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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you
ask me questions and i answer them maybe
okay let's get to your first question
this week first question this week comes
from miriam atef hi miriam
miriam says what's the difference
between so
and so that okay sometimes we can use
them
in the same way it's just a personal
preference decision
so sometimes we use so that to mean
in order to or for the purpose of
for example we need to wake up at 6 00
am
so that we can get to the airport by 9
am
or you should save some money so that
you can take a nice vacation
in these sentences i've used so that but
many people
me included use so without that
so the reason for this is that that
isn't actually necessary we don't have
to have
that here we can use the word so to
connect these two ideas so
by itself has that same meaning of in
order to
do something so many people choose to
drop
that just to make the sentence more
efficient
so in these cases you can choose to use
either so
or so that but please keep in mind with
the other uses of so
like for emphasis reasons we cannot
replace so
with so that we can only use so by this
i mean
when you want to use so for emphasis of
an adjective
or an adverb for example she sings
so beautifully or this copy is so
good we cannot replace so with so that
in these example sentences when you use
so for emphasis
please use it alone if you want to use
it to mean for the purpose of or
in order to you can use so that so i
hope this helps you understand the
differences between
so and so that thanks very much for the
question okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from
oz aws hello oz oz says the word
congratulations
is used on big occasions what should we
say to a person who
bought new shoes directly from the
seller or another exciting event
yeah in situations that are exciting but
there's no
accomplishment or there's no achievement
just use a
positive adjective something like great
or
cool or fantastic or awesome
if you want to talk about a singular
object you can say
that's cool or that's great you can also
use this for a situation
don't use it's cool or it's great use
that in this case if you want to talk
about
plural nouns you can use those are
cool or those are great or those are
fantastic as in
like with shoes or maybe with glasses or
something like that
so yes as you said we use
congratulations
for a big occasion some kind of
achievement or special accomplishment or
important life event
for other just exciting things that
happen just use a positive adjective
that you prefer
in my case i probably say that's cool or
that's awesome
so i hope that this helps you thanks
very much for the question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question
comes from aj hi aj aj says hi alicia
what's the difference between no way and
impossible okay we use no way to respond
to shocking or surprising information
so the key here is it's a response so
the idea behind no way is like
there is no way this is possible is like
a longer way to say it or
there is no chance that this is possible
so it's something that's hard for us to
believe
we're so surprised or we're so shocked
so we can use this in both positive
and in negative situations we often use
it in like happy
kind of surprise related situations so
for example
imagine you fly across the world to meet
a friend or a family member to surprise
them
when they see you they might say no way
which means
i'm so surprised right now i can't
believe
this is possible so it would sound very
