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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them

maybe all right let's get to your first

question

first question this week comes from

fabio hi fabio

fabio says hello alicia i would like to

know the meaning of the expression

every other day can i also say every

other week

every other year every other hour minute

thanks a lot

yep every other day refers to a schedule

of activities

in which you do one thing for one day

and then the next day you

take it off that you don't do the

activity the next day

the following day you do the activity

then the next day you don't do the

activity

so it's this one day on one day off

pattern

we call this an every other day schedule

so yes you can replace day in this

expression

with another time period so you could

say every other year or every other

hour every other minute whatever it just

means you do something for

one unit of time so one year or one hour

or one minute

and then the following period of time

you do not do that thing

so yes you could use this to express

something like every other minute i'm

not sure what activity you need to talk

about

and use every other minute to describe

it but you could do it

so every other day is a very common way

to express this one day on

one day off pattern i hope that this

helps you thanks for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next

question comes from clinton hi clinton

clinton says

when i meet a person that tries to speak

a language with me that i don't

understand

what should i say in english to respond

um

you can say i don't speak that language

so you could say i don't speak spanish

or i don't speak dutch or i don't speak

chinese you can just say something

very direct like that you don't have to

say i'm sorry

i suppose if you want to you could but

you don't really have to apologize in

this situation

just be direct i don't speak that

language you could

follow up this statement by saying

something like

do you speak english or do you speak

your native language

so if the person maybe needs help or if

you're trying to communicate with that

person

you can try to find a solution try to

find a common language by asking

do you speak english or do you speak

spanish or whatever your

native language is so again just to

respond

i don't speak that language i hope that

this helps you thanks for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question is from

sanju hi sanju sanju says hi alicia and

team how are you all

my question what is the difference

between dying

to and vying for and how do we use them

properly okay we use dying to

for things that we want to do very very

much so we're like exaggerating we're

making this

desire for something seem much stronger

than it is

we tend to use this in casual situations

for example i'm dying to watch that

movie

or we've been dying to go to that new

restaurant

so we're expressing a strong desire for

something and it's usually something

that's kind of casual kind of light

vying for on the other hand is used in

like

competitive situations so you might hear

it in sports you might hear it

in business you might hear it in

politics when two

or more people are trying to get the

same result or the same outcome we can

express that with

vying for different from dying to which

is followed by a

verb vying for is followed by a noun

phrase

so vying for noun phrase where the noun

phrase is the desired result the desired

outcome so some examples of this might

be

the two candidates were vying for the

mayor's position

or all of the children were vying for

the teacher's attention

so vying for something means actively

engaged in trying to

win something but that's quite a long

expression so we say

vying for the base verb is to vai to vai

for something so this is the difference

between dying to which expresses a

strong desire for something

and vying for which also expresses a

desire to win something

but we talk about this along with the

desired

results the desired result not the

desired action so i hope that this helps

you

thanks very much for the question okay

let's move on to our next

question next question comes from anmal

virk hello animal

animal says hung or hanged snuck or

sneaked yes this is a question

about the past tense forms of verbs so

the first one

hung or hanged the verb in question here

is the verb

to hang to hang so should we use hung or

should we use hanged for past tense

the answer in most cases is you should

use hung

for example he hung a picture on the

wall

or we hung our coats up in the closet

when you're talking about this action of

putting something on a wall or putting

clothing

on a hanger please use hung the past

tense hung

hanged on the other hand has a very

specific use we use

hanged when we're talking about someone

who has been punished

with death by hanging so hanging is a

very specific type of death penalty

in which a rope is tied around a

person's neck and

the rope is used to end the person's

life when we want to talk about this

in past tense we use hanged as in

the criminal was hanged or hundreds of

years ago

many people were hanged for crimes so

hanged is used in this specific case in

all

other cases of the verb hang in present

tense please use

hung to refer to the past form of the

verb so this is quite a clear

distinction in terms of meaning

please keep it in mind when you're

speaking and when you're writing too

regarding your other question about the

past tense form of the verb

sneak there are two forms and there are

two forms that remain today actually

initially originally this is according

to merriam-webster my favorite

dictionary

according to merriam-webster sneaked was

the original past tense form of this

verb but in the

late 1800s or so snuck began

being used so today we still use both of

them

actually snuck and sneaked some examples

then might be like

i snuck into the office late last night

or she sneaked around the neighborhood

so you can use both of them i personally

feel that i like snuck better that could

just be me

but whatever you choose please just be

consistent with it so i hope that this

helps you thanks for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question

