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my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna
talk about 10 phrasal verbs for business
so let’s go step up the first phrasal
verb is step up step up means to move up
or to level up usually to some kind of
new challenging position or to a
challenging project so I want to step up
and do more for my company or I want to
step up and take on this project there’s
a nuance of a challenge a move upward a
promotion perhaps and new challenges new
responsibilities
so in a sentence the new CEO really
stepped up on this project great step
down the next word is the opposite step
down to step down often means to resign
or to quit one’s job especially at the
higher levels of business so a CEO might
step down from his position or her
position if they’ve made a big mistake
or if the company has had problems so
sometimes this can mean resign sometimes
this means just moving to a lower
position in the company you can you’ll
have to look into the specifics of the
situation to figure out exactly the
meaning but step down means to go to a
position of lower responsibility so in a
sentence following multiple serious
mistakes the government official stepped
down measure up the next expression is
measure up measure up is a word or a
phrasal verb that we use to mean compare
we say how does something measure up or
does this measure up to meaning is item
a equal to item B is item a better than
item B this is a question or a word that
we use to ask how one thing compares to
another thing so like how does candidate
a measure up to candidate B is a
question of comparison between these two
these two items or does this project
measure up to our past work in other
words is this project equal to or is it
to our past works so measure up is used
when comparing two things so in a
sentence how does the new plan measure
up to our past ideas step aside
the next expression we’ve talked about
step up step down now we’ll talk about
step aside so step aside means to move
out of the way it doesn’t mean
necessarily to move up in in position or
to move down in position but step aside
means just temporarily to remove someone
or to remove yourself from a situation
so you can use this not just in business
but maybe in a very crowded space like
let’s step aside and have this
discussion you can use that in a
business meeting as well - step aside is
to remove yourself from a main group or
from one situation go away from that
situation temporarily mmm that’s how we
use step aside so in a sentence the
company feels you should step aside like
please move away from this project
swoop in the next expression is swoop in
swoop in so we use swoop for example
with birds we can say the bird swooped
in but in a business situation it’s
somebody usually someone a person or
maybe a team that suddenly joins the
company or suddenly joins a project and
maybe makes a lot of changes so for
example a consulting firm might swoop in
to a situation or might swoop in to a
project or maybe the boss swooped in to
the meeting and made a lot of changes so
these these sentences these are
situations where something suddenly
happens by a one person or by a group of
people in another sentence the
consultant swooped in and changed around
our entire organization shake up the
next phrasal verb is shake up shake up
means to make a lot of changes at one
time or two maybe change an atmosphere
or to change a company feeling this can
also be applied to situations outside of
work like maybe
art for example other industries
manufacturing industry it means to make
changes for so one person or one group
makes changes so you could say for
example Apple shook up the smartphone
industry when it introduced the iPhone
so it means to make changes or to bring
about new change in a sentence she
really shook up our department with her
innovative ideas come online the next
expression is come online come online so
this is interesting
of course you’re watching this video
presumably probably on the internet
online right now but the expression come
online means become able to use
something usually publicly or at least
within your company so when a new
project comes online it means it’s it’s
now available it can be used or it can
be purchased we typically use this
expression for some kind of service so
for example a web platform or an
application or something that other
people can use
so come online means become available
come online means become available in a
sentence then our new service is going
to come online at the end of the month
expand into the next expression is
expand into expand into so we can use
expand into to mean moving more or
moving to another place or to another
industry with your business operations
so we can use perhaps a country or a
region after this expression or we can
use an industry name after this
expression so you can say we want to
expand into China we want to expand into
Japan with our business or you can say
we want to expand into the electronics
industry we want to expand into the
service industry expanding into
something talks about the direction you
want your company to move in expand into
so in a sentence we’d like to expand
into some other markets to bring about
