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and TV related words let’s go to shoot

to film the first expression is to shoot

or to film to shoot or to film actually

we use these words here to shoot to

shoot means to take video to record

video in a sentence this show was shot

in England hmm to shoot becomes shot to

shoot shot in past tense we can also use

to film film comes from kind of older

cameras where film actual physical film

was used now of course we use mostly

digital media but we use to shoot or to

film video or to shoot a TV show to talk

about recording something for use in

movies or TV to broadcast to air to

broadcast or to air so this these are

words which mean to to play a TV show on

TV to air a TV show to broadcast a TV

show recently I feel like two air is

more common like this TV show airs every

week on Friday in a sentence new

episodes air every Friday we use

actually we use broadcast for our live

streams on this channel like we could

say like a live broadcast every week at

10 p.m. est that’s true

so we can say broadcast or we can say

air

I feel like broadcast is a little more

natural for Internet things we don’t

really use airs every week for internet

things we use air for a TV but yeah

broadcast would be more for Internet

program anything to cast the next

expression the next vocabulary word is

to cast to cast there are a couple

different meanings of this word there’s

a fishing related word which means to

throw out like a fishing line to try to

get a fish this motion is called to cast

but if you’re reading something about

your favorite TV show and you see to

cast it means to choose someone to play

a character so you choose someone to

play a character is to cast so for

example in a sentence who was cast in

the role of the princess

so to cast someone as a character is in

the expression we use Jennifer Aniston

was cast

as Rachel in friends or Dean Cain was

cast as Superman in the Superman TV show

from the 90s to give an American pop

culture example cast

okay the next expression however is the

noun form cast so cast as a noun not as

a verb as a noun the cast is the group

of actors and actresses who play the

characters in the TV show or the movie

you’re watching

so that’s everybody all of the actors

and actresses are called the cast

together their group is called the cast

so for example that show has an all-star

cast season series the next expression

or the next word is season or series

depending on which country you may hear

let’s see let’s see season season is

usually used in the US and series I

think is used maybe in England and being

in Australia as well so season and

series these mean like the roughly the

years of a show in a sentence how many

seasons have you seen so the kind of

like the chapters of show’s over like

maybe ten weeks or twelve weeks or so

you might watch one season of a show it

usually has like eight to ten maybe

twelve episodes we’ll talk about later

so one season is like one year of a show

episode the next expression is episode

episode so episode is one usually for a

TV show one 30-minute or one 60-minute

block of time in a sentence every

episode of that show is so good so maybe

each week one episode airs from a TV

show or two episodes air every week so

an episode is one part of a season so

for example to use these words together

we could say there are 10 episodes in

every season of my favorite TV show so

episodes are these kind of small blocks

of time small parts of each story - run

• run - run - run is a verb that has

many different meanings in English oh we

can’t talk about them all in one video

or even a million video

but to run in this case means how long a

program is broadcast or how long a

program airs for so we would say that

show is running for six seasons it means

that show is going to be broadcast on TV

for six seasons so in another example

sentence that show ran for just three

seasons so to run a show refers to the

length of time that that TV program can

be viewed on TV maybe more example

sentences are better here so like this

show has a planned run of ten years four

we want to run this again next year for

example so that means how often you want

to broadcast to be set in the next

expression is to be set in to be set in

refers to the place where the story

happens in the TV show we can also use

this for books and for movies any

storytelling situation you can use to be

set in in this example sentence this

show is set in New York City the

expression to set in can refer to place

yes but it can also refer to the time

period of a show so for example maybe a

show is set in the past far in the past

you could say this show is set in the

Old West or this show is set in ancient

China this show is set in England in the

1600s so that’s the location and the

time when the TV show is set so place

and location we can use to be set in to

recur the next word is to recur to recur

so to require means to happen again

something that that continues something

that repeats to recur so we use this for

characters and themes in particular in

TV shows so we might see a recurring

character that character is a recurring

character in this series they repeat