comes from anathu shaji hi enough

anathu says could you please explain the

differences

between ever since and since then

sure while they have the same meaning

the structure of the sentence changes

depending on which one you use

so let's take a look at a couple of

example sentences

a graduated college last year since then

i've worked in a tech company and

ever since i graduated college i've

worked in a tech company

so these sentences communicate the same

idea the speaker graduated college

and since that point in time the speaker

has worked at a tech company

so we can use both since then and ever

since to describe

that the difference is that since then

tends to follow

a past tense statement in the first

example sentence it was

i graduated college last year so we have

a simple path

tense statement there since then refers

to the point in time that was described

in the previous sentence so in this case

last year since that point in time i

referred to in the previous sentence

so this is a common position for since

then

ever since however can take a couple

different positions in the sentence

in this example i've placed it before

the simple past tense action

ever since i graduated college so we can

place it before the action

you may also see ever since used in the

same position as

since then so for example i graduated

college ever since i've worked in a tech

company

though in these cases as you might have

noticed in this example

i've removed i've omitted the specific

point in time so instead of saying

i graduated college last year ever since

i've worked in a tech company

you might hear some people remove that

specific point in time it's just kind of

the speaker's preference i suppose but

ever since can take a lot of different

positions we don't see

since then taking these different

positions so since then again refers to

a specific

point in time that then in since then

means

that point in time i just referred to so

we have to have that

we don't have that then in ever since so

that means we don't have to refer to a

specific point in time and that's why it

sounds kind of natural sometimes

not to use this paired together with a

specific point in time in your past

tense statement

you might hear people say ever since

then in which case yes you must include

a point in time in the past but this is

the difference it's the positioning of

the expression in the sentence

and the relationship of the past tense

statement to the outcome so i hope that

this helps you

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第一个问题本周第一个问题来自

法比奥你好法比奥法比奥说你好艾丽西亚我想

知道这个表达的含义

每隔一天我也可以

每隔一周

每隔一年每隔一小时分钟说一次

谢谢 很多

是的，每隔一天是指一个

活动时间表

，其中你一天做一件事

，然后第二天你

把它取下来，

第二天你不做活动，第二天你做活动，

然后 第二天你不做

活动，

所以这是一天一天休息的

模式，

我们称之为每隔一天的时间表，

所以是的，你可以用另一个时间段替换这个

表达式中的一天，

这样你 可以

说每隔一年或每隔一

小时每隔一分钟不管它只是

意味着你在

一个单位时间内做某事所以一年或一小时

或一分钟

然后接下来的一段时间