the next expression is to bring about to
bring about means to make something
happen
cause something to happen we often use
this to talk about change it can be
positive or it can be negative I feel I
tend to use this more in a positive
situation but that might just be me so
to bring about means to cause something
or yet to make something happen in a
sentence don’t you think we should try
to bring about change in our company
take on the next expression is take on
so take on if you if you can kind of
make a visual with this phrasal verb you
can take something and attach it to
yourself to take on something but this
thing you’re taking is responsibility so
to take on something it has the nuance
of a challenge or a new responsibility
it’s something that is generally seen as
positive but perhaps could be maybe a
lot of new work or a big new project for
example so I might say I want to take on
some new projects this year or you could
use it outside of business like in a
kind of aggressive situation like like I
tried to take on a really big guy at the
club but he punched me so you could use
this too but it has the nuance of
challenge ever every time you use it so
in a different sentence I was asked to
take on more responsibilities at the
office oh that’s the end so those are 10
- phrasal verbs for business I hope that
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welcome back to top words my name is
Alisha and today we’re gonna talk about
ten crime-related words so let’s begin
suspect the first word is suspect
suspect as a noun please be careful not
the verb form to suspect though we can
use that suspect and suspect have
slightly different pronunciations as a
noun
suspect means a person who may or may
not have committed a crime may or may
not have done something bad to suspect
someone means to be suspicious to think
they may or may not have done something
so please be careful depending on the
grammar suspect and suspect have
different pronunciations despite the
same spelling so suspect in a sentence
the suspect was seen running away from
the scene criminal the next expression
is criminal so a criminal is a person
who is convicted of a crime so to put
that more simply a criminal is a person
who has been determined to have done
something against the law they have done
something bad it has been decided by a
court of law or the governing body so a
criminal has indeed yes been found
guilty an expression we’ll talk about
later so a criminal is someone we know
has committed a crime in a sentence they
arrested the criminal on Wednesday
victim the next expression is victim
victim a victim is a person who suffers
because of a crime or because of a
natural disaster also we can use victims
for natural disasters and for crime so
they are innocent they are they’ve had
no reason to be affected they’re just
maybe the wrong place the wrong time
either way there well I shouldn’t say
innocent but there the person who
suffers in this situation a victim is
the person who suffers in this situation
in a sentence the victim was an elderly
woman guilty so the next expression is
guilty he is guilty of blah blah blah
crime or he was found guilty of blah
blah blah crime the nuance of guilty is
having done something bad and so if you
are guilty of a crime it means you have
done that crime but someone can look
guilty we can use guilty as an adjective
to talk about the way
someone looks so guilty in a court or
guilty in discussing a criminal case can
mean he or she did the crime he is
guilty she is guilty however we can’t
say he looks guilty or the dog looks
guilty that means that that person or
that object or that animal looks like
they did something bad
but we don’t know for sure so guilty
means has the nuance of doing something
bad in a sentence you look very guilty
not guilty okay so on the other hand not
guilty not guilty is the verdict so
verdict is the word used for decision in
criminal cases not guilty means not
doing the crime the crime was not done
by that person so a person who is found
or determined not guilty means they did
not do the crime or it’s been decided
that that person did not do the crime
they are not guilty hmm okay in a
sentence he was found not guilty of the
crime to plead to plead so to plead is
similar to to beg so to plead means to
humbly request something it’s this this
is the image of pleading like your hands
together hoping very much for something
asking very humbly for something but
this is the verb that we use in court
cases in criminal cases
so we’ll say I want to plead not guilty
for the crime of blah blah blah so to
plead means to request consideration for
something so I want to plead not guilty
means I want to request you the court
the judge whoever my community you find
me you consider me not guilty I did not
do the crime so but we use instead of
that very long expression we say I plead
not guilty this is a much easier way to
express that situation of course you can
plead guilty to a crime - in some cases
so he pled this is past tense to plead
changes to pled he pled guilty to the
crime of manslaughter for example so in
a sentence the defendant pled not
guilty murder homicide so the next
expression I have murder and homicide
here so murder and homicide if you watch