strange to say
you're here impossible we use impossible
for physically not possible situations
for things that are 100 percent
not possible it sounds rather formal and
it sounds like something we would use
in maybe like scientific situations or
something that we would use in like a
rule-based situation so like there are
rules or policies or agreements related
to that thing
we use no way to express our surprise or
our disbelief
in everyday conversations no way can
also mean there's no method to do
something
for example there's no way to recover
the files on your broken computer or
there's no way to reschedule the event
so this use of
no way shares a meaning with impossible
but no way sounds much more casual it's
a more
friendly everyday word that we use
impossible
has this meaning like there's no method
of doing something or it is not possible
but it tends to sound more formal and a
bit more
serious when we say there's no way to
recover the files on your computer
sorry it sounds a little more friendly
and casual then
it's impossible to recover the files on
your computer that sounds much more
serious and kind of like scary sometimes
so
yes they do mean the same thing but they
have different grammatical structures as
well
you might have noticed i just said
there's no way to recover the files
if you want to use impossible we would
say it's
impossible to recover the files so
please note that there are some
differences in terms of the grammatical
structure
of the sentence when we use these
expressions so again
impossible means something that is not
possible to do
but we tend to use it in more serious
situations so for everyday life
situations
you can use no way there's no way to do
something
or you can use it to express your shock
your disbelief no way
so i hope that this helps you and don't
use impossible
to respond to somebody unless you want
to sound kind of surprised and very
serious so
i hope this helps you thanks very much
for the question okay
let's move on to your next question next
question
comes from nazanin hello nazanin
nazanin says hey alicia what is the
difference
between rich and wealthy ah yeah
nice question if you know the famous
comedian chris rock he has a really
famous bit or a really famous joke about
the difference between
rich and wealthy but to explain it
quickly and briefly here
rich has the feeling of someone who very
recently got a lot of money
or they have some money but we're not
sure it's going to be sustainable
that which means we're not sure if they
can continue having lots of money
so it's like someone who has a lot of
money and they might
not have that money into the future
that's someone who is
rich when we talk about someone who is
wealthy
we're talking about someone who has a
history of having
lots of money maybe their family has
lots of money
for many generations their family
members have had lots of money
so it's a sustainable thing it's
something that has happened for a long
time a condition that has been true for
a long time
that's someone who is wealthy so someone
who is rich
we can think of as maybe they have money
for a long time
uh maybe not we don't know someone who
is wealthy though
they have like this history of lots and
lots of money
in everyday conversation many people use
them in the same way
he's rich she's rich he's wealthy she's
wealthy but if you want to get into the
specific details this is the difference
between these two words
so i hope that this helps you thanks
very much for the question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question
