother or

father but if there are some cases where

maybe you don’t have such a good

relationship with your parent you might

choose to use their name instead of

their mom or dad title so some people do

choose to do this that might be why you

hear some differences in the ways that

people address their parents but in most

cases yes mom or dad is fine on the

other hand mother or father using mother

or father to address your parent

directly can sound too formal so it’s

kind of a nice familiar close word to

use mom and dad those are much more

natural and much more common I think in

American English of course if you’re

speaking with someone else about your

parent it can sound a little more polite

to use mother or father in that case

like oh do you know my mother or my

father met you last week for example on

the on the more casual side of things

using something like mommy or mama or

daddy or Papa those words are used by

little kids so I would not recommend

using those in like public situations

like maybe you want to make a joke and

inside joke with your family like

pretending you’re a kid again fine but

it might sound weird if you’re in public

and you use those like words that are

used by little kids so keep that in mind

anyway I hope that this helps you

understand thanks very much for the

question all right let’s move along to

your next question next question comes

from chi hung hi chi hung kai Hong says

hi Alicia how do natives pronounce what

do we do now

I hear what are we do now do you do that

as well um I think this is a question

about like reduction of sounds so a

question like what do we do now if I say

this in my regular speech I would say

what do we do now

we do now so this is an example of these

reduced sounds these sounds that come

together so native English speakers do

not clearly separate words in the same

way that I do on this channel what do we

do now becomes what do we do now

what do we do now so this is an example

of how words get connected in ways that

are sometimes a little bit challenging

to pick up the first few times so to

practice these kinds of things I would

recommend listening of course listening

and reading at the same time so that

means finding things that have a script

you can of course check out the stuff

that we have on the website at English

class 101.com but you can also try like

audio books you can also try using

subtitles on videos that have them I

know that not all videos on YouTube have

them but try looking at the actual words

that people are saying and the way that

they’re pronouncing them because we

don’t clearly separate words all the

time in English okay so I hope that that

helps you understand this kind of

pronunciation related point thanks very

much for an interesting question

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