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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