police shows or if you watch you know
movies dramas which use like police and
FBI and so on you might have heard these
words but what’s the difference so
murder and homicide are used to mean the
same thing it means killing another
person with intention
so to murder someone else means to kill
another person and with intention
there’s a plan to do it homicide is the
word that is used in legal terminology
or in forensic forensic meaning analysis
of bodies analysis of like blood for
example of bacteria so kind of
scientific analysis of a crime scene so
in those cases in the investigation side
and in the legal side they might use the
word homicide perhaps more you might
also hear homicide in news but in
everyday conversation murder is perhaps
more common so the defendant was
convicted of murder the defendant was
found guilty of murder
in a sentence she was found guilty of
murder manslaughter all right so another
expression manslaughter this is an
interesting word so manslaughter you can
see the word slaughter is there so
slaughter refers to killing something we
use slaughter in many cases to refer to
slaughterhouses where cattle are killed
like pigs and cows for example so it has
the image of like brutally killing
however manslaughter refers to an
accidental killing so for example
driving in a car and just through some
strange accident maybe a person is hit
by the car and they die but there was no
intention on the part of the driver
there was no plan there it was an
accident a terrible terrible accident in
those cases the word manslaughter is
applied meaning an accidental death so
in a sentence this is a case of
manslaughter jury the next expression is
jury jury you may or may not have a jury
system in your country in the u.s.
juries
there’s a jury of your peers so peers
are people in your community people in
theory who are similar to you in some
way so a jury is a group of people who
makes a decision about a court case you
often have to give a presentation to a
jury so yeah you might see these juries
that’ve in movies and in TV shows about
crime as well in a sentence the jury was
divided on the case
meaning the jury did not know how to
vote yes or no guilty
judge the next expression is judge judge
so again your country may or may not
have something similar but a judge is
kind of if you’ve if you’ve watched like
u.s. crime shows or whatever you might
have seen these people they’re men and
women who wear like these big black
robes usually and they sit high in
courtrooms above the other people
usually we also have in the u.s. the
Supreme Court the Supreme Court is our
wealth supreme meaning most high the
best the highest level the Supreme Court
where we have what we call justices but
those those are essentially like they
are judges really they’re the highest
level of judge in the US so they have a
special word justice but they are judges
so they make decisions based on the law
based on the legal rules of the country
or of the city or of the location where
you are a judge does that so in a
sentence the judge had a tough decision
to make
no oh that’s the end all right so those
are 10 crime related words I hope that
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we’re
going to talk about ten phrasal verbs
for talking a
about vehicles let’s go the first
phrasal verb first phrasal verb is pull
in pull in so pull in is used usually
when you’re driving very slowly we
usually use it for a parking lot so
we’ll use it in an expression like pull
into that space or pull in over there in
this sentence
pull into that space over there it means
usually to slowly move your car into a
space into a parking space or maybe into
a garage you’re going into something
usually very slowly so pull in over here
pull in over there pull into that
parking lot pull into that driveway for
example so slowly move into another
place we use the phrasal verb pull in
for that the next phrasal verb is pull
up pull up in this sentence I’ll pull
the car up in front of the hotel we
usually use this when we want to slowly
drive and then stop at a location so for
example at a stoplight we would say pull
up to the stoplight so it means to
slowly drive to a place and then stop so
pull up next to the mailbox or pull up
next to my house pull up over there
means slowly drive and then stop at that
place is pull up that’s how we use pull
up the next expression is back up back
up so back means reverse to backup a car
is to move a car slowly in Reverse so
usually in most cases we drive cars
going forward but you sometimes need to
move your car in the opposite direction
back up out of the driveway for example
it means to go slowly in reverse to back
up in this sentence the truck backed up
until it touched the loading dock the
next expression we talked about pull in
now we have back in back in so pull in
means to drive forward into something
back in means to slowly go backward into
something usually a parking space or a
garage or something so back in is going
river
reverse pull in is going forward as
usual so in a sentence back into the
parking space the next expression is
roll down roll down this might be a
little bit of an outdated expression at
this point in time but prior to the use
of automatic windows usually now I think