they appear again and again from time to

time not as a regular character but they

they appear sometimes like supporting

characters in a sentence Joker is a

recurring villain in the back

and series he shows up from time to time

he’s a recurring character a recurring

villain in this case script the next

word is script script script is the text

for the show trips a script is the the

text that the actors and actresses read

to tell you the story it’s the stuff

that the writers create and yeah actors

will read that those are the words for

the show the script so in a sentence the

script of this show is really well

written

fun fact there is no script for this

show unscripted really there’s no script

sometimes people are like if they’re

surprised to find out there’s no script

for this some people like you’re not

reading anything I’m like no of course

not do you think that I was reading out

that it’s always so clear to me like the

episodes that come out and where I have

had to read something like for the post

card contest for example there’s this

it’s just everything just slows down and

it’s so weak like the vibe is so weird

anyway no script for this show ten words

for talking about space planet the first

word is planet planet so planets are

those really really big things that we

have in our solar system now there are

officially eight because Pluto is no

longer considered a planet in my example

sentence Pluto used to be considered a

planet star the next word is star star

so stars are those very very bright

objects that you can see in the sky

sometimes at night that’s the closest

star to us is the Sun the Sun is a star

and we can see a lot of other stars if

we look up into the night sky sometimes

in a sentence it’s hard to see stars

from big cities solar system the next

expression is solar system solar system

so solar system in our case here on

planet Earth

refers to the system of planets and

objects which are near our star so our

solar system now there are eight planets

in our solar system used to be nine

planets sorry again in Pluto eight

planets in our solar system and then we

can talk about other objects which maybe

enter our solar system like like comets

for example or a meteor or some other

events might happen in space

within our solar system so our solar

system is the area surrounding our Sun

and our planets that we know of in a

sentence mercury is part of our solar

system comet the next expression is

comet a comet is actually an icy body

that is slightly melting and then

releasing gases so that’s what produces

that look a comet

okay in a sentence comets are really

cool meteor alright so yes the next word

is meteor or meteor or just meteor so

essentially meteors are different from

comets because comets are made of ice

meteors however are made of rock so

these are two different kinds of objects

that can that move around in space in a

sentence lots of meteors burn up before

they pass through the atmosphere

meteorite the next word is meteor right

meteor right so this is an important

distinction that many people don’t know

about actually if this tries to be crazy

too so a meteor is the is the space

rockets in space or it’s in the

atmosphere a meteor rights however is

the rock if if the meteor makes it if

the meteor can pass through the Earth’s

atmosphere and fall to the surface of

the earth that rock then is called a

meteor right so in space in the

atmosphere it’s a meteor when it falls

to earth it is a meteorite that becomes

a meteorite when it hits the earth so

fun facts okay that’s the difference

between the two in a sentence have you

ever seen a meteorite supernova

supernova supernova so the explosion of

a star is a huge event a supernova is

the name of it so the star explodes and

that’s what we call it it’s called a

supernova a star explosion in a sentence

supernovas must be incredible things

black hole

alright the next expression is black

hole black hole black holes are the

subject of a lot of study they have

intense gravitational pull so meaning

they have very strong gravity black

holes will pull other objects into them

it is said that like time stops in a

black hole or in like if you get too

close to a black hole if you get too

close to the event horizon of a black

hole you yourself will be pulled into

that hole too it’s pretty crazy

so like the event horizon is the point

at which there’s no there’s no turning

back

from like you can’t you can’t escape

essentially the gravitational pull of a

black hole once you’re within the event

horizon of that space it’s like crazy

all this kind of stuff is so interesting

so in a sentence

black holes are mysterious galaxies okay

all right so the next word is galaxies

galaxies before we talked about the

expression solar system so solar system

is kind of our region of space the

region we’re familiar with but the next

step up so if you think of the solar

system is kind of your neighborhood a

little bit you could think of maybe the

galaxy as like your city or your country

maybe it’s sort of the next step out so

a galaxy is made up of lots and lots of

stars maybe other planets other solar

system many other solar systems in one

galaxy so I think yeah we belong to the

