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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i

answer them maybe thanks very much as

always for submitting your questions

remember you can submit your questions

to me at englishclass101.com

ask hyphen alicia first question

question comes from

carla hi carla carla asks how do native

speakers use

to have i have seen i've i have got

formal and informal sure we use the verb

to have for a lot of different meaning

there's a grammatical function for the

verb have

when we pair it with the past participle

form of a verb like i

have plus past participle to make the

present perfect tense

or i had plus past participle to make

the past perfect

tense so there's that kind of

grammatical function

of the verb have however if you just

want to use the verb

have in everyday situations like i have

a phone or i have a camera or

i don't have any money for example then

to have

in that case just means to own something

or to hold something to be

keeping something so please consider the

sentence that you're looking at with the

verb have in it

if it comes before a verb in the past

participle

it's probably a past perfect or a

present perfect expression

if you're seeing something after the

verb have

like an object in my examples like a

phone or a camera or money

then it's probably referring to owning

something or

keeping something so those are probably

two of the most

common ways that you'll see the verb

have and its variations in

at least american english speech next

question

the next person asked two questions so

the next two questions are from

essa warsiadi where where's sayadee

i'm very sorry question one from asa can

you explain

through thorough though and thought

they sound similar yes indeed they do

sound similar

and they even look similar in writing

for sure

however these words have different

meanings and different functions in

speech

and in writing let's look at through to

begin with though

through means to pass into

something and to come out the other side

of something

so for example to go through a tunnel or

if you're looking at a document for

example to go

through a document means to read through

read

all of the content of the document from

beginning to end

so through something is to to begin at

something

and pass through all of the content to

pass through everything

and come up come out the other side or

to complete something so we also use the

word

through to mean finished in american

english like are you through with dinner

or i'm through with my homework so

through those are a couple of different

ways we use the word through the second

word thorough

thorough so different from through

thorough means

um comprehensive thorough means

completely thorough means

well done it has typically a positive

meaning

so for example she was very thorough in

her explanation of the word through

or she was very thorough in her

explanation of the word thorough sorry

she was very thorough in her

presentation meaning she gave a lot of

information

in her presentation thorough means well

done containing a lot of knowledge a lot

of information

in something thorough so please be

thorough in completing your homework or

he wasn't very thorough in cleaning his

room so

thorough means well done completely done

finished so considering

everything considering all points of

something even the small

details is considered thorough so we can

use thorough for presentations

for activities that require small

details a thorough safety check for

example

so these are actions that are done

completely fully to the small details so

that's

thorough next word here is though though

though you can think of though

in the same way you think of the word

but so it's used to contrast

information it's used to express a

difference in something so you could

follow

someone's opinion with an expression

like though so for example

i think summer is the best season though

winter is pretty fun too

so you can think of though in the same

way as you think of but

a though be so you're presenting

a and then a contrasting opinion b and

you're connecting those two ideas with

though in the same way you would but so

though though although is similar we use

although and though and but

in similar ways what's the difference

but is much more casual and but

is used much more in casual conversation

in everyday conversation

if you're writing a document a formal

document or if you're making a formal

statement

you could use though in place of but so

though

shows contrasting information the last

one on this list is

thought thought thought is the past

tense of

think when used as a verb so i thought

you were coming today

or i thought it was going to rain later

or i thought this was such a great

afternoon

thought is used as the past tense of

think we can also use

thought to refer to an idea as a noun so

i have a thought for example or

do you have any thoughts about this

project so we can use

thought as a verb past tense of think or

as a noun to refer to an idea so again

that's

through thorough though and thought

some of you might be wondering how do i

remember which is which

when i'm reading or when i'm listening

you have to pay attention to the grammar

of the sentence they all have different

grammatical functions

so you need to think about the grammar

surrounding the word too

on to question do from issa what does

love to hate mean and when can i use it

love to hate

means it's something that you really

really dislike

but it's sort of enjoyable to dislike so

for example this is an expression we can

apply

to reality tv so many people think

reality tv

is not very good entertainment or it's

not very high quality entertainment

however it's really really fun to watch

so maybe for example you just hate a

character

on a reality tv show but somehow you

enjoy

watching that tv show too so something

that you feel

very strong dislike for and yet you

really enjoy

it at the same time that's something you

can love to hate you love to hate that

thing

next question next question comes from

bowie dente

bowie bowie dente very sorry dante asks

when can i use

ever in a present perfect sentence like

i

have ever ever means at any time or at

all times

you can use ever when you're asking a

question like have you ever blah blah

have you ever been to france have you

ever eaten ramen have you ever

taken a trip to the mountains for

example we can use

ever when making questions that's one

but because ever means at all time or at

any time

we may not use it to answer a question

like that have you ever blah blah blah

we usually say yes or no in that in

response to that we can say i have never

ever taken a trip to france or i have

never

ever forgotten my keys for example i

have never

ever blah blah blah but in that case it

still means

never an expression like never ever just

emphasizes the word

never so to use ever we need to pair

ever with a verb in a sentence so

we can't say i have ever just i

have plus a verb we cannot say i have

ever

that's incorrect i have at some at any

time or at all times

it's it's redundant it's it's not

necessary

we can however use ever in a negative

expression like i haven't ever been to

france or

she hasn't ever eaten cheese for example

so we have to pair ever with a negative

to make a response we use ever for

present perfect tense questions

and paired with a negative have or has

to make a response to make a negative

response so please keep those two in

mind next

question next question comes from bahar

hey bahar nice to see you again

uh bahar's question is what does dash

mean

and when can we use it okay so the word

dash as a verb means to run very quickly

for a short period of time so for

example

i dashed to the station to catch my

train or i dashed to the classroom

for my test he dashed off to the flower

store to buy

a bouquet for his mother for example so

these are very very

short periods of time and very high

speed that's

to dash however we can use dash as a

noun

in a way that does not refer to running

we can use it in writing as well

sometimes we use the word dash to refer

to these lines we see in writing you

might see

hyphens n dashes and m dashes these all

have different functions in writing

hyphens may be used to connect words n

dashes can be used to show

periods of time and m dashes can kind of

show um

extra information in a sentence um so we

call all of these

dashes this is kind of the category that

we assign to each of these so there's

the verb

to dash and there's also dash as a noun

which means all of these sorts of things

so thanks for that question baja

next question next question comes from

ricardo villarreal hey ricardo welcome

back ricardo's question is what's the

difference between

several sundry and various okay i'm not

quite sure how sundry fits in here

several means a few of something so

think of several as

higher than a couple or a few

but it's not quite at many yet so maybe

as a good hint the word several sounds a

bit similar to

seven maybe it doesn't necessarily mean

exactly seven of something but it's a

bit higher than a few

and it's not quite at the level of many

or a lot of

the next word you asked about sundry

sundry is something we use for household

items like everyday small household

items we usually use that

in the plural form like shops which sell

sundries

so this is quite uh different from the

words several and various

so sundry is usually used in the plural

form and it refers to

everyday items in your house the last

word you asked about

various we use various to describe a

miscellany of things

we use it before a noun typically

for example various ideas or various

people or various subjects various

topics

so various is used to describe many

different types of

something several refers to quantity

various is just used to indicate that

there are different

types or different kinds of the noun

that follows it so as i said

various ideas various flavors various

people

meaning different types of ideas

different types of people different

types of flavors

so several quantity various

types next question next question comes

from arnett

jake nougued no no i'm very sorry how do

we use

well before someone starts speaking and

though

after they speak well is kind of used as

a

soft way to begin speaking well it kind

of shows that you were listening to the

other person so it shows you listened to

the other person

and you are responding to them well if

that's the case it kind of has that

nuance

well it sort of shows you were listening

and you are going to

respond based on that information

remember

though is used to show contrast so if

someone presents you with an idea or

gives you an opinion

and you want to show contrast to that

formally you can begin with

though so if for example you're in a

formal situation

a business situation for example and

someone says

i think we should continue with the idea

we proposed last summer for this project

you might counter the opinion or you

might oppose the opinion

by beginning your statement with though

so you could say

though that's going to cost a lot of

money to implement

so though shows contrast in a formal and

polite

way next question next question comes

from michael

king hi michael michael asks i want to

study at home

self-study what should i do ah yeah okay

i have self-studied

and it can be tough to do but you have

the internet congratulations

so what can you do there are a lot of

things number one define your goal

what is it you hope to achieve what are

you looking to do

through your studies don't just say i

want to learn english that's not a very

specific goal

give yourself a specific goal to achieve

like i want to pass

this level of a test or i want to be

able to do this thing in my life

i want to be able to give a business

presentation in english number two

look for resources that are going to

help you achieve that goal

if you need to work on your speaking you

need to find ways to practice your

speaking

if you're looking for something to help

you with your reading or your writing

for example

look for tools that do that if you want

to read look for blogs look for websites

that have the content

in your target language that you want to

know more about

so start reading things and trying to

pick up the vocabulary

through studying those things in your

target language there are tons of

resources out there but you need to

define your goal

first and then start looking for the

resources that match your goal

three maybe the most difficult one for a

lot of us is to practice every day

find some way to make language practice

part of your everyday routine in my case

for example i found that it was really

helpful for me to take 15 minutes

in the morning and 15 minutes in the

evening during my commute on the subway

to study vocabulary and that helped me

improve little by little

day by day so it was a total of 30

minutes but

it added up over time and through

practicing every day

you'll find that the resources you're

using will become easier to understand

number four where possible try to create

an immersion environment if you're not

in a situation where you're actually

living in the country or you can

go to the country where they speak the

language you're studying

try to create some kind of immersion

environment for yourself where you can't

escape

into your native language just as much

as possible try to create some sort of

immersion environment so that you get

used to hearing those sounds and kind of

the natural responses that people have

to those sounds too

number five i think one more really good

tip for studying at home

is asking questions so there are other

people who are learning your language

and other people who are trying to study

we see it a lot on this channel too and

you guys are fantastic about helping

your fellow classmates

when you have a question and you can't

find the answer for it

ask someone don't let yourself get stuck

also think about the resources you

already have if it's a question about

vocabulary you can check a dictionary if

you want to deepen your vocabulary you

can check a thesaurus

if you have a specific question about

how an expression is used

try asking a native speaker try posting

on a message board try posting in the

comments try posting on our website

so if you have a question reach out and

ask chances are if you have the question

it's going to help somebody else to ask

the question and get the answer if you

have a question

ask good luck with your self-study next

question next question is from harley

passage hey harley welcome back what

does

uncountable mean this refers to a group

of nouns that we do not

count with numbers alone so for example

bread is uncountable

instead we use a counter word between

the number

and the uncountable noun so in my bread

example

we use one loaf of bread one slice of

bread

there are different words we use to

count the individual pieces or the

individual units

of the uncountable noun uncountable

nouns

means nouns which we cannot count with

just a simple number before the noun

we need to use an additional counter

word next

question next question comes from taylor

hi again taylor what's the difference

between

look into my eyes and look me in the eye

i would say that we use a look into my

eyes

in more romantic situations or you might

hear this in like

movies maybe there's something magical

that's happening and

i don't know a witch is casting a spell

and she says look into my eyes

look me in the eye is typically used in

a more aggressive situation it's used in

an expression like look me in the

eye and say that look me in the eye

tends to be a more aggressive statement

look into my eyes sounds more romantic

or mysterious

next question from yonki

i'm sorry what's the difference between

i like to take naps

and i like to take a nap or i like to go

for walks

and i like to go for a walk so when

you're speaking

generally especially in a sentence like

i like to

you need to use the plural form of the

noun you can't use the singular form of

the noun

because you're talking generally about

all cases of that noun or all cases of

that action you're talking about a

regular activity you like to do

something you have done more than one

time something you are going to do

repeatedly presumably into the future so

you need to use the plural form next

question next

question is from suha how do we write a

good paragraph

number one you need to think about the

position of your paragraph in your

overall document

let's think about writing a document in

terms of three parts an introduction

a body and a conclusion in the

introduction section

you need to introduce the key

information your reader needs to know

what they're going to read about later

in your document so if your paragraph is

in the introduction

you need to think about how to introduce

your information there

second the body section of your document

should be where you include

your evidence your supporting materials

your opinions

any references that you have so if your

paragraph falls in the body of the

document you should have these themes in

mind

if your paragraph is in the conclusion

of your document at the

end you should be concluding or

finishing your ideas it's typically a

good idea to summarize the ideas you

presented in the body

and the introduction of your document in

the concluding section

two use transitions when you're writing

it's good to transition from one

sentence to another

and to use good transitions between

paragraphs themselves so some example

transitions could be

first second third or next

then finally after that moreover

additionally furthermore

so transitions help the reader connect

the ideas that you're presenting in your

writing three

avoid trying to include too much

information in one sentence

remember you need to try to present your

ideas as

clearly and accurately as possible so if

you find you're just writing and writing

and writing and the sentence is becoming

extremely long

take a moment and look at the goal of

this sentence what are you

actually trying to communicate if you

need to break it into smaller sentences

and connect them with transitions

next question next question comes from

luann garcia hi luann one asks i would

like to know how to use down

up off in on and out after a verb and

why it's necessary

oh dear won this is a very big question

your question is about phrasal verbs

these are all called phrasal verbs verb

plus adverb or

preposition there are an enormous amount

of phrasal verbs i cannot

possibly talk about all of them in one

video phrasal verbs are

necessary because they are part of

speech they are simply

a type of verb they are a type of

expression so you need to know them

because

they will help you to communicate

effectively um so

if you want to know more about specific

phrasal verbs i would suggest checking a

dictionary okay thanks very much for

submitting your questions again this

week

great questions as always thank you so

much you guys make me think really hard

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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you

