Whats the difference between Sleep and Asleep Continue and Go on

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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 boon

kyong hi boon kyung

bung kyung says how do we know when to

use

shall or will when asking questions

okay so very simply shall is used to

make

suggestions we put shall at the

beginning of our question

when we want to make a suggestion and to

make something

sound kind of formal we don’t really use

shall

in everyday english so some examples

shall i drop the mic shall we leave

or shall we get going or

shall i make you a birthday cake

okay so shall is used to make these

formal suggestions

shall i or shall we or shall he

and so on there’s some kind of

suggestion there like shall he make you

a cocktail

or shall we give you a birthday party or

something like that so you can replace

i with we or he or she in those

sentences

so you’re making suggestions but again

they sound really

formal we don’t say these in everyday

speech at least

in american english it sounds too polite

will on the other hand is used at the

beginning of questions

when we want to make requests so again

shall is used for suggestions will is

used to make requests

like will you stop doing that or

will you get me a coffee and so on so

we’re using

will to make requests will comes at the

beginning of the sentence when we want

to make a request for something

shall can come at the beginning of a

sentence when you’re

kind of asking if it’s okay to do

something as well

so this is the basic difference between

using shall at the beginning of a

sentence or the beginning of a question

and using will at the beginning of a

question suggestion

or offer and request making some kind of

request

so please keep this in mind i hope that

this helps you thanks for the question

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question

comes from al-mubin hi al-mubin

al-mubin says hi alicia what is the

difference between

continue and go on okay

so continue is followed with a noun

phrase

so that’s the thing that’s going to move

forward so

go on can be used to mean please

continue

speaking but when you say when someone

is saying something interesting in a

conversation and they stop the sentence

or they stop speaking but you want them

to

continue you can say go on you can say

continue

as well it sounds like a command but you

might hear people say

go on as well so in contrast

to the word continue we cannot follow go

on with a simple noun phrase we can’t

say like go on your discussion or

go on your presentation we cannot do

that we use

go on to talk about going to the next

thing in a series like the next item in

a presentation or the next topic in a

discussion

like i’m gonna go on to the next slide

now or i’m gonna go on to the next

question

so we use go on to to express that

we can use continue in this way and just

as with

go on we need to connect continue

with two to the next item so i want to

continue to

the next topic or i want to continue to

the next slide in my presentation

so we can use both of these to talk

about moving to the next

item in a series of some kind but we can

only use

continue with a noun phrase and we can

use go on

alone to mean please continue in a

conversation

so i’ve noticed in the comments actually

a lot of people will write like they

enjoyed a lesson or something like that

and then it’ll say go on and it has that

feeling of like go on

like please i know the feeling is like

please continue

to express that a little bit more

naturally like if you see something you

like on the internet

like you should be a little more

specific like if you say

go on or continue generally what native

speakers will say is

i hope you make more videos or please

make more videos like this or please

make more

podcasts or please make more content

like this

so being a little bit more specific with

your comments

at least when you’re writing online

sounds a little bit more

natural than just saying go on or

continue

so i hope that this helps you understand

the differences between

continue and go on thanks very much for

the question okay

on to our next question next question

comes

from luis your name is in all caps luis

hi luis luis says what is the difference

between the words

sleep and asleep in sentences ah

to answer this question just use your

grammar knowledge and your knowledge of

how to use a dictionary as a tool

sleep can be used as a noun and as a

verb

asleep is an adjective so that means

these words take different positions in

sentences

for example he’s sleeping in that

sentence sleeping is used

in the progressive tense he is sleeping

it’s a verb

you could also express the same idea

with he’s asleep

he is asleep so he is adjective

asleep so they have the same meaning

he’s sleeping he is asleep

so asleep means in the state of sleeping

so asleep is just a way to say it

differently

so you could say that you could also use

sleep as a noun

as in he went to sleep on the sofa

or i didn’t get enough sleep last night

so

the differences here are in how we use

the words

in the sentence like the sentence

position and we also need to think

especially with the verb about

conjugating the verb

changing the verb to match what we want

to say in the sentence

asleep we use as an adjective so there

are lots of different ways

we can express a similar idea you know

not being awake

but we just need to think about the type

of word

by that i mean verb noun adjective we

need to think about that as we build the

sentence

we could say it negatively too like

you’re not asleep

i can see you i tried to call him but

he was asleep don’t sleep on this

chance that’s something else we mean

which means don’t miss this chance

oh that’s another good expression yeah

don’t i’m gonna sleep on it means i’m

going to go to sleep

and then wake up in the morning and then

have a decision

so after you’re presented with a big

decision

you can say i’m gonna sleep on it which

means please give me one night to think

about this

so i’m going to go to sleep wake up make

my decision

so give me a night to sleep on it so

sleepyhead sleepyhead is a word we use

in the states usually for little kids

like to mean like oh

that’s you’re a child you’re a small

person who is sleepy that means you’re

ready for bed

so sleepy is another word that we

haven’t really talked about here yet

but sleepy is also an adjective i’m

sleepy so that means it takes the same

position in a sentence as

asleep but sleepy means i’m tired

i’m ready to go to sleep i’m ready for

sleep so again that takes the same

position

as a sleep in a sentence but it means

something different just a different

adjective

okay so i hope that that helps you

understand the differences between sleep

and asleep in sentences thanks for the

question okay

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