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my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna

talk about 10 phrasal verbs for business

so let’s go step up the first phrasal

verb is step up step up means to move up

or to level up usually to some kind of

new challenging position or to a

challenging project so I want to step up

and do more for my company or I want to

step up and take on this project there’s

a nuance of a challenge a move upward a

promotion perhaps and new challenges new

responsibilities

so in a sentence the new CEO really

stepped up on this project great step

down the next word is the opposite step

down to step down often means to resign

or to quit one’s job especially at the

higher levels of business so a CEO might

step down from his position or her

position if they’ve made a big mistake

or if the company has had problems so

sometimes this can mean resign sometimes

this means just moving to a lower

position in the company you can you’ll

have to look into the specifics of the

situation to figure out exactly the

meaning but step down means to go to a

position of lower responsibility so in a

sentence following multiple serious

mistakes the government official stepped

down measure up the next expression is

measure up measure up is a word or a

phrasal verb that we use to mean compare

we say how does something measure up or

does this measure up to meaning is item

a equal to item B is item a better than

item B this is a question or a word that

we use to ask how one thing compares to

another thing so like how does candidate

a measure up to candidate B is a

question of comparison between these two

these two items or does this project

measure up to our past work in other

words is this project equal to or is it

to our past works so measure up is used

when comparing two things so in a

sentence how does the new plan measure

up to our past ideas step aside

the next expression we’ve talked about

step up step down now we’ll talk about

step aside so step aside means to move

out of the way it doesn’t mean

necessarily to move up in in position or

to move down in position but step aside

means just temporarily to remove someone

or to remove yourself from a situation

so you can use this not just in business

but maybe in a very crowded space like

let’s step aside and have this

discussion you can use that in a

business meeting as well - step aside is

to remove yourself from a main group or

from one situation go away from that

situation temporarily mmm that’s how we

use step aside so in a sentence the

company feels you should step aside like

please move away from this project

swoop in the next expression is swoop in

swoop in so we use swoop for example

with birds we can say the bird swooped

in but in a business situation it’s

somebody usually someone a person or

maybe a team that suddenly joins the

company or suddenly joins a project and

maybe makes a lot of changes so for

example a consulting firm might swoop in

to a situation or might swoop in to a

project or maybe the boss swooped in to

the meeting and made a lot of changes so

these these sentences these are

situations where something suddenly

happens by a one person or by a group of

people in another sentence the

consultant swooped in and changed around

our entire organization shake up the

next phrasal verb is shake up shake up

means to make a lot of changes at one

time or two maybe change an atmosphere

or to change a company feeling this can

also be applied to situations outside of

work like maybe

art for example other industries

manufacturing industry it means to make

changes for so one person or one group

makes changes so you could say for

example Apple shook up the smartphone

industry when it introduced the iPhone

so it means to make changes or to bring

about new change in a sentence she

really shook up our department with her

innovative ideas come online the next

expression is come online come online so

this is interesting

of course you’re watching this video

presumably probably on the internet

online right now but the expression come

online means become able to use

something usually publicly or at least

within your company so when a new

project comes online it means it’s it’s

now available it can be used or it can

be purchased we typically use this

expression for some kind of service so

for example a web platform or an

application or something that other

people can use

so come online means become available

come online means become available in a

sentence then our new service is going

to come online at the end of the month

expand into the next expression is

expand into expand into so we can use

expand into to mean moving more or

moving to another place or to another

industry with your business operations

so we can use perhaps a country or a

region after this expression or we can

use an industry name after this

expression so you can say we want to

expand into China we want to expand into

Japan with our business or you can say

we want to expand into the electronics

industry we want to expand into the

service industry expanding into

something talks about the direction you

want your company to move in expand into

so in a sentence we’d like to expand

into some other markets to bring about

the next expression is to bring about to

bring about means to make something

happen

cause something to happen we often use

this to talk about change it can be

positive or it can be negative I feel I

tend to use this more in a positive

situation but that might just be me so

to bring about means to cause something

or yet to make something happen in a

sentence don’t you think we should try

to bring about change in our company

take on the next expression is take on

so take on if you if you can kind of

make a visual with this phrasal verb you

can take something and attach it to

yourself to take on something but this

thing you’re taking is responsibility so

to take on something it has the nuance

of a challenge or a new responsibility

it’s something that is generally seen as

positive but perhaps could be maybe a

lot of new work or a big new project for

example so I might say I want to take on

some new projects this year or you could

use it outside of business like in a

kind of aggressive situation like like I

tried to take on a really big guy at the

club but he punched me so you could use

this too but it has the nuance of

challenge ever every time you use it so

in a different sentence I was asked to

take on more responsibilities at the

office oh that’s the end so those are 10

  • phrasal verbs for business I hope that

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welcome back to top words my name is

