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questions and I answer them

maybe first question comes from Flavia

hi Flavia Flavia says hi Alicia can you

explain why you use if I were you

instead of was yeah so the pattern if I

were you is an example of what's called

the subjunctive mood so the subjunctive

mood is something that we use to talk

about unreal situations so things that

are not true so we use if I were you to

talk about the Unreal situation the

Unreal present situation which refers to

like the fact that I am NOT you like

that's not a true situation so we use

this subjunctive pattern if I were you

to talk about that if I was however

would begin a simple past statement so

something in the past but maybe the

speaker is not so certain about that

past thing so for example if I was wrong

I'm sorry or if I was noisy last night I

apologize so that means the speaker has

some uncertainty about the past like if

I was noisy last night I don't know if I

was but maybe I was if I was I apologize

so those are past situations that could

be possible they're not necessarily like

unreal but we want to maybe express like

an apology or we want to express some

kind of uncertainty about something that

might have affected someone in the past

so maybe I was noisy last night or maybe

I was wrong for example I don't know but

if I was then I apologize or I'm sorry

so we use this if I was for these simple

past tense statements so actually you

will commonly hear native speakers using

if I was you but it's not like that's

going to cause any commune

ocation problems actually so yes the

technically correct pattern to use if I

were you but there are so many people

that say if I was if I was that it's not

like a communication problem

so technically yes it's incorrect to say

if I was but you're not gonna have any

problems if you use that pattern instead

so that's the basic difference if I were

you

refers to an unreal present situation if

I was something refers to uncertainty

about a past situation or a past event

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 Carol hi Carol Carol

says Alesha I'm stumped by trying to

distinguish the difference in meaning

between evaluate and assess could you

help me yeah great question and actually

native speakers have trouble with the

difference between these words too so

let's talk first about the word evaluate

so a great way to remember the

difference between the words evaluate

and assess is to consider that inside

the word evaluate is the word value so

when we evaluate something we are

assigning or we are giving some value to

that thing or to that person this can

mean like the price of something this

can mean the significance of something

this can mean like the condition of

something so some examples we evaluated

this camera and gave it an 8 out of 10

score our company's software was

evaluated by a tech website and given a

low rating so in each of these example

sentences a certain like level of value

is assigned or is given to something or

to someone so when we evaluate we're

doing it in order to give value or it's

like to assign or to find the value of

something so it could be a score it

could be a price so let's compare this

to the word assess the pronunciation is

assess assess so the word assessed then

has the same feel of evaluate but the

purpose of assess is to understand

something better so we don't

something in order to assign a value to

that thing we're assessing something in

order to understand it better so like we

try to understand deeper like

information or like to learn more about

the details of something we assess

something so like you might assess a

situation that means you look deep into

the details to better understand the

situation some more examples we need to

assess the security of the company's

data he assessed his housing options

before making a decision so this is the

difference between evaluate and assess

if you're ever not sure just to remember

that the word value is inside evaluate

to help you remember that evaluate is

used to assign value to something 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 yes sir hi Yasir Yasir says