ask me questions and i answer them maybe

you can send your questions to me at

englishclass101.com

slash ask hyphen alicia first question

from

harley pasos harley paso paso passport

i'm very sorry harley asks what is the

use of get

plus adverb or preposition for example

i get down this is a question about

phrasal verbs with

get we can use a lot of different things

after the word

get in your example to get down we use

it when dancing for example like i want

to get down this weekend it's sort of an

old-fashioned expression though to get

down we can use a lot of different

uh words after the verb get though for

example get into

to get into something means to become

interested in something you might hear

to get at like get at me

or get at your professor to get at means

to reach out to or to communicate with

but it's a very casual expression you

can say get after like i need to get

after my homework for example

it means to like chase after or try to

do something

also to get in like to get into a club

to get into a restaurant to get into a

party

the nuance is that something is

challenging but you can gain

access to that thing like i got into the

party last night but i wasn't on the

list there are a lot of different uses

of the word

get i can't talk about all of them in

this video because there are so many

so if you're curious about the various

phrasal verbs that we can use with the

word get check out a dictionary that's a

really good place to start

next question next question comes from

long

and longan asks what is the difference

between simple

past tense and past continuous tense or

past progressive tense simple

past tense we use for actions that

started

and ended in the past so the beginning

of the action and the end of the action

happened in the past so for example the

sentence i ate

breakfast is a simple past tense

statement i

ate breakfast eight is the simple past

tense the past continuous tense however

or the past progressive tense

is something we use to talk about an

action that was continuing

at a specific point in time in the past

if i want to use the past progressive

tense i can say

i was eating breakfast using that

continuous tense using that progressive

tense implies i want

to explain something else that happened

at that time or maybe i want to add some

more information

so for example i was eating breakfast at

eight o'clock this morning or i was

eating breakfast when the phone rang

or i was eating breakfast and watching

tv at the same time

i was eating breakfast while studying

today by using the past progressive

i'm explaining that an action was

continuing at a specific point in time

as in the example i was eating breakfast

at eight o'clock

or i can use past progressive to show

one action was happening at the same

time as another action

in the past if i use just the simple

past tense i'm just saying

a simple fact in other words this action

happened i ate breakfast at eight

o'clock

if i want to emphasize the continuous

nature of the action for some reason

like i was eating breakfast at eight

o'clock

i can use the past progressive tense in

that case

it might be in response to a question

like what were you doing at eight

o'clock this morning so if someone wants

to ask maybe

uh what you were doing at a specific

point in time like someone is suspicious

of you like what were you doing last

night

you can say like oh i was having dinner

with my friends last night

but past ten simple past tense is

something we use for actions which start

uh and finish uh in the past but

progressive the progressive tense and

past

can be used to emphasize the continuing

nature of that situation or that action

next

question next question comes from yasin

yasim yasin i'm very sorry what's the

difference between

on time and in time is it you arrived

just on time or you arrived just in time

we use

on time to refer to doing something

at the correct time doing something at a

scheduled time so for example i need to

get to work

on time meaning at the correct time or

did you make it to your appointment on

time

in time however is used when we want to

kind of give a nuance of rushing or

hurrying for something

i need to leave my house now to get to

the airport in time

for my flight i need to study for my

test now if i want to be in time for the

party later you should probably leave

now if you want to be in time for the

movie

in time for something else so i want to

do

action a to make my schedule meet

this other condition this other thing i

would like to do or this other thing i

need to do

in time for has the nuance of a deadline

we can use this expression in like a

panic like oh my gosh i'm not going to

make it

in time like to submit a paper i'm not

going to make it in time

in time means like before the deadline

whereas on time has the meaning of

completing an action or completing

something

at a scheduled time next question

the next question comes from garrison

silva hi what is the difference between

shade and shadow oh great this is a

great question

both of these words can be used to refer

to a place

that is darker than its surroundings

because

there's an object that is blocking the

light we can say

there's shade over there or there's a

shadow over there

in that sentence they are used the same

however

shadow refers to the dark shape only so

a person

can cast a shadow we use cast the verb

cast with a shadow i cast a shadow when

i stand

in the sun for example shade however as

a noun

refers to or has the nuance of a kind of

shelter

so shelter provided by some other object

shelter from the light shelter from the

sun so we would say

stand in the shade because shade has the

nuance of

shelter we would not say stand in the

shadow shadow does not carry the nuance

of

shelter in the way that shade does

interestingly enough though

shade and shadow are both used as verbs

as well

to shadow something means to follow

something closely

to shadow someone at work means to

follow someone at work and and try to

understand their job

for example shade is used as a verb to

mean to create

shelter from light for example the

canopy shaded

us from the sun shade also has some

interesting uses you might hear the

slang phrase to throw

shade throwing shade is a really

interesting slang expression that we use

which means

to communicate disrespect or to to

communicate like contempt

bad feelings for something when you're

speaking generally in most cases

when you want to talk about a dark cool

area we should say

shade stand in the shade when you want

to talk only about the dark

area that dark object use shadow next

question actually two questions from

danny hi danny danny's first question

is you talked about lit as slang yes i

talked about lit

in episode two episode one episode two

of ask alicia can you please talk about

the verb

light and using it in active and passive

sure

light means to start a fire so to light

a fire to light a candle

some examples of active and passive

voice with this verb then why don't we

light some candles for dinner tonight

all the candles in the restaurant were

lit on our camping trip

my neighbors lit a fire and we brought

uh hamburgers to make a fire was lit in

the campsite while we were gone

i was going to light a fire but i fell

asleep so to light means to start a fire

he lit the house on fire we can say to

light blah blah blah

on fire so there are a few different

examples of using the verb

light in active and in passive past

tense future tense as well so i hope

that that's helpful danny's

second question can you talk about ride

and its uses

like take someone for a ride can i take

a ride ryan is another verb that has a

lot of different uses you use the

example

to take someone for a ride means to

drive together with

someone to go for a ride has the nuance

of doing something just for fun

it's just for fun i want to take a ride

to a location i want to take a ride to

the mountains this weekend or take a

ride to

the beach but to take someone for a ride

means to

invite someone to drive somewhere with

you

in a car that's one way to use ride you

can also say

give me a ride can you give me a ride so

this is a request expression

i don't have a car my friend has a car i

want my friend to take me

in their car to a location i can say can

you give me a ride

to the movie theater can you give me a

ride to the lake

give me a ride is a request so give me a

ride in your

car so there are a lot of uses of ride

if you want to see all of them or if you

want to see more of them i recommend

checking a dictionary there are quite a

few and i can't talk about them all in

this video so please check a dictionary

next

question okay next question is from

femme femme

fam what does you're too good to be true

mean

is it good or not maybe you've heard

this in a famous song you're too good to

be true

can't take my eyes off of you in that

case it's a good meaning

a different way to say this expression

is you are so

good you are so amazing that i can't

believe you're real

so in other words something must be

wrong there must be some problem with

you

it's not possible for you to be real

because you are

so good you are so great so you're too

good to be true

it's like wow i'm amazed by you so it's

a good expression if however uh maybe in

a more

uncommon situation someone said like ah

this guy's too good to be true

like maybe reviewing a job application

for example

uh this girl she's too good to be true

like if it's said in that way

maybe there's something suspicious about

that person this doesn't seem right

there's just too much good information

here there must be some problem with

this person depending on the intonation

it can portray either a very positive

meaning or a very suspicious meaning

in most cases however it's a positive

meaning so if you heard this in a song

for example

it's probably a very positive kind of

romantically nuanced phrase thanks very

much for that question femme nice one

next question rabia arshad

ray rabia arshad rabia i'm very what's

the difference between

can and may i saw this on the dining

like a champ

cheat sheet and noticed these words were

used for requests

what's the difference can and may for

requests

in modern english in modern american

english are used

the same if i use them in a statement

can refers to ability

may refers to permission please just be

careful can

and may are only used in the same way to

make

requests in modern american english next

question is from taylor uh hi again

taylor

are where are you from and where were

you born

the same ah great question where are you

from

where were you born no not necessarily

not necessarily where were you born is

only the place where you were physically

brought into the world

maybe your hometown the place you

identify as your hometown

is different from the place where you

were born maybe you were

born in spain but you grew up

in the usa your family moved after that

so you could say i was born in spain but

i grew up in new york city

if someone asks you where are you from

it might be a good idea to say i was

born in blah blah blah

but i was raised in blah blah blah in a

different place if the two places are

different

next question next question is from

hassan hassan says

how do we use gotta in the negative form

so we did a live stream about have to

and got to

and need to on the youtube channel and

on facebook a while ago

gotta is a contraction a very casual

contraction of got

and two it's not a real word uh gotta

is just the sound that we make when we

say got to

very quickly like i gotta go to school

today or i gotta finish my homework or i

gotta get to sleep i'm so tired in

american english we do not use

gada in the negative instead we use have

to

or need to i don't have to go to work

tomorrow i don't need to go to work

tomorrow i don't need to go to sleep

right now

but american english does not use gotta

in the negative form

next question next question is from

sadaham i need to improve

my spoken english and my vocabulary how

do i do that i think there's a tool on

the website where you can record your

voice

speaking english and compare it to a

native speaker saying the same

thing so i think that's a that's a

feature on the website so check that out

if you haven't been it's an english

class 101.com there should be a

recording function there

where you can record your voice and

compare it to a native speaker

and keep practicing that until your

voice and your pronunciation

matches the native speakers

pronunciation so you'll see like little

waveforms there

even on the recording page so you can

try to match your voice

to a native speaker so of course

practicing with native speakers where

possible um

repeating so creating your own speech uh

is important too

um practicing with like recording tools

voice recording tools when you record

yourself you suddenly hear

so many problems in your speech so

recording yourself can be another good

tool but in terms of building your

vocabulary

first i need to define a goal what do i

want to talk about if i want to talk

about food

i should look for materials in my target

language

talking about food and i should study

those so think about what

it is that you want to do and try to be

specific try to narrow your goal down

to you know what are the words that i

need to do and try focusing there

and then maybe you can widen the focus

to other interests here

and there too but start maybe with the

things

that are going to help you communicate

the things that you really want to say

so always think about your goals what do

i want to learn how to say

next question from ricardo villarreal oh

hey ricardo welcome back is it correct

to learn

several languages at the same time ooh

is it correct

i can't answer that whether it's correct

or not so i've heard that if you want to

try

for whatever your reason is if you want

to try to study more than one language

at the same time

it's better to try to choose languages

that are quite different

so that there's less chance of you

making mistakes or getting confused in

your studies the other thing that i

think i would

say is if you're studying more than one

language at the same time your progress

might be a bit slower than if you

studied

just one language yeah is it correct i

don't know i can't answer that

that's up to you to decide so those are

all the questions that i want to talk

about this week

thank you so much for submitting so many

interesting questions i really

appreciate it so thanks very much for

watching this episode of ask alicia i

will see you again

next saturday bye bye

bonus vocabulary word for today spoiler

spoiler

a spoiler is secret information key

information about your media your book

your movie your tv show if you see the

phrase spoiler alert

somewhere it means the next piece of

text the next information the next thing

in the video

is going to be secret information about

the story so

if you have not seen the movie if you

have not seen the tv show or you have

not seen the book

you might find information you don't

want to read yet so

spoiler means something that will spoil

or something that will ruin the story

for you

so no spoilers about star wars until

we've seen it yeah

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this shirt is the same shirt that i was

