Whats the difference between NOT and NO in English
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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them
maybe let’s get to your first question
this week
first question this week comes from
henrique hi henrique
enrique says how do we use at in
and on correctly thank you okay very
quickly because there are videos on the
channel about how to use prepositions so
please do a search and check them out
very quickly to review let’s begin with
at
we use at to mark specific locations in
cities that means like buildings so for
example i’m
at the bank or she’s at the supermarket
we can also use at to refer to specific
locations outside cities like in the
countryside
like we’re at the river today we also
use at
before times to mark specific times of
day
like let’s meet at 2pm or she arrived at
3
- we also use at with night as in
at night please note we do not use at
with morning or
afternoon or evening those are incorrect
we only use it with
at night then let’s talk about in we use
in before the names of cities and
countries like she lives in switzerland
or
he lives in barcelona or it’s in toronto
so we use it before city names
and country names we can also use in
before a length of time to mark a
duration
like let’s meet in 10 minutes or we
finish the project
in one hour we also use in
with months for example she moved in
february
or i’m going to europe in june finally
let’s talk about
on we use on with days of the week and
to talk about the weekend
as in something we did on the weekend in
some variations of english you may hear
people saying
at the weekend but this is not used in
american english we use
on the weekend so we use on before days
of the week
as in let’s meet on tuesday or
we had coffee together on saturday so
this is a very quick introduction to
different ways to use at in
and on as i said please do a quick
search of the channel for prepositions
to find
other videos with more details about
this topic so i hope that this helps you
thanks for the question
okay let’s move on to our next question
next question
comes from
hi alicia what is the difference between
park and
garden thank you ah a park is generally
a big
open area with lots of grass you can
come to a park and you can do
like a variety of different activities
if you want to have a picnic or a
barbecue or you want to maybe
play a sport or something like that you
can generally do that in a park there’s
a lot of really big
open space so maybe we can show a
picture on screen here so you can see
what a park a typical park looks like
a garden on the other hand is something
that’s supposed to be enjoyed
for its design and when i say design i
mean like the
landscape design like maybe there are
special flowers inside the garden
or there’s uh maybe special decorations
there’s some kind of like landscape that
is special
in the garden so you might see parks and
gardens like together there might be a
garden inside a park
but a garden is generally not a place
that you go to
to do a specific activity like we don’t
go to a garden to have a barbecue or we
don’t go to a garden to play a sport
generally we go to a garden to enjoy the
scenery to enjoy
being in the garden like walking along
the paths in the garden
so parks are generally more open spaces
where we can do a variety of activities
gardens are spaces that we use for
enjoyment of that natural space
so i hope that this helps you thanks for
the question okay let’s move on to your
next
question next question comes from
sumitha
aaron hello sumitha sumitha says i would
like to know the difference between
resume and curriculum vitae okay they
are very very similar a curriculum vitae
or cv as it is often called these are
very very similar documents
we use both of them to apply for jobs
so a cv is generally longer than a
resume maybe like three to four pages
and it includes everything you have ever
done all of your professional experience
so that’s like your work experience
and your education experience yes so
where you went to school the degrees
that you have
the topics that you studied and so on
but we also on a cv
include our credentials our
certification so if you got some kind of
special
recognition if you got a scholarship a
grant if you’ve published anything like
a book or a paper
or if you have a thesis somewhere if
you’ve given a presentation
basically anything connected to your
work and your professional experience
will be listed on a cv so a cv is like a
very long
list of all of your achievements all of
your professional
and your educational achievements these
are kind of longer documents
a resume on the other hand is generally
a little bit shorter
it’s maybe like one to two pages long
and it’s kind of more of a summary
so in addition to including like your
contact information
uh you might have a short career
objective like that means
the thing that you are trying to do in
your career you might have that
and then generally with a resume you
have a series of
summaries of your past work so maybe you
have three or four companies or three or
four positions
on your resume and you summarize your
accomplishments and your role
in each of those positions so that
someone has a good idea has like a good
image
of what kind of work you have done and
therefore how it connects to your
current
objective so again a resume tends to be
a bit shorter than a cv maybe one to two
pages
but a cva like could be maybe three to
four pages if you have a long work
history
in the uk you might find that nobody
actually uses the word resume so if
you’re speaking with a british english
speaker they might only use the word
cv cv generally refers to the same
concept as
a resume so 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 siam hello siam siam says
what’s the difference between not and
no uh i’ll give a very general answer to
this question
we use not and no to give
negative responses to things the grammar
of the sentence is what’s important here
so we use not before adjectives and
verbs for example i am not hungry
or she’s not sleeping or they do not
work
on saturdays so this comes before
adjectives or verbs
no of course is also used to respond to
yes or no questions with the negative
answer you may also hear it not used in
kind of a sarcastic way to reply to
someone’s opinion or to respond to
someone’s opinion
for example person a might say i really
liked that movie
and person b might respond with yeah me
too
not so this is kind of an old style
humor it’s not it’s actually not very
funny but some people try to use this
not to show contrast to the thing that
they just said
so this really means i’m going to
pretend that i agree with you for a
moment
but i don’t really so you might hear
some people use
not in this way too so i hope that this
helps you thanks for the question
okay let’s move on to our next question
next question
comes from arkan git hello arkon
arkon says what’s the difference between
police station
and police department nice question yeah
a police station
is a building it’s a physical place that
we can visit
so people work inside a police station
a police department on the other hand is
a part of an organization
so the police department refers to a
group of people
working together to do police work this
is the same as like a marketing
department in a company
or as like a sales department in an
online store
it refers to a group of people that are
doing the same
type of work a police department so a
police department refers to that group
of people
the police station refers to the
physical
building where police officers are
located
so in sentences you might say something
like i went to the police station
to file a report about my lost wallet
or the police department is working to
reduce crime in our city
so i hope that this helps you thanks
very much for the question
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