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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them maybe let's

get to your first question this week

first question this week comes from

april hi april april says hi alicia

where can i use literally and basically

i think native english speakers use

these a lot thank you great question

yeah literally and basically let's start

with literally so the actual meaning of

literally means as written or exactly as

described

a lot of american english speakers tend

to use literally too much and actually

they use it in the incorrect way for

example you might hear it in a sentence

like i'm so hungry i'm literally dying

so

in text this expression means the person

is physically dying they are passing

away because they are so hungry now

that's not true that's not literally

true but the person uses literally as an

emphasis word to try to express the

extreme feeling they're experiencing so

you might hear it used in some ways like

this

people tend to use it in this way as an

emphasis word but that doesn't mean that

this use of literally is correct it's

not actually correct a correct use of

literally might be something like i'm so

sorry i missed your call i literally

just walked in the door and i put my

phone down i'm so sorry about that so

you're expressing something that

actually really and truly just happened

so this is the correct use of literally

so even though we all know that this is

the correct use of literally please be

on the lookout please be aware lots of

native speakers use it just as an

emphasis word without thinking about it

okay now let's talk about basically

basically basically means in essence so

it refers to the most basic of something

so when we want to speak kind of

generally or we want to talk about like

the core idea of something we'll use

basically for example in an office

meeting where you're explaining

something that you want someone else to

do you might say basically we just need

your help doing data entry for this

project so that gives the other person a

kind of general idea again you might

hear native speakers using this in a

kind of flexible way when they sort of

mean generally but they're using

basically instead so we use it in most

cases to refer to the core idea of

something one use that might be a little

bit confusing is when you hear this used

as a one word response to something so

someone might use this in response to a

question like so you were out all

weekend partying and the other person

might say basically which means yes

essentially or in other words that's the

core of what i was doing for the week so

this is another use of basically that

also has that feel of kind of general

knowledge or general information so i

hope that this helps you thanks very

much for an interesting question all

right let's move on to your next

question next question comes from vishal

desul hi vishal vishal says what is the

difference between reason and cause and

where do i use it nice question so let's

start with reason the reason for

something you can think of as the why

for something it answers the question

why what is the reason could be

understood as why so instead of saying

what's the reason for this mess in my

house you could say why is there a mess

in this house think about reason the

reason for something as answering the

question why

cause on the other hand refers to

something that brought about another

situation so there are some cases yes

where reason and cause could be used

maybe in the same way but cause refers

to something that made another action

happen or another condition happen so

for example the cause of the accident

was a technical error this could i

suppose be written as the reason for the

accident was a technical error while

that's correct and we can generally

understand it using the word cause shows

that it brought about some other

condition or some kind of effect yeah so

if you say the cause of the accident was

a technical error it shows a better

connection between some effect and in

the future or some effect in the present

reason doesn't have this so you can kind

of try to separate those two a little

bit with thinking of reason as the

answer to the question why and a cause

as having some connection to another

effect or another condition so i hope

that this helps you thanks very much for

the question okay let's go to your next

question next question comes from joanna

hi joanna joanna says when do we use the

words cash and money

great question yeah cash can be used in

a couple of different ways we tend to

use cash when we want to talk about

physical money in general everyday

conversation like if you need to get

some money from an atm you might say let

me get some cash from an atm we tend to

use cash to talk about coins and bills

the physical money you might also hear

people use cash to talk more casually

about money like oh no i'm out of cash

this month i need to work really hard

for next month or something like that

cash tends to be used as kind of a

rougher more casual cool way of saying

money money tends to sound a little bit

more polite or more formal we typically

don't use cash in business situations

for example unless maybe you know the

other person very well or maybe there's

some kind of special arrangement where

you speak very casually so money refers

to the same thing as cash yes but we

tend to not use it as much in everyday

conversation you might hear it in like

contracts discussions of contracts

discussions of agreements more polite or

official kinds of things

so you might say for example please

transfer the money by tomorrow if you

say please transfer the cash by tomorrow

it sounds a little bit rougher like

you're doing something that might be

kind of suspicious perhaps so it depends

a little bit on the person it depends a

little bit on the situation they refer

to the same thing but a general guide a

general rule is that money is used as

for slightly more official or polite

situations and cash is used for more

unofficial or everyday or rough

conversation so thanks for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question comes from rachel hi