most cars have a button and the window
will automatically roll down but we used
to have a manual a hand crank in in cars
to roll down windows
so this motion which was used to move
the window that was the that was also
the verb we use we use roll so this
motion is like roll and then the window
comes down so we combined the two to say
roll down the window in a sentence roll
down your window it’s hot in here
the next expression is head up and head
down these are very common expressions
when you are trying to navigate in a
city you don’t have to use these only in
cars you can use them when you’re
walking or traveling on foot as well on
bicycle whatever you can use head up and
head down anytime you are trying to go
somewhere so head up and head down
really just mean go so I could say like
head up the street until you see a
Starbucks and then turn right generally
though the difference between up and
down here it has kind of like a north
and south at least in English it has a
north-south sort of feel so if for
example I’m talking about the west coast
of the USA Seattle is in the north and
Los Angeles is in the south I would say
I’m heading down I’m going to head down
to Los Angeles from Seattle or I’m going
to head up to Seattle from Los Angeles
it sounds really strange if I say head
up to Los Angeles because Los Angeles is
south of Seattle so when you’re thinking
when you’re speaking geographically when
you’re speaking in terms of north and
south for places it’s better to use head
up or head down depending on the
location you’re talking about coming
from let’s see in this sentence head
down this street for a while the next
expression is run over run over this is
a this is a word that
when in a car let’s say you’re driving
your car and then an animal comes out in
front of the car but you continue going
we say you are going to run over so to
run in this case is not a human running
but a car running so the car is running
is going is continuing over something
else so we can say like don’t run over
any animals or be careful not to run
over your brother into the example
sentence I think he ran over a squirrel
true story my little brother once ran
over me in a golf cart that is true
my brother and I were playing one time
and my grandparents had a golf cart and
my brother and I were outside running
around we were playing like a James Bond
like kind of spy game like we were like
okay I’m gonna drive the golf cart and
you have to run alongside and jump in
and I was like okay but I tried to jump
I don’t know I got nervous but it was it
wasn’t really going that fast but like
somehow things went wrong and I fell
down or maybe a tripped or something
like that what I was running I fell down
and he just he ran over me in the golf
car like ran over my leg just drove
right over my leg and I was like we got
in big trouble I was fine yeah no I died
the next word is pull over so pull over
means usually you are driving in the car
and you want to make a stop so usually
we use this like on the side of the road
or in a place where you wouldn’t usually
stop or in kind of a strange not
necessarily strange but maybe not a
typical place to stop a car so for
example if there’s like a bee in the car
and you’re like I need to get this B out
of my car you can pull over to the side
of the road we usually use it like pull
over to the side of the road and you
know do what you need to do or maybe you
need to pull over at a rest stop pull
over at a bathroom essentially okay so
in a sentence pull over at the next rest
stop yeah so pull over is also used by
the police as well as like a command
it’s a it’s a temporary situation so the
police are going to stop you
they say pull over to the side of the
road and then you have to move your car
to the side of the road where it’s safe
and they talk to you and then
can continue down the road after you’ve
finished speaking to them police will
use it as a command the next phrasal
verb is pull out pull out so for example
when you are coming out of a parking
space for example you can say like pull
out of this parking space and turn left
it means like to exit something slowly
so to pull out of a parking space or to
pull out into traffic so turning from
one one lane to another may be busier
lane the image is going kind of slowly
and then picking up the pace somewhere
else so to pull out in to is another
common expression pull out into traffic
or pull out of a space and turn left or
pull out of the driveway for example in
this example sentence a super slow truck
pulled out in front of us on the
mountain road the next expression is get
on get on we use get on usually for
large roads so a highway or a major
street usually the traffic is moving
very quickly we say get on the highway
get on the 5 so like in the u.s. lots of
highways major roads are labeled with
numbers so like California and when a
big state highway is the number 5
highway the five so you could say like
get on the five at the next exit or get
on the five at the street for example so
to get on means like 2 to join with your
car that major road in a sentence get on
the highway here ok so that’s the end
those are 10 phrasal verbs for talking
about vehicles I hope that those were
useful and some of these phrasal verbs
