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the weekly series where you ask me

questions and I answer them

maybe first question this week comes

from Rizal khuswaha again hi again

resolved resolved says hi Alicia what is

the difference between task duty job and

assignment and how do we use them thanks

okay good question let's start with the

word duty duty is the least commonly

used of these words that you've

introduced here we use duty to talk

about our responsibilities or our

obligations we use this word however for

kind of specific jobs so people who work

in like the government who do like civil

service related jobs and people who are

members of the military use the word

duty to describe their responsibilities

for example my duty is to serve my

country it is my duty as mayor to do the

best I can for my city we don't use the

word duty or the plural duties very much

except in these kinds of settings you

might see this on like a contract or

perhaps a job application or a job

information form but in general the word

Duty is most commonly used in these

kinds of environments let's move on then

to the word job so we use the word job

to refer generally to the type of work

we do like I'm a teacher I'm a

photographer I'm in finance so it's our

job our job title or the kind of work

that we do that's our job I make youtube

videos as part of my job we're

journalists so we have busy jobs okay

finally then the words task and

assignment these really do have quite

similar meanings but assignment is used

more when were students like when we

have homework we often call it a

homework assignment so that's something

we have to take home complete and bring

back

we use assignment to mean like a thing

that we need to do assignment is also

used quite specifically in the

journalism and media related fields so

when we receive a task when we receive

something that we need to travel for

like we travel and we interview someone

or we travel to collect information

that's called an assignment in the

journalism and media related fields

so in that case assignment can be quite

specific to a field in most other cases

though just talking about your to-do

lists the everyday items you need to

take care of we use the word task to

describe that so in like your computer

or your smartphone or maybe in a

notebook somewhere you might have a task

list so your task list is your list of

responsibilities the small things you

need to do throughout your day or

throughout your week tasks is probably

the most commonly used word from this

list that you have presented here some

examples I have an assignment in LA this

month where's your next assignment so

for our other work for most general work

we can use the word tasks to talk about

those small things we need to do

throughout the day I hope that this

helps you understand the differences

between these words thanks very much for

the question ok let's move on to your

next question next question comes from

trying again hi trying trying says hello

Alicia what's the difference between

just and only a good question

it does depend on how the word is used

in the sentence in some cases just and

only can be used interchangeably we can

use them in the same way let's compare

with two sentences I want just one

cookie I want only one cookie so here in

both of these examples sentences just

and only proceed proceed means come

before the word or the expression one

cookie so they're modifying one cookie

we always put just and only directly

before the word or phrase that we are

modifying please be careful a point that

many native speakers make mistakes with

is they'll put it before the verb not

before like the

whole thing they want to modify so in

these example sentences we can use the

two words in the same way they mean like

one thing that's it we want to emphasize

the one thing in other situations though

the two words have different functions

so we can use just to talk about very

recently completed actions to talk about

actions that were planned for completion

very recently and to talk about actions

that are going to happen in the very

near future for example I just finished

my homework I was just about to call you

I'm just about to leave so these are

example sentences which in order our

recently finished action recently

planned action that did not happen an

upcoming action in the very near future

we can use just to do this but we cannot

use only to do this so this is an

