Whats the difference in English between MeMyself HimHimself HerHerself

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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

aristotle hello aristotle aristotle says

could you please differentiate pass time

past time and past time sure great

question okay let’s start with pass time

to past time to pass time or you might

also hear to pass the time means just to

use time in such a way that it becomes

later slowly so another way to think

about this could be to waste time in

some cases or maybe just to relax so you

are doing some action in order to use

some time up we use this expression when

we have to wait a while before our next

activity or our next appointment or when

we just have no plans for the day and

we’re just hanging out at the house we

can say i’m just passing time or i’m

just doing this to pass the time so this

is how we use past time

next let’s talk about pastime so pastime

is one word a pastime this is a noun

refers to something you did in your

childhood like a story that you really

like to read all the time or a game that

you really like to play something that

you did with your family or your friends

those things are referred to as pastimes

so typically we associate them with good

memories so you could say for example

like ah that’s one of my favorite

pastimes i loved reading that book with

my family

okay the final question that you had was

about past time past time this

expression means it’s beyond the time at

which something was supposed to happen

so for example it’s past time for lunch

we should go or it’s past time to start

the meetings everything okay so past

time refers to something that is beyond

an expected time so i hope this helps

answer your question thanks very much

okay let’s get to your next question

next question comes from zachary hi

zachary zachary says hi alicia does one

say

102 or 102 or are both correct also does

one say half hour or half an hour thank

you okay first your question about 102

or 103 or 103 whatever both of those are

fine you can choose whichever you prefer

so for example in our channel name

english class 101 we typically say 101

because that’s the pattern we use for

school for college level classes or

maybe other level classes

in those cases the pattern we use is to

read the numbers individually 101

however when you are reading any other

number you can use either pattern you

prefer 101 is fine 101 is fine i think i

probably usually say 101 that’s probably

what i would say or 102 but you may hear

people say 101 102 and drop that

and in the middle so it’s up to you for

that one your second question was about

half hour or half an hour this kind of

depends a little bit on the person and

it depends on the grammar of the

sentence so for example if you said

something like this should take about a

half hour that’s probably pretty normal

in most cases but it’s maybe not

grammatically correct you might hear

people say that if you ask how long will

this take someone might respond

probably a half hour but if you want to

be super grammatically correct you could

say this will take about a half an hour

so it’s sort of up to you with this one

in a lot of cases you might hear that

half hour used but if you’re ever not

sure i would recommend using half an

hour

in your text and in your speech so i

hope that this answers your questions

thanks very much all right on to the

next one next is from sbs hello sbs sbs

says how do i study english with your

playlists i can’t seem to find a grammar

playlist ah okay perhaps the playlist

was added after you sent this question

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or who wants to know how to study with

our youtube videos if you check the

playlists section of the english class

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to find some grammar playlists so

there’s basic english grammar you’ll

find a lot of whiteboard lessons that

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playlists recently please go do so you

might find some things that can help you

there thanks for the question and i hope

you find what you need okay let’s move

on to your next question next is from

tin tin finn from vietnam hi tin i hope

you said your name right uh tin says hi

alicia i’m from vietnam i want to know

the difference between do you mind and

would you mind okay great question do

you mind versus would you mind a lot of

it can depend on the tone of voice but

generally speaking we use do you mind if

we’re a little bit irritated with

someone or we can use do you mind if

we’re a little irritated with someone

for example someone is typing very very

noisily when we’re trying to talk to

someone on the phone we might say do you

mind typing a little slower if you want

to make it sound a little more polite

you could say would you mind typing a

little bit slower but if we want to

communicate that feeling of irritation

or annoyance we would probably say do

you mind doing this if you want to sound

really aggressive you can just say

angrily do you mind but that sounds

quite direct so hopefully you don’t need

to use that so do you mind is a way to

ask someone to do something like do you

mind helping me with this or do you mind

stopping that activity for me it feels a

little bit more direct to use do you

mind

when you use would you mind it sounds a

little more polite in my opinion uh it

sounds like something you would use for

a request more like would you mind

helping me with this or would you mind

doing this for me so that sounds a

little bit more like a polite kind

thoughtful request i would use do you

mind if i want to express a little bit

of anger or a little bit of irritation

with someone you might hear people use

them

interchangeably but i would suggest you

pay attention to the tone of voice they

use when they use this expression either

expression that will give you a good

hint if you’re not sure all right thanks

very much for your question let’s move

on to the next one next one is from

jefferson hi jefferson jefferson says

what is the difference between these me

myself him himself you yourself her

herself and it itself good question a

little grammar review so let’s look at

uh me and myself just to choose one for

an example we use me as the object of a

verb right like you hit me for example

we use myself when we’re talking

reflexively about something so what does

that mean when we’re talking reflexively

or when we’re using a verb reflexively

it means that the subject is also the

object of the verb so i used hit in my

example sentence like you hit me or

something like that if i want to make

this sentence a reflexive sentence or if

i want to use hit reflexively i would

say i hit myself i would not say i hit

me so in cases where your subject is

also the object of the verb you need to

use this reflexive pronoun so itself

himself herself we could use the same

pattern if we want to change the subject

for example he hit himself she hit

herself we would not say he hit him

that’s a totally different sentence that

means there are two people involved one

person hits another male person he hit

him so the point is these myself himself

herself these words these are called

reflexive pronouns and we use them when

the subject and the object of the verb

are the same so i hope that this helps

you thanks very much for the question

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