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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you

ask me questions and i answer them maybe

first question this week comes from

jose antonio hi jose jose says hi alicia

i love your videos i've learned a lot

with them

cool my question is how do i use

four and two for instance i want to

practice my

english for improving or to improve

it yeah tough question good question and

many people have asked this question

over the last year and a half or so or

questions very similar to it

this is a very big question that does

not have an easy quick

answer but i want to talk a little bit

about this and maybe at least

point our viewers in the right direction

here

so this difference the difference

between this four something and two

something

breaks into two categories called

infinitives

and gerunds so the infinitive form

is two plus a verb so like in your

example to improve

or like to practice or to start and so

on

two plus a verb is the infinitive form

the gerund on the other hand is that

like verb the base verb

plus ing so for example starting

or improving or practicing those are

gerunds so there are these two

types of like things that we can use

in sentences and the problem comes in

where we don't know which one to use or

learners don't know which one to use

the reason for this is there's not like

a specific grammar rule

that tells us use a gerund here or use

an

infinitive here there's not a specific

grammar rule

instead native speakers understand which

one to use

based on the verb that precedes the

gerund or the infinitive

so that means we're not following like a

written rule for grammar

we're instead following established

patterns

that start from the verb before the

expression

so for example the verb agree following

the verb agree

we use the infinitive so to describe

this we say

agree takes the infinitive for example

he agreed to meet me or

she agreed to wait another day so after

the verb agree

we use the infinitive form of a verb the

verb

practice takes the infinitive we need to

practice

to improve or she practiced the song to

increase her confidence

the verb start takes either the gerund

or the infinitive

she started cooking she started to cook

he started writing he started to write

either is fine with the verb start

the verb finish takes a gerund

he finished working i finished showering

the verb like takes either he likes to

cook

he likes cooking she likes to hike she

likes hiking

so these are just a few examples of very

common verbs and

it's up to all of us to practice as we

listen and as we read

to notice which form comes after which

verb this is not easy by any means but

this is something native speakers

gradually learn over time it's not like

a one study

moment thing there's not one specific

rule to memorize

so unfortunately it's not an easy thing

to fix it's just something that takes

time and awareness so as you read

pay attention to the sorts of verbs that

are usually followed with a gerund or

with an infinitive

and you'll start to be able to make

these decisions more naturally for

yourself so

i know that this is a very open answer

and it is a very

big topic for sure but i hope that this

at least helps you get started

in being more aware as you read and as

you listen

so thanks very much for this question

and thanks very much to everybody who

sent in similar questions over the last

few months too i hope that this is

helpful for all of you

okay let's move on to your next question

next question

comes from i'm on hi again i'm on

i'm on says i sometimes hear the phrase

just because

as a reply to someone's statement what

does it mean

for example why did you do that reply

just because yeah you can imagine this

as like the short version

of the statement just because i wanted

to

so usually we use this expression when

we do something nice for someone

just because we want to like there's no

special reason

it's not someone's birthday there's not

a big event we are

happy to see our friend or we're happy

to see our family member

so we do something nice we give them a

present or we say something nice

whatever

and when they ask us why we say just

because

so it's like saying i have no specific

reason

i did it because i wanted to but we

don't say all of those words we make it

very short

and quick and we say just because so for

example

uh i got like concert tickets from a

good friend like oh wow

you got me concert tickets this is

amazing why did you do that

and just because so it's usually with

that kind of friendly

like it was no big deal there's no

reason that's usually the feeling of

this expression

just because so it's because that person

wanted to

and they didn't have a particular reason

for it 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 ammer armor hi armor