rachel rachel says hi alicia i

frequently hear the phrase let alone but

i don't exactly understand when i can

use it for example i wouldn't speak to

him let alone trust him

nice question yeah i wouldn't speak to

him let alone trust him let alone shows

that there's this other level of thing

that you would not do

so for example in this situation if we

think of it as two levels i wouldn't

speak to him so that's one thing the

speaker is saying i will not do this

like in a future situation if i had the

opportunity i would not do this i

wouldn't speak to him and then they

introduce this other level of something

in this case trust so trust is another

like higher level of something and

they're saying this is also impossible

so it's like saying this thing at this

lower level is something i will not do

or in this case i wouldn't do

and so therefore this other thing is

also completely impossible we use let

alone to talk about that for example in

another situation you could say he

doesn't exercise at all let alone eat

healthy so that's saying again two

levels of things there's one thing this

person doesn't do and therefore this

other thing is also completely

impossible or completely out of the

question let alone expresses that so

keep this in mind when you find let

alone in your reading the speaker or the

writer is expressing that one thing is

not possible or maybe not good or not

favorable and therefore this other thing

is also even more impossible or even

more out of the question so i hope that

this helps you thanks very much for the

interesting question okay let's move on

to your next question next question

comes from emma hi emma emma says hi

alicia i'm wondering which tents i

should use when making reported speech

sentences for example one i promised my

son that i would buy his favorite legos

for his birthday two i promised my son

that i will buy his favorite legos for

his birthday i heard that in reported

speech we have to match verb tense in a

sentence in this case even though his

birthday is next month should i use wood

instead of will even though it hasn't

happened yet thanks yeah great question

the correct answer here is wood i

promised my son that i would buy him his

favorite lego set for his birthday the

reason is because this is still an

untrue situation right yes we use will

to talk about our future plans but in

this case when you're reporting speech

we don't use will in this way we stick

with wood i promised my son that i would

do this thing you can use this exact

same idea with other future tense

situations like i promised my friends

that i would meet them for a barbecue

this weekend or i told my parents that i

would be home in time for dinner we do

not use will in situations like this if

it helps you you can think of the

situation as being an unreal situation

it's like a promise you made it hasn't

happened yet so that's why we don't use

will here we need to use wood and

patterns like these so yes in your

example sentence definitely use wood and

use wood in sentences like these in the

future i hope that this helps you thanks

very much for an interesting question

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您问我的每周系列

问题，我回答他们也许让

我们来回答你本周的第一个问题本周的

第一个问题来自

四月你好四月四月说嗨艾丽西亚

我可以在哪里使用字面意思基本上