Milky Way galaxy I believe in a sentence

our galaxy is made of lots of different

stars and planets earth the next

expression is earth earth earth is our

planet Earth is the planet we live on

earth is habitable meaning humans can

live here this word I included it in

this vocabulary list because it is a

very good word to practice your

pronunciation it is the word Earth earth

that are and the th sound can be

difficult to pronounce together earth

earth so this is a great word to use to

practice your pronunciation earth so in

a sentence our planet is called Earth

nutritional facts the first word is

nutritional facts nutritional facts if

you look at the back of a food product

in this case it’s not written English

but in the back of a food product you

will often see in many countries

depending on the regulations in your

country a list of information numbers

and some words those are the nutritional

facts of that food product in a sentence

check the nutritional facts for

important dietary information

kaleri the next word is calorie so

calorie is the word that’s a sign which

means energy the energy in a food

essentially so some foods are high

calorie some foods are low calorie in a

sentence avoid eating lots of

high-calorie foods if you want to lose

weight

carbohydrate carbs the next word is

carbohydrate carbohydrate carbohydrate

is a very long word so we usually

abbreviate it we usually shorten it to

carbs carbs so carbs are foods for

example bread rice pasta sweets sugars

and things these are foods which will

give you like a quick burst a quick bit

of energy in a sentence I can’t help but

eat lots of carbs sometimes protein the

next word is protein protein is often

talked about when you want to build

muscle or lose weight protein relates a

lot to muscle it’s the it can help you

build muscle to when you want what if

that’s your goal so we use protein

protein is a much it takes your body a

longer time to access the energy in

protein than it does carbohydrates so

people say it’s important to have a

balance of protein and carbohydrates in

your diet for a quick energy and slow

release energy in a sentence it’s

important to get enough protein sugar

the next word is sugar so sugar we

talked about sugar and carbohydrates it

is pure energy it is but not usually it

is not a healthy type of energy

especially if it’s added to a food so

sugar is just it’s a it’s a carbohydrate

it’s just energy and it doesn’t have

really much other good stuff

nutritionally in it but it can help make

things sweet and it can help give quick

bursts of energy so it’s very commonly

found in candy and sweets in a sentence

eating too much sugar can be bad for

your skin fat the next word is fat fat

there’s of course animal fat so like

bacon for example is like kind of

famously delicious because it

is a fatty piece of meat there’s a lot

of fat in it so fat can make food taste

better and then fat also has a bad

reputation because it can of course the

word fat oftentimes people say I don’t

want to be fat but fat in food can make

things taste better there can be good

kinds of fats and trying to reduce bad

fats um so in a sentence fat helps make

things taste better sodium the next word

is sodium sodium sodium is essentially

salt salt so lots of sodium can be bad

for you it’s people tend to recommend I

think to keep low sodium levels in your

food so sodium is salt in a sentence

make sure not to consume too much sodium

vitamins the next word is vitamins so

vitamins are kind of good like body

boosting things so like they can give

you like extra extra good stuff for your

body essentially so like fruits and

vegetables have lots of vitamins in them

for example in a sentence fruit juice

has lots of vitamins diet the next word

is diet so be careful there’s the word -

diet which means to limit your food and

drink to limit your consumption in order

to lose weight but there’s also the noun

form of diet so in this case I mean diet

as in your eating habits your eating

lifestyle so for example I could say

it’s important to have a balanced diet

meaning it’s important to keep balance

in the foods that you eat and the thing

is that you drink so a balanced diet

refers to a balanced eating and drinking

lifestyle so diet when used in this way

means lifestyle not like intention to

lose weight so please be careful with

this word in a sentence keeping a

balanced diet is important for a healthy

lifestyle

ingredients the next word is ingredients

ingredients so if you check the

nutritional facts on the back of a food

product you’ll usually see a list of

ingredients so the ingredients are the

things inside that product the things

that are used to make

the product you’re looking at right now

the the ingredient list is created based

on the quantity of that item in that

product so if you’re buying candy for

example the first item in the ingredient

list is probably going to be sugar and

then after that the the item with the

next highest quantity will be in the

list so ingredients are the things used

to make that product ingredients in a

sentence I always check the ingredients

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first question this week comes from