umer says hi alicia how's it going good

can you please tell me the meaning of

strap in four strap in four yeah sure

to strap in for something means to

prepare

for something so this comes from

like kind of extreme sports or like

extreme activities

for example a pilot or like a race car

driver when they enter the place where

they're going to work or where they

enter like their activity space because

it's an extreme activity or very

dangerous

they use physical straps like seat belts

in a car

similar to that strap infor comes from

those straps that are used to secure

someone into position

and we use in to refer to like this

situation

we are entering so a pilot is entering a

plane or a race car driver is entering a

race car

so they are preparing for something

extreme to happen

so when do we use this expression in

everyday life you might hear this

used before exciting experiences like

you're going rafting or kayaking or

something kind of extreme

you might also hear it used in like

advertisements for action movies they'll

be like

strap in for the last installment in the

star wars saga

or something like that the star wars

finished

it's never finished right yeah so strap

in for makes it sound like something

exciting is going to happen to you so

you need to prepare

by putting like safety straps on so

that's the idea strap

in for an exciting or potentially

dangerous or a thrilling

experience so that's what this

expression means and this is how you

might hear it used

i personally do not really use this

expression i feel like it gets used more

in like advertisement

and media things to sound catchy 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

koki yamashita hi koki koki says hi

alicia i love your channel i always

watch your lessons during my commute

cool

thanks when i lived with a host family

in america my host mother sometimes

asked me

you wanted to help me cook is you wanted

to

the same meaning as can you greetings

from japan

i have a couple of thoughts about this

first to answer your question

you wanted to does not mean can you that

those two things

are not the same they are different my

first thought

is about the expression you wanted to

so in your example you wanted to help me

cook

if that's a question it could be correct

it is correct

that would be a confirmation question so

in that situation

maybe for example you spoke to your host

mother earlier in the day

and you mentioned like you're interested

you were interested in cooking

she wanted to confirm later in the day

oh you wanted to help me cook

in that situation that question is fine

she's confirming something that she

heard

earlier from you so yes you can use you

wanted to

to confirm something from before like

you think this person wanted to do

something before

you want to confirm that if that was the

situation

great no problem my second thought about

this situation though is that perhaps

there's maybe perhaps a chance that

instead of

saying you wanted to she might have said

you wanna help me cook as in you wanna

help me cook

which means would you like to help me

cook which sounds like an offer but it's

actually a very

soft request like you want to help me

cook

it sounds like she's inviting you to do

something but it actually is kind of

more of a request like please help me

cook

so though i have those two thoughts

about this so

yeah again in direct answer to your

question no those two things do not mean

the same thing

uh it could have been a confirmation

question or perhaps she said

you wanna instead of you wanted to help

me cook so i hope that one of those

ideas will help you understand the

situation a little bit better

so thanks very much for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question comes from andre hi andre

