Whats the difference in English between Too Also Even Likewise and As well

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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

hamza hi hamza

hamza says what’s the difference between

collaborate

and cooperate and how do we use these

words in sentences

okay well it depends a little bit on the

situation

let’s talk about cooperate first

so to cooperate means to do

something in accordance with rules like

to

follow rules to do something that’s like

in line with society’s expectations this

is one use of cooperate

for example you might have seen a sign

in english that says

no smoking here thank you for your

cooperation

so that’s an example of cooperate used

as a noun as cooperation

but it means thank you for following the

rules thank you for your

cooperation so it’s like you’re

following some kind of societal

guideline so cooperate can have this

meaning

we also see cooperate used to mean

working together

especially when it’s like two people or

two groups that might not usually work

together

for example the two countries cooperated

to reduce

pollution in the ocean in that example

sentence

it sounds like the two countries might

not otherwise work together

we use cooperate to express that both

parties both groups

get some kind of benefit from the

situation

so cooperate has these two primary

meanings of following rules

and of working together with somebody

for mutual benefit

usually somebody that you wouldn’t work

with so let’s compare this then to

collaborate collaborate and the second

meaning of

cooperate share the meaning of working

together with someone yes

but when we use the word collaborate

it’s like you’re working together

closely with someone to make something

very intellectual like creative or

artistic

so this can be like music it could be a

research paper it could be a movie

it’s like two people or two groups

combine their specialties to make

something special to make something

unique so for example

my two favorite musicians collaborated

and made an amazing album

let’s all collaborate to make the event

a success

or researchers from the engineering

department

and the computer science department

collaborated on this research paper

so those are situations in which

collaborate is much more natural to use

than cooperate

it also sounds when we use collaborate

like it’s kind of natural for those

people to work together

if you use cooperate it kind of sounds

like it’s not so natural or they might

not do those things

there’s one other meaning of collaborate

which is like to

help the enemy or to work for the enemy

so like if you imagine a spy from one

country

goes to another country and starts

working for the other country

we can use collaborate to describe that

relationship

as in the spy started collaborating with

our enemies

or we suspect that one of our employees

may be

collaborating with a competitor so that

means working together with someone

and it’s usually used in a negative

situation

so it’s used to mean like someone is

working for someone else

to like reduce our credibility or to

hurt us somehow and give someone else an

advantage

so there is also this meaning of

collaborate but generally you’ll hear it

used to mean

the first meaning that i described so i

hope that this helps you

thanks for the question okay let’s move

on to your next question

next question comes from andrea olivier

hi andrea

andrea says hi alicia i love your videos

very much cool

could you help me with the differences

between warranty

and guarantee yeah sure nice question

as nouns warranty and guarantee these

two mean the same thing

they both refer to a promise it’s some

kind of promise about like a product

or a service so when you buy a product

like a new

piece of equipment or you buy some kind

of

like machine for example you might see

it says like two year warranty

or lifetime guarantee so that refers to

the length of

time that the person who made the

product

promises it will be good so if it breaks

you can get a refund or you can exchange

it for free or something like that

so in this sense warranty and guarantee

have the same meaning this kind of

product promise however guarantee

can be used as a verb and in some of

these verb uses

it has a little bit of a different

meaning than just simply promise

so one of these is like to say something

with confidence one of the meanings of

guarantee

is like to say something or to share an

opinion with confidence

for example i guarantee you’ll love this

restaurant

so that’s like someone saying i know 100

i am very confident that you will enjoy

this restaurant

we can’t use warranty to describe that

we can’t use that

in any way to describe that kind of

confident opinion sharing

so guaranty has this meaning we also

have another meaning of guarantee which

is to secure

against so for example the insurance

company

secured the house against storm damage

another way to say that is the insurance

company promised the house would be

safe from storm damage so to secure

against is a special meaning of

guarantee and again we cannot use

warranty to have this meaning at all

so a good way to know which meaning of

guarantee is being used is to look at

the word that follows the verb

so guaranteed the house against storm

damage if you look after the word

guarantee

and you see against is somewhere after

it it’s a pretty good chance that it’s

this

secure against meaning if however it’s

just someone kind of sharing an opinion

it’s probably that asserting something

with confidence saying something with

confidence meaning

and yes we can also use guarantee as a

verb to mean

making a promise so i hope that this

helps you understand

warranty and guarantee and the different

ways that we can use the word

guarantee as a verb thanks for the

question okay let’s move on to our next

question next question comes from bianca

hi bianca

bianca says hi alicia i think the words

to

also likewise even and as

well have similar meanings what are

their differences and in which

situations do i use them

yep common question okay so let’s review

two

also and as well have the same functions

so we use them in just different parts

of the sentence

so two tends to fall at the end of a

sentence like

i want to go to the movies too or she

bought a coffee

too as well typically falls at the end

of a sentence

but it sounds a little bit more formal