you can use in situations other than
cars and automobiles so if you have any
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to know your verbs my name is Alicia and
in this episode we’re going to talk
about the verb
die
okay let’s begin with the basic
definition of this verb the basic
definition of the verb die is to stop
living or to stop existing examples she
died yesterday
doctors say he might die within a year
let’s look at the conjugations for this
verb present die dies past died past
participle died progressive dying
so now let’s talk about some additional
meanings for this verb the first
additional meaning for this lesson is to
disappear gradually some examples
the noise died down a short while after
the concert ended my interest in eating
meat died after I watched a documentary
so in both of these examples something
gradually decreased in the first example
sentence after a concert ended the noise
died down
so actually we can say died down to like
it sounds like you it was up here like
because we’re using the word down there
it sounds like the volume was up here
maybe and it gradually came down so the
noise died is okay like the noise died
after but the noise died down sounds
even more gradual so this is sort of
like an extra variation on this meaning
in the second example sentence we saw my
interest and eating meat died after I
watched the documentary so it’s like oh
I saw this documentary and my desire to
eat meat went down quickly like it died
it stopped it ceased so that sounds like
so no I saw this documentary and I was
done wanting to eat meat so it kind of
means to go away or to disappear so
especially with down like to die down
that sounds extra gradual okay good
let’s talk about the next one okay so
the second additional meaning for
today’s lesson is to stop working like a
machine or computer examples my car is
dying on the side of the road oh no my
phone battery died oh no I have a
graphic for this oh no my phone battery
died it’s not true alright anyway so so
in both of these examples we used I to
mean that some machine or some device
stopped working usually because it ran
out of power or because there’s some
technical malfunction so in the first
example my car is dying on the side of
the road there could be a number of
reasons why the car is dying maybe it’s
out of gas maybe there’s like a
technical problem
maybe it’s just I don’t know if
something else has gone wrong we don’t
know but for whatever reason the car is
not moving or the car is not functioning
correctly so the car is dying on the
side of the road in the second example a
very common one oh no my phone battery
died in the past tense it means my phone
ran out of battery my phone ran out of
power out of energy so we say my phone
died we don’t even need to say battery
just my phone died is perfect that’s a
very natural sentence Oh No my phone
died so those are a couple additional
meanings excellent
now let’s go on to some variations for
the verb die so the first variation I
want to talk about is to die of an
emotion or to die of a feeling so this
is an expression we use when we feel
that thing that emotion that sensation
very strongly so strongly we feel like
we could die of or we can also say die
from that thing examples I could die of
happiness and I’m dying of hunger so in
the first example I could die of
happiness that’s an example where we
could substitute of for from so imma die
from happiness that’s also okay we could
say I could die of embarrassment or I
could die from embarrassment or sadness
or loneliness something like that it’s
an emotion we feel so strongly we feel
like we could die because of it in the
second example sentence I used the
progressive I’m dying of hunger
it means I’m so hungry I feel like I
could die but I’m using the progressive
tense which means I feel this way now
I’m dying now because I’m so hungry
dying of hunger means at this moment you
are dying well not literally but you are
so hungry you feel like you’re dying I’m
dying alright let’s go on to the next
thing so let’s go on to the next
variation the next variation is to be
dying to verb so to be dying to do
something examples so to be dying to do
something means you have a very very
strong desire to do that thing you
really really want to do this thing so
examples of that I’m dying to see that
movie he’s dying to go home so in both
of these sentences you see I’m using the
infinitive form of the verb after dying
he’s dying - she’s dying - I’m dying to
do something we need to use - plus the
verb that’s the infinitive form of the
verb so dying to do that thing means the
speaker or the subject really really
wants to do that action that verb
that’s what it means to be dying to do
something you’re not actually dying it
just means you have a strong desire to
do that thing alright good so those are
a few variations a couple of additional
meanings I hope that you picked up some
new ways to use the verb die if you have
any questions or comments or if you know
a different way to use the verb die or
if you just would like to try to make an
example sentence please feel free to do
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die dying to be alive yeah that’s a
Hanson song anybody listen to Hanson is