comes from pamela hi pamela pamela says
hi alicia thanks for your teaching
i would like to know when do we use the
hyphen in some words
for example in my work i always use the
words non-parametric
or non-hyphen parametric or
socioeconomic or socio-hyphen economic
and more thanks in advance great
question and unfortunately there is no
easy answer the reason that you
sometimes see words with a hyphen
and sometimes without a hyphen is
because there are a few
different english writing guides that
are used by
different publications different
publishers so a publication or a
publisher
is a place that creates written
documents like magazines
they create newspapers they create books
and so on
so depending on the type of work
that is being produced a different
writing guide which is called a style
guide might be used
there are a couple of really really
common and very widely used
english writing guides these are called
style guides
the first is the ap style book which is
the associated press
style book and the second is the chicago
manual of style which is also called
chicago or cms for short so
the ap style book is used in journalism
which means if you read newspapers that
are written in american english
they probably use the ap style book to
make their decisions regarding
punctuation
and other things lots of other things
this includes spelling hyphenation and
so on
if however you're looking at a novel so
a book or a short story maybe
that kind of writing uses the chicago
manual of style
generally to make things even more
complex
publishers themselves often have
in-house rules
so internal rules rules that they use
inside their company
relating to spelling punctuation and so
on so depending on the place that
publishes something
the spelling or the hyphenation might be
different
so how do we make our decisions how do
we know what we should do
a couple of guidelines number one i
would suggest you first check the
dictionary my favorite
it's online and free is the
merriam-webster dictionary
check to see the way that the word is
spelled there do they use a hyphen do
they not use a hyphen
second would be to check and see what
the spelling is or what the preferred
style of hyphenation is
for that word in your industry so by
that i mean
check to see what other people are using
when other people write about that topic
what are they using so sometimes this
can help you sometimes
you see a mix of different things the
third thing that you can do
is to consider would having a hyphen or
would not having a hyphen
cause confusion for my reader so a great
example of this
is the word recreation and the word
recreation
so the problem here is that recreation
and
recreation have the exact same spelling
but they have very different meanings so
recreation means to do something for fun
and recreation refers to creating
something again
very different meanings they have the
same spelling
so we need to have a hyphen in
recreation to separate
the re from creation if we don't have
the hyphen in that word
a reader might mistake the word for
recreation which would cause a
misunderstanding overall
so in these cases it's really important
to consider hyphenation
if there's a chance that your reader
might be confused
as in this case you should probably put
a hyphen in the word
so this is the reason you might find
some words with a hyphen and some words
without a hyphen
and this is also hopefully a small guide
for how you can decide
whether to add a hyphen or not i hope
that this helps you thanks for an
interesting question