wearing in the live stream this morning

it's a busy day a busy day for me

hi everybody my name is alicia welcome

back to ask alicia where you ask me

questions and i

answer them maybe thanks very much for

submitting your questions remember you

can submit your questions at

englishclass101.com

slash ask alicia there's a hyphen

between ask and alicia so watch out

first question for today do you have an

american accent or a british accent a

lot of you have asked this over the

course of the year

i have an american accent to be very

specific i suppose i speak

with a west coast american accent not

british english if you want to know what

british english sounds like there are

some videos on the youtube channel with

gina one of our other hosts she speaks

with a british accent so you can listen

to her to

kind of pick up some of the differences

between my accent

and her accent british english and

american english so thanks for that

question but yes i speak

american english next question how do we

use the word

cheers when do we use it is it formal or

informal please help

in american english we use cheers when

we're drinking when we want to

start off a drink with somebody else

we'll often clink

glasses so like touch glasses together

and say

cheers we use cheers in this way in

american english in other

types of english like british english or

australian english for example

people might use the word cheers as a

way to say thank you or as a way to say

thank you

in advance for something if my friend

asks me for a favor

and i agree to do that favor my friend

can say

cheers to me meaning thank you in

advance

so cheers it tends to be more on the

informal side it's not a super formal

expression if you want to use it in a

formal situation when you're drinking

with someone you can use

cheers but in most situations we use it

informally informally

next question hey alicia how do i make

this sentence negative

let's go to the park if you want to make

a let's

blah blah sentence negative just put not

before the verb let's not go to the part

let's not

plus some verb or some verb phrase let's

not go hiking this weekend

let's not watch that movie tonight i'm

tired let's

not blah blah blah to make a let's

sentence negative thanks for the

question

next question what does play down mean

this is a phrasal verb to

play down something or to play something

down

means to decrease the significance of

something

i don't want to play down how delicious

my mom's thanksgiving dinner was or i

don't want to play down my friend's

success he's doing an amazing job

if something is really great or really

interesting or

it could be negative too to play

something down

means to make this thing seem

less than what it actually is if there's

a scandal for example

the president is trying to play down the

seriousness of this situation it means

that it's a very serious situation

but the president is trying to make it

seem

less serious than it is so to play down

means to make something seem less than

it actually is

good question though thanks next

question the next question is about if

conditionals there's no problem when you

say the main clause first

and you say the if clause after is that

correct yes that's fine

in the live stream i introduced the

pattern if clause first

main clause second but i also mentioned

that we can use

main clause first and then if clause

second if i finish

editing this video today i can go

running i can reverse that sentence i

can go running

if i finish editing this video today

both sentences are totally correct it's

up to you

to choose which order you like thanks

for the question now good one the next

question is about the present

perfect progressive tense i said i have

been wanting to blah blah blah

why did i use the verb want in the

continuous tense

as wanting i used the progressive form

wanting

because from a point in the past until

now

there's something i have desired

i have wanted to do continuously though

to give a strong nuance of the

continuous

nature of that i use the the progressive

or the continuous form

wanting i've been wanting to see that

movie i've been wanting to get a coffee

with my friend

i've been wanting to get more sleep i've

been wanting to go jogging something you

started to want in the past and

continued

to want until this point in time you can

say i have been wanting

we can apply other verbs to this pattern

too like i've been thinking about you

all week i've been worrying about you

all day

so these continuous past emotions too

we can use the progressive tense to talk

about those

thanks for that question though that's a

good one next question

next question comes from ricardo

villarreal i'm very sorry what does

one mean as a subject one means any

person

it sounds rather formal in more casual

speech we say

you like if you went to the movie

theater where would you buy popcorn to

make it sound more

formal we could say where would one buy

popcorn instead of using

you we say one so you might see this

more in writing or perhaps

in situations where you is not

appropriate or it's too casual so

one means any person it doesn't mean the

number it doesn't refer to another noun

necessarily

a lot of if sentences like if one were a

doctor how much

money would one make one just means a

person any person thanks ricardo

next question from nita aprioni i hope i

said your name right i'm very sorry can

i say the ketchup

on that crispy chicken was savory the

flavor was barbecue teriyaki or black

pepper it wasn't

spicy ah yes you can say a sauce is

savory that's very very common so

something savory as we talked about

quickly in the

food live stream flavors that are not so

sweet but that are still very very

flavorful

something that's usually a little bit

more salty we don't really use

savory to explain sweet things it's more

for

kind of salty things or things that have

like a really deep flavor about them

so yes you can describe your sauce or

your barbecue sauce or your chicken

whatever you put on your chicken as

savory that's a great word to describe

thanks for that question i almost forgot

there's one more thing i want to talk to

you about you guys did not ask this

question but i noticed it during the

food livestream that we did recently the

difference between

dessert and desert is one s in spelling

however these two words are different

let's start with the word

dessert the sweet food that comes at the

end of a meal dessert is spelled with

two

s's we use d-e-s-s-e-r-t to spell

dessert however the word desert which is

spelled d-e-s-e-r-t

refers to like a dry landscape not many

plants not many animals live there

that's a desert if you misspell the word

dessert

and you forget that s it becomes desert

also

very interestingly there's another way

to pronounce the word that's spelled

d-e-s-e-r-t

this is a verb to desert so to desert

means to leave something without

planning to come back like to desert a

town or to desert your family

to abandon something also it can mean

like leaving a military position like so

to desert

the army please note dessert as the end

of a meal

and to desert meaning to leave or to

abandon something

have the same pronunciation but

different grammatical functions so

please be careful of this point

how can we put them all together i'm

going to desert my station

so that i can enjoy dessert in the

desert

okay so i think those are all the

questions that i want to take a look at

this week remember if you want to submit

a question you can send them to me at

englishclass101.com ask

hyphen alicia type away that way i would

be waiting for your messages a recent

live stream

uh which many of these questions are

from is about food so if you had any

other food vocabulary related questions

let me know thanks very much for

watching this episode and i will see you

again

next week bye

soup is magical do you not agree when i

was little as part of our thanksgiving

school activities we would put our hands

on a piece of paper

and then draw an outline of our hands

with a pen after that we take our hand

away and we color a turkey i wonder if i

could still do that we'd stick our hand

on a piece of paper

like this and then we draw around it so

i'm gonna make a really ugly turkey

right now you ready

step one make a hand print step two make

a turkey

my turkey looks suspiciously like a

chicken this is

very not good this is in fact

very bad this is a turkey that has had

some life experiences let's just say

that

it looks like a chicken that got in a

fight all right this is terrible

it's like he's stuck in a windstorm or

something i am not meant to be an artist

but

yeah happy new year let's talk about

present perfect tense

hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them

maybe as always remember you can submit

your questions to me at

englishclass101.com ask hyphen

alicia first question this question

comes from zara hi alicia i have a

question about present perfect tense

in my native language there isn't a

tense called present perfect tense

i am confused because i don't know the

differences between present perfect

tense

and simple past tense well let's begin

with an in-depth explanation of these

two grammar points and the differences

between them okay

to begin let's begin with the simple

timeline here we have the past

now which is the star on the timeline

and the future so we're going to focus

on the past

and the now points let's focus on those

so first

let's look at the simple past tense we

use the simple past tense for actions

which started

and ended in the past so at a point in

time

before the present a point in time

before now in other words

on our timeline then let's imagine there

are two points a start point and an

endpoint for that action okay so here

i've made a start point and an endpoint

on the timeline

so in the past you can see there are two

points the start and the end

of the action both are in the past

you'll see both of them are in the past

that's the first point about the simple

past tense also

these are for actions that we did at a

specific

point in time we can assign a specific

point in time to these actions for

example

this morning last year last week

yesterday

there's a specific point in time we can

attach to these actions

okay so let's talk now about the present

perfect tense

present perfect tense has a couple of

different uses the first use of present

perfect tense i want to explain

is using the grammar point to explain a

life

experience let's take a look at how

visually this is different from the

simple past tense

so now on the timeline in blue you can

see this sort of dotted line that i made

with a question mark

so the dotted line begins in the past

and it ends

now it ends at the current point in time

this

is because we use present perfect tense

to talk about things that happened

at some point in the past but

the specific point is unimportant or

unknown we don't need to explain

when the action happened we only want to

state

we have had or have not had that

experience

so we use this when we want to talk

about our life experiences for example

travel experience

or work experience like i have never

been to france or i've eaten pho

my parents have never been outside the

country for example

we use this to talk about life

experience but we don't

include a specific point in time when we

talk about these experiences

it's just some time before the present

the specific point in time is not

important in that sentence

you might follow up this sentence with a

