Loose vs Lose Whats the Difference Basic English Grammar

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maybe first question this week comes

from on that June 80 hi Ahmad Ahmad says

hi Alicia what’s the difference between

afraid and scared I’m a little confused

thank you okay sure

if you are talking about fear afraid and

scared mean the same thing when you’re

using them as adjectives so I’m afraid

and I’m scared mean the same thing we’re

talking about our emotions we’re talking

about fear in different situations

however these words can be used in

different ways let’s talk about scare

first scare can be used as a verb to

scare someone or to scare something

means to cause someone to feel fear for

example what you scared me or you scared

the cat so that means you caused fear in

someone else

past tense it’s scared as used in these

examples we cannot use afraid in this

way afraid however can be used in a way

that’s scared cannot afraid can be used

in very formal situations like business

situations as an apology for example I’m

afraid I don’t have time to meet with

you today or I’m afraid we don’t have

that item right now

so this afraid doesn’t mean I’m scared

it means I’m very sorry but so I’m very

sorry but we don’t have that item in

stock right now or I’m very sorry but I

don’t have time to meet with you so I’m

afraid is like a short polite way to say

that so these are the differences

between afraid and scared I hope that

this helps you thanks very much for the

question ok let’s move on to your next

question next

question comes from Bruno Maria hello

Bruno Bruno says hi Alicia can you tell

me the difference between the words

commitment and compromise please okay

sure

think about commitment as a promise or

as an agreement so a commitment is

something you agree to with another

person or with a group of people as a

verb we say commit to commit to

something so a commitment is something

you agree upon with other people some

examples I made a commitment to do my

best in this job he’s afraid of

commitment so the second example

sentence is actually a common kind of

complaint in romantic relationships he’s

afraid of commitment or she’s afraid of

commitment you may hear it in situations

other than romantic relationships but it

generally refers to someone who is

afraid to enter into a kind of agreement

like a romantic agreement to date or to

be in a relationship with one person for

a long time so that’s the nuance of the

second example there more generally

however commitment usually refers to

agreements and they can be in business

situations let’s compare this now to

compromise compromise so a compromise is

a situation in which two sides have

different proposals for something and

they each make changes to those

proposals to arrive at this middle point

this middle point is called a compromise

so as a noun this point is called a

compromise so side a and side B have

different ideas they change their ideas

slightly slightly slightly and find an

agreement so that agreeing point is the

compromise point as a verb it’s to

compromise so let’s look at some example

sentences with compromise our team

members reached a compromise after

discussing the project my friends wanted

to go bowling but I wanted to play video

games so we compromised and went to an

arcade so in the second example sentence

I’ve used cop

as a verb in the past tense we

compromised that means each side changed

the plan just a little bit and we found

this middle solution so in some

commitment is an agreement a compromise

you can think of as like a type of

agreement in which both sides change

their ideas slightly so I hope that this

helps you thanks for the question okay

let’s move on to your next question next

question comes from Patti Renee hello

pattern a pattern a says hi Alicia what

is the difference between supposed to

and meant to in terms of meaning nothing

supposed to and meant to have the same

meaning the only difference here is that

meant two is used in British English and

we don’t use meant to in American

English for example I’m supposed to go

to a company event this weekend and I’m

meant to go to a company event this

weekend an American English speaker

would use the first example sentence I’m

supposed to go to an event this weekend

a British English speaker would use the

second sentence I’m meant to go to a

company event this weekend for me as an

American English speaker the second

example sentence feels a bit unnatural

to say it’s not something that we use in

American English but these two sentences

communicate the same idea so if you are

studying American English great I

recommend using supposed to if you’re

studying British English great use mint

to it’ll sound more natural I hope that

this helps you thanks for the question

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question comes from Reuben Hagen

