Whats the difference between NOT and NO in English

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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them

maybe let’s get to your first question

this week

first question this week comes from

henrique hi henrique

enrique says how do we use at in

and on correctly thank you okay very

quickly because there are videos on the

channel about how to use prepositions so

please do a search and check them out

very quickly to review let’s begin with

at

we use at to mark specific locations in

cities that means like buildings so for

example i’m

at the bank or she’s at the supermarket

we can also use at to refer to specific

locations outside cities like in the

countryside

like we’re at the river today we also

use at

before times to mark specific times of

day

like let’s meet at 2pm or she arrived at

3

30. we also use at with night as in

at night please note we do not use at

with morning or

afternoon or evening those are incorrect

we only use it with

at night then let’s talk about in we use

in before the names of cities and

countries like she lives in switzerland

or

he lives in barcelona or it’s in toronto

so we use it before city names

and country names we can also use in

before a length of time to mark a

duration

like let’s meet in 10 minutes or we

finish the project

in one hour we also use in

with months for example she moved in

february

or i’m going to europe in june finally

let’s talk about

on we use on with days of the week and

to talk about the weekend

as in something we did on the weekend in

some variations of english you may hear

people saying

at the weekend but this is not used in

american english we use

on the weekend so we use on before days

of the week

as in let’s meet on tuesday or

we had coffee together on saturday so

this is a very quick introduction to

different ways to use at in

and on as i said please do a quick

search of the channel for prepositions

to find

other videos with more details about

this topic so i hope that this helps you

thanks for the question

okay let’s move on to our next question

next question

comes from

hi alicia what is the difference between

park and

garden thank you ah a park is generally

a big

open area with lots of grass you can

come to a park and you can do

like a variety of different activities

if you want to have a picnic or a

barbecue or you want to maybe

play a sport or something like that you

can generally do that in a park there’s

a lot of really big

open space so maybe we can show a

picture on screen here so you can see

what a park a typical park looks like

a garden on the other hand is something

that’s supposed to be enjoyed

for its design and when i say design i

mean like the

landscape design like maybe there are

special flowers inside the garden

or there’s uh maybe special decorations

there’s some kind of like landscape that

is special

in the garden so you might see parks and

gardens like together there might be a

garden inside a park

but a garden is generally not a place

that you go to

to do a specific activity like we don’t

go to a garden to have a barbecue or we

don’t go to a garden to play a sport

generally we go to a garden to enjoy the

scenery to enjoy

being in the garden like walking along

the paths in the garden

so parks are generally more open spaces

where we can do a variety of activities

gardens are spaces that we use for

enjoyment of that natural space

so i hope that this helps you thanks for

the question okay let’s move on to your

next

question next question comes from

sumitha

aaron hello sumitha sumitha says i would

like to know the difference between

resume and curriculum vitae okay they

are very very similar a curriculum vitae

or cv as it is often called these are

very very similar documents

we use both of them to apply for jobs

so a cv is generally longer than a

resume maybe like three to four pages

and it includes everything you have ever

done all of your professional experience

so that’s like your work experience

and your education experience yes so

where you went to school the degrees

that you have

the topics that you studied and so on

but we also on a cv

include our credentials our

certification so if you got some kind of

special

recognition if you got a scholarship a

grant if you’ve published anything like

a book or a paper

or if you have a thesis somewhere if

you’ve given a presentation

basically anything connected to your

work and your professional experience

will be listed on a cv so a cv is like a

very long

list of all of your achievements all of

your professional

and your educational achievements these

are kind of longer documents

a resume on the other hand is generally

a little bit shorter

it’s maybe like one to two pages long

and it’s kind of more of a summary

so in addition to including like your

contact information

uh you might have a short career

objective like that means

the thing that you are trying to do in

your career you might have that

and then generally with a resume you

have a series of

summaries of your past work so maybe you

have three or four companies or three or

four positions

on your resume and you summarize your

accomplishments and your role

in each of those positions so that

someone has a good idea has like a good

image

of what kind of work you have done and

therefore how it connects to your

current

objective so again a resume tends to be

a bit shorter than a cv maybe one to two

pages

but a cva like could be maybe three to

four pages if you have a long work

history

in the uk you might find that nobody

actually uses the word resume so if

you’re speaking with a british english

speaker they might only use the word

cv cv generally refers to the same

concept as

a resume so i hope that this helps you

thanks very much for the question

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question

comes from siam hello siam siam says

what’s the difference between not and

no uh i’ll give a very general answer to

this question

we use not and no to give

negative responses to things the grammar

of the sentence is what’s important here

so we use not before adjectives and

verbs for example i am not hungry

or she’s not sleeping or they do not

work

on saturdays so this comes before

adjectives or verbs

no of course is also used to respond to

yes or no questions with the negative

answer you may also hear it not used in

kind of a sarcastic way to reply to

someone’s opinion or to respond to

someone’s opinion

for example person a might say i really

liked that movie

and person b might respond with yeah me

too

not so this is kind of an old style

humor it’s not it’s actually not very

funny but some people try to use this

not to show contrast to the thing that

they just said

so this really means i’m going to

pretend that i agree with you for a

moment

but i don’t really so you might hear

some people use

not in this way too so i hope that this

helps you thanks for the question

okay let’s move on to our next question

next question

comes from arkan git hello arkon

arkon says what’s the difference between

police station

and police department nice question yeah

a police station

is a building it’s a physical place that

we can visit

so people work inside a police station

a police department on the other hand is

a part of an organization

so the police department refers to a

group of people

working together to do police work this

is the same as like a marketing

department in a company

or as like a sales department in an

online store

it refers to a group of people that are

doing the same

type of work a police department so a

police department refers to that group

of people

the police station refers to the

physical

building where police officers are

located

so in sentences you might say something

like i went to the police station

to file a report about my lost wallet

or the police department is working to

reduce crime in our city

so i hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question

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