Nagarjuna hi Nagarjuna Nagarjuna says

what is the difference between being and

having okay let’s start with the word

having we use the word having in such

expressions that use the verb have

for example I’m having a good time or

I’m having trouble with this he’s having

a shower at the moment can he call you

back okay so then being has a lot more

uses than having we use being to talk

about temporary conditions we can use

this before adjectives keep in mind that

when we use being before adjectives

we’re using it to describe something

that’s temporary in cases where we use

the same adjective without being it’s

describing something that is a regular

condition so let’s compare these two

sentences he’s weird he’s being weird

the first sentence he’s weird

is a simple present tense sentence

there’s no being here that shows us that

weird is a regular condition so he’s

usually weird he’s always weird the

second sentence though he’s being weird

uses being in the progressive tense so

that shows us it’s a temporary condition

it means at this moment he’s weird only

this moment so usually he’s not weird

but for right now he is so when you see

being used before adjectives in this way

it’s referring to this temporary state

or this temporary condition so we can

use being before a noun as well but we

use it to talk about an ongoing

condition such as our job we want to

talk about like this state of being

something that’s like always like the

same for us that’s usually our job or

something that’s unchanging that’s a

regular condition for us so we can make

sentences that have the same meaning

that just use be in different ways for

example is being an artist difficult

and is it difficult to be an artist both

of these sentences use the verb to be

the first one uses being and just refers

to the ongoing condition of an artist so

is it difficult to be an artist and is

being an artist difficult those have the

same meaning they’re just slightly

different grammatical structures we can

also use being before verbs when we do

this we tend to use it in passive voice

and we use verbs in the past participle

form when we do this in present tense

it’s referring to an action that is

ongoing now when we’re talking about

past tense situations it’s referring to

an action that was continuing in the

past so an unfinished action in the past

sometimes there will be an interruption

that we can see in the sentence later in

the sentence but in some cases it’s just

referring to an unfinished action for

example present tense we are being

watched my lunch is being eaten by

someone else

so these show ongoing unfinished actions

that maybe we can see or we know about

but they’re continuing so we can use

being to talk about those so we use have

or having in the progressive form in set

expressions that use have I hope that

this helps you thanks very much for the

question

okay let’s move on to your next question

next question comes from Feist also I’ll

say it - saw Feisal says how can I talk

very quickly in English um don’t worry

so much about speaking quickly or like

as fast as you possibly can like

everybody speaks at a pace that’s

natural and comfortable for them but if

you want to work on improving the

smoothness of your speech something that

you might try is just reading text out

loud so something that you can do to

practice is find like an interesting

news article or maybe a blog or even a

short story to read something that’s got

a little bit of length to it you don’t

want to read just tweets but something

that you can read that you can follow

along with

practice reading this out loud so don’t

just read in your mind practice saying

the words and connecting the words to

one another so you can do this first

like slowly that’s fine it’s fine to

read slowly at first but then come back

to the same article practice reading

that again like later in the week or a

couple days later and practice making

the sounds a little bit faster so do

this a couple times until you’re

comfortable with the grammar points

until you’re comfortable with the

vocabulary words and then when you’re

fine you can move on to another article

challenge yourself with another article

that uses different grammar points

different words and so on something that

I find interesting and fun kind of to do

when I practice this way is to try to

take recordings of myself so maybe on

one day I’ll practice for like an hour

or I’ll study for an hour or something

and at the end of my practice session I

will record myself and then I can listen

to or watch the recording later and see

maybe what parts weren’t so good or what

parts I was good at then at my next

practice session I can do the same thing

and compare it to my first practice

session after a few weeks of this then I

can look back at my first practice

session compare it to my last practice

section our session rather and see how

much I’ve improved so this is a really

good way at least I’ve found to kind of

track progress so this is something that

could maybe help you as you try to

improve your rate of speech so again

don’t worry so much about speaking super

fast like it’s going to sound unnatural

if you’re just pushing yourself to speak