specific point in time in which case you

use

simple past so let's talk about one more

use of the present perfect

tense this is the one we use with the

words for

and since and we can also use the

continuous tense with this use

the black line on the timeline here

shows an action that started in the past

and continues to the present or it's

an effect of an action that continues to

the present

we use this to talk about our studies

for example or the places where we live

like i have been studying english for

three years or

i have lived in brazil for 10 years for

example

so remember that we use the words for

and since along with this form of the

present perfect

tense we use four before a length of

time like i've studied for three years

i've lived in brazil

for five years and we use uh since

before a period of time so i have lived

i've been studying since

2009 or i've lived here since 2013 for

example

so please keep this in mind the present

perfect tense

is used for actions that started in the

past and continue to the present

simple past tense is used for actions

which started and ended in the past

next question this question comes from

maxine hi maxine what's the difference

between

one year and a year for example i've

lived here for a year

or i've lived here for one year in this

sentence

no difference honestly when you're

talking about time periods a year and

one year

a minute one minute they don't mean

anything different they mean the same

thing

thanks for the question though next

question next question comes from

huang jiang ik huang jiang i'm very

sorry which one is correct

i work out for one to two hours a day i

work out for one or two hours a day

i drink coffee two to three times a day

i drink coffee two or three times a day

ah both of these are correct actually

in this case there are very very small

differences between these

one two two hours a day means between

one and two hours if you say i work out

for one or two hours a day it means it's

determined

like uh one hour only for a workout or

two hours only for a workout so the

difference here is are you determining

are you deciding

one hour or two cups of coffee or three

cups of coffee

or is it between those two amounts so

using

1 2 2 or 2 2 3 means between those two

amounts

using or shows it's either a or

b but not between those two this is the

difference between

two and or next question next question

comes from huang se na huang

wang sena wang saina i'm very sorry i'm

very sorry i've never been to japan

i've never been to japan before i've

never eaten horse

i've never eaten horse before my

question is if you put

before at the end of those sentences

does it mean you are in japan

right now or you are eating horse right

now no

not necessarily think of before at the

end of the sentence as

before now i've never eaten horse before

now in other words you could use this be

just

before you eat horse or just before you

go to japan if you like as an emphasis

phrase

but it doesn't necessarily mean that you

are in japan

now or that you're eating horse now you

could use it in that way

sure but it doesn't necessarily mean it

if you'd like to emphasize it like if

you're about to eat horse for example

and he said i've never eaten horse

before you could show

your interest or perhaps to show maybe

some anxiety or nervous feelings

about uh what you're about to do but no

it does not

necessarily mean you are in that place

like for example

you could just be having a conversation

have you eaten horse before

no i've never eaten a horse before it

could just be a conversation about it

but really before just means before now

next question next question comes from

rashke rush rashke

rashkesh i'm sorry where do we use wanna

and

gonna and how ah this question is about

the casual contracted forms of

want to and going to so want to

becomes wanna going to becomes gonna

in casual speech we use them in exactly

the same way

we would use i want to i'm going to he

wants to she wants to he's going to

she's going to

we use them in exactly the same way

which means

we use them in casual situations like i

want to take a day off or

i'm going to go to the beach this

weekend or do you want to see a movie

tonight

we use them in exactly the same way we

use want

to and going to but we use them in

speech

typically we don't write these unless

we're writing very casual messages like

text messages to our friends or

something

next question next question comes from

garrison silva hey again garrison when

can i use the expression

take for granted take for granted this

is an expression

which we typically use in the negative

like don't take something something for

granted don't take blah blah blah for

granted

it means don't forget to appreciate

this thing or this person so for example

don't take your parents for granted or

don't take this opportunity for granted

these expressions mean don't forget to

appreciate these things or um don't just

disregard your parents or don't

disregard this opportunity you recognize

the importance of something

so if you are given a good opportunity

for example or someone gives you good

advice or

a very nice gift perhaps we would

typically use this

um with the negative don't take

something something for

granted meaning don't forget to show

your appreciation

for that thing or for that person next

question

next question next question comes from

daniel silvero hi daniel

daniel asks what is the difference

between wish

and desire greetings from paraguay hey

uh what is the difference between

wish and desire wish is used to express

a a wants when you want something that

is different

from the present situation so we often

use it with i wish i were or i wish i

could

something we uh we want or an ability

we want but that we do not have now

something um for the future so i wish i

could speak

seven languages or i wish i had a

million dollars or

i wish i were taking more time off every

week for example

something that is different from the

present condition the present situation

we use

wish or i wish you would call me for

example i wish you would or i wish you

could

to express something that is not

happening now

desire on the other hand desire tends to

be used more

formally and it also can carry more

romantic nuances

it's not used as much conversationally

as the word wish is

wish is used to express wants things

that we want that are not true now

desire is used more um in romantic

situations

like to desire another person or

he desired more of her time for example

but it sounds

unnecessarily formal i feel you might

use it in

a in a more formal like a business

context like our client

desires more information about the

situation

that could be a different use of the

word desire but in general

it sounds a bit more formal and a bit

more romantically charged at times

depending on the situation when it's

used

if you're talking about a person as well

like if you say for example i desire you

it sounds actually quite odd at least in

american english

if you want to use the word desire i

think in romantic situations

it might be applied in a phrase like he

was filled with desire or she was filled

with desire

used more as a noun than as a verb

so i would recommend not using desire

so much to talk about your wants as it

can sound a little

bit too formal or can give perhaps the

wrong nuance to the situation

but wish is used to express a a

hope for something or wanting something

that is different from the present

situation so i hope that helps

next question next question from han yan

hee han

han yon hee nah ni sorry hey alicia

what's the difference between

maybe probably perhaps and possibly

great question

maybe probably perhaps possibly

okay maybe probably perhaps and possibly

these are all

adverbs they have the same grammatical

function

maybe probably perhaps and possibly

maybe and perhaps

are very closely related maybe and

perhaps

are they have the same meaning but just

different levels of formality

maybe is like the lower level the more

casual version of the word

perhaps so maybe i'll go to the beach

this weekend and

perhaps i'll go to the beach this

weekend they have really the same

meaning but perhaps

sounds more formal probably however

is different probably expresses a higher

level

of possibility than the other words on

this list i'll probably go to the beach

this weekend

it's like a 75 to 80 chance the speaker

is going to go to the beach this weekend

possibly however

possibly has more of a nuance of just

that something

can be done it is possible to do

something we use

possibly more in requests like could you

possibly

blah blah blah for me could you possibly

send me this file

um possibly sounds a little too formal

for

casual conversations and invitations but

if you're using it at work for example

could you possibly meet me later this

week

instead of could you maybe meet me so

the difference between maybe

and possibly and perhaps there possible

has that root yeah possible able to

so maybe and perhaps don't have that

nuance

possibly sounds like is it possible is

it are you able to do this thing maybe

and perhaps

don't contain that nuance so to recap

maybe and perhaps are used to express

the same thing

a chance of something happening perhaps

is more formal

possibly is used in a similar way

however it refers

more to simple possibility than is it is

are you able to do that thing probably

expresses a high chance of something

thanks so much for all your questions

remember you can submit to me at

englishclass101.com

ask hyphen alicia thanks very much for

watching this episode of ask alicia i

will see you again

next week bye bye

happy new year and i hope that

your studies continue well i have

purchased a microphone

what can you do with a new mic

hi everybody my name is alicia welcome

back to ask alicia the weekly

series on our youtube channel where you

ask me questions and i answer them

maybe so please remember you can submit

your questions to me at

englishclass101.com ask alicia

first question a lot of you have asked

about what to do to get

a voice that sounds like mine when i'm

making these videos i'm specifically

trying to speak clearly so i'm clearly

separating my words

the way that i talk with my friends and

the way that i talk regularly

is a bit different than the way that i

talk on this channel but if you want to

try to get this kind of pronunciation

the best advice i have is just to repeat

this kind of pronunciation it depends on

your goal if you want to

learn to speak like me or to speak like

somebody else that you really admire

you should try to mimic them that's what

i do and that's

actually a strategy that i use when i

study other languages as well

so if i hear something interesting that

a a vocabulary word that a friend

has used like in japanese for example or

they have a really good intonation or

just the way they deliver the way they

say something

is really uh interesting to me or i want

to i want to be able to use that too

i put that in my head i think about that

and then i try to replicate that i try

to copy that essentially

to make this explanation shorter mimic

mimic if you want to learn to speak like

me mimic me

if you want to learn to speak like

somebody else try to mimic someone else

but

just keep in mind that the way that i

talk in these videos is different

from the way that i talk in real life

next question what does the word

lit mean what does the word lit mean lit

is

actually a slang word it's common slang

among young people especially in the us