Alisha and today we’re gonna talk about

ten crime-related words so let’s begin

suspect the first word is suspect

suspect as a noun please be careful not

the verb form to suspect though we can

use that suspect and suspect have

slightly different pronunciations as a

noun

suspect means a person who may or may

not have committed a crime may or may

not have done something bad to suspect

someone means to be suspicious to think

they may or may not have done something

so please be careful depending on the

grammar suspect and suspect have

different pronunciations despite the

same spelling so suspect in a sentence

the suspect was seen running away from

the scene criminal the next expression

is criminal so a criminal is a person

who is convicted of a crime so to put

that more simply a criminal is a person

who has been determined to have done

something against the law they have done

something bad it has been decided by a

court of law or the governing body so a

criminal has indeed yes been found

guilty an expression we’ll talk about

later so a criminal is someone we know

has committed a crime in a sentence they

arrested the criminal on Wednesday

victim the next expression is victim

victim a victim is a person who suffers

because of a crime or because of a

natural disaster also we can use victims

for natural disasters and for crime so

they are innocent they are they’ve had

no reason to be affected they’re just

maybe the wrong place the wrong time

either way there well I shouldn’t say

innocent but there the person who

suffers in this situation a victim is

the person who suffers in this situation

in a sentence the victim was an elderly

woman guilty so the next expression is

guilty he is guilty of blah blah blah

crime or he was found guilty of blah

blah blah crime the nuance of guilty is

having done something bad and so if you

are guilty of a crime it means you have

done that crime but someone can look

guilty we can use guilty as an adjective

to talk about the way

someone looks so guilty in a court or

guilty in discussing a criminal case can

mean he or she did the crime he is

guilty she is guilty however we can’t

say he looks guilty or the dog looks

guilty that means that that person or

that object or that animal looks like

they did something bad

but we don’t know for sure so guilty

means has the nuance of doing something

bad in a sentence you look very guilty

not guilty okay so on the other hand not

guilty not guilty is the verdict so

verdict is the word used for decision in

criminal cases not guilty means not

doing the crime the crime was not done

by that person so a person who is found

or determined not guilty means they did

not do the crime or it’s been decided

that that person did not do the crime

they are not guilty hmm okay in a

sentence he was found not guilty of the

crime to plead to plead so to plead is

similar to to beg so to plead means to

humbly request something it’s this this

is the image of pleading like your hands

together hoping very much for something

asking very humbly for something but

this is the verb that we use in court

cases in criminal cases

so we’ll say I want to plead not guilty

for the crime of blah blah blah so to

plead means to request consideration for

something so I want to plead not guilty

means I want to request you the court

the judge whoever my community you find

me you consider me not guilty I did not

do the crime so but we use instead of

that very long expression we say I plead

not guilty this is a much easier way to

express that situation of course you can

plead guilty to a crime - in some cases

so he pled this is past tense to plead

changes to pled he pled guilty to the

crime of manslaughter for example so in

a sentence the defendant pled not

guilty murder homicide so the next

expression I have murder and homicide

here so murder and homicide if you watch

police shows or if you watch you know

movies dramas which use like police and

FBI and so on you might have heard these

words but what’s the difference so

murder and homicide are used to mean the

same thing it means killing another

person with intention

so to murder someone else means to kill

another person and with intention

there’s a plan to do it homicide is the

word that is used in legal terminology

or in forensic forensic meaning analysis

of bodies analysis of like blood for

example of bacteria so kind of

scientific analysis of a crime scene so

in those cases in the investigation side

and in the legal side they might use the

word homicide perhaps more you might

also hear homicide in news but in

everyday conversation murder is perhaps

more common so the defendant was

convicted of murder the defendant was

found guilty of murder

in a sentence she was found guilty of

murder manslaughter all right so another

expression manslaughter this is an

interesting word so manslaughter you can

see the word slaughter is there so

slaughter refers to killing something we

use slaughter in many cases to refer to

slaughterhouses where cattle are killed

like pigs and cows for example so it has

the image of like brutally killing

however manslaughter refers to an

accidental killing so for example

driving in a car and just through some

strange accident maybe a person is hit

by the car and they die but there was no

intention on the part of the driver

there was no plan there it was an

accident a terrible terrible accident in

those cases the word manslaughter is

applied meaning an accidental death so

in a sentence this is a case of

manslaughter jury the next expression is

jury jury you may or may not have a jury

system in your country in the u.s.

juries

there’s a jury of your peers so peers

are people in your community people in

theory who are similar to you in some

way so a jury is a group of people who

makes a decision about a court case you

often have to give a presentation to a

jury so yeah you might see these juries

that’ve in movies and in TV shows about

crime as well in a sentence the jury was

divided on the case

meaning the jury did not know how to

vote yes or no guilty

judge the next expression is judge judge

so again your country may or may not

have something similar but a judge is

kind of if you’ve if you’ve watched like

u.s. crime shows or whatever you might

have seen these people they’re men and

women who wear like these big black

robes usually and they sit high in

courtrooms above the other people

usually we also have in the u.s. the

Supreme Court the Supreme Court is our

wealth supreme meaning most high the

best the highest level the Supreme Court

where we have what we call justices but

those those are essentially like they

are judges really they’re the highest

level of judge in the US so they have a

special word justice but they are judges

so they make decisions based on the law

based on the legal rules of the country

or of the city or of the location where

you are a judge does that so in a

sentence the judge had a tough decision

to make

no oh that’s the end all right so those

are 10 crime related words I hope that

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hi everybody and welcome back to top