super quickly all the time so just try

to find a comfortable pace that allows

you to communicate clearly and smoothly

so I hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question all right

let’s move on to your next question next

question comes from you Soph

hi you Soph Yousaf says how can I

politely ask my teacher if it’s okay to

exit the classroom if you would like to

leave your classroom you can say

something like may I leave the room or

can I leave the room so some people are

really strict about the difference

between May

can historically may has been used to

ask for permission can has been used to

talk about possibility or ability rather

so if you want to be super strict May is

better but may could sound a little bit

more polite so may I leave the room is

okay it’s probably a good idea to

include the reason you would like to

leave the room for example may I go to

the restroom or may I go to the office

or may I go to the health center I don’t

feel well

so if you want to include a reason you

can do that may I go to some place so

this is how you would politely ask your

teacher if it’s okay to exit the

classroom I hope that this helps you

thanks very much for the question let’s

move on to your next question next

question is from our Tamiya Meyer to

Miam our Tamim says hi Alicia is it

required to put the indefinite article

in front of an adjective that follows an

uncountable noun for example hot milk or

neat writing or good education Thanks

aha no in most cases actually using the

indefinite article in this way would be

incorrect to refresh everybody the

indefinite article is a or an and we use

indefinite articles before countable

nouns in the singular form but I do want

to talk a bit about these examples that

you’ve introduced the first example that

you introduced was the phrase hot milk

so the only way that I can think of that

we would use an indefinite article

before an expression like this is if hot

milk is a menu item you go to a

restaurant or coffee shop and hot milk

is on the menu and when you order you

say a hot milk please or one hot milk

please in that case it’s okay the reason

for this is because hot milk as a set

phrase is understood as one unit so even

though milk is an uncountable noun yes

we understand hot milk is like one mug

or is one cup of something like that’s

one item I can order in that case using

the indefinite article is okay it’s

natural it’s much better in

fact than saying can I have some hot

milk which sounds very weird there in

that case when we’re ordering something

we understand hot milk to be one unit

like one cup one glass in that case fine

no problem

so another example of this might be it

like a bakery if you go to the bakery

and you’d say I’d like a sourdough bread

please

so in that case sourdough bread is

understood to be one unit one type of

bread like a menu item in that case fine

no problem your second example your

second example was about the expression

neat writing so this is one that I would

not use an article before I would say in

some very rare very uncommon cases

especially in like formal or maybe

religious texts some people would use

the word writing to refer to like a

script to refer to a text using writing

in this way to refer just to written

text sounds quite formal so in today’s

English we would probably just say a

neat piece of writing we would not use

the indefinite article in this case

finally then your last example was the

expression good education so the reason

that this one is a little bit tricky is

because we have an idiomatic expression

to get an education to get an education

means to receive education but in this

idiom we use the article we use the

indefinite article and before education

so because this is an idiomatic

expression it’s a set expression we

preserve that indefinite article and

just move it in front of good so in your

example good education we could say to

get a good education that would be fine

in that case because it’s an idiom and

because it uses an indefinite article

originally we keep it there some

examples that use this idiom she got a

good education at her university it’s

important that you get a good education

okay so in sum if you’re looking at

adjective uncountable noun phrases that

are understood as a unit it’s okay to

use an indefinite article and it’s okay

to use an indefinite article

when the uncountable noun is part of an

idiom so I hope that this helps answer

your question thanks very much ok let’s

move on to your next question next

question comes from takuji sacimata hi

takuji takuji says hi Alicia please

teach me how to use you know in

conversation ok depending on the

positioning in the sentence and how we

feel when we say it meaning how our

voice feels when we say it it can have

slightly different meanings when we

position you know at the beginning of a

sentence it feels a little bit like by

the way so for example you know there’s

a three-day weekend coming up or you

know I have a big bonus coming in this

summer so in these sentences it means

like by the way and from the tone of my

voice it’s like there’s something

exciting there’s some exciting new

information I want to share there you

know if we position you know at the end