andre says hi alicia what does the

expression get it right

mean i noticed it has several meanings

depending on context

thanks anticipating your answer this

expression means to do something

correctly

or to understand something correctly

so if we make a mistake and our teacher

notices the mistake

and is really strict with us the teacher

might say get it right

like shouting like that so you might

hear that in other situations

outside of education so like a coach

sees the

players on a team making mistakes and

the coach might shout get it right

which means do it correctly do it

correctly

or like if you're at work and you say to

yourself um i really want to get this

right

meaning i really want to do my project

correctly or i really want to do this

task correctly

you would be using this expression in

the right way too perhaps you've also

heard something like

let me get this right let me get this

right and get it right are a bit

different

actually so for example if you heard

something like

let me get this right you want me to

loan you two thousand dollars so you can

buy a puppy

are you crazy you might hear an

expression like that where

let me get this right means let me

confirm

or let me check to make sure i

understand

you correctly so that is very different

from

get it right so to get it right means to

do something or to understand something

correctly

let me get this right means let me check

or let me confirm

something so they're quite different

perhaps that's

the different context that you were

referring to in your question

but i hope that this answer helps you

thanks very much for the question

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本周的第一个问题来自

何塞安东尼奥嗨何塞 何塞说嗨，艾丽西亚，

我喜欢你的视频，我从他们那里学到了很多

很酷我的问题是我如何使用

四和二，例如我想

练习我的

英语以提高或改进

它是的，棘手的问题好问题，

很多人都有

在过去一年半左右的时间里问过这个

问题或与它非常相似的问题

这是一个非常大的问题，

没有一个简单的快速

答案，但我想

谈谈这个问题，也许

至少让我们的观众 这里的正确方向

所以这个

区别这四个东西和两个东西之间的

区别分为两类，称为

不定式

和动名词所以不定式形式

是两个加一个动词所以l 就像在你的

例子中，改善

或喜欢练习或开始等等

两个加动词是

不定式另一方面动名词是

像动词一样的基础动词

加上 ing 所以例如开始

或改善或练习那些是

动名词

所以我们可以在句子中使用这两种类似的东西，

而问题

在于我们不知道该使用哪一种，或者

学习者不知道该使用哪一种，

原因是没有

特定的

告诉我们在这里使用动名词或

不定式的语法规则没有特定的

语法规则，

而是母语人士

根据

动名词或

不定式之前的动词来理解使用哪一个，这意味着我们不像

书面一样遵循 语法规则

我们改为遵循

从表达式之前的动词开始的既定模式，

例如动词agreement跟

在动词agree之后，

我们使用不定式来描述

这一点，我们说

agree t 用不定式例如

他同意见我或

她同意再等一天所以

在动词同意之后

我们使用动词的不定式动词

练习采用我们需要

练习

来改进的不定式或者她练习了歌曲来

增加她

自信 动词 start 需要动名词或不定式

她开始做饭 她开始做饭

他开始写作 他开始写

喜欢

做饭

他喜欢做饭 她喜欢远足 她

喜欢远足

所以这些只是一些非常

常见的动词的例子

，我们所有人在

听和阅读时

都要练习，以注意哪个形式出现在哪个

动词之后 无论如何都不容易，

但这是以母语为母语的人

随着时间的推移逐渐学习的东西，它不像

一个学习

时刻的东西，没有一个特定的

规则要记住，

所以不幸的是它' 这不是一件

容易解决的事情，它只是需要

时间和意识的事情，所以当你阅读时，请

注意

通常后面接动名词

或不定式的动词种类

，你将开始能够更多地做出

这些决定 对

自己来说很自然，所以