words my name is Alisha and today we’re

going to talk about ten phrasal verbs

for talking a

about vehicles let’s go the first

phrasal verb first phrasal verb is pull

in pull in so pull in is used usually

when you’re driving very slowly we

usually use it for a parking lot so

we’ll use it in an expression like pull

into that space or pull in over there in

this sentence

pull into that space over there it means

usually to slowly move your car into a

space into a parking space or maybe into

a garage you’re going into something

usually very slowly so pull in over here

pull in over there pull into that

parking lot pull into that driveway for

example so slowly move into another

place we use the phrasal verb pull in

for that the next phrasal verb is pull

up pull up in this sentence I’ll pull

the car up in front of the hotel we

usually use this when we want to slowly

drive and then stop at a location so for

example at a stoplight we would say pull

up to the stoplight so it means to

slowly drive to a place and then stop so

pull up next to the mailbox or pull up

next to my house pull up over there

means slowly drive and then stop at that

place is pull up that’s how we use pull

up the next expression is back up back

up so back means reverse to backup a car

is to move a car slowly in Reverse so

usually in most cases we drive cars

going forward but you sometimes need to

move your car in the opposite direction

back up out of the driveway for example

it means to go slowly in reverse to back

up in this sentence the truck backed up

until it touched the loading dock the

next expression we talked about pull in

now we have back in back in so pull in

means to drive forward into something

back in means to slowly go backward into

something usually a parking space or a

garage or something so back in is going

river

reverse pull in is going forward as

usual so in a sentence back into the

parking space the next expression is

roll down roll down this might be a

little bit of an outdated expression at

this point in time but prior to the use

of automatic windows usually now I think

most cars have a button and the window

will automatically roll down but we used

to have a manual a hand crank in in cars

to roll down windows

so this motion which was used to move

the window that was the that was also

the verb we use we use roll so this

motion is like roll and then the window

comes down so we combined the two to say

roll down the window in a sentence roll

down your window it’s hot in here

the next expression is head up and head

down these are very common expressions

when you are trying to navigate in a

city you don’t have to use these only in

cars you can use them when you’re

walking or traveling on foot as well on

bicycle whatever you can use head up and

head down anytime you are trying to go

somewhere so head up and head down

really just mean go so I could say like

head up the street until you see a

Starbucks and then turn right generally

though the difference between up and

down here it has kind of like a north

and south at least in English it has a

north-south sort of feel so if for

example I’m talking about the west coast

of the USA Seattle is in the north and

Los Angeles is in the south I would say

I’m heading down I’m going to head down

to Los Angeles from Seattle or I’m going

to head up to Seattle from Los Angeles

it sounds really strange if I say head

up to Los Angeles because Los Angeles is

south of Seattle so when you’re thinking

when you’re speaking geographically when

you’re speaking in terms of north and

south for places it’s better to use head

up or head down depending on the

location you’re talking about coming

from let’s see in this sentence head

down this street for a while the next

expression is run over run over this is