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来自 miriam atef 嗨 miriam
miriam 说
so
和 so 之间有什么区别，好吧，有时我们可以
以同样的方式使用它们，这只是个人
偏好决定，
所以有时我们使用 所以这
意味着为了或为了
例如我们需要在早上 6 点起床，
以便我们可以在早上 9 点之前到达机场，
或者您应该节省一些钱，以便
您可以在这些地方度过一个愉快的假期
我用过的句子，但是
我包括的很多人都使用了所以没有，
所以这样做的原因是这
实际上不是必需的，我们不必
在这里我们可以使用这个词来
连接这些 两个想法
因此本身具有相同的含义，
为了
做某事，很多人选择
放弃
它只是为了使句子更有
效率，
所以在这些情况下，您可以选择
使用 so
或 so，但请
记住 so
like 的其他用法出于强调的原因，我们不能
用 so 代替 so
，所以我们只能使用 so，
我的意思是
当你想用 so 来强调
形容词
或副词时，例如 shesing
so beautiful or this copy is so
good 在这些例句中，我们不能将 so 替换为 so，
当您使用
so 表示强调时，
请单独使用
某某和某某之间的区别 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
oz aws 你好 oz oz 说
祝贺这个词在大场合使用 我们应该
对购买的人说什么
直接从
卖家那里买的新鞋或其他
激动人心的事件是的，在令人兴奋但
没有
成就或没有成就的情况下，
只需使用
积极的形容词，比如伟大
、
酷、奇妙或真棒，
如果你想谈论一个单一的
物体，你可以说
that's cool or that's great you can also
use this for a situation
不要使用 it's cool or it's great use
that 在这种情况下，如果你想谈论
复数名词，你可以使用 those are
cool 或 those are great 或 those are
wonderful as
就像鞋子或眼镜或
类似的东西，
所以是的，正如你所说，我们用
祝贺
来表示重大场合某种
成就或特殊成就或
重要的生活事件，
用于发生其他令人兴奋的
事情只需使用你喜欢的积极形容词
就我而言，我可能会说这很酷
或很棒，
所以我希望这对您有所帮助
非常感谢您的问题，
好吧，让我们继续您的下一个 问题
下一个问题
来自 aj 嗨 aj aj 说你好
alicia 这不可能是
一种更长的说法，或者
没有机会这是可能的，
所以我们很难相信
我们会如此惊讶或如此震惊，
所以我们可以在积极的情况下使用它
在消极的情况下，我们经常
在与
惊喜相关的情况
下使用它，例如，
想象你飞越世界
去见朋友或家人，
当他们看到你时给他们一个惊喜，他们可能会说没办法
，这意味着
我 现在太惊讶了，我不敢
相信
这是可能的，所以说你在这里不可能听起来很
奇怪，
我们将不可能
用于物理上不可能的情况，
用于 100%
不可能的事情听起来很有趣 正规的，
听起来像是我们会
在科学情况下
使用的东西，或者我们会在
基于规则的情况下使用的东西，所以就像有
与那件事相关的规则或政策或协议
，
我们无法表达我们的惊讶或
我们的 不
相信日常对话 no way 也可能
意味着没有办法做某事
，例如无法恢复
损坏计算机上的文件或
无法重新安排活动，
因此这种使用
no way 与不可能但没有办法有相同的含义
听起来更随意，这是
一个更
友好的日常用词，我们使用的
不可能
有这个意思，就像没有
办法做某事，或者这是不可能的
，但当我们说无法恢复时，它往往听起来更正式和更
严肃
您计算机上的文件
抱歉，这听起来更友好
和随意，
然后无法恢复
计算机上听起来更
严重和种类的文件 有时就像吓人一样，
所以
是的，它们确实表示相同的意思，但是它们
也具有不同的语法结构，
您可能已经注意到我只是说
如果您想使用不可能恢复文件，我们会
说
无法恢复文件，所以
请 请注意，
当我们使用这些表达方式时，句子的语法结构存在一些差异，
所以再次
不可能意味着不可能做的事情，
但我们倾向于在更严重的情况下使用它，
因此对于日常生活
情况，
您可以使用 no 没有办法
做某事，
或者你可以用它来表达你的震惊
你的怀疑，
所以我希望这对你有帮助，不要
用不可能
来回应某人，除非你
想听起来有点惊讶和非常
严肃，所以
我 希望这对你有帮助 非常感谢你
的问题 好吧
让我们继续你的下一个问题 下一个
问题
来自 nazanin 你好 nazanin
nazanin 说嘿艾丽西亚什么是
有钱人和有钱人的区别啊是的
很好的问题如果你认识著名
喜剧演员克里斯·洛克他有一个非常
有名的一点或一个非常有名的笑话关于
富人和有钱人的区别但是在
这里快速简单地解释一下
Rich有一个人的感觉
最近有很多钱的人，
或者他们有一些钱，但我们
不确定这是否可持续
，这意味着我们不确定他们是否
可以继续有很多钱，
所以就像一个有很多
钱的人 他们
将来可能没有那笔钱
当我们谈论有钱的人时，我们谈论的是
有钱的人
成员有很多钱，
所以这是一件可持续的事情 这是
一件已经发生了很
长时间的事情 长期以来一直存在
的情况 有钱，
我们可以认为也许他们
有钱很长时间
富有 她很富有 他很富有 她很
富有 但是如果您想了解
具体细节，这就是
这两个词之间的区别，
所以我希望这对您有所帮助
非常感谢您的问题
好的，让我们继续您的下一个问题
下一个问题
来自 帕梅拉你好帕梅拉帕梅拉说
你好艾丽西亚谢谢你的教学
我想知道我们什么时候
在某些词中使用连字符
例如在我的工作中我总是使用
非参数
或非连字符参数或
社会经济或社会连字符经济
多谢提前很好的
问题，不幸的是没有
简单的答案你
有时看到带连字符的单词
，有时没有连字符的
原因是因为有一些
不同的 不同出版物使用的英语写作指南 不同
的
出版商，因此出版物或
出版商
是创建书面文件的地方，
例如杂志
他们创建报纸 他们创建书籍
等等，
这取决于
正在制作的工作类型 不同的
写作指南 这被称为风格
指南可能会被使用
有一些
非常常见且使用广泛的
英语写作指南这些被称为
风格
指南第一个是美联社风格书的ap
风格书，第二个是芝加哥
手册 风格，也称为
芝加哥或简称 cms，
因此 ap 风格书用于新闻业
，这意味着如果您阅读
用美式英语编写的报纸，
他们可能会使用 ap 风格书来
做出关于
标点符号
和其他很多事情的决定 其他事情，
包括拼写连字符
等等，
如果你正在看一本小说，那么
一本书或短篇 故事也许
这种写作通常使用芝加哥
风格手册
来使事情变得更加
复杂
出版商本身通常
有内部规则，
因此内部规则规则，
他们在公司内部使用
与拼写标点符号等有关的规则
等等，这取决于
发布的
东西拼写或连字符可能
不同
所以我们如何做出决定我们如何
知道我们应该做什么
第一条指导方针我建议你首先查看
我最喜欢的字典，
它是在线的并且免费的是
merriam-webster 字典
检查以查看该单词的
拼写方式 他们是否使用连字符
他们是否不使用连字符
第二个是检查并查看
拼写是什么或
您所在行业中该单词的首选连字样式是什么
我的意思
是
当其他人写关于该主题的文章时查看其他人在使用
什么他们在使用什么所以有时这
可以帮助你有时
哟 您会看到多种不同的
东西，您可以做的第三件事
是考虑使用连字符或
不使用连字符
会导致我的读者感到困惑，因此一个很好的
例子
是娱乐一词和娱乐一词，
所以问题就在这里 是娱乐
和
娱乐具有完全相同的拼写，
但它们具有非常不同的含义，因此
娱乐意味着为了好玩
而做某事，娱乐是指再次创造
一些
非常不同的含义它们具有
相同的拼写
所以我们需要在娱乐中使用连字符
来分隔
re from creation 如果我们
在那个词中没有连字符，那么
读者可能会将这个词误认为是
娱乐，这会导致
总体上的误解，
因此在这些情况下，
如果您的读者
可能会混淆
，那么考虑连字符是非常重要的 在这种情况下，您可能
应该在单词中添加连字符，
这就是您可能会发现
一些带有连字符的单词和一些单词
wi 的原因 没有连字符
，这也希望是一个
关于如何决定
是否添加连字符的小指南我
希望这可以帮助你感谢一个
有趣的问题
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