我知道这是一个非常开放的答案，

并且肯定是一个非常

大的话题，但我希望这

至少可以帮助您开始

在阅读和聆听时提高意识，

非常感谢 问题

，非常感谢

过去几个月来发送类似问题的每个人

，我希望这

对你们所有人都有帮助，

好吧，让我们继续你的下一个问题，

下一个问题

来自我再次嗨，我在

我说我有时会听到这个短语，

只是因为

作为对某人声明的回复，

它是什么意思

，例如，你为什么这样做

只是因为是的，你可以想象这

就像声明的简短

版本，只是因为我想

所以我们 通常当我们为某人做一些好事时，我们会使用这个表达方式，

只是因为我们想要喜欢 没有

特殊原因

这不是某人的生日 没有

什么大事件 我们很

高兴见到我们的朋友或我们很

高兴见到我们的家人

所以我们 做一些好事我们给他们

礼物或者我们说一些好话

当他们问我们为什么我们说只是

因为

所以这就像说我没有具体的

理由

我这样做是因为我想但我们

不会说所有这些话 我们让它变得

非常简短

和快速，我们说只是因为

例如，

呃，我从一个好朋友那里得到了音乐会门票，

比如哦，哇，

你给了我音乐会门票，这

太棒了，你为什么这样做

，只是因为通常

是那种 友好

好像没什么大不了的 没有

理由这通常是这种表达的感觉

只是因为那是因为那个人

想要

而且他们没有特别的

理由所以我希望这对你有帮助

非常感谢 uch for the question

好的，让我们继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题

来自 ammer armour hi

armer says hi alicia how's it going good

你能告诉

我四合一的带子的含义 四合一的带子

是的

为某事做准备，因此这

来自于极限运动或

极限活动

，例如飞行员或赛车

手，当他们进入

他们要去工作的地方或他们

进入的地方，就像他们的活动空间一样，因为

这是一个 极端活动或非常

危险

他们使用物理带子，例如

汽车中的安全带

类似于该带子 infor 来自

那些用于将

某人固定到位的带子

，我们使用 in 来指代我们正在进入的这种

情况，

因此飞行员正在进入

飞机或赛车手正在进入

赛车，

因此他们正在为

极端事件的

发生做准备，所以我们什么时候在日常生活中使用这个表达，

你可能会听到这个

用过的 b 在令人兴奋的体验之前，例如

漂流或皮划艇或

某种极端的事情，

您可能还会听说它被

用于动作电影的广告中，它们

就像

是星球大战传奇的最后一部

或类似明星的绑带 战争

结束了，

它永远不会结束，是的，所以系好

安全带让听起来

令人兴奋的事情会发生在你身上，所以

你需要准备好

安全带

所以这就是这个

表达的意思，这就是你

可能听到它使用的方式

我个人并没有真正使用这个

表达我觉得它更多

地用于广告

和媒体之类的东西听起来很吸引人所以我

希望这对你有帮助非常感谢

好的问题让我们继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题来自

koki yamashita你好koki koki说你好

艾丽西亚我喜欢你的频道我总是

少看你 在我通勤期间

很酷，

谢谢当我和美国的寄宿家庭一起生活时，

我的寄宿母亲有时会

问我

你想帮我做饭，你想

和日本的问候一样吗？

我对此有一些想法

回答你想要的问题

并不意味着

这两个

东西不一样它们是不同的我的

第一个想法

是关于你想要的表达

所以在你的例子中你想帮我

做饭

如果这是一个问题它可能是正确的

这是一个确认问题是正确的，所以

在这种情况下

，例如，您可能在当天早些时候与您的寄宿母亲交谈，

并且您提到

您对烹饪感兴趣，您对烹饪感兴趣，

她想在当天晚些时候确认

哦，您想要 为了

在那种情况下帮我做饭，这个问题很好，

她正在确认她之前从你那里听到的一些事情，

所以是的，你可以用你

想确认以前的事情，比如

你

在

你想确认之前

这个人想做点什么

我做饭就像你想

帮我做饭一样

，这意味着你愿意帮我

做饭，这听起来像是一个提议，但

实际上这是一个非常

软的请求，就像你想帮我

做饭

一样，听起来她在邀请你

做某事，但实际上是

更像是一个请求，比如请帮我

做饭，

所以尽管我对此有这两个想法

，所以

是的，再次直接回答你的

问题，不，这两件事并不

意味着同一件事，

嗯，这可能是一个确认

问题，或者她 说

你想而不是你想帮

我做饭所以我希望其中一个

想法能帮助你

更好地了解情况

所以非常感谢你的问题

好吧让 继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题来自安德烈你好安德烈

说你好艾丽西亚这个

表达正确的

意思是我注意到它有几个含义

取决于上下文

谢谢期待你的回答这个

表达意味着正确地做某事

或理解 一些正确的事情，

所以如果我们犯了错误并且我们的老师

注意到了错误

并且对我们非常严格，老师

可能会说做对，

就像那样大喊大叫，所以你可能会

在教育之外的其他情况下听到，

就像教练

看到

球员一样 一个团队犯了错误

，教练可能会喊着做对

，这意味着做对了，做对了

，

或者如果你在工作，你对自己说，

嗯，我真的很想把这个做

对，

这意味着我真的很想把我的项目做对

或者我真的很想正确地完成这个

任务

你也会以正确的方式使用这个表达

也许你也

听说过

让我做对让我得到

正确和正确实际上有点

不同

，例如，如果您

听到类似“

让我正确”之类的话，您希望我

借给您两千美元，这样您就可以

买一只

小狗，您疯了吗？您可能会听到

这样的表达

让我做对意味着让我

确认

或让我检查以确保我

正确理解你，这与做对有很大不同

，

所以做对意味着

做某事或正确理解某事

让我做对意味着让 我检查一下

或让我确认

一下，所以它们完全不同，

也许这

就是您在问题中所指的不同背景，

但我希望这个答案对您有帮助，

非常感谢您提出的问题，

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