a this is a word that

when in a car let’s say you’re driving

your car and then an animal comes out in

front of the car but you continue going

we say you are going to run over so to

run in this case is not a human running

but a car running so the car is running

is going is continuing over something

else so we can say like don’t run over

any animals or be careful not to run

over your brother into the example

sentence I think he ran over a squirrel

true story my little brother once ran

over me in a golf cart that is true

my brother and I were playing one time

and my grandparents had a golf cart and

my brother and I were outside running

around we were playing like a James Bond

like kind of spy game like we were like

okay I’m gonna drive the golf cart and

you have to run alongside and jump in

and I was like okay but I tried to jump

I don’t know I got nervous but it was it

wasn’t really going that fast but like

somehow things went wrong and I fell

down or maybe a tripped or something

like that what I was running I fell down

and he just he ran over me in the golf

car like ran over my leg just drove

right over my leg and I was like we got

in big trouble I was fine yeah no I died

the next word is pull over so pull over

means usually you are driving in the car

and you want to make a stop so usually

we use this like on the side of the road

or in a place where you wouldn’t usually

stop or in kind of a strange not

necessarily strange but maybe not a

typical place to stop a car so for

example if there’s like a bee in the car

and you’re like I need to get this B out

of my car you can pull over to the side

of the road we usually use it like pull

over to the side of the road and you

know do what you need to do or maybe you

need to pull over at a rest stop pull

over at a bathroom essentially okay so

in a sentence pull over at the next rest

stop yeah so pull over is also used by

the police as well as like a command

it’s a it’s a temporary situation so the

police are going to stop you

they say pull over to the side of the

road and then you have to move your car

to the side of the road where it’s safe

and they talk to you and then

can continue down the road after you’ve

finished speaking to them police will

use it as a command the next phrasal

verb is pull out pull out so for example

when you are coming out of a parking

space for example you can say like pull

out of this parking space and turn left

it means like to exit something slowly

so to pull out of a parking space or to

pull out into traffic so turning from

one one lane to another may be busier

lane the image is going kind of slowly

and then picking up the pace somewhere

else so to pull out in to is another

common expression pull out into traffic

or pull out of a space and turn left or

pull out of the driveway for example in

this example sentence a super slow truck

pulled out in front of us on the

mountain road the next expression is get

on get on we use get on usually for

large roads so a highway or a major

street usually the traffic is moving

very quickly we say get on the highway

get on the 5 so like in the u.s. lots of

highways major roads are labeled with

numbers so like California and when a

big state highway is the number 5

highway the five so you could say like

get on the five at the next exit or get

on the five at the street for example so

to get on means like 2 to join with your

car that major road in a sentence get on

the highway here ok so that’s the end

those are 10 phrasal verbs for talking

about vehicles I hope that those were

useful and some of these phrasal verbs

you can use in situations other than

cars and automobiles so if you have any

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to know your verbs my name is Alicia and