than two

in everyday speech we tend to use two

more often

you may see two used before a verb

like i too want to go to the movies or

she too

bought a coffee this use however sounds

a little bit old-fashioned and we tend

not to use it

seriously if you hear this it’s probably

being used for

humor so keep in mind again in some here

to and as well can go at the end of the

sentence that’s typically where they go

also on the other hand typically comes

before a verb like i also

want to go to the movies or she also

bought a coffee so

we typically find it before the verb you

may see

also at the beginning of a sentence this

happens when the speaker wants to add

some information and they kind of just

forgot it in the first sentence

so you might see it at the beginning of

a sentence as well

likewise to move on to the next item in

your list

tends to be used by itself it’s like a

response to something someone else said

it’s like saying me too

and it’s kind of friendly but a little

bit polite so for example if speaker a

says i had a great time chatting with

you

b might say likewise it was fun so it’s

like saying me too but it’s a little

more friendly and polite

and usually we just use it alone finally

even so even is probably the most

different of all of these words that you

introduced

before we talk about even let’s take a

look at an example situation

i’m so excited for my friends to come

over to my house this weekend

i deep cleaned my house i bought a bunch

of snacks and drinks and i picked out

some movies to watch

i even bought some games to play so

you’ll notice that even

comes before the last item in this

situation

i even bought some games to play so we

use even

in place of like and when we want to

emphasize that we’re doing something

with all of our effort or that we’re

kind of really focused on something

so the speaker expresses this excitement

and the speaker did

thing a and b and c to prepare for her

friends to come over

and then there’s this other thing that’s

even more like intense so she’s

she’s kind of expressing excitement by

using even here

instead of just and so we tend to use

even to express

emphasis this sounds like a lot more

like excited than just saying and i

bought some games to play if you say i

even bought some games to play it’s like

showing your commitment i guess or like

your intensity in this situation

so i hope that this is a good

introduction to the differences between

these words

maybe i can make a whiteboard about this

in the future thanks very much for the

question

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question comes from emma hi emma

emma says hi alicia i’m wondering when

we use the expression

you guys can i use this in a formal

situation

and can i use this with male and female

friends

what about kids when my kids are

fighting is it okay to say

you guys stop fighting thanks yeah

nice question generally when you say you

guys or even hi guys or hey guys is a

greeting

it means everyone or everybody it refers

to

all people whether they’re men or women

so this is also like a very common way

for people on youtube to say hello to

their viewers they maybe start the video

by saying hi guys or hey guys

it’s very common to do but it is

important to note that especially over

the last few years

people are considering carefully the

words that they are choosing

and guys in this expression can for some

people

feel like it’s a little too male-centric

and like women are kind of getting left

out of the expression

so because of this situation

some people are trying to use different

ways to greet people

or using different words instead of you

guys as in the expression that you

introduced

so it’s good to consider this for

example i don’t start videos by saying

hi guys i say hey everybody

or hi everyone that’s what i prefer to

use so

some other words that people have

suggested are words like

you all or y’all or folks or fam

or you can choose words that are

specific to your group like in your case

if you are talking to your kids you

could say kids

stop fighting or like in our case if we

want to talk to the people who watch our

videos

or if i’m making something for like

video or for audio content for the

internet i might

say learners for the people who watch

this channel or i might say viewers or i

might say listeners

so instead of saying you guys you can

kind of pick a more specific word

that’s general for all genders so

yes to answer your question directly you

can use

you guys to refer to your kids or to

refer to your friends

but i think it’s maybe just good to

consider that more and more people are

being conscious

and thinking carefully about the best

words to use so that

all genders can be covered in these

everyday expressions so i hope that this

helps you thanks very much for the

question

okay let’s move on to our next question

next question comes from sergey hi

sergey sergey says hi alicia

you are a great teacher and a jolly girl

i really like it

i heard the phrase go big or go home

could you please explain what it means

yes first as an american english speaker

just a small side point

i strongly associate the word jolly with

santa claus so that’s why your question

made me laugh a little bit

jolly usually is only used to describe

santa claus but

just a funny little note there anyway

regarding your main question

go big or go home go big or go home is

an expression that means

do something with all your effort or

your full intensity

or don’t do it at all it’s like saying

uh

do something if you came all this way to

do it or if you’ve worked this hard to

do it you should do it or you should

just

stay at home so you would hear this

maybe in like extreme sports or other

kinds of like intense activities or

maybe if you go to a restaurant and

there’s some amazing food there and you

have one chance to eat it

your friend might say go big or go home

it’s a very casual

friendly kind of rough expression i used

to use it a lot in videos i guess i

don’t use it so much these days

but it’s kind of like a an encouragement

phrase to say like

you know do it with all your effort or

don’t do it at all

so go big refers to doing something with

your effort like having

big effort or go home like don’t do it

just stay in your house

so i hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question

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