Reuben Reuben says hi Alicia is there

any difference between loose and lose

I’m also confused with the words

uninterested and disinterested I think

they have the same meaning

but I’m not sure yes great question

there are key differences let’s start by

talking about loose and lose loose with

two O’s is the opposite of tight so for

example huh my ring is loose or wow my

pants are loose so this means the

opposite of tight something tight is

like under pressure or it’s kind of you

can imagine it

like this shape something that is tight

something that is loose is not that

there’s not so much pressure it’s easy

to move it’s flexible so loose is an

adjective lose on the other hand is a

verb which means to no longer have

ownership of something or to not win

something as in sports so for example I

lost my cat in the forest or I think

we’re going to lose the basketball game

today

so lose and loose may seem to have

similar pronunciations and similar

spellings but they do have very

different meanings also different parts

of speech lose is a verb and loose is an

adjective so keep these in mind and be

careful of your spellings when using

these words let’s move on now to your

second point about the difference

between uninterested and disinterested

in many cases today we use uninterested

and disinterested to mean the same thing

which is having no interest in something

like we just don’t care we don’t have

positive feelings or negative feelings

it’s just there we’re very neutral so

many people use these two words to mean

the same thing however disinterested can

have a couple of other meanings one of

these is unbiased so for example

politicians should make disinterested

decisions so that means politicians

should make decisions without bias so

bias means having an opinion in one way

or another about something so a

disinterested decision means an unbiased

decision we can use disinterested in

this way we can also use disinterested

to mean no longer interested in

something so something you at one time

were interested in but you are no longer

interested in can be described as

something you are now disinterested in

for example I’ve become disinterested in

my hobbies compare this then to a couple

of example sentences that use

uninterested I told my friend about a

concert I went to

last week but he was uninterested we’re

so tired of having uninterested people

at our events so please keep in mind as

I said many people use uninterested and

disinterested to mean the same thing

when the meaning is about not having any

emotions or not having any attention

focused on something if however you want

to talk about losing interest in

something or about not being biased with

regard to something use disinterested so

I hope that this helps you thanks for

the question ok let’s move on to your

next question next question comes from

Cecilia hi Cecilia Cecilia says hi

Alicia I found that sometimes there is a

comma before and and sometimes not

when should I add a comma before and

thanks ok yes you should add a comma

before and when you are joining two

independent clauses an independent

clause is an idea or a phrase that can

stand alone so it doesn’t need any extra

information it’s a complete idea a

complete thought let’s take a look at a

few examples that show different types

of clauses together on Saturday I’m

going to the mountains and on Sunday I’m

going to the beach I told my mother I

loved her cooking and I told my father I

love his music I’m tired and hungry

I missed my train and forgot my wallet

so the first two example sentences here

use a comma before and this is because

if we remove the comma and and the two

ideas can be separated with a period and

there’s no communication problem the

statements remain the same

on Saturday I’m going to the mountains

on Sunday I’m going to the beach there’s

no error there the second example

sentence is similar I told my mother I

loved her cooking I told my dad I loved

his music if we remove the comma and and

the sentences are okay because they are

called independent clauses there are

complete ideas they don’t need any more

information in the last two example

sentences though we cannot remove and

because the parts that it joins are not

independent so I’m tired and hungry if

we remove and it

I’m tired hungry in the last example

sentence I missed my train and forgot my

wallet I missed my train forgot my

wallet that’s not a grammatical sentence

so this is a good way to test whether

you’re and is connecting independent

ideas or not try removing it from the

sentence if the sentence remains

grammatical perhaps you have an

independent clause and you can use the

comma and there this is one way to use a

comma before in and the other case where

you may see a comma before an and is in

the last item in a list for example I

bought bread fruit and milk I saw my

family

friends and neighbors so before the

final item in each of these lists

there’s an end and there’s a comma

before the and this is what’s known as

the serial comma or the Oxford comma so

some people choose to use this type of

comma and some people choose not to

there are some good reasons I feel for

using the Oxford comma and I’m a person

who believes that this is a good comma

to use because it can help prevent

confusion when you’re reading for

example I need to buy bread fruits and

vegetables and a meat and cheese plate

there are many ands in that sentence

there are three ands in that sentence

and using commas to separate each

individual item helps the reader

understand what they should be looking

for what is one item here a comma helps

us identify those things in another

example we might say this weekend I’m

excited to see my friends Beyonce and

Justin Timberlake so a way to interpret

this sentence without an Oxford comma is

that Beyonce and Justin Timberlake are

my friends but they’re not actually my

friends the Oxford comma helps prevent

this kind of confusion this weekend I’m

excited to see my friends Beyonce and

Justin Timberlake so it sounds like

those are three different things that

are not necessarily related so the

Oxford comma helps prevent this kind of

confusion for that reason I’m a big fan

of it the case is where you might see

the Oxford comma purposely not used are

in journalism really so in newspapers in

my

for example those publications and the

style guides that they follow typically

do not advocate or do not suggest the

use of the Oxford comma you will see the

Oxford comma however in novels and in

short stories and other things like that

so in those cases you may see it used

this is another reason why you may

sometimes see a comma before an and and

you may sometimes not see it there are a

couple of different reasons

so in some one reason it’s related to

independent clauses and connecting those

with a conjunction and in this case and

a comma the other is related perhaps to

the use of the Oxford comma or the

serial comma so I hope that this helps

you thanks very much for the question

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