of a sentence it tends to sound like a

question and we use it to like get

agreement from people around us so we’re

like talking about a difficult situation

and we’re trying to get agreement from

the people around us for example I don’t

want to upset my parents you know or I’m

just not ready to move to a new city you

know so in those cases we use you know

to get listener agreement

so we’re saying you know as like a short

version of don’t you know what I mean or

do you understand what I mean so you can

think of you know used in that way with

that upward intonation to be looking for

like confirmation so that’s actually a

pretty good rule if you hear you know

used with that upward question

intonation it’s probably a good hint

that that’s looking for agreement the

speaker is looking for agreement if you

hear it with that downward intonation

you know it’s probably sharing some new

information that by the way feel so I

hope that this helps you thanks very

much for the question

ok so that’s everything that I have for

this week thank you as always for

sending your question first question

comes from Rizal : d hi again resolved

resolved says can you explain what modal

verbs

sure so a modal verb is a verb that’s

used to talk about possibility or

ability in English we have will and

would shall and should can and could and

may might and must I might come to the

office later we should look for a new

apartment can you help me move my sofa

so we use modal verbs in English to talk

about possibility yes and ability to as

with can and could but we also use them

in patterns relating to giving advice

and asking for advice as well as making

offers and requests too so there are a

couple of videos on the channel that you

can check out for some more information

about modal verbs first you can look at

the must for possibility whiteboard

video there’s also a video about wood

especially using wood for future tense

situations that’s coming out very soon

you can also look at the will vs. going

to video on the channel for some future

tense expressions there are some other

videos about modal verbs coming out and

some other information about may and

might and must in live streams so please

take a look around the channel for some

more information some detailed

information about some of these modal

verbs and of course there’ll be more

content coming up soon so I hope that

you check out those lessons and I hope

that you can get a good start on modal

verbs studies thanks very much for

sending this along I hope that helps

clear up what a modal verb is okay let’s

move along to your next question next

question comes from Trang hi trang trang

says hi Alicia what does get rid of mean

ah get rid of means throw away we often

use the word get rid of when we want to

throw something away quickly or when we

really don’t want that item or it was

really unnecessary we can also use the

phrase get rid of with people but this

is used when we want to cut someone off

of a group or an organization like when

someone loses their job for example I

finally got rid of

my broken blender our company finally

got rid of that employee who was

stealing things okay so I hope this

helps you understand the expression get

rid of something thanks very much for

sending it all right onward to our next

question next question this week comes

from Mohammed Al Daley heigen mahmoud

mohamed says hi Alicia what’s the

difference between supposedly and

supposably and can I use them

interchangeably no you supposedly

supposedly so supposedly means according

to something else this is true but we

use supposedly when we’re like a little

bit skeptical so skeptical means we

don’t quite believe something is true

like there’s a little bit of like

disbelief there like maybe someone is

lying or someone is hiding something so

there’s a feeling of suspicion but it’s

like saying according to this person

this situation is true but we might not

have all the information so supposedly

is the word that means this some

examples supposedly this is a good

company to work for supposedly he missed

his flight because of traffic so

supposedly the other word you introduced

means conceivable something we are able

to conceive up something that we can

suppose so it does not have this meaning

of according to someone plus disbelief

it doesn’t have the same meaning as

supposedly in American English speakers

will use this word but it’s a mistake

they’re intending they’re planning they

want to use the word supposedly but they

make a mistake and use supposably

instead so please use supposedly not

supposedly I hope that this helps you

thanks very much for the question all

right let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from Mota

had a motoharu yo hello mother honey

well Tejada says hi Alicia is it true

that we use of for something that

belongs to a thing or animal but

apostrophe s for something that belongs

to a human ah no it is not true while

yes it does sound more natural to use

apostrophe s for something that belongs

to a human

it is not a rule to use of to show

possession for something that belongs to

a thing or an animal some examples let’s

compare the cars steering wheel came off

