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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i'm going to talk about some

differences

between the words just and only

i'm going to look at these words in two

ways that they are used

i'm going to focus on their adverb use

in this lesson let's get started i want

to begin

by talking about the word just just

so i have two meanings here for just

the first meaning for just is one that

shares a meaning with only so we're

going to see this is the same

kind of sentence pattern the same usage

so just or only in this way

it emphasizes a small degree

or a small amount of something so when

we want to make something seem

smaller or perhaps less important

we can use the word just or we can use

only to do this

some examples i ate just

one cookie here so point that i want to

make

smaller i want to emphasize this

one cookie i use just to show

so not two not three one i want to

emphasize the small

number there second we had

just three days for our vacation so

here i want to emphasize three days was

a small

amount of time so just three days

shows that the speaker feels it was not

a large degree

like it was not a large amount of time

for vacation

so we use this for emphasis if we remove

just from the sentence it remains

grammatically correct i ate one cookie

is okay we had three days for our

vacation

is okay but using just emphasizes

a small degree or a small amount of

something

so we'll see this with only as well

okay let's take a look at the second use

of

just for this lesson we can use just

for very recently completed actions

or for actions happening in the very

near future when we use just to talk

about

near future actions we use it with

about two about two also

you may hear some speakers use just with

the ing form of a verb so

that means something is happening like

now it's beginning right now

so it's extremely near future you might

hear that

so with about two that means it has not

started yet but it's going to be very

soon

so let's look at some examples first

i just finished my homework i just

finished my homework

so finished is past tense here this

refers to a very recently completed

action

did you just call me this is a question

so here

call is in present tense yes but we have

did

past tense here did you call me did you

just call me means in the very recent

past

did you call so using just shows that

then these are near future situations

i was just about to go to lunch

i was just about to go to lunch so here

you can use was you may hear some

speakers using i am

i'm just about to go to lunch do you

want to come we often use this past

tense pattern when something

changed our plans like i was just about

to go to lunch

but this urgent task came up so

sometimes we do that

you can hear both it kind of depends on

the speaker's feeling

a little bit okay this one

uh we're just about to leave so

this uses that present tense i was

talking about we are

we're just about to leave so that shows

that it's an upcoming plan

for the very near future again just

appears

before the verb here in the past tense

examples

so keep this in mind because for this

lesson for this content in general

the word order is very important here

so when you're using just with this

meaning with meaning one

to emphasize a small degree we need to

use

just before the word it modifies

so here the emphasis the word i want to

emphasize

is one one or three

so just comes before that word

a mistake that many people make and even

native speakers make

is using just before the verb here i

just ate one cookie

or we just had three days for our

vacation

so they want to emphasize this but they

position

just before the verb and this is