right now

maybe many of you know that the verb to

light has the past tense

uh lit lit is used to talk about for

example a party

or um some kind of social gathering

usually

that's really exciting or that's really

really fun

or that's kind of crazy so lit using the

past

tense there you can kind of imagine that

like a fire when you light a fire

it maybe it gets bigger and it gets kind

of wild a little bit crazy like there's

a spark and then it starts so if you see

the word lit like this party was lit

it means it was really crazy it was

really good it was really fun

you can use it if you want but just keep

in mind that really young people use

that word i don't use that word for

reference but again i'm not cool

next question what is correct i thought

you were gone or i thought

you are gone i thought you are gone we

need to use

i thought you were gone here i thought

you were

gone so i thought past tense and you

were

is also past tense it's a past tense

thought past tense situation

um so please use passions yeah next

question

also maybe about were and was why do we

use

if i were and not if i was uh this is a

great

question and actually a lot of native

speakers make mistakes with this

it's a small point to be fair but if you

want to be correct

you should always use if i were this is

a grammar point

it refers to the subjunctive mood the

subjunctive

mood an explanation of subjunctive is a

bit beyond the scope

it's a bit much for this video but we

will always use if

i were when the subject there is i in

the conditional if i were

we always use work you will hear native

speakers say if i was if i was

if you want to be extremely strict and

extremely nitpicky

were is actually the correct one but if

you use was if you make a mistake and

you use was you will still be

understood so um but yes this is related

to the subjunctive mood in

english next question okay next one

isn't really a question but something i

have noticed that many of you do

you like to put the article uh or an

before your adjective before an

adjective

but you forget to use a noun do you know

how like mario introduces himself and he

says

it's a me when you forget to use

some kind of noun after after your

adjective

or whatever but you sound a bit like

mario's it's a nice

it's a nice it's a nice what it's funny

to me like it's an eye so

it's a me you need to include the noun

that you're referring to

it's a nice video or it's a nice

explanation

it's nice or it's bad or it's good or

this

was a nice explanation but don't forget

to use your

noun after you use the adjective it's a

nice

something it's a good something it's a

bad something so

please uh no article without a noun make

sure to use

your noun and it should be in the

singular form if you're using a

or an you need to use the singular form

of the noun don't sound like mario

next question what does it mean they

can't take that away from me

who are they and what does takeaway mean

we use the word they to mean generally

just

other people outside of us this is used

a lot to talk about

like news or to talk about general

opinions they say

that this pizza is the best pizza in the

city right now they say

that your english will only improve if

you study every day

they say that the most difficult thing

you can do in your life is move to

another country

they is just anyone second point what

does take away mean take away

means to some object that belongs

in one location is removed from that

location like take away

food in american english we use take out

actually

but take away food is a similar idea

especially like in british english

takeaway

so you take away your food from the

restaurant so you're taking

something else you're removing your food

from the restaurant so

in the expression they can't take that

away from me

they meaning other people outside you

can't take

something away from you next one what

does the phrase

don't be a creep don't be a creep me i

think michael talked about this on an

old english topics video so i talked in

a live stream about the word creepy

adjective creepy so something that

causes like nervous

suspense is something that's creepy the

word creep

is used as a noun don't be a creep a

person

who is creepy a guy can be a creep a

girl can be a creep so a creep

is someone who causes creepy feelings

like uh something bad might happen i

feel nervous like that person's a little

strange a little weird

that person is a creep he's a creep

she's a creep

so don't be a creep means you

should not behave like a creep

don't create nervous feelings in the

other person

don't be a creepy person don't be a

creep everybody that's good advice don't

be a creep

don't be afraid try to be a nice and

understanding

um and respectful person always next

question

oh that was my last one for this week

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all

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问题来自

carla hi carla carla 问母语人士如何

使用我已经看到我已经看到 得到

正式和非正式的确定我们使用

动词具有很多不同的含义

当我们将它与动词的过去分词形式配对时，

动词具有语法功能，例如 i

have 加上过去分词以使

现在完成时态

或 i had plus 过去分词

构成过去完成

时，所以

动词 have 有这种语法功能，但是如果你

只想使用动词

have in 日常情况，例如

我有电话或相机，或者

我没有任何钱，那么

在这种情况下拥有只是意味着拥有某物

或持有某物以

保留某物，因此请考虑

一下您是

如果在过去分词中出现在动词之前，则

用动词 have in it 可能是

过去完成或现在完成表达 或金钱，

那么它可能是指拥有

某物或

保留某物，所以这可能

是您看到动词的两种最常见的方式，

以及它

在至少美国英语演讲中的变化下一个

问题下一个人问了两个问题

所以下一个 两个问题来自

essa warsiadi 哪里 sayadee

我很抱歉来自 asa 的第一个问题你能不能

彻底解释一下并认为

它们听起来很相似是的确实它们

听起来很

相似 d 它们甚至在书面上看起来确实很相似，

但是这些词在语音和书面上具有不同的

含义和不同的功能，

让我们先看看 through

穿过隧道，或者

如果您正在查看文档，

例如，

通过文档意味着从头到尾阅读文档的

所有内容，

因此通过某事是从

某事开始

并通过所有 内容要

经过所有事情

，然后从另一边出来

或完成某事，所以我们也用“

通过”这个词来表示美式

英语中的完成，比如你吃完晚餐

还是我完成了我的作业，所以

通过这些是

我们通过第二个词彻底彻底地使用这个词的几种不同方式，

因此与通过

彻底的意思不同，

嗯，全面彻底的意思是

完全彻底的意思

做得好，它通常具有积极的

意义，例如，

她对这个词的解释

非常透彻，或者她对透彻

这个词的解释非常透彻，对不起，

她在演讲中非常透彻，

这意味着她

在 她的演讲彻底意味着做得很好

，包含很多知识，

很多信息

，所以请

彻底完成你的家庭作业，否则

他在打扫房间时不是很彻底，

所以

彻底意味着做得很好，完全

完成，所以

考虑到一切

即使是小

细节也被认为是彻底的，因此我们可以

将彻底用于

需要小细节的活动的演示，

例如彻底的安全检查，

因此这些操作

完全针对小细节完成，因此

这里的下一个词是彻底的 虽然

虽然你可以

用同样的方式想到虽然但你想到这个词

但是s o 它用于对比

信息 它用于表达某

事的不同之处，因此您可以

用类似的表达方式遵循某人的意见，

例如，

我认为夏天是最好的季节，尽管

冬天也很有趣，

因此您可以用相同的方式思考

就像你想的那样，但是

a 虽然是这样，所以你提出

a 然后是对比意见 b 并且

你正在以同样的方式将这两个想法与虽然联系起来，但是

尽管如此，虽然虽然相似

，但我们使用虽然和虽然和 但是

以类似的方式有什么区别，

但是更随意，但是

在日常对话中的随意对话

中使用得更多 但是因此

尽管

显示了对比信息，但

此列表中的最后一个被

认为是思考的过去

式，

当用作动词时，所以我以为

您今天要来，

或者我以为是 稍后会下雨，

或者我认为这是一个很棒的

下午

项目，所以我们可以将

思想用作思考的动词过去式或

用作名词来指代一个想法

我在听，

你必须注意

句子的语法，它们都有不同的

语法功能，

所以你需要考虑这个词周围的语法

，然后从 issa 提问

，爱恨是什么意思，我什么时候可以使用 它

爱恨

意味着它是你真正不喜欢的东西，

但不喜欢它有点令人愉快

，例如，这是我们可以

应用于真人秀的表达方式，所以很多人认为

真人秀

不是很好的娱乐，或者

不是 非常高质量的娱乐节目，

但是观看起来真的很有趣

，例如，也许您只是讨厌

真人秀电视节目中的角色，但不知何故您也

喜欢

看该电视节目，因此

您对此感到

非常不喜欢，但您

真的很

喜欢 同时那是你爱恨的东西

你爱恨那个

东西

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

bowie dente

bowie bowie dente 非常抱歉但丁问

我什么时候可以

在现在的完美句子中使用 ever 就像

我

曾经的意思一样 或者在

任何

时候，当你问一个问题时，你都可以使用 ever，

比如你

有没有去过法国，你有

没有吃过拉面，你有没有

去过山上旅行，

例如，我们可以

在提问时使用 ever 那是一个，

但因为永远意味着在任何时候或

任何时候

我们都不能用它来回答

这样的问题，你有没有过等等，

我们通常会说是或否，以

回应我们 可以说我从来

没有去过法国，或者我从来

没有忘记过我的钥匙，例如我

从来

没有 blah blah blah，但在这种情况下，它

仍然意味着

never 像 never ever 一样的表达只是

强调这个词

never so to use ever 我们需要

在句子中将ever与动词配对，所以

我们不能说i have ever just i

have 加上一个动词我们不能说i have

ever

不正确的 i have at some at any

time or at all time

it's it's red it's it's 没有

必要，

我们可以使用ever 否定

表达，例如我从未去过

法国或

她从未吃过奶酪，

因此我们必须将ever 与否定配对

以做出我们曾经用于

现在完成时的回应 问题

并与否定配对有或必须

做出回应才能做出否定

回应，所以请记住这两个

问题 下一个问题来自 bahar

嘿 bahar 很高兴再次见到你

uh bahar 的问题是破折号是什么

意思

，什么时候可以 我们 用它没问题，所以 dash 这个词

作为动词意味着在短时间内跑得很快

，例如

我冲到车站赶火车，

或者我冲到教室

参加考试，他冲到花店去

例如，为他的母亲买一束花，所以

这些

时间非常短，速度非常

快，

但是我们可以将 dash 作为

名词使用，而不是指跑步，

我们有时也可以在书面形式中使用它

我们使用破折号这个词来指代

我们在写作中看到的这些行 你

可能会看到

连字符 n 破折号和 m 破折号 这些

在写作中都有不同的功能

连字符可用于连接单词 n

破折号可用于显示

时间段和 m 破折号 可以

在句子中显示 um 额外的信息，所以我们

称所有这些

破折号这是

我们分配给每一个的类别，所以

有动词

to dash 也有 dash 作为名词

，这意味着所有这些种类 的

事情比 ks for that question baja

next question next question来自

ricardo villarreal 嘿，ricardo 欢迎

回来 ricardo 的问题是

几个杂项和各种之间的区别 好吧，我

不太确定杂项在这里如何适应

几个意味着一些东西 所以

想几个

比几个或几个高，

但它还不是很多，所以也许

作为一个很好的提示，这个词几个听起来

有点类似于

七，也许它不一定意味着

完全是七，但它

比几个高一点，

并且 它不是很多

或很多

你问的关于杂物的下一个词的水平

是我们用于家居

用品的东西，比如日常小家居

用品，我们通常

以复数形式使用，比如出售杂物的商店，

所以这是相当呃 不同于

几个和各种这样的词，

所以杂项通常以复数

形式使用，它指的

是你家里的日常用品你问的最后一个

词，

我们使用各种 t o 描述

我们在名词之前使用的杂项事物，通常

例如各种想法或各种

人或各种主题各种

主题，

因此各种用于描述许多

不同类型的

事物，数指数量，

各种仅用于表示

存在不同

紧随其后的名词的类型或不同种类，如我所说的

各种想法，各种口味，各种

人的

意思是不同类型的想法，

不同类型的人，不同

类型的口味，

所以几个数量，

各种类型下一个问题下一个问题

来自arnett

jake nougued no no i '很抱歉，我们如何

在某人开始说话之前使用好，

虽然

在他们说好之后被用作

开始说好的一种柔和的方式，这

表明你在听

另一个人，所以它表明你

听了 其他人

，如果是这样的话，你对他们的反应很好

如果

有人向你提出一个想法或

给你一个意见，

而你想正式地与那个形成对比，

你可以开始

'在

正式

情况下，例如商业情况，

有人说

我认为我们应该继续

我们去年夏天为这个项目提出的想法，

你可能会反对意见，或者你

可能会

通过在你的陈述开始时反对意见，

所以你可以说

虽然这将花费很多

钱来实施

所以虽然以正式和

礼貌的

方式显示对比下一个问题下一个问题

来自迈克尔·金

嗨迈克尔迈克尔问我想在家

自学我应该怎么做啊是的好吧

我 已经自学了

，这可能很难做到，但是

恭喜你有互联网，

所以你能做什么有很多

事情第一要定义你的目标

你希望什么 通过学习来实现

你想要做的

事情 不要只是说我

想学习英语 这不是一个非常

具体的目标

给自己一个具体的目标来实现，

比如我想通过

这个级别的考试或者我想

能够 为了在我的生活中做这件事

我希望能够用英语进行商务

演示 第二

寻找能够

帮助你实现这一目标的资源

如果你需要练习口语 你

需要找到练习

口语的方法

如果您正在寻找可以帮助

您阅读或写作的东西

，例如

寻找可以做到这一点的工具 如果您

想阅读 寻找博客 寻找

具有您想了解的目标语言内容的网站

所以开始阅读并尝试

通过用目标语言学习这些东西来获取词汇

那里有大量的

资源，但你需要先

定义你的目标

，然后开始寻找

资源 不符合你的目标

三 可能

对我们很多人来说最困难的一个是每天练习

找到一些方法让语言练习

成为你日常生活的一部分

例如我发现

花 15 分钟对我很有帮助

早上和晚上 15 分钟，

我在地铁上下班的时候

学习词汇，这帮助我

一天天地进步，所以总共是 30

分钟，但

随着时间的推移，通过

每天的练习，

你会加起来。 你会发现你正在使用的资源

会变得更容易

理解 第四，

如果你不在

你实际居住在这个国家的情况下，

或者你可以

去他们所在的国家/地区，尝试创造一个沉浸式环境 说

你正在学习的语言

尝试为自己创造某种沉浸式

环境，在这种环境中，你无法

尽可能多地使用你的母语

尝试创造某种

沉浸式环境，这样 在你

习惯听到那些声音和

人们

对这些声音

的自然反应时，我认为

在家学习的另一个非常好的技巧

是提问，这样其他

人正在学习你的语言

和其他人 谁正在努力学习

我们在这个频道上也看到了很多，

当你有问题并且

找不到答案时，

你们非常愿意帮助

你的同学 关于你

已经拥有的资源 如果是关于词汇的问题

你可以查字典 如果

你想加深词汇量 你

可以查词库

如果你对如何使用表达有特定的问题

试着问以母语为母语的人 试着

在 留言板 尝试在

评论中发布 尝试在我们的网站上发布，

所以如果您有问题，

请联系并询问，如果您有问题，

它会帮助其他人提问

问题并得到答案 如果你

有

问题 祝你自学好运 下一个

问题 下一个问题来自 harley

段落 hey harley welcome back

不可数是什么意思 这是指一

组名词，我们不

单独用数字来计算 所以例如

面包是不可数的，

而不是我们

在数字

和不可数名词之间使用反词所以在我的面包

示例中，

我们使用一条面包一片

面包

我们使用不同的词来

计算单个件或

单个

单位 不可数名词 不可数

名词是指我们不能

在名词前只用一个简单的数字来计数的名词，

我们需要使用一个额外的反

词下一个

问题下一个问题来自 taylor

hi 再次 taylor what's the difference

between

look into my eyes 和 look in me in the 眼睛

我会说我们会

在更浪漫的情况下看着我的眼睛，或者你可能会

在电影中听到这个，

也许有一些神奇的

东西 正在发生，

我不知道女巫正在施咒

，她说看着我的眼睛

看着我的眼睛通常

用于更具攻击性的情况它

用于表达就像看着我的

眼睛并说看着我 in the eye

往往是一个更具侵略性的陈述

看着我的眼睛听起来更浪漫

或神秘

来自 yonki 的下一个问题

我很抱歉

我喜欢小睡

和我喜欢小睡或我喜欢散步之间有什么区别

而且我喜欢去散步，所以当

你说

一般的，尤其是像

我喜欢的句子时，

你需要使用名词的复数形式，

你不能使用名词的单数形式，

因为你说的是一般的

关于该名词的所有情况或

该动作的所有情况您正在谈论一项

常规活动您喜欢做的

事情您已经做过

不止一次您将重复做的事情

大概在未来所以

您需要使用复数 形成下一个

问题 next

问题来自 suha 我们如何写一个

好的

第一个段落你需要

考虑你的段落在你的

整个文档中的位置

让我们考虑

从三个部分的角度来写一个文档，一个引言，

一个正文和一个引言部分的结论

你 需要介绍

您的读者需要

知道他们稍后将在文档中阅读的内容的关键信息，

因此如果您的段落

在引言中，

您需要考虑如何在

此处介绍您的信息，

其次是文档的正文部分

应该 在哪里包括

你的证据 你的支持材料

你的意见

你有的任何参考 所以如果你的

段落在文件的正文中

你应该记住这些主题

如果你的段落在

你文件的

结尾你应该是 总结或

完成你的想法通常是一个

好主意总结你

在正文中提出的想法

并介绍你 您

在结束部分的文档第二部分

在写作时使用转换，

从一个

句子转换到另一个句子

并在段落之间使用良好的转换是很好的，

因此一些示例

转换可能是

第一个第二个第三个或下一个，

然后是最后一个，此外

还有 过渡帮助读者连接

你在写作中表达的想法

三

避免试图

在一个句子中包含太多信息

记住你需要尽可能清晰准确地表达你的

想法，

所以如果

你发现你只是在写作 写作

和写作，句子变得

非常长

花点时间看看这句话的目标

如果你

需要把它分成更小的句子

并将它们与转换连接起来，你实际上想要传达什么

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

luann garcia hi luann 一个人问我

想知道如何

在一个版本之后使用下来 b 以及

为什么有必要

哦，亲爱的，这是一个非常大的问题，

您的问题是关于短语动词

这些都称为短语动词动词

加上副词或

介词有大量

的短语动词我

不可能在一个视频中谈论所有这些

短语动词是

必要的，因为它们是

语音的一部分，它们只是

一种动词，它们是一种

表达方式，所以你需要了解它们，

因为

它们会帮助你有效地交流，

嗯，所以

如果你想了解更多关于特定

短语动词的信息，我 建议

查字典 好的 非常

感谢你这周再次提交你的问题 一如既往的好问题

非常感谢你们让我很难思考

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请通过englishclass101.com 将它们发送给我

