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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 neha
hi neha neha says hi alicia my name is
neha could you please tell me when we
use
i am done and i have done
sure nice question first let's break
down the
grammar of these sentences so that we
can understand the basic differences
first i am done so i
is our subject am is our verb and done
is our adjective i am done is a simple
present
tense statement i have done on the other
hand
is i our subject have our auxiliary or
our helping or linking verb
and done which is the verb in the past
participle form
so this is a present perfect tense
sentence
so i am done a present tense sentence
means i am in the state or i am in the
condition
of being finished with something so we
use this expression
after like a meal like i'm done with my
meal or i'm done
eating we use this maybe after we finish
a task or we're trying to finish
something before
our friends or our co-workers like maybe
we're making something and we say
i'm done when we finish so that means in
this moment my condition
is done is finished a simple present
tense statement
i have done on the other hand would be
like the beginning part to a longer
statement
so because this is a present perfect
pattern
it means we're talking about something
that happened in the past at like a
non-specific
point so for example i have done my
homework
or i have done the laundry so that means
those activities
are finished they're done yes and we did
them
at some point in the past but when is
not exactly
important so i have done just means that
this thing
happened in the past uh i am done refers
to my condition
now 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
yoshitaka horikoshi hi again yoshitaka
yoshitaka says hi alicia
how do you use turn and change
i thought i could say my hair changed to
gray
however some songs say my hair
turned gray also should we say the
season changed
or the season turned looking forward to
hearing from you
nice question yeah this is a little bit
tricky because
both verbs have many uses but to focus
in on this specific difference
i would recommend maybe thinking about
the verb
turn as being used for things that we
cannot reverse so in your example about
hair color
it's natural for us to say my hair
turned
gray so that means my hair color is not
going to go back to its original color
unless of course we dye it or something
so when we say something
turned it means that that thing moved
kind of into its next
form it was sort of transformed and it's
probably not going to return to its
original
like status or its original condition so
my hair
turned gray is great we use turn when
we're talking about birthdays too
so you can think of this in the same way
when we move to the next
age we cannot go back to the previous
age so using turn
makes a lot of sense for example i
turned
50 this year or i turned 60 this year
so we use turn there to mean become and
also we can't
go back when we use change then we use
it to refer
to a transformation or an alteration yes
but the idea is that more alterations
are possible so it's not just one time
maybe we could for example change our
clothes
many times so just one time so maybe for
example we can change
our clothes or we could say i changed my
hair
color that would be different from my
hair turned gray
so in my hair turned gray it means my
hair is not going to come back to its
original color
so when we use change it's to describe
an
alteration or a transformation but like
other
other changes or other alterations are
still possible
so for example with hair color we could
say i changed my hair color so it's like
i made the decision
i changed it or when you're traveling
you can say
i changed my us dollars to euro
so more changes are possible in the
future
this is not a perfect rule and as i said
there are many different ways to use
change and turn but maybe this can help
you with a few common uses
relating to the meaning of become for
this verb
regarding your season related example
actually we use
both and the difference is kind of
subtle so we can say like as