incorrect because we use

just in this position for this kind of

pattern

for a recently finished action i just

ate one cookie

sounds like i very recently ate one

cookie which is correct that could be a

grammatically correct sentence yes

but if you want to emphasize a small

amount of something you need to put it

before that word that you want to modify

we'll see the same thing with only

actually

so when we're using only again it shares

this meaning with

just for the first the first meaning

here so

we're emphasizing that small degree of

something and the same

word order rule applies we have to use

only before the word it modifies

so we can use the same example sentences

i

ate only one cookie or we had

only three days for our vacation so

again we can remove

only from the sentence and the sentence

remains grammatically correct

we're just emphasizing one or

three in this case and using only shows

the speaker feels it was a small amount

or a small

degree if we position only somewhere

else in the sentence like

i only ate one cookie or we only have

three days for our vacation

then it modifies the verb and it changes

the sentence for example if i said

i only ate one cookie it means i did not

do

anything else to that one cookie so i

only

ate one cookie i did not look at the

cookie

i did not smell the cookie i did not

bake the cookie

i only ate one cookie so we're modifying

the verb there

here it comes before one so i ate only

one cookie so

not two not three not four i ate only

one so keep this in mind this is a key

point that many native speakers have

trouble with too

okay let's take a look then at the

second use

for this lesson i want to talk about one

more common use

of the word only and that is when it's

used in

conditionals we use this in conditionals

if

sentences in if questions to place our

restriction

on some action so this is when we want

to say that

one thing is not possible

without another thing so maybe some of

you have studied

like if only if as long as

and unless and so on so this is like the

kind of situations that we use

these for example we can take a long

vacation this summer

only if we start saving now

so using only if

shows that this situation

taking a long vacation this summer is

possible yes but there's a condition

there's a restriction

so only if we start

saving now means if we do not start

saving

now we cannot go on vacation

so we could say yes if we start saving

now sure

that would be okay but this is

emphasizing their restriction

this is possible only if we start saving

now we must start saving now

if we do not start saving now it is not

going to be possible

let's look at one more example for

example in this case i was thinking like

a mother

or a father speaking to their child so

yes you can go to your friend's party

but only if you finish your homework

so again we see a condition

like some situation that we're

interested in desiring

going to the friend's party and then we

see the restriction

only if you finish your homework

only if you finish your homework can you

go to the party

so that means homework must be completed

the child

must complete his or her homework if

that is done

the child can go to the party so this

only

shows that restriction more clearly than

just

if so you need to use only to emphasize

that restriction

so we can do this you might hear some

native speakers

split the only and the if into like

so they have a lot of distance in the

sentence sometimes i hear

for example we can only take a long

vacation this summer

if we start saving now so in most cases

that doesn't cause a communication

problem but for the sake of clarity i

would recommend you try to keep your

only and if together so that you can

clearly see