in my hands and the steering wheel of

the car came off in my hands my

computer’s screen is broken the screen

of my computer is broken so these pairs

of sentences actually mean the same

thing we’re just showing possession in

like different ways I would say that

native speakers will probably use

whatever is the shortest way to describe

whatever it is they want to say

so probably the apostrophe s pattern is

most common it’s certainly not incorrect

to use the of pattern both are fine to

use here when you’re talking about

people however it does sound much more

natural to use the apostrophe s pattern

using the of pattern to show possession

for something we own or something we

have sounds very weird when you’re

talking about people examples my friends

hair is beautiful the hair of my friend

is beautiful

your brother’s shirt is so funny the

shirt of your brother is so funny

very weird so in these pairs the second

example sentence that uses of while

grammatically correct sounds very

strange so when you’re talking about

people use the apostrophe s pattern to

talk about their characteristics or the

things that they have if you’re talking

about an object or an animal you can

choose whichever you prefer

as I said native speakers tend to use

the shortest expression possible so in

most cases that’s the apostrophe s

pattern also note that in some formal

situations when we want to make

something sound a bit more like grand or

exciting we will use that of pattern

instead of the apostrophe s pattern like

the palace of the king instead of the

king’s palace so that’s going to make it

sound a little bit more exciting so in

those cases and like those formal really

exciting like luxurious expensive cases

you might hear of used more often okay I

hope that that helps you thanks very

much for your question let’s move along

to our next

question for this week next question

comes from bhai bhai

but he says what’s the difference

between if I and if I will for example

if I do that and if I will do that if

there’s a difference where is it ah this

is a good question but the answer is

that we use if I and not if I will

actually this relates back to our first

question from this week’s episode about

modal verbs when you’re making a

conditional sentence that means a

sentence that uses an if clause and a

main Clause we do not use a modal verb

in the if clause if you want to use a

modal verb your modal verb needs to come

in your main clause so that means if you

want to make an if sentence and you want

to use will you can use them in the same

sentence but you have to separate the

clauses that they’re in

that means if I something something

something I will something something

something that’s the pattern that you

need to use you cannot use if I will

together in that way you have to

separate these two some examples if I

have the day off tomorrow I’ll go to the

movie theatre if we save enough money

this month we can go to Hawaii this

summer so the second example sentence

uses a different modal verb I used can

there instead of will so just make sure

that when you’re making these

conditional sentences that you don’t use

your modal verb in your if Clause use it

in your main Clause also remember you

can swap the order you can switch the

order so that it’s main Clause first if

clause second that’s fine the same rule

still applies we can go to Hawaii this

summer if we save enough money this

month so that’s also fine you can choose

whichever you prefer so I hope that that

helps you use if I not if I will hi

everybody my name is Alicia in this

lesson I’m going to talk about the

difference between someone everyone and

anyone and somebody anybody and

everybody let’s get started by looking

at the meanings of these words and how

we use them okay let’s begin with

someone and somebody to begin with you

can remember someone in somebody and

and anybody follow very similar rules as

some and any if you’ve seen the video on

our channel talking about some and any

maybe you remember the rules that I’m

going to explain here you can check that

video for some extra information about

those grammar points too so let’s start

with someone and somebody we use someone

and somebody in positive statements so a

simple statement not a question in other

words when we make a positive statement

we use someone and somebody in that

sentence structure we also use these two

words in requests and in offers so keep

in mind these are two categories of

questions so a request question or an

offer question let’s take a look at some

examples of this now first of all

there’s someone at the office

so here I’ve chosen someone there’s

someone at the office this is a positive

statement so not a question just a

statement it’s a positive here

the next example can you send someone to

help me can you send someone to help me

this is a request so a specific type of

question a request question can you send

someone to help me

the third example sentence is an offer

would you like to talk to somebody would

you like to talk to somebody so here we

have request offer positive statement we

can use someone or somebody in each of

these examples so I’ve used someone

someone and somebody here but actually