example of the various ways that just

can be used only is used for that kind

of emphasis feeling that we talked about

in the cookie example sentence if you

want some more information on the

placement of only and how it affects the

meaning of a sentence please check out

the whiteboard video that's on the

YouTube channel that details the use of

the word only and the placement of the

word only it's a big point for native

speakers and learner's alike I think so

I hope that that helps you thanks very

much for the question

ok let's move along to your next

question next question this week comes

from Gerardo hi Gerardo Gerardo says how

does the letter T sound in the words

party and started yeah good question so

the T sound in words like this it

becomes quite soft so you'll notice in

these patterns we have a vowel followed

by our T and then something at the end

in this case we're looking at like II D

or maybe Y sounds so in the examples

that you included party it's like a D

sound and started so party and started

it's like a D sound the T sound that is

not pronounced party and stay

arted are difficult to say in fast

speech we make the sounds much softer

like a D sound party and started so

three more words that follow the same

pronunciation rule are parted blurted

and sporty so here we see vowel plus R T

plus something else so we have sporty in

the last example and then these words

that end in E D with parted and blurted

so you'll notice that that T sound

becomes very soft like a D so parted

blurted sporty party started so this is

a kind of a good guideline I think for

when you see that R T and you see a

vowel before it but it's not at the end

of a word so please note that this

pronunciation rule applies when the T is

not the last letter in the word if for

example the word is start or part or

blurt the T sound is quite clear but

when it's not the last letter in the

word it's like started party blurted

then the T sound becomes more like a D

sound so we would not say blurted party

started it's a little too much it's kind

of difficult to say in fast speech so I

hope that this helps you with the

pronunciation of T sounds that follow

this spelling rule thanks very much for

the question

ok let's move on to your next question

next question comes from John hi John

John says hi Alicia I would like to ask

the difference between can't and

couldn't is it possible to use both of

them to say something is impossible to

do at present which of the two is

preferred or can I just use them

interchangeably Thanks

in statements we use can't for present

tense and couldn't for past tense

examples I can't help you right now he

can't come to the phone we couldn't

finish all the food she couldn't find

the stapler so can't is used to refer to

impossible things in the present

couldn't is used to refer to impossible

things in the past so we cannot use

them interchangeably so present-tense

can't past tense

couldn't less commonly there is the

expression I couldn't so we use this

expression when there's something kind

of tempting or interesting that we're a

little bit interested about but we kind

of want to like hold back a bit so for

example like three donuts for me I

couldn't so it's like there's some kind

of temptation or something like that but

that's a sort of set special expression

and it's not so commonly used another

example might be like a promotion but I

would have to leave all my team members

behind I couldn't do that so it's kind

of like there's a reluctant feeling to

do something so it doesn't necessarily

mean the speaker is going to choose one

way or the other but it's just kind of

this shock durricks like surprised

expression that shows a decision is

difficult so in that case I couldn't

refers to a present tense feeling like

that's not possible I shouldn't do that

that's kind of the feel there but in all

other cases as I talked about in my

example sentences we use couldn't for

past tense impossibility so please use

can't for present tense couldn't for

past tense I hope that this helps answer

your question thanks very much for

sending it along okay on to our next

question this week next question this

week comes from stanislav hi stanislav

stanislav says what idiom can i use to

describe past work if its results were

unuseful and unnecessary and there was

no practical outcome but that wasn't

clear from the start in my native

language this is called work for a shelf

it means that the results will be put on