what is the meaning of the expression

word I've seen it in some movies and I

can't figure out what it means yeah word

is like a strong laid back expression of

agreement among close friends you can

also use it to like ask really or is

that true if you use kind of like a

question intonation so like word so you

might also hear it used in a situation

where someone does something that like

you really admire or that you kind of

respect or you think is impressive and

you like you might hear someone say like

word in response to that so that kind of

shows support or that you were impressed

or you admire that thing I feel like in

a lot of cases it's just used as a

simple expression of agreement or

understanding for example we're gonna

watch the game tonight word personally I

don't use this word that much because it

is kind of like a cool word and I'm not

really like a cool like hip-hop street

culture kind of person but if you want

to use it I would recommend using it

among very close friends and in very

casual situations so I hope that this

helps you understand it thanks very much

for the question all right let's move on

to your next question next question

comes from bray antalya hi bran

Breann says hi Alicia can you please

explain to me the meanings and uses of

the word happen specifically in these

cases do you happen to my sister happens

to be a lawyer

etc I'm confused yeah this is a nice

question okay to begin with I want to

introduce a few very common patterns

that we see with the word happen

let's take a look do you happen to have

would you happen to know if it just so

happens that my sister happens to be

okay

so kind of the theme with this use of

the word happen is chance or by chance

of something so let's take a look at the

first two patterns here these first two

are question patterns so the first one

was do you happen to have and the second

one was would you happen to know if so

another way to say these is is there any

chance you have or is there any chance

you know so you're asking very politely

like is there a possibility is there a

chance of this thing so we use this form

of happen to make very formal or like

very soft requests so this is really

useful when you're like speaking to a

stranger so if you can imagine like

you're a tourist and you need some help

in a city that you are unfamiliar with

you could say to a nearby person like

excuse me do you happen to know where I

could buy a coffee around here or excuse

me would you happen to have the time so

that's like you're making a very like

soft request

that's like saying is there any chance

or is it possible at all that you have

this information or you could do this

for me so it's a very soft request form

so let's take a look at the other two

sentence patterns that I introduced here

these are some statement patterns so

again these do mean by chance but for

these kinds of statements the context is

actually really important the situation

is important so for example it just so

happens that I got two free tickets to

that concert you were

talking about last week so it just so

happens means like by chance or like

something happened like that was very

coincidental it just so happens that

this situation fits nicely with

something else in my life right now so

it just so happens I got these free

tickets and this relates to having this

discussion with you about a concert last

week so those two things kind of fit

nicely together it's a nice little

coincidence so it just so happens that

is used to do that so the other example

pattern that you introduced my sister

happens to be a lawyer is probably

something you would see in a situation