the conditions and the restrictions so

again

word order does matter here put this

before the condition

this is the thing that must happen it

must be completed it must be fulfilled

in order for this other thing to happen

so your word order does matter here

so from this lesson a big point meaning

one

for only and just they are the same you

can use them in the same

way so don't worry about choosing

between these two

the thing to worry about is the position

of the word in the sentence make sure to

put it before the word you're modifying

if you would like some more information

about these points specifically the word

only there is a lesson about positioning

of the word only in sentences so please

check the youtube channel

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想从第一课开始说真正的英语

在

englishclass101.com 注册您的免费终身帐户 大家好，我的名字是

本课中的艾丽西亚，我将讨论

单词之间的一些区别 just 和 only

i'm going to look 在这些词的

两种用法中，

我将在本课中专注于它们的副词用法

让我们开始吧，我想

从谈论这个词开始，

所以我在这里有两个

含义，只是第一个含义 是一个

与 only 有共同意义的句子，所以我们

将看到这是同

一种句型，同一种用法，

所以只是或仅以这种

方式强调一个小的程度

或少量的东西，所以当

我们想要做的时候 有些东西看起来

更小或者可能不太重要

我们可以使用这个词，或者我们可以只用这个词

来做

一些例子我

在这里只吃了一个饼干，所以指出我想做

得更

小我想强调这个

我用来展示的饼干

不是两个不是三个 一个我想

强调那里的小

数字第二我们

只有三天的假期所以

在这里我想强调三天是

一小

部分时间所以只有三天

表明演讲者觉得它

不是很

喜欢它 假期的时间并不长

，

所以我们用它来强调如果我们

只从句子中删除它在

语法上仍然是正确的 i ate one

cookie 没关系 我们有三天的

假期没关系，但使用只是强调

一个小的程度或一个 少量的

东西，

所以我们会看到这个，

好吧，让我们看一下 just 在本课中的第二个

用法，

我们可以将其

用于最近完成的动作

或在不久的将来发生的动作，

当我们使用 just 谈论

不久的将来的动作，我们将它与

大约 2 about 2 一起使用，

您可能会听到一些说话者仅与

动词的 ing 形式一起使用，

这意味着某事正在发生，就像

现在正在开始，

所以它是极端的 在不久的将来你可能会

听到，

所以大约两个，这意味着它还没有

开始，但

很快就会开始

所以让我们先看一些例子

我刚刚完成我的作业我刚刚

完成我的作业

所以完成是过去时这里

指 对于一个最近完成的

动作，你刚刚打电话给我这是一个问题，

所以这里的

电话是现在时是的，但是我们

在这里做了过去时你打电话给我吗你

只是打电话给我的意思是在最近的

过去你打电话所以使用 只是表明，

然后这些是不久的将来的情况，

我正要吃午饭

想来我们经常使用这种过去

时模式，当有事情

改变了我们的计划时，比如我正要

去吃午饭，

但这个紧急任务出现了，所以

有时我们会这样做，

你可以听到这两种情况，这有点

取决于说话者的感觉

好吧这个

呃，我们即将离开，所以

这使用了我所说的现在时态

，我们是，

我们即将离开，这

表明这是一个即将到来的计划

，在不久的将来再次

出现

在过去的动词之前 时态的

例子，

所以请记住这一点，因为

对于本课的内容来说，

一般来说，词序在这里非常重要，

所以当你使用这个

意思时，用一个意思

来强调一个小的程度，我们需要

在它之前使用它 修改

所以在这里我要强调的重点

是一一或三个

所以就在那个词之前

很多人甚至母语人士都会犯的错误

是在动词之前使用这里我

只吃了一块饼干

或者我们只吃了三个 我们假期的几天，

所以他们想强调这一点，但他们的

位置

就在动词之前，这是

不正确的，因为我们

只在这个位置使用这种

模式

来表示最近完成的动作 i just

ate one cookie

听起来我最近吃了一个

饼干，它是正确的，可能是一个

语法正确的句子

实际上

只有这样，当我们再次使用它时，它

与这里的第一个含义共享这个含义，

所以

我们强调的是小程度的

东西，并且同样的

词序规则适用，我们必须

只在单词 it 之前使用 修改

所以我们可以使用相同的例句

i

ate only one cookie 或者我们

只有三天的假期

所以我们

只能从句子中删除并且句子

保持语法正确

我们只是

在这种情况下强调一三个并且 使用 only 表示

如果我们只

在句子中的其他位置定位，比如

我只吃了一块饼干，或者我们只有

三天的假期，

那么说话者会觉得这是一个小数目或一个小程度 修饰动词并

改变句子例如如果我说

我只吃了一个饼干，这意味着我没有

对那个饼干做任何其他事情所以我

只吃了一个饼干我没有看

饼干

我没有闻到饼干我 没有

烤饼干

我只吃了一个饼干所以我们在

这里修改动词

它在一个之前所以我只吃了

一个饼干所以

不是两个不是三个不是四个我只吃了

一个所以记住这一点这是一个关键

点 很多母语人士都

遇到了问题

如果提出问题来限制我们

对某些行动的限制，那么这是当我们想说

一件事没有另一件事是不可能

的时候，所以也许

你们中的一些人已经研究

过 if only if as long as

和 unless 等等，所以这就像

我们遇到的那种情况 使用

这些例如，我们可以在

今年夏天放一个长假，

只有当我们现在开始储蓄时，

所以只使用如果

表明这种

情况今年夏天放长假

是可能的，但是有一个条件

是有限制的，

所以只有当我们

现在开始储蓄意味着 如果我们现在不开始

存钱，

我们就不能去度假，

所以我们可以说是，如果我们现在开始存钱，

肯定没问题，但这是在

强调他们的限制，

这只有在我们现在开始存钱的情况下才有可能，如果我们这样做，

我们必须现在开始存钱

现在不开始存钱

是不可能的

让我们再看一个例子，

例如在这种情况下，我想像

一个母亲

或父亲对他们的孩子说话，所以

是的，你可以去你朋友的聚会，

但前提是你完成了你的 作业，

所以我们再次看到

某种情况，比如我们有

兴趣参加朋友的聚会，然后我们

看到

只有当你完成作业时才完成作业的限制

k 你能

去参加

聚会吗，这意味着必须完成家庭作业 如果完成

了孩子

必须完成他或她的家庭作业

孩子可以去参加聚会，所以这

只会

更清楚地表明限制，而不是

你只需要使用 为了强调

这一限制，

以便我们可以做到这一点，您可能会听到一些

母语人士

将 only 和 if 拆分为 like，

因此他们在句子中的距离很大，

有时我听到

例如，如果我们开始，我们只能在

今年夏天放一个长假

现在保存，所以在大多数情况下

，这不会导致沟通

问题，但为了清楚起见，

我建议你尽量保持你的

only 和 if 在一起，这样你就可以

清楚地

看到条件和限制，所以

在这里词序很重要 把它

放在条件之前

这是必须发生的事情 它

必须完成 它必须

完成才能让其他事情发生

所以你的词序在这里

很重要 所以从这节课开始 int 意思是

one

for only，只是它们是相同的，您

可以以相同的方式使用它们，

所以不要担心

在这两者之间进行选择，

要担心的

是单词在句子中的位置，确保

将其放在

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