the seasons changed she grew more and
more proficient
in her language skills or something like
that so when we say
as the seasons changed or like as the
seasons changed over time or something
like that
it has the feeling of like many
different seasons happening
like not just one season going to the
next season
but as the seasons plural changed it
sounds like
there's a lot of seasons going in
succession going quickly one after
another
so we would probably use change in that
case
when we use turn with seasons it's often
an expression like
spring turned to summer summer turned to
autumn
so we're showing that there's just this
forward progress
and we can't go back to the previous
season we're showing that something is
going to like the next
stage when we do that we usually use the
verb
turn we don't use change like summer
change to autumn
it sounds a little bit like unnatural i
don't think there's a communication
problem but we would use
turn in that case instead so in sum
if you want to talk about something that
you can't really go back to
try using turn if you want to talk about
something that it's possible
to make other alterations to try using
change i hope that this helps you thanks
for the question okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from
franklin diaz hi franklin franklin says
hi alicia how are you
good my question is what does it mean
when someone says who cut the cheese
a friend of mine told me that americans
use this expression when they smell
something that is disgusting
is that right yes michael and i
if you have not seen the english topic
series on this channel
we talked about this exact expression
this very expression
many years ago and the explanation is
quite clear
so have a look at this clip really
quickly
ah that's good starter cut the cheese
cut the cheese um it's a weird one we
say it we kind of accept it so this
means fart means to fart but i don't
think it really sounds like a fart when
you cut the cheese
you ask usually you say who cut the
cheese right what i don't think that
this refers to a sound
this idiom no yeah what do you think it
comes from i don't have no idea you are
so full of it you're gonna make me
explain this one aren't you
this refers to the smell when you pass
gas from your body you guys are gonna
make me oh
you're making me no i swear i swear i
didn't know that
it's a smell thing if you cut a fresh
cheese thing it smells kind of
bad oh yeah cheese so your body as well
if you
release gas from your body it may smell
similar
to a freshly cut block of cheese
and now i've explained
something where there was something on
the internet
yeah shouldn't it be like fry the egg or
something if it's talking about smell
cheese what do you do to your eggs
my cheese is my farts don't smell like
cheese they smell like eggs more than
cheese just saying i swore i thought
that was the sound no
like how often all right
i well that's what about you oh my god
this is only the first one
i'm supposed to talk about this now that
is i would like to point out that phrase
is one that's used a lot by kids
and parents who are talking to kids
that's like a nice way to
i guess a silly way to refer to it
otherwise rather unpleasant well no
it's always unpleasant i would imagine
bodily function
so as we talked about in this
explanation it's a phrase that's usually
used by kids it's not something that we
use so much among adults but perhaps
from time to time and depending on the
person
if you want to watch this full video you
can do a quick search on the english
class 101 youtube channel
for weirdest english idioms to find this
and some other expressions to use so i
hope that that helps you thanks for the
question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question comes from
kemari hi kimari kamari says hi alicia
what is the difference between how and
how come
okay first how come means why
so kids usually use how come
and kids will often use how come to
complain like they want to ask
why and they're like disappointed or
they're upset about something
so for example we're not going to the
movies tonight
ah how come so it's usually with that