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非常感谢您观看这一集问

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下次再见，这

不是传统的圣诞节

无论如何，

我看起来像

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知道他们喜欢的电影没有

任何感情，他们打架

这个视频结束了再见我 我会

用力让你观看整个视频

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斜线先问连字符艾丽西亚

来自

harley pasos 的问题 harley paso paso passport

我很抱歉 harley 问

get

加副词或介词有什么用 例如

我下来 这是一个关于

短语动词的问题

get 我们可以在单词后面使用很多不同的东西

get in your example to get down 我们

在跳舞时使用它，例如，我想

这个周末下来，这是一种

老式的表达方式，虽然

我们可以在 ver 之后使用很多不同的

uh 词 b get though

例如 get into

to get into something 意味着对

你可能听到的东西感兴趣

像 get at me

或 get at your Professor to get

to mean to reach to or tocommunicate

但这是一个非常随意的表达 你

可以说像我需要

完成我的家庭作业一样得到后，例如，

它意味着喜欢追逐或尝试

做某事

也进入喜欢进入

俱乐部进入餐厅进入

派对细微差别是 有些东西很

有挑战性，但你可以

像我昨晚参加派对一样访问那个东西，

但我不在

名单上，get这个词有很多不同的

用法，

我不能在

这个视频中谈论所有这些 因为有这么多，

所以如果你对

我们可以与 get 一起使用的各种短语动词感到好奇，

请查看字典，这是一个

非常好的开始

下一个问题的地方下一个问题来自

long

和 longan 询问有什么

区别 简单的

过去 t 时态和过去进行时或

过去进行时 一般

过去时 我们用于

在过去开始和结束的动作，所以动作的开始和结束

发生在过去，例如

句子 i ate

breakfast 是 简单过去时

陈述我

吃了早餐八是简单过去

时过去进行时然而

或过去进行时

是我们用来谈论

在过去特定时间点继续进行的动作的东西，

如果我想使用 过去进行

时我可以说

我正在吃早餐

使用那个进行

时的进行时表示我

想解释当时发生的其他事情

，或者我想添加更多

信息，例如我在八点吃早餐

今天早上的时钟，或者

当电话响起时

我正在吃早餐，或者我正在吃早餐和看

电视的同时

我正在吃早餐，而

今天你正在学习 唱过去进行式

我正在解释一个动作

在特定时间点继续进行

，例如我在八点吃早餐

，

或者我可以使用过去进行式来显示

一个动作

与另一个动作同时发生

过去的动作如果我只使用简单的

过去时我只是在说

一个简单的事实换句话说这个动作

发生在我八点吃早餐

如果我想强调动作的连续性

出于某种原因

比如我 在八点吃早餐

我可以使用过去进行时态在

这种情况下，

它可能是为了回答一个问题，

比如你今天早上八点在做什么，

所以如果有人

想问

也许你在做什么 在某个特定

的时间点，比如有人

怀疑你，比如你昨晚在做什么，

你可以说，哦

，我昨晚和我的朋友吃饭了，

但是过去十个简单的过去时是

我们用来开始

uh 和 f 的动作 Inish uh in the past but

progress 进行时态和

过去

可用于强调

那种情况或行动

的持续性

您准时到达还是准时到达

我们使用

准时来指代

在正确的时间做某事在

预定的时间做某事所以例如我需要

准时上班

意味着在正确的时间

或您是否 准时准时到达您的预约，

但是当我们

想要给出一些匆忙或匆忙的细微差别时，

我需要离开我的家，以便及时

到达机场，

赶上我的航班，我需要为我的航班学习

现在测试如果我想

赶上晚会，你可能应该现在离开，

如果你想

赶上电影

，赶上其他事情，所以我想做

行动 a 让我的日程安排满足

这个其他条件 我

想做的其他事情或我需要及时做的其他事情

有截止日期的细微差别，

我们可以像恐慌一样使用这个表达方式，就像

我的天哪，我不会

及时完成喜欢提交 一篇我不会

及时完成的论文意味着就像在截止日期之前一样，

而准时意味着

在预定的时间完成一项行动或完成某事下一个

问题下一个问题来自

加里森席尔瓦你有什么区别 在

阴影和阴影之间哦，太好了，这是一个

很好的问题

，这两个词都可以用来指

代一个

比周围环境更暗的地方，

因为

有一个物体挡住了

光线

在那个句子中，它们的用法相同，

但是

阴影仅指黑暗的形状，因此

一个人

可以投射阴影我们使用投射动词

投射阴影当我站在阳光下时投射阴影

例如阴影但是a

sa 名词

指代或具有某种遮蔽物的细微差别，

因此由其他物体

提供的遮蔽物遮光避光，

因此我们会说

站在阴影中，因为阴影具有遮蔽物的

细微差别，

我们不会说站在阴凉处

shadow shadow 没有像 shade 那样有趣地表现出遮蔽的细微差别

，

尽管

shade 和 shadow 都用作动词

，也

可以用作动词 to shadow something 意味着密切关注

某事

to shadow someone at work 意味着

跟随某人在工作中并尝试

了解他们的工作

，例如，shade 用作动词，

表示为

避光创造遮蔽物，例如

遮蔽

我们免受阳光遮蔽的树冠也有一些

有趣的用途，您可能会听到

俚语短语 to throw

shade throwing shade 是一个非常

有趣的俚语 我们使用的表达方式，

在大多数情况下，当你在一般情况下说话时，表示不尊重或表达对某事的蔑视

当您想谈论黑暗凉爽的

区域时，我们应该说

阴影站在阴影中当您

只想谈论

黑暗物体使用阴影的黑暗区域时，下一个

问题实际上来自

danny 的两个问题 hi danny danny 的第一个问题

是你谈到了 lit 作为俚语，是的，我

在第二集第一集第二集

里谈到了点燃，问艾丽西亚，你能

谈谈动词

light 并在主动和被动中使用它吗

sure

light 意思是生火，所以

点燃火来点燃蜡烛

一些例子 用这个动词的主动和被动

语态，那我们今晚为什么不

点一些蜡烛吃晚餐？

餐厅里所有的蜡烛都

在我们野营旅行时

点燃了我的邻居点燃了火，我们带来了

呃汉堡生火

在 我们离开的时候露营地

我打算生火但我

睡着了所以点燃意味着生火

他点燃了房子着火我们可以说

点燃等等等等

等等有几个不同的

例子

在主动和被动过去

式将来时中使用动词 light 所以我希望

这会有所帮助 danny 的

第二个问题你能谈谈骑车

和它的用法，

比如带人去兜风吗？

很多不同的用途 你用这个

例子带某人去兜风 意思是

和别人一起开车

去

兜风 做某事只是为了

好玩 只是为了好玩 我想搭车

去我想去的地方

这个周末骑车去山上或

骑车

去海滩，但搭车

意味着

邀请某人和你一起开车去某个地方，

这是使用搭车的一种方式你

也可以说

给我搭车行吗 送我一程，所以

这是一个请求表达

我没有车 我的朋友有车 我

想让我的朋友开车带

我去一个我可以说的地方

你能送我

去电影院吗 搭车

去湖边搭车是请求 所以让我

坐你的

车，所以

如果你想看到所有的或者如果你

想看到更多的话，ride 有很多用途，我建议

查字典，有

很多，我不能 关于

这个视频

中的所有内容，所以

请查字典 好得

令人难以置信

在那种情况下不能把我的眼睛从你身上移开

这是一个很好的意思

用不同的方式来表达这种表达方式

是你

太棒了 你太棒了我不敢

相信你是真实的

所以在其他 单词一定

有问题 你一定有问题

你不可能是真实的

因为你

太棒了 你太棒了 所以你太好了以至于

难以置信 就像哇 我对你感到惊讶 所以这是

一个 很好的表达，但是，呃，也许

在更

罕见的情况下，有人说像啊，

这家伙太好了，难以置信

比如可能正在审查一份工作

申请，例如，

这个女孩，她太好了，不可能是真的

，如果这样说，

也许那个人有什么可疑之处

，这似乎不对

，这里有太多好的信息

，一定有问题

这个人取决于语调

，在大多数情况下，它可以描绘出非常积极的

意义或非常可疑的意义

，但这是一个积极的

意义，所以如果你在一首歌中听到这个，

它可能是一种非常积极的

浪漫微妙的短语，

非常感谢 对于那个问题，femme nice one

next question rabia arshad

ray rabia arshad rabia 我很想知道

can 和 may 之间

有

什么区别 对于

现代英语中的请求在现代美式

英语中的

用法相同如果我在陈述中使用它们

可以指代能力

可能指代烫发 ission 请

小心，can

and may only used in the same way to

make

requests in Modern American English next

question is from taylor uh hi again

taylor

are you from where and you were

born 同一个问题啊好问题你来自哪里

你出生在

哪里 不一定 不一定 你出生

在哪里 只是你被

带入这个世界

的地方 也许你的家乡 你

认定为家乡

的地方与你出生的地方不同

也许你

出生在西班牙 但是你

在美国长大你的家人在那之后搬家

所以你可以说我出生在西班牙但

我在纽约长大

如果有人问你你来自

哪里可能是个好主意说我

出生在blah blah blah

但是我在 blah blah blah 在

不同的地方长大 如果这两个地方

不同

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

hassan hassan 说

我们如何以否定形式使用 gotta

所以我们做了一个直播 bout have to

and got to

and need to on the youtube channel and

on facebook 不久前

gotta 是一个缩略词 gotta 的一个非常随意

的缩略词，

并且两个它不是一个真实的词 uh gotta

只是我们说 got to 时发出的声音

很快就像我今天要去上学

或者我要完成我的家庭作业或者我

要睡觉我在

美式英语中太累了我们不使用

gada 来否定而是我们使用必须

或需要我没有

明天上班 我明天

不需要上班 我现在不需要睡觉

但是美式英语不使用

gotta 否定形式

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

sadaham 我需要提高

我的口语 英语和我的词汇我该怎么

做

如果你没去过那是英语

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与母语人士相匹配，当然

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记录自己可能是另一个很好的

工具，但在建立你的词汇量方面，

我首先需要定义一个目标

如果我想

谈论食物，

我应该在我的 目标

语言

谈论食物，我应该研究

那些所以想想

你想做什么并尝试

具体尝试缩小你的范围 r 目标

是你知道我

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到这里

和那里的其他兴趣，但也许从

能帮助你沟通

的事情开始 你真的想说

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我想学什么我想学怎么说

来自ricardo villarreal的下一个问题哦

嘿里卡多欢迎回来

同时学习

几种语言是正确的吗ooh

是正确的

我无法回答 不管它是否正确

，所以我听说如果你想

尝试

无论出于何种原因，如果你

想尝试同时学习一种以上的语言