你不做那件事

所以是的你可以 用它来表达

每隔一分钟的

事情 休息日模式 我希望这

对你有帮助 谢谢你的问题

好吧 让我们继续你的下一个问题

下一个

问题来自克林顿 嗨克林顿

克林顿说

当我遇到一个试图

和我说一种我不明白的语言的人时

我应该用英语回答

吗？嗯，你可以说我不会说那种语言，

所以你可以说我不会说西班牙语，

或者我不会说荷兰语，或者我不会说

中文，你可以说一些

非常直接的话，比如 你不必

说我很抱歉，

我想如果你愿意，你可以，但

在这种情况下你真的不必道歉，

只是直接我不会说那种

语言你可以

通过说

你会说英语或 你会说

你的母语吗，

所以如果这个人可能需要帮助，或者如果

你想和那个人交流，

你可以试着找到一个解决方案，试着

通过询问

你会说英语还是说

西班牙语或其他什么来找到共同语言 你的

母语再次如此只是为了

回应

我不会说那种语言我希望

这对你有帮助谢谢你的问题

好的让我们继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题来自

sanju hi sanju sanju 说你好 alicia 和

团队你好吗 我所有的

问题是

死去和争夺之间有什么区别，以及我们如何

正确使用它们好吧，我们

为我们非常想做的事情而死去，

所以我们就像夸大了我们正在

使这种

对某事的渴望看起来

比它强得多，

我们倾向于在随意的情况下使用它，

例如我很想看那

部电影，

或者我们一直很想去那家新

餐厅，

所以我们表达了对某事的强烈渴望

，这通常是某

事 另一方面，一种随意的光之

争用在

类似

竞争的情况下使用，因此您可能会

在运动中听到它

，您可能会在商业中听到它，

当两个

或更多人试图获得

相同的结果时，您可能会在政治中听到它，或者 同样的结果，我们可以

表达，with

vying for different from die to which

后面跟着一个

动词 vying for 后面跟着一个名词

短语

so vying for noun 短语，其中名词

短语是期望的结果 期望的

结果，所以这方面的一些例子可能

是两个候选人在争夺

市长的位置，

还是所有的孩子都在

争夺老师的注意力，

所以争夺某事意味着积极

参与试图

赢得某事，但这是相当不错的 ng

表达，所以我们说

vying for the base 动词是 vai to vai

for something 所以这

就是死去表达

对某事的强烈渴望

和 vying for which 也表达

了赢得某事的渴望之间的区别，

但我们一起谈论这个

期望的

结果 期望的结果不是

期望的行动 所以我希望这对

你有帮助

非常感谢这个问题 好的

让我们继续我们的下一个

问题 下一个问题来自 anmal

virk 你好 动物

动物说挂起或挂起

偷偷摸摸或偷偷摸摸 是的 这是

关于动词过去时形式的问题，

所以第一个

挂起或挂起 有问题的动词是

要挂起的动词，所以我们应该使用挂起还是

应该使用挂起作为过去时

大多数情况下的答案是你应该

使用 挂

例如他把一张照片挂在

墙上

或者我们把我们的外套挂在壁橱里，

当你谈论这个

把东西放在墙上或把

衣服

放在衣架上的动作时，请使用 hang 过去

时

hanged 另一方面，

当我们谈论一个被绞死的人时，我们使用

hanged 非常具体

一个

人的脖子

和绳子是用来结束这个人的

生命的，当我们想谈论这个

时，我们用过去时绞死，

就像罪犯被绞死或数百

年前

许多人因犯罪而被绞死，所以

绞死用于这个特定的

动词的所有其他情况下的情况 hang 用现在

时 请使用

hang 来指代动词的过去形式，

所以这

在含义方面有一个非常明显的区别

请记住当你

说话和当你说话的时候 也写

关于你关于

动词偷偷摸摸的过去时形式的其他问题

有

两种形式，今天仍然有两种形式实际上

最初最初是

根据 merriam-webster 我最喜欢的

字典

accor ding to merriam-webster blinked

是这个动词的原始过去时形式，

但在

1800 年代后期左右

开始使用偷偷摸摸，所以今天我们仍然使用

它们

实际上偷偷摸摸和偷偷摸摸的一些例子，

然后可能就像

我偷偷溜进办公室很晚 昨晚

或她偷偷溜进附近，

所以你可以使用它们我个人

觉得我更喜欢偷偷摸摸，可能

只是我，

但无论你选择什么，请

保持一致，所以我希望这

对你有帮助，谢谢你的问题

好吧 让我们继续您的下一个问题

下一个问题

来自 anathu shaji 嗨，

anathu 说，您能否解释一下

ever since 和 since then 之间

的区别 看几个

例句 去年毕业的大学，从那时起

我在一家科技公司工作，

自从我大学毕业后，我

就在一家科技公司工作 ch company

所以这些句子传达

了演讲者大学毕业的相同想法，

并且从那时起演讲者

一直在一家科技公司工作，

所以我们可以使用从那时起和

从那时起来

描述不同之处在于从那时起

倾向于

遵循 第一个例句中的过去时态陈述

是

我去年大学毕业所以我们在那里有

一个简单的路径

时态陈述从那时起

指的是前一句中描述的时间点

所以在这种情况下是

去年从那个时间点开始 我

在上一句中提到过，

所以这是从那时起的一个常见位置，

但是在这个例子

中可以在句子中占据几个不同的位置，

自从我大学毕业以来，我把它放在简单的过去时动作之前，所以我们可以

把它放在

你可能

会看到的动作之前

尽管在这些情况下你可能已经

注意到在这个例子中

我已经删除了我已经省略了具体

的时间点所以而不是说

我去年大学毕业自从

我在一家科技公司工作以来

你可能会听到一些人 删除那个

特定的时间点，

我想这只是演讲者的偏好，但从

那以后可以采取许多

我们看不到的

不同位置，从那时起采取这些不同的

位置，所以从那时起再次指的是

一个特定

的时间点，然后在 从那以后

意味着

我刚刚提到的那个时间点，所以

我们必须有那个

我们没有那个，然后从那以后，

这意味着我们不必参考一个

特定的时间点，这就是为什么它

听起来有点像 有时自然

不要将其与

过去时态陈述中的特定时间点配对使用

，从那时起您可能会听到人们说，

在这种情况下，是的，您必须包括

过去的时间点，

但这就是区别

句子

中表达的位置以及过去时

陈述与结果的关系所以我希望

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