kind of intonation it means why
or like why not so how come in this way
always means why you may hear adults use
this phrase if they're trying to be like
friendly or childish or something like
that but generally this is an expression
that's used by kids
or just i don't know kind of playful
people in general
on the other hand how is used to mean in
what way
in what way so for example how
does he make a living means in what way
does he make a living
or how do i turn on this computer means
in what way do i turn on this computer
so how alone by itself means in what way
how come means why i hope that this
helps you thanks for the question
okay on to our next question next
question
comes from al-mubin hi al-mubin
al-mubin says hi alicia how's it going
good uh could you please tell me
what is the difference between make and
make up ah okay yeah generally to
make means to create something so
not makeup but just to make means to
create something so for example
we make videos for youtube or
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回答你本周的
第一个问题本周的第一个问题来自 neha
hi neha neha 说你好 alicia，我的名字是
neha，你能告诉我我们什么时候
使用
我已经完成，我已经完成了
肯定的好问题首先让我们分解
这些句子的语法以便我们首先
可以理解基本区别
i am done 所以 i
是我们的主语 am 是我们的动词并且 done
是我们的形容词
有我们的助动词或
我们的帮助或连接动词
并完成，这是过去分词形式的动词，
所以这是一个现在完成时
句子，
所以我完成了一个现在时
句子意味着我在 e state or i is in the
condition
of things so we
use this expression
after like a meal 就像我
吃完饭
或者我吃完了
在
我们的朋友或同事之前完成某件事，比如
我们正在做某事，然后我们说
我完成了，这意味着在
这一刻我的
条件完成了，我已经完成了一个简单的现在
时态陈述
另一方面
就像一个较长陈述的开始部分，
所以因为这是一个完美的
模式，
这意味着我们正在谈论
过去发生的事情，比如一个
非特定的
时间点，例如我已经完成了我的
作业
或者我 已经洗完衣服，这意味着
这些活动
已经完成，他们已经完成了，是的，我们
在过去的某个时候做过，但是什么时候
并不完全
重要，所以我做了只是意味着
这件事
发生在过去，呃，我完成了
我
现在的情况 oi 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
yoshitaka horikoshi 你好 yoshitaka
yoshitaka 说你好 alicia
你如何使用 turn and
change 我想我可以说我的头发
变灰了
但是有些歌曲说我的头发
变白了，我们应该说
季节变了
还是季节变了，期待
听到你的
好问题，是的，这有点
棘手，因为
这两个动词都有很多用途，但要专注
于这个具体的区别，
我会 建议也许考虑
将动词
转向用于我们
无法逆转的事情，所以在你关于头发颜色的例子中
，我们很自然地说我的头发
变灰了，这意味着我的头发颜色
不会回到原来的颜色，
除非 当然我们给它染色什么的，
所以当我们说某物
变成了它意味着那东西
移动到了它的下一个
形式，它有点被改变了，它
可能是 不会恢复到原来
的状态或原来的状态，所以
我的头发
变白了很好，我们在谈论生日时也使用转，
所以
当我们进入下一个
我们不能的年龄时，你可以用同样的方式思考这个 回到以前的
年龄，所以使用 turn
很有意义，例如我
今年 50 岁或我今年 60 岁，
所以我们在那里使用 turn 来表示成为，
而且
当我们使用 change 时我们不能回去，然后我们使用
它指
的是转变或改变
可以说我改变了我的
头发
颜色，这与我的头发变灰不同，
所以在我的头发变灰时，这意味着我的
头发不会恢复到
原来的颜色，
所以当我们使用改变时，它是描述
改变或转变，但是
喜欢 她的
其他改变或其他改变
仍然是
可能的，例如头发颜色我们可以
说我改变了我的头发颜色所以就像
我做出了
我改变它的决定或者当你旅行时
你可以说
我把我的美元变成了欧元
所以 未来可能会发生更多变化
这不是一个完美的规则，正如我所说
，有许多不同的方式来使用
变化和转向，但也许这可以帮助
你了解一些
与
这个动词
有关你的季节的变得的含义的常见用法 相关的例子
实际上我们都使用
了，而且区别有点
微妙，所以我们可以说
随着季节的变化
，她的语言技能越来越精通或类似的东西
，所以当我们说
随着季节的变化或随着
季节的变化 随着时间的推移或类似的
事情，
它有很多
不同的季节发生的感觉，
就像不仅仅是一个季节到
下一季，
而是随着季节复数的变化，
听起来好像
有一个 很多季节
一个接一个地快速进行，
所以我们可能会在这种情况下使用变化，
当我们使用turn with seasons时，它通常
是一个表达，比如
春天变成夏天夏天变成
秋天，
所以我们表明只有这种
前进的进步
我们不能回到上
一季
当我们这样做时，我们正在展示下一阶段会喜欢的东西 我们通常使用
动词
turn 我们不使用 change like summer
change to fall
听起来有点 就像不自然一样，我
不认为存在沟通
问题，但
在这种情况下我们会使用 turn ，所以总而言之，
如果你想谈论一些
你不能真正回去
尝试使用 turn 如果你想谈论的
事情
可以进行其他更改以尝试使用
更改我希望这可以帮助您
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
富兰克林迪亚兹您好富兰克林富兰克林说
您好艾丽西亚如何 你
好吗我的问题是
当有人说谁切奶酪时是什么意思
我的一个朋友告诉我美国人
在闻
到令人作呕的东西时会使用这个表达
是对的 迈克尔和我
如果你还没有看过英语话题
这个频道的系列
我们在很多年前就讨论过这个确切的
表达这个表达
并且解释
很清楚
所以很快看看这个剪辑
啊这很好开胃菜切奶酪
切奶酪嗯这很奇怪我们
说它我们 有点接受它，所以这
意味着放屁意味着放屁，但我不
认为当你切奶酪时听起来真的像放屁
你通常会问你说谁切
奶酪对我不认为
这是指声音
这个成语不，是的，你认为它
来自什么我不知道你是
如此充满它你会让我
解释这个不是你
这是指当你
从你的身体排出气体时的气味你 伙计们
会让我哦
你在逼我不
类似于一块刚切好的奶酪
，现在我已经解释了
一些东西，互联网上有一些东西，
是的，不应该像煎鸡蛋或
其他东西，如果它在谈论闻
奶酪你对你的鸡蛋做了什么
我的奶酪是 我的屁闻起来不像
奶酪，它们闻起来更像鸡蛋而不是
奶酪，我只是说我发誓我认为
这不是那种声音
现在谈论这个
，我想
指出这个短语是
孩子和父母经常使用的
短语
我会想象
身体功能总是不愉快 n
因此，正如我们在此解释中所讨论的，
这是一个
儿童通常使用的短语，我们
在成年人中使用的不多，但可能
不时使用，并且取决于
人，
如果您想观看此完整视频，您
可以做一个 在英语
课 101 youtube 频道
上快速搜索最奇怪的英语习语，找到这个
和其他一些要使用的表达方式，所以我
希望这对你有所帮助，谢谢你的
问题，
好吧，让我们继续你的下一个问题，
下一个问题来自
kemari hi kimari kamari 说 嗨，艾丽西亚
，怎么来和怎么来有什么区别？
例如
今晚我们不去看电影
如果他们试图表现得
友好或幼稚或类似的东西
，ults会使用这个短语，但通常这是
孩子们使用的表达方式，
或者只是我不知道
一般
的顽皮的人如何习惯 意味着以
何种方式
以何种方式例如
他如何谋生意味着他以何种方式
谋生
或我如何打开这台计算机意味着
我以何种方式打开这台计算机
所以如何独自一人意味着 what way
how come 意味着为什么我希望这
对你有帮助 谢谢你的问题
好的，我们的下一个问题 下一个
问题
来自 al-mubin 嗨 al-mubin
al-mubin 说你好 alicia 怎么样，
你能告诉我
什么 是化妆和化妆之间的区别
啊，好吧，是的，通常
是为了创造一些东西而
不是化妆，而只是为了
创造一些东西，例如
我们为 youtube 或
[音乐] 制作视频