we can change each of these to the other

choice both are fine in each of these

example sentences I’ll talk more about

the difference between one and buddy a

little bit later for now however let’s

move on to the difference between anyone

and anybody okay so this is a key

difference between someone and somebody

anyone and anybody this is used in

negative statements these are used in

negative statements someone in somebody

used in positive statements so this

follows the same rule as some and any

so in negative statements and we use

anyone and anybody in information

questions so that means that not

requests not offers but you’re looking

for some kind of information we use

anyone and anybody in these cases so

let’s look at a few examples of this

first I don’t think anyone is at the

office don’t think anyone is at the

office so here we’ve used any one

because it’s a negative here’s my

negative it’s in the do not so not right

here this is my negative therefore I’ve

used any one here one more example

sentence a question this time has

anybody seen my keys here I’ve used

anybody I’ve used this because this is

an information question I’m looking for

some information I don’t have now this

is not a request it’s not an offer so I

shouldn’t use someone or somebody I need

to use anyone or anybody I’m looking for

information this third example sentence

is the same why hasn’t anyone returned

my calls here anyone and I’m looking for

information in this case a why this is a

why question so again not a request not

an offer I’m looking to find something

new I’m looking for information so I

should use anyone again just as I talked

about with someone and somebody I can

change this anyone anybody and anyone to

the other word it’s fine to use the

other word here for example anybody

anyone anybody that’s perfectly fine

again I’ll explain more a little bit

later here but remember anyone and

anybody is used in negative statements

someone somebody used in positive

statements this is one key difference

okay but let’s move along now to

everyone and everybody everyone and

everybody

this will fall out kind of a different

rule than someone and anyone we use

everyone and everybody to refer to all

people related to a situation or related

to a group so this could mean a class it

could mean every person in an office

that could mean in a city in a country

so it just depends on the group or the

situation we use this word when we want

to talk about all people related to that

group or related to the situation so

let’s look at some examples okay

first one everyone in our class

graduated so here everyone in our class

graduated refers to all the people in

our class so everyone in that group of

people in this case the group is the

class so all people in the class another

example it was great to see everybody at

the Reunion so everybody here shows us

again all people and this could be a

class reunion it could be a family

reunion

a company reunion so this just means it

was great to see all the related people

so the people related to the situation

at this reunion event one more example

then everybody had a great time

so here everybody shows us everybody in

the situation so maybe everybody who

attended the event had a great time

everybody who attended the party had a

great time this is quite a common

expression after an event of some kind

so again as we saw with the first two

groups we can actually change each of

these words to the other word so

everyone can be replaced with everybody

same thing here everybody and everybody

can be replaced with everyone so I want

to end this lesson with a quick

introduction or a quick overview to the

difference between these two endings one

and buddy

what is the difference here really one

the words that end in

someone anyone and everyone they sound

more formal than the words that end in

buddy so we can actually use these

interchangeably interchangeably means we

can mix and match them we can choose

which one we prefer so that means the

meanings are the same like their purpose

is the same it’s just up to us to choose

so why would we do this why would we

choose one word and not the other word

you can choose according to the

syllables if you remember syllables is

the number of beats a syllable is a beat

of a word so for example somebody

somebody has three beats someone has

only two beats two syllables this is

important when you are writing

especially like writing poetry writing

lyrics for music or maybe you’re trying

to write a nice essay for example we are

listening for which words sound nice to

our ears so sometimes the word somebody

sounds nice sometimes the word someone

sounds better so it’s up to us meaning

we can decide we can choose which word

we prefer to use so you just have to

listen and kind of feel which you prefer

there’s no difference in meaning it’s

just a sound preference and a little bit

of a formality difference so I hope that

this lesson helped you understand the

differences between these words a little

bit as I said if you want some more

information about the difference between

some and any you can search the YouTube

channel for that video as well

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