in this episode we’re going to talk

about the verb

die

okay let’s begin with the basic

definition of this verb the basic

definition of the verb die is to stop

living or to stop existing examples she

died yesterday

doctors say he might die within a year

let’s look at the conjugations for this

verb present die dies past died past

participle died progressive dying

so now let’s talk about some additional

meanings for this verb the first

additional meaning for this lesson is to

disappear gradually some examples

the noise died down a short while after

the concert ended my interest in eating

meat died after I watched a documentary

so in both of these examples something

gradually decreased in the first example

sentence after a concert ended the noise

died down

so actually we can say died down to like

it sounds like you it was up here like

because we’re using the word down there

it sounds like the volume was up here

maybe and it gradually came down so the

noise died is okay like the noise died

after but the noise died down sounds

even more gradual so this is sort of

like an extra variation on this meaning

in the second example sentence we saw my

interest and eating meat died after I

watched the documentary so it’s like oh

I saw this documentary and my desire to

eat meat went down quickly like it died

it stopped it ceased so that sounds like

so no I saw this documentary and I was

done wanting to eat meat so it kind of

means to go away or to disappear so

especially with down like to die down

that sounds extra gradual okay good

let’s talk about the next one okay so

the second additional meaning for

today’s lesson is to stop working like a

machine or computer examples my car is

dying on the side of the road oh no my

phone battery died oh no I have a

graphic for this oh no my phone battery

died it’s not true alright anyway so so

in both of these examples we used I to

mean that some machine or some device

stopped working usually because it ran

out of power or because there’s some

technical malfunction so in the first

example my car is dying on the side of

the road there could be a number of

reasons why the car is dying maybe it’s

out of gas maybe there’s like a

technical problem

maybe it’s just I don’t know if

something else has gone wrong we don’t

know but for whatever reason the car is

not moving or the car is not functioning

correctly so the car is dying on the

side of the road in the second example a

very common one oh no my phone battery

died in the past tense it means my phone

ran out of battery my phone ran out of

power out of energy so we say my phone

died we don’t even need to say battery

just my phone died is perfect that’s a

very natural sentence Oh No my phone

died so those are a couple additional

meanings excellent

now let’s go on to some variations for

the verb die so the first variation I

want to talk about is to die of an

emotion or to die of a feeling so this

is an expression we use when we feel

that thing that emotion that sensation

very strongly so strongly we feel like

we could die of or we can also say die

from that thing examples I could die of

happiness and I’m dying of hunger so in

the first example I could die of

happiness that’s an example where we

could substitute of for from so imma die

from happiness that’s also okay we could

say I could die of embarrassment or I

could die from embarrassment or sadness

or loneliness something like that it’s

an emotion we feel so strongly we feel

like we could die because of it in the

second example sentence I used the

progressive I’m dying of hunger

it means I’m so hungry I feel like I

could die but I’m using the progressive

tense which means I feel this way now

I’m dying now because I’m so hungry

dying of hunger means at this moment you

are dying well not literally but you are

so hungry you feel like you’re dying I’m

dying alright let’s go on to the next

thing so let’s go on to the next

variation the next variation is to be

dying to verb so to be dying to do

something examples so to be dying to do

something means you have a very very

strong desire to do that thing you

really really want to do this thing so

examples of that I’m dying to see that

movie he’s dying to go home so in both

of these sentences you see I’m using the

infinitive form of the verb after dying

he’s dying - she’s dying - I’m dying to

do something we need to use - plus the

verb that’s the infinitive form of the

verb so dying to do that thing means the

speaker or the subject really really

wants to do that action that verb

that’s what it means to be dying to do

something you’re not actually dying it

just means you have a strong desire to

do that thing alright good so those are

a few variations a couple of additional

meanings I hope that you picked up some

new ways to use the verb die if you have

any questions or comments or if you know

a different way to use the verb die or

if you just would like to try to make an

example sentence please feel free to do

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die dying to be alive yeah that’s a

