Whats the difference in English between CHECK UP and CHECK OUT

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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them maybe

okay let’s get to your first question

this week first question this week comes

from eugene hi eugene eugene says hey

alicia is there a difference between

turn off the music and turn the music

off i always run into this problem when

i use phrasal verbs thanks yeah thanks

for this question no there is no

difference between turn off the music

and turn the music off they mean the

same thing

turn off is one of those phrasal verbs

that can be split so when i say split i

mean that when you use this phrasal verb

you can put the object of the phrasal

verb at the end or you can put it

between the two words so phrasal verbs

that you can do this with are called

separable phrasal verbs so that means

you can put the object of the verb after

it or in between the two words there are

some phrasal verbs that you cannot do

this with these are called inseparable

phrasal verbs so turn off is one example

of a separable phrasal verb you can

split it and choose whichever form you

like thanks i hope that that answers

your question okay on to the next

question next question comes from saeed

um

i hope i said that right hi sayyid

says hi alicia i’m from jordan i want to

ask you about the difference between d

value and downplay many thanks okay yeah

nice question so to devalue something

means to take value away from something

so d value consists of that prefix d

which means off or away and then value

right referring to how much something

costs or how much we think something is

worth so to devalue something means to

remove value from something some

examples

a poor quality product can devalue your

brand

my home was devalued due to damage from

a natural disaster

okay so now let’s talk about down play

to downplay something means to minimize

or decrease the seriousness of something

so we use downplay when we’re trying to

make something not seem like as big of a

deal as it actually is sometimes we want

to make people feel more calm or

sometimes we’re trying to hide

information but downplay means to try to

reduce someone’s perception or someone’s

idea of how serious a situation is some

examples

we should not downplay the seriousness

of this deadly disease

my manager downplayed my concerns at the

meeting i was angry

okay so i hope this helps you understand

the differences between devalue and

downplay thanks very much for the

question all right let’s move on to your

next question next question comes from

sergey hi sergey sergey says hi alicia

what is the difference between check up

and check out thank you in advance okay

there are a few different ways to use

these phrasal verbs generally check up

means to request or look for an update

from someone so you might say you need

to check up on someone we typically use

that when we’re talking about a person

for example can you check up on your

sister i haven’t heard from her recently

that means please go get an update from

your sister or please get some

information about the current status of

your sister so we tend to use check up

on something when we want to talk about

another person you might also hear like

check up on a specific place like go

check up on the barn or like go check up

on the animals outside to mean you want

to know the current status or the

current condition

you might also see checkup used with no

space between check and up to talk about

visiting a doctor to check your current

condition so in these cases we say

something like i need to go to the

doctor for a checkup or you should

really get a checkup when’s the last

time you visited the doctor

please note that this use of checkup is

as a noun in your original question you

used check up as a phrasal verb so both

are possible so just please note that

the space does make a difference check

up with a space refers to the phrasal

verb checkup with no space refers to the

noun and that’s the one that refers to

going to a doctor to review your current

condition so let’s compare this then to

check out check out generally checked

out means to finish your transaction and

leave a place most commonly we use check

out when we’re at the supermarket or at

a hotel so you might say something like

please check out at the register after

you finish shopping or i checked out of

the hotel at 10 am so these uses of

checkout refer to finishing some kind of

business or service transaction and

leaving that location you might also

hear check out used to mean go quickly

look at something like let’s check out

that new restaurant or oh i want to

check out that event later it means to

take a quick look at something generally

to see what’s happening

finally you might also hear check out

used sometimes to mean looking at a

person with romantic interest like

you’re physically attracted to that

person for example

that guy just checked you out or wow

check out that girl she’s so pretty

something like that might be used to

indicate that you find someone

physically attractive but generally

check out is used in the first two

senses most commonly in everyday

conversation to finish a transaction and

leave a place or to mean to take a quick

look at something so i hope this helps

you understand the differences between

checkup and checkout thanks for the

question okay let’s go to your next

question next question comes from

uh sarah hello sarah sarah says hi

alicia what is the difference between

knowledge and acknowledge when can i use

them good question okay so knowledge and

acknowledge i know they have that same

knowledge inside them but they’re quite

different knowledge is a noun

acknowledge is a verb so knowledge

refers to the things that we gain the

information that we learn from books

from experience

and so on so we use knowledge to operate

in the world to live our lives right so

for example it’s important to gain a lot

of knowledge as a child or make sure

that you review all of the knowledge on

this subject so knowledge is a noun that

refers to the things that you know or

the things that are known in the world

acknowledge on the other hand like i

said is a verb it means to recognize

something for example the company

acknowledged his hard work

or she acknowledged it would take a few

weeks to reach her goal so think of

acknowledge as meaning recognize it’s

kind of like a more formal way of saying

recognize so again yes although

knowledge and acknowledge do seem very

similar when you see them written they

do have quite different meanings and

different parts of speech so i hope that

this helps answer your question thanks

very much okay next question comes from

masume tabrizi hi masume i hope i said

your name right masume says when we tell

a story can we use passive yeah of

course you can use passive when you tell

stories i think that some people have

learned at some point that passive is

maybe bad or passive sounds weak or

maybe passive should be avoided and we

should focus on using active but

actually passive is an important way

it’s an important tool a grammar tool to

explaining stories and sharing

information so yes there are some times

when it’s a good idea to use passive for

example you should use passive when the

person who did the action is not known

or it’s not important so classic example

of this is if someone steals a bag and

we don’t know who it is we can say my

bag was stolen so that’s a great example

of using passive when you don’t know the

person who did the action you can also

use passive when it’s not important to

refer to the person who completed the

action that’s fine as well you can use

passive when you need to hide

information or when you need to keep

something secret so there are lots of

different ways to use passive to tell a

story and we do this all the time in our

everyday life another example might be

if a glass of water is knocked over in

my house and i don’t know who did it i

don’t know how it happened i might say

ah my glass of water got knocked over or

my glass of water was knocked over so

there are lots of different situations

where it’s very natural to use passive

if you learn that using passive is bad

or something like that

try to forget it passive has a time and

a place there are definitely times when

it’s a great idea to use passive so yes

please include it in your stories when

it feels right i hope that this answers

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