我认为以英语为母语的人使用

这些很多谢谢你的好问题

是的字面意思和 基本上让我们

从字面上开始，所以字面意思的实际意思

是书面的或完全如

所描述

的很多美国英语使用者

倾向于使用字面上的太多，实际上

他们以不正确的方式使用它，

例如你可能会在像我这样的句子中听到它

“我太饿了，我真的快死了，

所以

在文字中，这个表达意味着这个

人身体正在死去，他们正在

去世，因为他们现在太饿

了 不是真的，这不是字面上的

正确，但是这个人用字面意思作为

强调词来试图表达

他们正在经历的极端感觉，所以

你可能会听到它以某种方式使用，就像

这样

人们倾向于以这种方式使用它作为

强调 但这并不意味着

字面上的这种用法是正确的，它

实际上并不正确字面意思的正确用法

可能就像我很

抱歉，我错过了你的电话，我真的

只是走进门，我把

手机放下我 ' 对此感到非常抱歉，所以

你表达的事情

实际上是真实发生的，

所以这是字面意思的正确用法，

所以即使我们都知道这

是字面意思的正确用法，请

注意，请注意很多 的

母语人士只是将其用作

强调词而没有考虑它

好吧现在让我们谈谈基本上

基本上基本上是本质上的意思 所以

它指的是最基本的东西

所以当我们想说

一般或 我们想谈谈

我们将使用的核心思想，

例如在办公室

会议上，你在

解释你想让别人

做的事情你可能会说基本上我们只需要

你的帮助来完成这个

项目的数据输入 所以这再次给了另一个人

一种一般的想法，你可能会

听到母语者以

一种灵活的方式使用它，当他们有点

普遍但他们

基本上使用它时，所以我们在大多数

情况下使用它来指代核心

一个可能

有点令人困惑的用途的想法是，当你听到它被

用作对某事的一个词的回应时，

有人可能会用它来回答一个

问题，比如你整个

周末都在聚会，而另一个人

可能会说基本上 这意味着

基本上是的，或者换句话说，这

是我这周所做工作的核心，所以

这是基本的另一种用法，

也有那种一般

知识或一般信息的感觉，所以

我 非常感谢你

提出了一个有趣的问题

好吧 让我们继续你的下一个

问题 下一个问题来自 vishal

desul 嗨 vishal vishal 说

原因和原因之间有什么区别以及

我在哪里使用它很好的问题所以让我们

开始吧 有理由，

你可以将某事的原因视为

某事的原因，它回答了这个问题，

为什么可以将原因

理解为为什么，而不是说

我家这个烂摊子的原因是什么，

你可以说为什么会有一个烂摊子

在这所房子里，考虑

原因 某事的原因作为回答

问题的

原因，另一方面，原因是

指导致另一种

情况的事物，因此在某些情况下是的

，原因和原因

可能以相同的方式使用，但原因是

指 导致另一个动作

或另一个条件发生的事情

，例如事故的原因

是一个技术错误，我

想这可以写成

事故的原因是技术错误，而

这是正确的，我们通常

可以使用“原因”一词来理解它，

表明它带来了其他

情况或某种影响，是的，所以

如果您说事故的原因

是技术错误，则表明

某些效果与未来或当前

原因中的某些效果之间没有更好的联系，因此您

可以尝试将这两者分开

一点，将原因视为问题的

答案，将原因

视为 与另一种

影响或另一种情况有某种联系，所以我

希望这对你有帮助 非常感谢你

的问题 好的，让我们继续你的下一个

问题 下一个问题来自 joanna

嗨 joanna joanna 说我们什么时候使用

现金和金钱这两个词

好问题 是的 现金可以

通过几种不同的方式

使用 当我们想在一般的日常对话中谈论实物货币时，我们倾向于使用现金，

比如如果你需要

从一个 n atm 你可能会说让

我从 atm 取点现金 我们倾向于

用现金来谈论硬币和

钞票 你可能还会听到

人们用现金来更随意地

谈论金钱，比如哦，不，我没有现金

了 月 我需要为下个月努力工作

，或者类似的东西

现金往往被用作一种

更粗暴、更随意、很酷的说法

金钱 金钱听起来

更有礼貌或更正式 我们通常

不使用现金 例如，在商务场合

，除非您可能

非常了解对方，或者可能有

某种特殊安排，

您说话非常随意，所以金钱

与现金指代相同的东西 是的，但

我们在日常对话中往往不会使用它

可能会在类似的

合同讨论合同

讨论协议讨论更礼貌或

正式的事情中听到它

所以你可能会说例如请

在明天之前转移资金如果你

说请在明天之前转移现金

这听起来有点粗糙，就像

你在做一些

可能有点可疑的事情，所以这

有点取决于人这

有点取决于他们

指的是同一件事的情况，但一般指南

一般规则是 这笔钱

用于稍微正式或礼貌的

情况，现金用于更

非正式或日常或粗鲁的

谈话，所以谢谢你的问题，

好吧，让我们继续你的下一个问题，

下一个问题来自雷切尔，你好，

雷切尔，雷切尔说你好，艾丽西亚，我

经常 更不用说听到这个短语了，但

我不完全明白什么时候可以

使用它，例如，我不会和

他说话，更不用说相信他，

好问题是的，我不会和

他说话，更不用说相信他，更不用说

表明有这个 其他级别的事情

，

例如在这种情况下，如果我们

将其视为两个级别，我不会

和他说话，所以这是说话者说的一件事，

我以后不会这样做

情况如果我有

机会我不会这样做，我

不会和他说话，然后他们

在这种情况下介绍其他级别的东西信任，所以信任是另一种

更高级别的东西，

他们说这也是不可能的

所以 这就像在这个

较低级别上说这件事是我不会做的事情，

或者在这种情况下我不会做

，因此这其他事情

也是完全不可能的，我们用

更不用说谈论它了，例如在

另一种情况下你可以说 他

根本不运动，更不用说吃得

健康了，所以这又是两个

层面的事情，这个

人不做一件事，因此

另一件事也是完全

不可能或完全不可能的，

更不用说表达了，所以

保持这个 请记住，当您发现

更不用说在阅读时，说话者或

作者正在表达一件事是

不可能的，或者可能不好或

不利，因此另一件事

也更重要 可能的，甚至

更不可能，所以我希望

这对你有帮助，非常感谢你提出的

有趣问题，好吧，让我们

继续你的下一个问题，下一个问题

来自艾玛，你好，艾玛，艾玛说你好，

艾丽西亚，我想知道我

应该使用哪些帐篷 例如，在制作报告的演讲

句子时，我向我

儿子保证我会为他的生日购买他最喜欢的乐高积木

第二我向我的儿子

保证我会在他的生日时购买他最喜欢的乐高

我听说在报告的

演讲中我们必须匹配动词时态

在这种情况下的一个句子即使他的

生日是下个月我应该使用木头

而不是将即使它还没有

发生谢谢是的好问题

这里的正确答案是木头我

答应我儿子我会给他买他

最喜欢的乐高套装 为了他的生日，

原因是因为这仍然是一个

不真实的情况，是的，我们用意志

来谈论我们未来的计划，但在

这种情况下，当你报道演讲时，

我们不会以这种方式使用意志。

用木头打勾 我答应我儿子我会

做这件事 你可以用这个完全相同的

想法来处理其他未来时态，

比如我答应我的朋友

这个周末我会和他们见面烧烤，

或者我告诉我父母我

会回家 及时吃饭 我们

不会在这种情况下使用 will 如果

它对你有帮助 你可以认为这种

情况是一种不真实的情况

就像你做出的承诺 它还没有

发生 所以这就是我们在这里不使用 will 的原因

我们需要使用

像这样的木头和图案，所以在你的

例句中肯定使用木头并

在未来这样的句子中使用木头

我希望这对你有帮助

非常感谢你提出一个有趣的问题，

好吧，这就是我所拥有的

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