Hanson song anybody listen to Hanson is

how I this is how I express a strong

desire to do something and going miss hi

everybody welcome back to ask Alicia the

weekly series where you ask me questions

and I answer them maybe first question

this week comes from sun-joo Huygens on

you Sanju says hey Alisha how can I

think

fully in my target language whenever I

see you speaking fluently I feel like I

want to become like you so how can I

make my communication like yours this is

a very common question and it requires

practice it requires regular practice so

this means you need to practice a little

bit every day where you can immerse

yourself in the language you’re studying

if you’re studying English try to use

English as much as possible in your day

so if you can try to make a time in your

week or in your day when you only speak

English or you only read English so try

to read English books watch English TV

or movies listen to music in English

talk to people in English where you can

you need to get used to using it in your

everyday life so that your brain gets

used to using it when you’re just

thinking about things so this takes time

absolutely you need to practice and you

need to give yourself time every day and

every week to get used to doing this so

practice

every day practice regularly of course

if you really want to practice speaking

like me you can mimic me you can shadow

me if you want but please keep in mind

as I’ve said on this channel before I’m

speaking in a way that’s helpful for

learners so I’m trying to use very clear

pronunciation I’m trying to use kind of

simple grammar or a grammar that’s not

super complex and I’m also not speaking

in exactly the same way that native

speakers do in everyday conversation so

please remember that the way I speak on

this channel is not necessarily the way

that native speakers talk in everyday

life that being said if you want to use

me for your shadowing practice please

feel free you won’t have any

communication problems if you practice

speaking like me so I hope that this

helps you if you’re interested there are

some other videos on the channel that

have lots of tips about how to think in

your target language and how to get used

to applying English in your everyday

life so definitely check those out too

okay

I hope that this helps you thanks very

much for the question alright let’s move

on to your next question next question

comes from Eric Pashkov hi Eric Eric

says what’s the difference between

present perfect and past perfect okay

present perfect is used one for general

life experience in the past at a non

specific point in time

this can be an experience you had or an

experience you did not have so when the

point in time is not important we can

use present perfect to talk about that

for example I have been to France I have

never written a book we also use present

perfect tense to talk about actions that

started in the past and continued to the

present or the effects of that action

continue to the present you’ll see verbs

used with progressive tense in this case

  • so for example have been plus the ing

form of a verb we also commonly use for

and since to talk about the entire

length of time in action

has happened or has been happening

rather so for example I have been

speaking for about four minutes or he

has been listening to me since I started

this video so this is a common way that

we use present perfect tense past

perfect on the other hand refers to

things that happened in the past so

we’re not talking about the relationship

between the past and the present we’re

talking about the relationship between a

past action and some other past point so

for example I had been studying for

three hours when I fell asleep so in

that example sentence we see that there

was one past continuing action and a

second action that happened closer to

the present that interrupted the action

when I fell asleep so we can use past

perfect tense to show like sequences if

you’re telling a story and there are two

points in your story that we’re in the

past you can use past perfect tense to

explain the thing that came first then

use simple past to explain the thing

that happened nearer to the present as I

did in this story as I also mentioned in

this example sentence if you want to

describe a past action that was

continuing and that was then interrupted

you can use this pattern this past

perfect two simple past tense pattern so

we use it for that we also use it to

talk about life experience again so

general life experience or no life

experience but at a past point in time

so for example by my tenth birthday I

had saved $100 for example so by my

tenth birthday is a point in the past

I’m obviously not 10 years old now so by

my tenth birthday I had saved that means

up until that point in time I had saved

$100 so when we want to talk about past

experiences in relation to other past

points you can use the past perfect

tense so you can find some other videos

about present perfect tense and soon

about past perfect tense on the channel

soon so I hope that you check those out

for some more information I hope that

this helps you to

thanks very much for the question

alright let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from Hannes

Bayou hi Hannes

Hannes says what’s the difference

between follow and subscribe because

they have the same meaning okay for