，

最好尝试选择

完全不同的语言，

这样 你

在学习中犯错或感到困惑的机会更少

我

想我

想说的另一件事是，如果你同时学习一种以上的

语言，你的进步

可能会比你学习的要慢一些

我

只知道一种语言是的，对吗？我

不知道我不能回答，

这取决于你来决定所以这些

都是我这周想谈的所有问题

非常感谢你提交这么多

有趣的问题我 非常

感谢，非常感谢您

观看这一集问艾丽西亚，我

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短语剧透警报

某处它意味着下一段

文字下一条信息视频中的下一件事

将是

关于故事的秘密信息所以

如果你没有看过电影如果你

没有看过电视节目或者你

没有 看过这本书，

你可能会找到你

不想读的信息

，

所以剧透意味着会破坏或毁掉你的故事的东西，所以在我们看到之前不要剧透关于星球大战的东西

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在询问和之间有一个连字符 艾丽西娅，所以

今天要注意第一个问题，你有

美国口音还是英国口音

，这一年来

很多人都问过这个问题

不是

英式英语，如果您想知道

英式英语听起来是什么样

的，youtube 频道上有一些视频，

吉娜是我们的其他主持人之一，她

说英国口音，所以 你可以

听她说话，以

了解

我的口音

和她的口音英国英语和

美国英语之间的一些差异，所以感谢这个

问题，但是是的，我说

美国英语下一个问题我们如何

使用欢呼这个词

，我们什么时候使用它 是正式的还是

非正式的 请

用美式英语帮忙

我们在喝酒的时候用欢呼 当我们想

和别人开始喝酒时

我们经常

碰杯 所以就像碰杯

一起说

欢呼 我们用这种方式用欢呼

美式英语在其他

类型的英语中，例如英式英语或

澳大利亚英语，例如

人们可能会使用欢呼这个

词来表示感谢，

或者如果我的朋友要我帮忙，我会提前说谢谢

同意帮我这个忙 我的朋友

可以

对我说欢呼 意思是提前谢谢你

所以欢呼 它往往更多地用在

非正式方面

如果你想在正式场合使用它不是一个超级正式的表达方式

w 当你

和某人一起喝酒时，你可以使用

欢呼，但在大多数情况下，我们

非正式地非正式地使用它

下一个问题嘿，艾丽西亚，我如何使

这句话否定，

让我们去公园，如果你想做

一个 let's

blah blah 否定句，只是放不

在动词之前 let's not go to the part

let's not

plus some verb or some verb phrase let's

not gohiking this week

let's not to watch that movies today I'm

wrong let's

not blah blah blah to make a let's

sentencenegative Thanks for the

question

next question down 是什么意思

？ 贬低我朋友的

成功，

如果某件事真的很棒或真的很

有趣，或者

它也可能是负面的，

那么贬低某事

意味着让这件事

看起来不如实际 盟友是，如果

有丑闻，

例如总统试图淡化

这种情况的严重性，这

意味着这是一个非常严重的情况，

但总统正试图让它

看起来

不那么严重，所以淡化

意味着制造一些东西 看起来比

它实际上是一个

好问题，虽然谢谢下一个

问题下一个问题是关于如果

条件没有问题，当你

先说主子句

然后你说 if 子句是

正确的，是的，这

在直播中很好我介绍了

模式 if 子句第一个

main 子句第二个，但我也

提到我们可以先使用

main 子句，然后 if 子句

第二个如果我

今天完成编辑这个视频我可以继续

运行我可以反转那个句子

如果我今天完成编辑这个视频我可以继续运行

句子完全正确

由你

来选择你喜欢的顺序 谢谢你

的问题 现在很好 下一个

问题是关于现在

完成进行时 时态我说我

一直想要等等等等

为什么我在

连续时态中使用动词想要

作为想要我使用渐进形式

想要

因为从过去的某个时间到

现在

有一些我想要的东西

我一直想要做 尽管

为了对连续性有强烈的细微差别

，我使用了渐进式

或连续形式，

希望我一直想看那

部电影，我一直想

和我的朋友喝杯咖啡，我

一直想得到 更多的睡眠我一直

想去慢跑一些你

过去开始想要并

一直

想要的东西直到这个时间点你可以

说我一直想要

我们也可以

像我一直在想的那样将其他动词应用于这种模式 你

整个星期我整天都在担心你

所以这些持续的过去的情绪

我们也可以使用进行时态来

谈论那些

感谢这个问题虽然这是一个

很好的下一个问题

下一个问题来自 ricardo

比利亚雷亚尔 我很抱歉

一个人是什么意思 一个人是什么意思 一个

人

在更随意的演讲中听起来很正式

我们说

你喜欢 如果你去

电影院 你会在哪里买爆米花

让它听起来更

正式 我们可以说 一个人会在哪里买

爆米花而不是使用

你，我们说一个，所以你可能会

更多地以书面形式看到这一点，或者可能

在你

不合适或太随意的情况下看到这一点

对另一个名词来说，

一定

有很多 if 句子，比如如果一个人是

医生，

一个

人能赚多少钱，只是意味着一个人，任何人感谢里卡多

来自 nita aprioni 的下一个问题我希望我

说你的名字是对的，我很抱歉

我能说

脆皮鸡上的番茄酱

味道鲜美 味道是烧烤照烧或黑

胡椒 不

辣 啊 是的，你可以说酱汁是

咸味的，这很常见，所以

我们在食物直播中很快谈到了一些咸味的东西

味道不太

甜但仍然非常

美味的

东西通常有点咸的东西

我们并没有真正用

咸味来解释甜的东西它更多的是

用于咸的东西或

味道很深的东西

所以是的，你可以把你的酱汁

或烧烤酱汁或

鸡肉描述

为

美味的任何东西

问这个

问题，但我在

我们最近做的食物直播中注意到了

甜点和沙漠之间的区别是拼写上的一个

但是这两个词是不同的

让我们从甜点这个词开始，

在餐后甜点出现的

甜食 用

两个

s拼写我们用甜点拼写

甜点但是拼写沙漠的单词沙漠

指的是像干燥的风景没有很多

植物没有很多动物 住在那里

，如果你拼错了甜点这个词

，你忘记了它变成了沙漠，

也

很有趣，还有另一种方式

来发音这个单词拼写为

沙漠

这是沙漠的动词，所以沙漠

意味着离开一些东西而不

打算回来 喜欢离开一个

城镇或离开你的

家人放弃某物也可能意味着

像离开一个军事阵地这样

离开军队请注意甜点作为

一顿饭的结束

和离开的意思离开或

放弃某物

有相同的意思 发音但

不同的语法功能所以

请注意这

一点我们如何将它们放在

一起 看看

这周记得如果你想提交

一个问题，你可以在englishclass101.com上把它们发给我

问

连字符艾丽西亚这样我

会等你 你的消息是一个最近的

直播，

嗯，其中许多问题

来自于食物，所以如果你有任何

其他与食物词汇相关的问题，请

告诉我非常感谢

你观看这一集，我

下周再见，再见

汤是神奇的 你不同意

我小时候作为感恩节

学校活动的一部分，我们会把手

放在一张纸上

，然后用钢笔画出我们手的轮廓，然后

我们把手拿

开，给火鸡上色，我想知道是否 我

仍然可以这样做 我们将手贴

在这样的一张纸上

然后我们在它周围画图 所以

我现在要做一只非常丑陋的火鸡

你准备好了

第一步 做一个手印 第二步 做

一只我的火鸡

火鸡看起来可疑地像一

只鸡 这

非常不好 这实际上

非常糟糕 这是一只有过

一些生活经历的火鸡 让我们

说它看起来像一只打架的鸡

好吧 这很糟糕

就像他被卡住了 在风中 暴风雨之类的，

我不是要成为一名艺术家，

但是

是的，新年快乐，让我们谈谈

现在完成时

大家好，欢迎回来问

艾丽西亚每周系列，你问我

问题，我回答他们

也许一如既往记得你可以提交

你的问题 在

englishclass101.com 向我提问

第一个问题 这个问题

来自zara 嗨，alicia 我有一个

关于

我的母语中现在完成时的问题 没有一种

叫做现在完成时的时态

我很困惑，因为我不知道

现在完成

时

和简单过去时之间的区别 让我们

从深入解释这

两个语法点开始，以及它们之间的区别

好的开始让我们从简单的

时间线开始，我们现在有过去

，它是时间线上的明星

和未来，所以我们将

关注过去

和现在点让我们关注那些

所以首先

让我们看看简单过去时我们

使用简单过去 过去开始和结束的动作的时态，

所以在

现在之前的时间点之前的时间点

，换句话说，

在我们的时间线上，那么让我们想象

有两个点，一个起点和一个

终点，这个动作可以，所以在这里

我在时间线上做了一个起点和一个终点

，

所以在过去你可以看到有两个

点，动作的开始和

结束都在过去，

你会看到它们都在过去

，那就是 关于简单

过去时的第一点

也是针对我们在特定

时间点执行的操作我们可以

为这些操作分配特定时间点例如

去年的今天早上上周

昨天

有一个特定的时间点我们可以

附加 对这些动作

好吧，现在让我们谈谈现在

完成时

现在完成时有几种

不同的用法我想解释的第一次使用现在

完成时

是用语法点来解释

生活

经历 让我们看看

这与简单过去时在视觉上有何不同，

所以现在在蓝色的时间轴上，你可以

看到我用问号制作的这种虚线，

所以虚线从过去开始

，现在结束

在当前时间点结束

这

是因为我们使用现在完成时

来谈论

过去某个时间点发生的事情，

但具体点不重要或

未知我们不需要

解释动作发生的时间我们只想

说明

我们有过或没有过这种

经历，

所以当我们想

谈论我们的生活经历时使用它，例如

旅行经历

或工作经历，就像我

从未去过法国或我吃过越南河粉

我的父母从未去过外面

例如，国家/地区

我们用它来谈论生活

经历，但是

当我们谈论这些经历时，我们不包括特定的时间点，

这只是现在之前的一段时间

，特定的时间点并不

重要 在那个句子中，

你可能会在一个

特定的时间点跟进这个句子，在这种情况下，你

使用

一般过去时，所以让我们再谈谈

现在完成

时的另一种用法，这是我们与 for 和 since 一起使用的

词

，我们可以 也使用

持续时态 使用

时间轴上的黑线 这里

显示一个从过去开始

并持续到现在

的动作，或者它是一个持续到现在的动作的效果

我们用它来谈论我们的研究

例如 或者我们住的地方，

比如我已经学习了三年英语，

或者

我在巴西生活了 10 年，

所以请记住我们使用 for

和因为与这种

现在完成

时形式一起，我们在 a 之前使用了四个

我学习了三年的时间长度

我在巴西生活

了五年，我们

在一段时间之前使用呃，所以我一直生活

我从 2009 年开始学习，

或者我从 2013 年开始住在这里

例子

所以请记住这一点现在

完成

时用于过去开始

并继续到现在的动作

简单过去时用于

过去开始和结束的动作

下一个问题这个问题来自

maxine hi maxine what's the

一年和一年之间的区别例如我

在这里住了一年

或我在这里住了一年在这

句话中

老实说，当您

谈论一年和

一年

一分钟一分钟他们的时间段时没有区别 没有

什么不同他们的意思是一样

的

谢谢这个问题虽然下一个

问题下一个问题来自

黄江 ik huang jiang 我很

抱歉哪个是正确的

我每天锻炼一到两个小时我

锻炼 每天一两个

小时 我每天喝两到三次咖啡 我每天喝两到三次

咖啡

啊这两个都是正确的 实际上

在这种情况下

这

两个两个小时之间的差异非常小 一天意味着

一到两个小时，如果你说我

每天锻炼一到两个小时，这意味着它被

确定为呃，一小时仅用于锻炼或

两小时仅用于锻炼，所以

这里的区别是你

确定你是 决定

一小时或两杯咖啡或

三杯咖啡，

还是介于这两个量之间，因此

使用

1 2 2 或 2 2 3 表示在这两个量之间，

使用或显示它是 a 或

b，但不在这两个量之间

两个和或下一个问题的区别 下一个问题

来自 huang se na huang

wang sena wang saina 非常抱歉

非常抱歉 我从来没有去过日本

我从来没有去过日本 我

从来没有吃过马

我从来没有吃过马我的

问题是如果你

在这些句子的末尾加上之前