where a person is looking for a lawyer

and the person who says that sentence is

introducing that like oh no I need a

lawyer do you have any recommendations

and person B might say oh my sister

happens to be a lawyer

so that's like saying by chance my

sister is a lawyer like coincidentally

like it matches your situation nicely

that's kind of the feeling of happens to

in this case happens to be a lawyer so

yes you could say like oh my sister is a

lawyer that's fine as well but it

doesn't have that same nuance of

coincidence so kind of think of happens

to or like happens to be as meaning by

chance in these statement situations and

when you're using it as a question it

creates like this formal very gentle

like is it possible to type request so I

hope that that helps you understand

using the word happen or happens in

cases like these thanks very much for

the question okay let's move on to your

next question next question comes from

cloudy hi cloudy cloudy says what's the

difference between these words admire a

door and idolize Thanks okay let's

compare let's make some example

sentences first I admire Beyonce

I adore Beyonce I idolized Beyonce okay

so first let's look at I admire Beyonce

so we use admire for people usually

people that we

respect so maybe we respect that

person's work or we want to be more like

that person or we think they've done

like great things they're very talented

so if I say I admire Beyonce it means

like I respect her I respect her work so

we use admire to mean like something or

someone that we respect the second

sentence I adore Beyonce uses the word

adore which means you love something so

when we say I adore something we can use

it to talk about like people usually

people in our lives sometimes we use it

to talk about like our favorite

activities as well like I adore arts and

crafts perhaps but when we use it to

talk about people it's usually for

people that we have a close relationship

to so like a Beyonce superfan might say

like I adore Beyonce I just love her so

that means that they feel like a close

connection to that person or like they

really really enjoy it in this case the

celebrities work so to adore something

can be used in that way also within

families like parents could say they

adore their children so to adore means

to love something and have a very close

connection or you feel like you have a

close connection with someone then the

final example sentence was I idolized

Beyonce I idolized so to idolize that

verb has the word Idol inside so Idol

actually has it like a religious kind of

connection so an idol was something like

to be worshipped so like a god or a

goddess figure sort of thing so to

idolize something means to kind of have

that thing as like above you so you have

like this image in this case like

Beyonce I idolized Beyonce that means

she's like above everything like we

really appreciate her like we think

she's just amazing and she's like above

everybody else so to idolize someone is

like has almost like this image of

worshiping someone so maybe like a super

super super Beyonce fan could say like I

idolized Beyonce I want to be like her

like I want to do everything a fan can

so maybe that's idolized in this case so

probably the most common words here are

admire and adore idolize is not used

nearly as much as these two but that's

the difference between those words so I

hope that that helps you understand

thanks very much for the question

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每周系列，您问我

问题，我回答他们

也许第一个问题来自 Flavia

嗨 Flavia Flavia 说 嗨，艾丽西亚，你能

解释一下为什么你使用 if I are you

而不是 was Yeah 所以如果我

是你的模式就是所谓

的虚拟语气的一个例子，所以虚拟

语气是我们用来