a shelf and then forgotten yeah

interesting actually we use shelf in

this way too when we say we're going to

put something on a shelf after we finish

it it doesn't really mean that it was

unnecessary or unuseful but it's just

kind of like you say there's not really

a practical outcome for it like we

finished this thing it's done I'm not

going to do anything with it I'll just

put it on the shelf

we also use this as a verb to shelf

something means to put it off to the

side and kind of forget about it like

something that's finished we don't have

to deal with it anymore

we shelf that

some examples a shelf in that vase I

took a week to paint don't leave that

project on the shelf so in this case in

English it doesn't necessarily mean that

the item was bad or was not useful or

whatever it just means it's like not so

important right now so we put it on the

shelf we like don't think about it so

much we just put it somewhere where it's

not in the way sometimes literally so I

hope that this helps answer your

question interesting one thanks very

much for sending it along okay that is

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再次来自 Rizal khuswaha 嗨 再次

解决 解决 说 嗨 艾丽西亚

任务职责工作和

分配有什么区别以及我们如何使用它们 谢谢

好的 好问题 让我们从

任务职责这个词开始

，这是您在这里介绍的这些词中最不常用的词，

我们使用

谈论我们的责任或

义务的责任 我们使用这个词但是

对于特定的工作，所以

像政府一样工作的人喜欢与

公务员相关的工作和

军人使用这个词

来描述他们的责任

例如，我的职责是为我的

国家服务 作为市长，我有责任

为我的城市尽我所能 我们不使用“

职责”一词或复数职责 非常多，

除了在这些类型的设置中，您

可能会在合同或

工作申请或工作

信息表上看到这一点，但总的来说，

在这些环境中最常使用“职责”这个词

，让我们继续

讨论“工作”这个词，所以 我们使用“工作”一词

来泛指我们所做的工作类型，

例如我是一名教师 我是一名

摄影师

制作 youtube

视频作为我工作的一部分，我们是

记者，所以我们的工作很忙，最后还好，

然后任务和

作业这两个词确实具有非常

相似的含义，但是

当学生像我们

有家庭作业时，我们通常称之为作业时，更多地使用作业

家庭作业，所以

我们必须把它带回家完成并带

回来 我们收到

一些需要旅行的东西，

就像我们旅行一样，我们采访某人

或我们旅行以收集

在

新闻和媒体相关领域称为作业的信息，

因此在这种情况下，在大多数其他情况下，作业可能非常

特定于某个领域

虽然只是谈论你的待办事项

列表你需要照顾的日常物品

我们使用任务这个词来

描述它所以在你的电脑

或智能手机或者可能在

某个地方的笔记本电脑中你可能有一个任务

列表所以你的任务列表 是您的职责清单

您在一天或一周中需要做的小事

任务可能

是您在此列出的清单中最常用的词 一些

示例 我这个月在洛杉矶有一个任务

你的下一个任务在哪里

对于我们的其他工作，对于大多数一般工作，

我们可以使用任务这个词来谈论

我们一整天需要做的那些小事情，

希望这

可以帮助您理解 tand

这些词之间的区别 非常感谢

这个问题 好的让我们继续你的

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

再次尝试 你好尝试尝试说你好

Alicia 有什么区别

只是一个好问题

它确实取决于这个词的含义

在某些情况下在句子中使用 just and

only 可以互换使用 我们可以

以相同的方式使用它们 让我们

与两个句子进行比较 我只想要一个

cookie 我只想要一个 cookie 所以在

这两个示例中的句子都

只是继续进行 意思是

在单词或表达之前加一个

cookie，所以他们正在修改一个 cookie，

我们总是把它放在

我们正在修改的词或短语之前

它在动词之前而不是

在

他们想要修改的整个事物之前，所以在

这些例句中，我们可以

以相同的方式使用这两个词，它们的意思就像

一件事一样' 我们想

在其他情况下强调一件事，尽管

这两个词有不同的功能，

所以我们可以用 just 来谈论

最近完成的动作来谈论

最近计划完成的动作和谈论

正在进行的动作 将在

不久的将来发生 例如我刚刚完成

作业 我正要打电话给你

我正要离开所以这些是

例句 这些句子为了我们

最近完成的行动 最近

计划的行动没有发生 即将发生的

行动 在不久的将来，

我们可以使用 just 来执行此操作，但我们

不能仅用于执行此操作，因此这

是仅可用于的各种方式的示例，

仅用于

我们在 cookie 中谈到的那种强调感觉

例句 如果您

想了解

有关 only 的位置以及它如何影响

句子含义的更多信息，请查看

YouTube 频道上的白板视频。

ils only the word only and the place of the

word only 这对母语

人士和学习者来说很

重要

周

来自 Gerardo 嗨 Gerardo Gerardo 说

字母 T 在单词派对中的发音如何，

并开始是的好问题，所以

像这样的单词中的 T 声音

变得非常柔和，所以你会注意到在

这些模式中，我们有一个元音，后面

跟着我们的 T，然后

在这种情况下，我们看到的最后的一些东西就像 II D

或者 Y 声音，所以在

你包括派对的例子中，它就像一个 D

声音，开始如此派对，开始

它就像一个 D 声音，T 声音

不发音派对和保持

艺术在快速演讲中很难说

我们使声

音像 D 音派对一样柔和得多并开始

所以遵循相同

发音规则的另外三个单词分开脱口

而运动所以在这里我们看到誓言 l 加上 RT

加上其他东西，所以我们

在最后一个例子中有运动，然后这些词

以 ED 结尾，带有分开和脱口，

所以你会注意到 T 声音

变得像 D 一样柔软，所以分开

脱口运动派对开始了，所以这是

我认为这是一种很好的指导方针，

当您看到 RT 并且您

在它之前看到一个元音但它不在单词的末尾时

，请注意，

当 T

不是单词中的最后一个字母时，此发音规则适用

例如，单词是 start 或 part 或

blurt T 音很清楚，

但当它不是单词中的最后一个字母时，

它就像 start party

有点太多了，

在快速的演讲中很难说，所以我

希望这能帮助你

了解遵循这个拼写规则的 T 音的发音

非常感谢

这个问题

好的，让我们继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题来自 John 嗨

约翰约翰说嗨艾丽西亚我想问

不能和不能之间的

区别是否可以同时使用

它们来表示目前不可能

做的事情两者中的哪一个是

首选的，或者我可以只使用它们吗

可互换的谢谢

在我们用can't表示现在

时和can't表示过去时的

陈述中我现在不能帮助你他

不能来电话我们不能

吃完她找不到的所有食物

订书机 so can't 用来指代

现在

不可能的

事情

表达我不能，所以

当有

某种诱人或有趣的东西我们

有点感兴趣但我们

有点想忍住一点时，我们会使用这个表达，

例如对我来说像三个甜甜圈我

不能' 就好像有

什么诱惑什么的 像那样，但这

是一种固定的特殊表达方式

，不太常用

做某事并不一定

意味着说话者会选择

一种或另一种方式，但这只是一种

令人震惊的durricks，如惊讶的

表情，表明决定很

困难，所以在这种情况下，我不能

指的是现在时 感觉

那是

不可能的 t 表示

过去时 我希望这有助于回答

您的问题 非常感谢您

将其发送到

本周的下一个问题 本周的下一个问题

来自 stanislav 嗨 stanislav

stanislav 说我可以使用什么成语

描述过去的工作，如果它的结果是

无用的和不必要的，并且

没有实际的结果，但

在我的母语中从一开始就不清楚

这被称为架子工作，

这意味着结果将被

放在架子上然后被遗忘 是的，

有趣的是，实际上我们也以这种方式使用架子，

当我们说我们将

在完成后将某物放在架子上时

，这并不意味着它是

不必要或无用的，但

就像你说的那样

一个实际的结果，就像我们

完成了这件事，它已经完成

了 有点忘记它

就像已经完成的事情我们

不再需要处理它

我们将

一些示例放在那个花瓶中的一个架子上我

花了一周的时间来画不要把那个

项目留在架子上所以在这种情况下用

英语 这并不一定意味着

该项目是坏的或无用的

或者它只是意味着它现在不那么

重要所以我们把它放在

我们喜欢的架子上不要想

太多我们只是把它放在一个不妨碍它的地方

有时从字面上看 所以我

希望这有助于回答你的

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