how I this is how I express a strong
desire to do something and going miss 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 sun-joo Huygens on
you Sanju says hey Alisha how can I
think
fully in my target language whenever I
see you speaking fluently I feel like I
want to become like you so how can I
make my communication like yours this is
a very common question and it requires
practice it requires regular practice so
this means you need to practice a little
bit every day where you can immerse
yourself in the language you’re studying
if you’re studying English try to use
English as much as possible in your day
so if you can try to make a time in your
week or in your day when you only speak
English or you only read English so try
to read English books watch English TV
or movies listen to music in English
talk to people in English where you can
you need to get used to using it in your
everyday life so that your brain gets
used to using it when you’re just
thinking about things so this takes time
absolutely you need to practice and you
need to give yourself time every day and
every week to get used to doing this so
practice
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me if you want but please keep in mind
as I’ve said on this channel before I’m
speaking in a way that’s helpful for
learners so I’m trying to use very clear
pronunciation I’m trying to use kind of
simple grammar or a grammar that’s not
super complex and I’m also not speaking
in exactly the same way that native
speakers do in everyday conversation so
please remember that the way I speak on
this channel is not necessarily the way
that native speakers talk in everyday
life that being said if you want to use
me for your shadowing practice please
feel free you won’t have any
communication problems if you practice
speaking like me so I hope that this
helps you if you’re interested there are
some other videos on the channel that
have lots of tips about how to think in
your target language and how to get used
to applying English in your everyday
life so definitely check those out too
okay
I hope that this helps you thanks very
much for the question alright let’s move
on to your next question next question
comes from Eric Pashkov hi Eric Eric
says what’s the difference between
present perfect and past perfect okay
present perfect is used one for general
life experience in the past at a non
specific point in time
this can be an experience you had or an
experience you did not have so when the
point in time is not important we can
use present perfect to talk about that
for example I have been to France I have
never written a book we also use present
perfect tense to talk about actions that
started in the past and continued to the
present or the effects of that action
continue to the present you’ll see verbs
used with progressive tense in this case
- so for example have been plus the ing
form of a verb we also commonly use for
and since to talk about the entire
length of time in action
has happened or has been happening
rather so for example I have been
speaking for about four minutes or he
has been listening to me since I started
this video so this is a common way that
we use present perfect tense past
perfect on the other hand refers to
things that happened in the past so
we’re not talking about the relationship
between the past and the present we’re
talking about the relationship between a
past action and some other past point so
for example I had been studying for
three hours when I fell asleep so in
that example sentence we see that there
was one past continuing action and a
second action that happened closer to
the present that interrupted the action
when I fell asleep so we can use past
perfect tense to show like sequences if
you’re telling a story and there are two
points in your story that we’re in the
past you can use past perfect tense to
explain the thing that came first then
use simple past to explain the thing
that happened nearer to the present as I
did in this story as I also mentioned in
this example sentence if you want to
describe a past action that was
continuing and that was then interrupted
you can use this pattern this past
perfect two simple past tense pattern so
we use it for that we also use it to
talk about life experience again so
general life experience or no life
experience but at a past point in time
so for example by my tenth birthday I
had saved $100 for example so by my
tenth birthday is a point in the past
I’m obviously not 10 years old now so by
my tenth birthday I had saved that means
up until that point in time I had saved
$100 so when we want to talk about past
experiences in relation to other past
points you can use the past perfect
tense so you can find some other videos
about present perfect tense and soon
about past perfect tense on the channel
soon so I hope that you check those out
for some more information I hope that
this helps you to
thanks very much for the question
alright let’s move on to your next
question next question comes from Hannes
Bayou hi Hannes
Hannes says what’s the difference
between follow and subscribe because
they have the same meaning okay for
online media hubs like Twitter and
Facebook and YouTube they have the same
feeling they have the same meaning like