online media hubs like Twitter and

Facebook and YouTube they have the same

feeling they have the same meaning like

you click the button and you receive

updates from that person or from that

company or whatever in terms of kind of

a more historical meaning though the

word subscribe was and is used for

regular publications so for example we

subscribe to a magazine or we subscribe

to a newspaper when you subscribe to

something there’s an expectation that

you will receive that thing on a regular

basis on a regular schedule so for

example if you subscribe to a monthly

magazine you expect to receive the

magazine once a month that’s a

subscription so the same word carries

over into YouTube when we subscribe to

someone’s channel we expect to see their

content we expect that when that person

creates something we are going to

receive it so in YouTube’s case this

means we have like you know a channels

you follow list or we see like something

in our email that says oh this channel

has posted a new video so subscribe in

this way means like you have some kind

of expectation of receiving something

somewhat regularly of course not

everyone on YouTube posts regularly but

this is the idea to follow however like

with Twitter or with Facebook or

Instagram is like you’re just waiting

for updates from that person maybe

you’re not expecting to receive

something on a regular basis but if that

person or that company or brand or

whatever chooses to share something

you’re saying you want to have the

ability to quickly and easily check that

thing so this is why we don’t really use

like subscribe for Twitter or subscribe

on Facebook or on Instagram it sounds

more like a service for a YouTube though

it makes sense because it’s like we’re

getting something

many people on YouTube create content

regularly so subscribe is a better fit

in this case okay so I hope that this

helps answer your question thanks very

much for sending it along alright let’s

move on to your next question next

question comes from a bra hiya bra a

browser says are like and seems the same

word if not what’s the difference and

how do we use them Thanks

okay it depends on how the words are

used we can use both of these words to

share our opinion of someone or

something like in these example

sentences she seems nice

she seems like a nice person notice how

in the first example sentence here we

follow seams with an adjective she seems

nice in the second example sentence she

seems like a nice person we’re using

like and we need to follow this with a

noun phrase so a nice person is a noun

phrase when you’re using like in this

way you need to follow like with a noun

phrase you can’t use an adjective there

as we did with seams so we follow the

same rule when we’re using like to make

comparisons for example he eats like a

pig you look like my brother so when

we’re making comparisons like this we

need to use a noun phrase after the word

like also we can use seams with verbs

for example this seems to be the right

answer he seems to like hiking so

another quick point about the word seems

is that we use seem or seems when we

want to make a guess or share an opinion

about something but maybe we can’t

quickly confirm so like she seems nice

it’s like our opinion our quick opinion

of that person but maybe we don’t know

yet she might not be a nice person we

don’t know but when you want to make a

quick guess about something that you

can’t actually check you can’t really

confirm you can use seems to do that in

the second original example sentence I

introduced she seems like a nice person

we’re combining seem with like their so

she seems like that means it’s like

you’re comparing this person she

to a nice person that’s kind of the idea

here so she has the appearance or I

guess she seems as though she is a nice

person so this is an over complicated

explanation but think about using like

when you want to compare things think

about using seem when you want to maybe

just share a simple adjective or maybe

when you want to make a quick guess

about someone so I hope that this helps

you thanks very much for the question

alright let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from junior

high junior junior says hi Alicia

someone once said to me you’re neat and

I was kind of confused what does it mean

okay

neat is kind of like a cute word or a

nice word that means cool or interesting

it sounds very casual very friendly

maybe a little bit childish we would use

neat in the same way as we use cool but

cool is a little bit rough neat sounds

kind of precious and nice and childish a

little bit so you can say that someone’s

drawing is neat or that someone is neat

however there’s a second meaning of neat

which means tidy or organized so if

someone like came to your house and said

wow you’re neat like to talk about the

way that your house is organized or like

to comment about how clean your space is

it could have this meaning so it depends

how did the person use the word when

they were speaking to you what was the

situation so it can mean cool great

awesome nice or it can mean tidy and

organized some other examples I saw that

movie it was neat my new computer is

neat your parents are really neat aren’t

they okay so I hope that this helps

answer your question thanks very much

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