Whats the difference in English between MeMyself HimHimself HerHerself
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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe okay
let’s get to your first question this
week first question this week comes from
aristotle hello aristotle aristotle says
could you please differentiate pass time
past time and past time sure great
question okay let’s start with pass time
to past time to pass time or you might
also hear to pass the time means just to
use time in such a way that it becomes
later slowly so another way to think
about this could be to waste time in
some cases or maybe just to relax so you
are doing some action in order to use
some time up we use this expression when
we have to wait a while before our next
activity or our next appointment or when
we just have no plans for the day and
we’re just hanging out at the house we
can say i’m just passing time or i’m
just doing this to pass the time so this
is how we use past time
next let’s talk about pastime so pastime
is one word a pastime this is a noun
refers to something you did in your
childhood like a story that you really
like to read all the time or a game that
you really like to play something that
you did with your family or your friends
those things are referred to as pastimes
so typically we associate them with good
memories so you could say for example
like ah that’s one of my favorite
pastimes i loved reading that book with
my family
okay the final question that you had was
about past time past time this
expression means it’s beyond the time at
which something was supposed to happen
so for example it’s past time for lunch
we should go or it’s past time to start
the meetings everything okay so past
time refers to something that is beyond
an expected time so i hope this helps
answer your question thanks very much
okay let’s get to your next question
next question comes from zachary hi
zachary zachary says hi alicia does one
say
102 or 102 or are both correct also does
one say half hour or half an hour thank
you okay first your question about 102
or 103 or 103 whatever both of those are
fine you can choose whichever you prefer
so for example in our channel name
english class 101 we typically say 101
because that’s the pattern we use for
school for college level classes or
maybe other level classes
in those cases the pattern we use is to
read the numbers individually 101
however when you are reading any other
number you can use either pattern you
prefer 101 is fine 101 is fine i think i
probably usually say 101 that’s probably
what i would say or 102 but you may hear
people say 101 102 and drop that
and in the middle so it’s up to you for
that one your second question was about
half hour or half an hour this kind of
depends a little bit on the person and
it depends on the grammar of the
sentence so for example if you said
something like this should take about a
half hour that’s probably pretty normal
in most cases but it’s maybe not
grammatically correct you might hear
people say that if you ask how long will
this take someone might respond
probably a half hour but if you want to
be super grammatically correct you could
say this will take about a half an hour
so it’s sort of up to you with this one
in a lot of cases you might hear that
half hour used but if you’re ever not
sure i would recommend using half an
hour
in your text and in your speech so i
hope that this answers your questions
thanks very much all right on to the
next one next is from sbs hello sbs sbs
says how do i study english with your
playlists i can’t seem to find a grammar
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on to your next question next is from
tin tin finn from vietnam hi tin i hope
you said your name right uh tin says hi
alicia i’m from vietnam i want to know
the difference between do you mind and
would you mind okay great question do
you mind versus would you mind a lot of
it can depend on the tone of voice but
generally speaking we use do you mind if
we’re a little bit irritated with
someone or we can use do you mind if
we’re a little irritated with someone
for example someone is typing very very
noisily when we’re trying to talk to
someone on the phone we might say do you
mind typing a little slower if you want
to make it sound a little more polite
you could say would you mind typing a
little bit slower but if we want to
communicate that feeling of irritation
or annoyance we would probably say do
you mind doing this if you want to sound
really aggressive you can just say
angrily do you mind but that sounds
quite direct so hopefully you don’t need
to use that so do you mind is a way to
ask someone to do something like do you
mind helping me with this or do you mind
stopping that activity for me it feels a
little bit more direct to use do you
mind
when you use would you mind it sounds a
little more polite in my opinion uh it
sounds like something you would use for
a request more like would you mind
helping me with this or would you mind
doing this for me so that sounds a
little bit more like a polite kind
thoughtful request i would use do you
mind if i want to express a little bit
of anger or a little bit of irritation
with someone you might hear people use
them
interchangeably but i would suggest you
pay attention to the tone of voice they
use when they use this expression either
expression that will give you a good
hint if you’re not sure all right thanks
very much for your question let’s move
on to the next one next one is from
jefferson hi jefferson jefferson says
what is the difference between these me
myself him himself you yourself her
herself and it itself good question a
little grammar review so let’s look at
uh me and myself just to choose one for
an example we use me as the object of a
verb right like you hit me for example
we use myself when we’re talking
reflexively about something so what does
that mean when we’re talking reflexively
or when we’re using a verb reflexively
it means that the subject is also the
object of the verb so i used hit in my
example sentence like you hit me or
something like that if i want to make
this sentence a reflexive sentence or if
i want to use hit reflexively i would
say i hit myself i would not say i hit
me so in cases where your subject is
also the object of the verb you need to
use this reflexive pronoun so itself
himself herself we could use the same
pattern if we want to change the subject
for example he hit himself she hit
herself we would not say he hit him
that’s a totally different sentence that
means there are two people involved one
person hits another male person he hit
him so the point is these myself himself
herself these words these are called
reflexive pronouns and we use them when
the subject and the object of the verb
are the same so i hope that this helps
you thanks very much for the question
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