you click the button and you receive
updates from that person or from that
company or whatever in terms of kind of
a more historical meaning though the
word subscribe was and is used for
regular publications so for example we
subscribe to a magazine or we subscribe
to a newspaper when you subscribe to
something there’s an expectation that
you will receive that thing on a regular
basis on a regular schedule so for
example if you subscribe to a monthly
magazine you expect to receive the
magazine once a month that’s a
subscription so the same word carries
over into YouTube when we subscribe to
someone’s channel we expect to see their
content we expect that when that person
creates something we are going to
receive it so in YouTube’s case this
means we have like you know a channels
you follow list or we see like something
in our email that says oh this channel
has posted a new video so subscribe in
this way means like you have some kind
of expectation of receiving something
somewhat regularly of course not
everyone on YouTube posts regularly but
this is the idea to follow however like
with Twitter or with Facebook or
Instagram is like you’re just waiting
for updates from that person maybe
you’re not expecting to receive
something on a regular basis but if that
person or that company or brand or
whatever chooses to share something
you’re saying you want to have the
ability to quickly and easily check that
thing so this is why we don’t really use
like subscribe for Twitter or subscribe
on Facebook or on Instagram it sounds
more like a service for a YouTube though
it makes sense because it’s like we’re
getting something
many people on YouTube create content
regularly so subscribe is a better fit
in this case okay so I hope that this
helps answer your question thanks very
much for sending it along alright let’s
move on to your next question next
question comes from a bra hiya bra a
browser says are like and seems the same
word if not what’s the difference and
how do we use them Thanks
okay it depends on how the words are
used we can use both of these words to
share our opinion of someone or
something like in these example
sentences she seems nice
she seems like a nice person notice how
in the first example sentence here we
follow seams with an adjective she seems
nice in the second example sentence she
seems like a nice person we’re using
like and we need to follow this with a
noun phrase so a nice person is a noun
phrase when you’re using like in this
way you need to follow like with a noun
phrase you can’t use an adjective there
as we did with seams so we follow the
same rule when we’re using like to make
comparisons for example he eats like a
pig you look like my brother so when
we’re making comparisons like this we
need to use a noun phrase after the word
like also we can use seams with verbs
for example this seems to be the right
answer he seems to like hiking so
another quick point about the word seems
is that we use seem or seems when we
want to make a guess or share an opinion
about something but maybe we can’t
quickly confirm so like she seems nice
it’s like our opinion our quick opinion
of that person but maybe we don’t know
yet she might not be a nice person we
don’t know but when you want to make a
quick guess about something that you
can’t actually check you can’t really
confirm you can use seems to do that in
the second original example sentence I
introduced she seems like a nice person
we’re combining seem with like their so
she seems like that means it’s like
you’re comparing this person she
to a nice person that’s kind of the idea
here so she has the appearance or I
guess she seems as though she is a nice
person so this is an over complicated
explanation but think about using like
when you want to compare things think
about using seem when you want to maybe
just share a simple adjective or maybe
when you want to make a quick guess
about someone so I hope that this helps
you thanks very much for the question
alright let’s move on to your next
question next question comes from junior
high junior junior says hi Alicia
someone once said to me you’re neat and
I was kind of confused what does it mean
okay
neat is kind of like a cute word or a
nice word that means cool or interesting
it sounds very casual very friendly
maybe a little bit childish we would use
neat in the same way as we use cool but
cool is a little bit rough neat sounds
kind of precious and nice and childish a
little bit so you can say that someone’s
drawing is neat or that someone is neat
however there’s a second meaning of neat
which means tidy or organized so if
someone like came to your house and said
wow you’re neat like to talk about the
way that your house is organized or like
to comment about how clean your space is
it could have this meaning so it depends
how did the person use the word when
they were speaking to you what was the
situation so it can mean cool great
awesome nice or it can mean tidy and
organized some other examples I saw that
movie it was neat my new computer is
neat your parents are really neat aren’t
they okay so I hope that this helps
answer your question thanks very much
all right that is everything that I have
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