MISS or LOSE or MISSING Differences and Collocations English Grammar Lesson

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english with Lucy today I’ve got another

grammar slash vocabulary lesson for you

it’s all about the difference between to

miss and to lose and also to be missing

which can be very confusing before we

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let’s get started with the lesson know

in your language you might have separate

words for two myths and to lose however

in lots of languages across the globe to

miss and to lose are the same word which

makes it incredibly confusing for those

who are trying to learn English there

are so many words in the English

language that are like this there are

makin do miss and lose earn and win so

many words where we have two or three or

four words for this but in other

languages there’s just one word but I’m

going to clarify exactly when you should

use miss when you should use lose and

when you can use to be missing as well

so I’m going to start by going through

all of the situations in which you

should use miss and then I’m going to

give you some extra little collocations

and miscellaneous phrases as well and

then I’ll go through all of the

situations in which

you would use to lose and of course some

extra collocations and phrases using

lose finally we’ll go through to be

missing and compare it to lose because

sometimes it can be used in a really

really similar way so yes this lesson

should be very clear it should help you

if you do have any questions put it down

in the comments below and I would love

to hear about what you use for Miss and

lose in your languages as well so please

put that in the comments section do you

have just one word or do you have

separate words let’s get started with

the lesson so there are three situations

in which you would use miss the first

one is to miss an event or an

opportunity this means you might arrive

too late to attend an event or

opportunity or you might just not attend

the event or opportunity so it can mean

to arrive too late or to just totally

not attend so you could miss a class or

a lesson you could miss a deadline you

could miss an appointment or a meeting

you could miss a party or you could miss

a sports match or a show or concert

you could arrive too late to watch that

sports match or you could just totally

not attend the sports match so if

someone asks me did you watch the

football last night I could say no I

missed it so it could mean that I got

home too late to watch it on TV or I

just didn’t watch it oh I didn’t watch

it but I had intended to watch it and

bear that sports match one in your mind

because we’re going to talk about it a

little bit later on it can also refer to

not hearing or not seeing something as

well so if I missed the game I didn’t

see the game or if I missed what you

were saying I didn’t hear what you were

saying the next situation in which we

use miss is for transport and this means

to arrive too late for transport I used

to work a lot with Spanish students who

were learning English in London and they

would arrive late to my lessons and say

sorry I lost the bus and it should be

miss because Miss is used when you

arrive

too late for transport so you could miss

a bus a flight a plane you could miss a

train for example the final situation is

to miss somebody or something and this

means to feel sad when someone or

something isn’t near you anymore or you

don’t do something anymore so you could

miss your friends you could miss your

family you could miss the way things

used to be you could miss a dress that

you don’t have anymore

you could miss going to the cinema with

your grandma for example now a couple

more collocations with miss you could

miss the point if I say to you you’ve

totally missed the point it means you

haven’t understood the point of this

conversation or the reason why we’re

doing this

you can miss a target which means

literally a bull’s eye target you can

either hit the target or you can miss it

if you miss a target or an objective it

means you don’t achieve what you were

hoping to achieve you can miss your

chance and this means that you lose out

on you don’t take the opportunity for

something and to miss your chance it

relates to what we were saying about

opportunities and events if you miss

your chance to enter a competition for

example you have missed the opportunity

to enter that competition right let’s

move on to lose one thing I just want to

remind you before we get started on lose

is spelling when I used to mark students

exam papers they would lose out on marks

because they would spell to lose with

two O’s now listen to this lose loose

loose means something is not tight it’s

an adjective lose is the verb that we’re

going to be talking about today so be

wary of the pronunciation and be very

wary of this spelling lose not loose

okay we’ve got slightly more situations

with lose we’ve got five and the first

one is to lose something which means to

not be able to find

think you could lose your keys you could

lose your credit card you could lose

your wallet oh I really hope that

doesn’t happen to me

the next meaning for lose is to have

less of something it doesn’t mean you

can’t find it it just means you have

less of it so you could lose weight you

are carrying less weight if I am losing

weight I am reducing the amount of

weight that I have we talked about this

in the video I did on appearances and we

spoke about losing your hair and going

bald and this means that gradually you

have less and less hair you could also

lose interest in something or somebody

there are lots of examples for this one

now the third situation in which you can

use to lose is when you don’t have

something that you did have before

actually I guess you can lose a person

as well so when you don’t have something

or someone that you did have before so

this means to not have something or

someone that you did have before so you

can lose money

you can lose a job you can lose a

partner you can lose hope before you

didn’t have these things you did have

them though you have lost them now the

fourth meaning of to lose is to not win

so you can lose a game you can lose a

sports match you can lose a competition

it means you haven’t won them but you

remember I said keep sports much in your

head because it’s very important to use

the correct verb if I say I missed the

game and I lost the game they mean two

very different things

I missed the game that means I didn’t

arrive on time to see the game or I just

completely did not see the game if I say

I lost the game it means I did not win

the game so it’s important to

distinguish between miss and lose

especially in that context the final

situation in which we can use to lose is

when a family member or somebody close

to you passes away or dies to lose

somebody is

nice and respectful way of saying that

somebody near to you has died so if I

say Jenny lost her mum last year

it means Jenny’s mum passed away last

year now let’s look at a couple more

collocations using lose you can lose

track of time which means that you don’t

realize how much time has passed or is

passing

I failed my exam because I lost track of

time

and I didn’t realize that I didn’t have

enough time left to answer the final

question you can also lose consciousness

which means you become unconscious you

can lose your head or lose your temper

which means that you get very very angry

if you’d like to see more ways on how to

say that you are angry or annoyed in

English you can check out the video up

here you can also lose the plot or lose

your mind as well which means that

you’ve gone crazy have you lost your

mind are you crazy

I’ve completely lost the plot I’m just

being so silly

you can lose sleep over something which

means you worry about something if I say

don’t lose sleep over it it means don’t

worry about it you can lose heart which

means you lose enthusiasm and you can

lose your voice

which means you when you get a cold and

you can’t speak anymore is be like this

you’ve lost your voice so we’ve covered

to lose and to miss but what about to be

missing because this one can be used in

a similar way as to lose to be missing

is all about expectation and what you

expect or what is expected there are

three ways in which we can use it the

first one they’re all very similar the

first one if something is missing for

example my keys are missing it doesn’t

mean that I’ve lost my keys it means

that my keys are not where I expected to

find them so I look at my handbag where

I expect to find my keys they’re missing

they’re not there but there are many

possibilities they might be lost they

might be stolen somebody might have

moved them all I know is that

not where I expected them to be so to be

missing is all about expectation the

next situation refers to people if

somebody is missing from a meeting or a

dinner party or a get-together or some

sort of event it means that they are not

present when they are expected to be

present we expected them to be at the

meeting but they’re not there they are

missing the third meaning however is a

bit more serious if somebody is missing

not from an event or meeting it just

missing . their whereabouts their

location is unknown and people are

trying to find them this can also be

called to be reported as missing or to

go missing as well so that’s more

serious it’s on the news you might see a

12 year old girl has been missing for

four days for example right who’s been

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I what you said number two he got in

Soho London he got in Soho London 3 my

friend lives in Australia and I heard a

lot my friend lives in Australia and I

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she all her money on Bitcoin she all her

money on Bitcoin

number six she’s been reported as in the

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number seven

I dropped my computer and all my data

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my credit card is from my wallet my

credit card is from my wallet number

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temper when she said she wasn’t coming I

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