谈论不真实情况的

东西 不是真的，所以如果我是你，我们用

虚幻的现状来谈论虚幻的

情况 但是，如果我

会开始一个简单的过去陈述，那么过去的

事情，但也许

说话者对

过去的事情不太确定，例如，如果我错了，

我很抱歉，或者我很吵 昨晚我

道歉，这意味着演讲者

对过去有一些不确定性，比如

我昨晚是否吵闹我不知道我是不是

，但也许我是如果我是我道歉，

所以这些是过去的情况，

可能是他们 不一定像

虚幻的，但我们可能想表达

歉意，或者我们想表达对过去可能影响某人的

事情的某种不确定性，

所以也许我昨晚很吵，或者

我错了，例如我没有 不知道，但

如果我是那么我道歉或对不起，

所以如果我是这些简单的过去式陈述，我们会使用这个，

所以实际上你

通常会听到母语人士使用

如果我是你，但这

不会导致任何公社

位置问题实际上所以是的

，如果我是你，那么技术上正确的模式，

但有很多人

说如果我是，如果我是，这

不像是沟通问题，

所以从技术上讲是的，

说我是，但你是不正确的 不会

如果您改用该模式，则有任何问题，

因此这是基本区别，如果我是

您，则

指不真实的当前情况，如果

我是某事，则指

对过去情况或过去事件的不确定性，

因此我希望这对您有所帮助，

非常感谢 好的问题让我们

继续你的下一个问题下一个

问题来自卡罗尔嗨卡罗尔卡罗尔

说阿莱莎我很难

区分评估和评估之间的含义差异你

能帮我吗是的很好的问题实际上

母语人士有麻烦

这些词之间的区别所以

让我们先谈谈评估这个词

，记住

评估和评估这两个词之间的区别的一个好方法

是考虑到

评估这个词的内部是词值所以

当我们评估我们正在

分配的东西或者我们 正在给

那个东西或那个人一些价值 这可能

意味着某物的价格 这

可能意味着某物的重要性

他的意思可能是某物的状况，

所以我们

对这台相机进行了一些示例，并给它打了 8 分（满分 10

分） 我们公司的软件

被一家科技网站评估并给出了

低评分，因此在这些例句中的每一个

句子中都具有一定的相似水平 价值

被分配或被赋予某物

或某人，所以当我们评估时，我们

这样做是为了赋予价值，或者它

喜欢分配或找到某物的价值，

因此它可能是一个分数，它

可能是一个价格，所以让我们 将

其与单词评估 发音是

评估评估，因此评估的单词

具有相同的评估感觉，但评估的

目的是

更好地理解某些事物，因此我们

不是为了给

我们所要的事物赋值 评估某事

以便更好地理解它，因此我们

尝试更深入地了解类似

信息或喜欢了解更多有关

我们评估某事的细节的信息，

因此您可能会评估一种

情况，这意味着您看起来很像

p 详细了解情况以更好地了解

情况 我们需要更多示例来

评估公司数据的安全性

他在做出决定之前评估了他的住房选择

，因此这是

评估和评估之间的区别，

如果您不确定要记住

单词 value 在内部评估，

以帮助您记住评估

用于为某物分配价值，所以我

希望这对您有帮助

非常感谢这个问题，好吧，让我们

继续您的下一个问题，下一个问题

来自是的，先生，您好 Yasir Yasir 说

这个词是什么

意思 我在一些电影中看到过，但我

不知道是什么意思

或者

，如果您使用类似于

疑问句的语调，那么您

可能还会听到它用于

某人做某事让

您非常钦佩或您有点喜欢的情况下，这是真的吗？

尊重或您认为令人印象深刻，并且

您喜欢您可能会听到有人对此说类似的

话，因此这种

表示支持或您印象深刻

或您钦佩那件事我觉得

在很多情况下它只是用作

简单的 表示同意或

理解，例如我们今晚将

观看比赛这个词我个人

不怎么用这个词，因为

它有点像一个很酷的词，我不太

喜欢嘻哈街头文化这样的酷

那种人，但如果你

想使用它，我建议

在非常亲密的朋友和非常

随意的情况下使用它，所以我希望这

可以帮助你理解它非常

感谢这个问题好吧让我们

继续你的下一个问题下一个问题

来自布雷安塔利亚你好

布兰布瑞安说嗨艾丽西亚你能

解释一下

这个词在这些情况下发生的具体含义和用法

吗你碰巧我姐姐

碰巧是一名律师

等我很困惑是的这是一个nic

问题可以开始了 我想

介绍

一些我们看到的非常

常见

的模式 使用“发生”这个词的主题

是机会或偶然

发生的事情，所以让我们看一下

前两个模式，前两个

是问题模式，所以第一个

是你碰巧有，第二

个是会 你碰巧知道是否有

另一种说法

是你有没有机会，或者你知道有没有机会

，所以你非常有礼貌地问，

比如有没有可能

这件事有机会，所以我们使用这种

形式 碰巧提出非常正式或喜欢

非常温和的要求，因此

当您喜欢与陌生人交谈时，这非常有用，

因此，如果您可以想象

自己是一名游客，并且

在不熟悉的城市中需要一些帮助，

则可以 对附近的人说

对不起，你碰巧知道我在哪里

可以买到咖啡

吗？或者对不起，你碰巧有时间

吗，就像你提出了一个非常喜欢的

软请求

，就像说有机会

还是有可能 你有

这些信息，或者你可以

为我做这个，所以这是一个非常软的请求表，

所以让我们看看

我在这里介绍的另外两个句子模式，

这些是一些语句模式，

所以这些确实是偶然的，但对于

这些类型 的陈述 上下文

实际上非常重要

情况很重要 所以例如

我碰巧得到了两张

你上周谈论的那场音乐会的免费门票

所以它

碰巧意味着像偶然或

像那样发生的事情 非常

巧合的是，

这种情况恰好

适合我现在生活中的其他事情，

所以碰巧我得到了这些免费

门票，这与讨论这个

问题有关 你关于上周的一场音乐会，

所以这两件事

很好地结合在一起，这是一个很好的小

巧合，所以

碰巧习惯了这样做，所以你介绍的另一个示例

模式我姐姐

恰好是一名律师可能是

什么 你会

看到一个人正在寻找律师

，而说这句话的人正在

介绍这样的情况，比如哦，不，我需要

律师，你有什么

建议吗，B 可能会说，哦，我姐姐

恰好是一名律师，

所以 这就像碰巧说我

姐姐是一名律师，就像巧合，

就像它很好地符合你的情况

那样的感觉，

在这种情况下恰好是一名律师，所以

是的，你可以说，哦，我的妹妹是一名

律师，这也很好 但它

没有相同的巧合细微差别，

所以在这些陈述情况下，

碰巧或喜欢碰巧是偶然的意思

，

当你将它用作问题时，它

会产生 li ke这个正式的非常温和的

喜欢是否可以输入请求所以我

希望这可以帮助你理解

使用这个词发生或发生在

这样的情况下非常感谢你

的问题好吧让我们继续你的

下一个问题下一个问题来自

多云你好 cloudy cloudy 说这

两个词有什么区别 佩服一

扇门 和 偶像化 谢谢 好吧 让我们

比较一下 让我们先做一些

例句 我佩服碧昂丝

我崇拜碧昂斯 我崇拜碧昂斯 好吧

所以首先让我们看看我佩服碧昂斯

所以我们通常用佩服来形容

人们 我们

尊重所以也许我们尊重那

个人的工作，或者我们想更像

那个人，或者我们认为他们做

了很棒的事情，他们很有才华，

所以如果我说我很欣赏碧昂丝，这意味着

我尊重她我尊重她 工作，所以

我们用佩服来表示喜欢某事或

我们尊重的人第二

句话我崇拜碧昂丝使用了“

崇拜”这个词，这意味着你喜欢某事，所以

当我们说我很喜欢时 我们可以用

它来谈论

我们生活中通常的人有时我们用它

来谈论我们最喜欢的

活动以及我喜欢艺术和

手工艺，但是当我们用它来

谈论人时，通常是针对

我们 与碧昂丝有密切的

关系，超级粉丝可能会

说我喜欢碧昂丝

也可以在家庭中以这种方式使用，

比如父母可以说他们

崇拜他们的孩子，所以崇拜

意味着爱某物并有非常密切的

联系，或者你觉得你

与某人有密切的联系，那么

最后一个例句是我崇拜

碧昂丝 我崇拜所以崇拜那个

动词里面有偶像这个词，所以偶像

实际上就像一种宗教

联系，所以偶像

就像被崇拜，就像神一样 或

女神形象之类的东西，所以

崇拜某物意味着有点

像在你之上的东西，所以你

在这种情况下拥有像碧昂丝这样的形象

她真是太棒了，她

就像其他人一样，所以崇拜某人就像崇拜某人

的形象一样，

所以也许像超级

超级超级碧昂丝的粉丝可以说我

崇拜碧昂丝我想像她

一样我想做一切 一个粉丝可以，

所以在这种情况下可能会被崇拜，所以

这里最常见的词可能是

佩服和崇拜，偶像化的使用量几乎没有

这两个词那么多，但这就是这两个

词之间的区别，所以我

希望这能帮助你理解

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