是不是意味着你现在在日本

或者你现在正在吃马，

不一定

像以前一样在句尾想到

之前 现在我以前

在其他工作中从来没有吃过马 ds 你可以

在你吃马之前或

去日本之前使用它作为强调

短语，

但这并不一定意味着你

现在在日本

或者你现在正在吃马你

可以使用它 以那种方式

肯定，但

如果你想强调它并不一定意味着它，例如如果

你要吃马

并且他说我从来没有吃过马，

然后你才能表现出

你的兴趣或者可能表现出 也许

对你将要做的事情有些焦虑或紧张的感觉，但这并不

一定意味着你在那个地方

，例如

你可能只是在交谈

你以前吃过马吗？

我从来没有吃过马 在它

可能只是关于它的对话

之前，但实际上之前只是意味着在现在之前

下一个问题来自

rashke rush rashke

rashkesh 我很抱歉我们在哪里使用想要

和

要去以及如何啊这个问题是

关于想要的随意收缩形式

去和去 想要

变成想要变成想要

在随意的演讲中我们使用它们

的方式

与

我们使用的方式完全相同

这意味着

我们在随意的情况下使用它们，比如我

想休息一天，或者

我这个周末要去海滩，

或者你今晚想看电影

吗？

我们使用它们的方式与我们

想要的完全相同 去，但我们在演讲中使用它们

通常我们不会写这些，除非

我们正在写非常随意的消息，比如

给我们的朋友的短信或

其他东西

下一个问题下一个问题来自

驻军席尔瓦嘿再次驻军我什么时候

可以使用表达式

take for 理所当然地认为这

是

我们通常在否定中使用的表达方式，

例如不要将某事

视为理所当然，不要将诸如此类的事物视为

理所当然，

这意味着不要忘记欣赏

这件事或这个人，例如

不要 不要带你 你的父母是理所当然的，或者

不认为这个机会是理所当然的

这些表达的意思是不要忘记

欣赏这些事情，或者嗯，不要

忽视你的父母，或者不要

忽视这个机会，你认识

到某事的重要性，

所以如果你是 给你一个很好的机会

，或者某人给了你很好的

建议或

一个非常好的礼物，也许我们

通常会用这个

um 来否定不要把

某事

视为理所当然的意思不要忘记表达

你

对那件事或那件事的感激之情 人 下一个

问题

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

daniel silvero 嗨 daniel

daniel 问

愿望

和愿望有什么区别 来自巴拉圭的问候 嘿

呃

愿望和愿望有什么区别 当你想要不同的东西时，愿望用来表达一个愿望

从目前的情况来看，所以我们经常

将它与我希望我是或我希望我

能做

一些我们呃我们想要的东西或

我们想要但我们没有的能力 现在没有

东西 嗯未来所以我希望我

能说

七种语言或者我希望我有一

百万美元或者

我希望我每周有更多的时间

休假例如

与目前情况不同的事情我们使用的目前情况

希望或我希望你会打电话给我，

例如我希望你会或我希望你

能表达一些现在没有

发生的事情

另一方面欲望往往

被更正式地使用

，它也可以携带更多

浪漫的细微差别，

它没有被使用 和

wish这个词一样多的会话意思是

wish用来表达

我们想要的不真实的东西现在

wish在浪漫的情况下使用得更多，

比如渴望另一个人，或者

他想要更多她的时间，

但这听起来

不必要的正式 我觉得你可能会

在更正式的商业

环境中使用它，比如我们的客户

想要更多关于这种情况的信息，

这可能是对“欲望”这个词的不同用法，

但在 一般来说，

这听起来更正式

，有时更浪漫，

这取决于使用它时的情况，

如果你在谈论一个人，

以及如果你说例如我希望你，

这听起来实际上很奇怪，至少在

美国 英语

如果你想用“欲望”这个词，我

认为在浪漫的情况下，

它可能会应用在一个短语中，比如

他充满欲望或她

充满欲望，

更多地用作名词而不是动词，

所以我建议不要使用

欲望 有很多话要说，因为

这听起来

有点过于正式，或者可能会给

情况带来错误的细微差别，

但是希望用于表达

对某事的希望或想要

与当前情况不同的某事，

所以我希望这会有所帮助

下一个问题 han yan hee 的下一个问题 han

han

han yon hee nah ni sorry hey alicia 有

什么区别？

可能 可能 可能

这些都是

副词 它们具有相同的语法

功能

这个词的版本

也许所以也许我

这个周末去海滩，

也许我这个周末去海滩

他们的意思真的一样，

但

听起来可能更正式，可能

但是不同，可能表达

的可能性比 在

这个列表中的其他词我可能会在这个周末去海滩

这就像一个 75 到 80 的机会演讲

者这个周末去海滩

可能但是

可能有更多的细微差别只是

可以做一些

事情 有可能做

一些我们

在请求中可能更多使用的事情，比如

你能不能对我等等等等，你能不能

把这个文件发给我，

嗯？

对于

随意的对话和邀请来说听起来有点太正式了，但是

如果你在工作中使用它，例如

，你可能会在本周晚些时候见到我

而不是你可能会见到我，所以

可能

和可能和可能有可能之间的区别

有那个根源 是的，有可能，

所以也许，也许没有

细微差别。

事情发生的机会

也许更正式，

可能以类似的方式使用，

但它更多地指的是

简单的可能性，而

不是你能做到那件事可能

表达了某事的高可能性，

非常感谢你所有的问题

记住 你可以在englishclass101.com上提交给我

询问连字符艾丽西亚非常感谢您

观看询问艾丽西亚的这一集，我

下周再见，再见，

新年快乐 我希望

你的学习继续顺利我已经

购买了一个麦克风

你可以用一个新麦克风做什么

大家好我的名字是 alicia 欢迎

回来

在我们的 youtube 频道上询问 alicia 每周系列你

问我问题我

可能会回答他们所以请 请记住，您可以

在englishclass101.com 上向我提交您的问题

问艾丽西亚

第一个问题 很多人都问

过如何在我制作这些视频时获得

听起来像我的声音

我特别

想清楚地说出来所以 我明确

区分我

与朋友交谈

的方式和我经常交谈

的方式与我

在这个频道上交谈的方式有点不同，但如果你想

尝试获得这种

发音，最好的建议 我只是重复

这种发音，这取决于

你的目标如果你想

学习像我一样说话还是像

其他你真正钦佩的人一样说话

你应该试着模仿他们这就是

我所做的，这就是

实际 ally 一种我在学习其他语言时也会使用的策略，

所以如果我听到一些有趣的东西，

比如一个朋友在日语中使用过的词汇，或者

他们的语调非常好，或者

他们表达的方式就是他们所说的方式

有些东西

对我来说真的很有趣，或者我

想要我也希望能够使用它

我把它放在我的脑海里我想了想

然后我尝试复制我

尝试复制它本质上是

为了使这个解释更短模仿

模仿 如果你想学着像

我一样说话，就模仿我

如果你想学着像

别人一样说话，试着模仿别人，

但

请记住，我

在这些视频中

的说话方式与我在现实中的说话方式不同 生活

下一个问题 lit 这个词

是什么意思 lit 这个词是什么意思 lit

实际上是一个俚语 它

在年轻人中很常见，尤其是在我们现在的俚语中，

也许你们很多人都知道这个动词 to

light 有过去时

uh l 它 lit 用于谈论

例如聚会

或某种社交聚会，

通常非常令人兴奋，或者

真的很有趣，

或者有点疯狂，所以用

过去

时态点亮，你可以想象

当你像火一样 点燃火

，它可能会变得更大，

有点疯狂，有点疯狂，就像

有火花，然后它开始了，所以如果你看到

这个词被点燃，就像这个派对被点燃了，

这意味着它真的很疯狂，

真的很好 真的很有趣

，如果你愿意，你可以使用它，但请

记住，真正的年轻人

会使用这个词

你走了，我以为你走了，我们

需要使用

我以为你走了，我以为

你

走了，所以我认为过去时，你

也是过去时，这是过去时，

认为过去时的情况，

嗯，所以请使用激情，是的，下一个

问题

也可能是 bout were and was 为什么我们

使用

if i were 而不是 if i was uh 这是一个

很好的

问题，实际上很多以母语为母语的

人都会犯这个错误，

这是公平的一个小问题，但如果你

想正确，

你应该总是 使用 if i were 这是

一个语法点

它指的是虚拟语气 虚拟语气

虚拟语气的解释

有点超出范围

对于这个视频来说有点多但是我们

将始终使用 if

i are 当主题有我在

如果我是有条件的，

我们总是使用工作，你会听到母语

人士说如果我是，如果我是，

如果你想非常严格和

非常挑剔

，实际上是正确的，但如果

你使用是，如果你犯了错误并且

你使用 你是否仍然会被

理解，嗯，但是是的，这与英语

中的虚拟语气有关

下一个问题好吧下一个

不是真正的问题，但

我注意到你们中的许多人

喜欢把文章放在呃或

之前 你的形容词 在形容词之前，

但你忘记使用名词，你知道

马里奥如何自我介绍，他

说

这是我，当你忘记

在形容词之后使用某种名词

或其他什么但你听起来有点像

mario's it's a nice

it's 很好 很好 很有趣

对我来说很有趣 就像它是一只眼睛 所以

这是一个我 你需要

包含你所指的名词

它是一个很好的视频或者它是一个很好的

解释

它很好 或者它很糟糕 或者它很好 或者

这

是 一个很好的解释，但不要忘记

在使用形容词后使用你的

名词它是一个

好

东西它是一个好东西它是一个

坏东西所以

请呃没有名词的文章

确保使用

你的名词，它应该是

单数 形式 如果您使用 a

或 an 您需要使用名词的单数

形式 听起来不像 mario

下一个问题 这意味着什么他们

不能从我这里拿走它

他们是谁以及

我们使用的外卖意味着什么 他们通常意味着其他的词

我们以外的人经常用

这个来谈论

类似新闻或谈论一般

意见 他们

说这个披萨是现在这个城市最好的披萨

他们

说只有每天学习才能提高你的英语水平

他们说

你一生中能做的最困难的事情就是搬到

另一个国家

他们只是任何人 第二

点 带走的意思 带走

意味着

属于某个地方的某个物体被从那个地方移走，

比如

用美式英语带走食物 我们 实际上使用外卖，

但带走食物是一个类似的想法，

特别是在英式英语

外卖中，

所以你从餐厅拿走你的食物，

所以你拿走

其他东西你从餐厅拿走你的食物

，

所以表达他们可以' t take that

away from me

they mean other people outside you

can't take

things away from you next one 我

想迈克尔谈过这个 在一个

古老的英语主题视频中，所以我

在直播中谈到了令人毛骨悚然的

形容词令人毛骨悚然，所以

引起紧张的

悬念之类的东西

令人毛骨悚然 男人可能是个毛病

女孩可能是个毛病 所以毛病是会

引起毛骨悚然的感觉的人

呃 可能会发生不好的事情

不要做一个小鬼 意味着你

不应该表现得像个小鬼

不要让别人感到紧张

不要做一个令人毛骨悚然的人 不要做一个小鬼

害怕尝试成为一个友善，

理解

嗯和尊重的人总是下一个

问题

哦，这是我本周的最后一个问题，

好吧，所以这些是

我最喜欢的问题，或者我

本周想和你谈谈的问题，

我希望那些是 一些有用的

点 ts 给你

，如果你有任何问题，请

随时

在englishclass101.com askalisha

告诉我，你可以在这里向我提交你的

问题，这让我很容易

在一个地方检查并查看所有问题，

所以一定要检查 我想你

可以用你的

普通英语课 101.com 帐户登录

并提交尽可能多的问题

，然后我会选择我喜欢的和

我想谈论的

，当然如果你们很多人问

同样的问题我也一定会尝试

回答，所以

请查看

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非常感谢您观看

询问艾丽西亚的这一集，我

下周

再见，我能做些什么 我的

麦克风，我想知道昨晚

我躺在床上时，我觉得我有一些想法

现在我都忘记了

哦，现在我可以在路上拍视频，

像高尔夫记者一样制作，嗯，是的，

球是球 滚动

为什么我是俄罗斯人我是俄罗斯人 n 高尔夫

记者现在哦，也许我会成为一个

beatboxer

你是怎么做到的

[音乐]

哦