Trip or Travel Cost or Price Seems Good or Sounds Good
hi everybody and welcome back to ask
Alicia the weekly series where you ask
me questions and I answer them
maybe first question this week comes
from nerd on Emma net again nerd on nerd
on says hi Alicia what is the difference
between cost and price are they being
used as nouns are they being used as
verbs they have some different
grammatical functions that’s one
generally speaking
both words can be used to refer to the
value of something the car’s price is
$15,000 the agent priced the car at
$15,000 the car costs $15,000 the cost
of the car is $15,000 so all of these
example sentences show the value of an
item in this case a car so when you’re
shopping for something cost and price
will mean something like this usually
referring to the value of an item
however if you’re talking about
something like running a business or
maybe even like in sports or something
competitive cost as a noun or as a verb
refers to the time or money or other
resources required in order to do
something else some examples
the project cost us $5,000 his mistake
cost us three days so these sentences
mean that $5,000 was required to do the
project in the second example sentence a
mistake required three days to fix so
this use of cost can refer to effort or
resources required in order to do
something when you yourself are buying
something price and cost generally mean
the same thing we tend to use price more
in terms of a noun or we’ll use cost
more when we’re using it as a verb like
this bag costs $10 or the price is $10
to make it even simpler what we tend to
say the most is just it’s $10 or it’s 10
bucks I hope that helps you thanks for
the question next question comes from
Tom our van Gogh high tomorrow Mr says
hi Alicia thanks for the videos I have
question about the sentence it’s a rap
when can I use this sentence it’s a rap
is used when you conclude something when
you finish something this is an
expression that’s usually used in movies
and in TV when the event or when the job
has finished the person in charge might
say it’s a rap it’s a rap tells everyone
else in the organization or everyone
else in the event the job is finished
everything is done you can go home now
so you’ll use this at the end of an
event or at the end of a job
typically hope that helps you thanks for
the question next question comes from
mohammed al daily heigen Mohammed
Mohammed says hi Alicia I want to ask
about the difference between training
and exercise and can we use them in one
sentence together yeah both words can be
used to talk about sports or going to
the gym that kind of physical body
related practice training tends to be
used when we have a specific goal in
mind there’s something we are hoping to
achieve examples he’s training for a
marathon
she started strength training last month
exercise is more general it’s like a
habit or a hobby maybe we don’t have a
specific goal in mind but we do it in
order to keep our body in good shape
some examples I try to exercise 3 times
a week
he likes to exercise in the morning so
to put them together in one sentence for
example I wasn’t getting enough exercise
so I registered for a 5k run and started
training hope that helps you thanks for
the question next question comes from ro
hula hula hula hula says what’s the
difference between trip and travel yeah
common question very common mistake when
you’re talking about going to another
place the word trip should be used only
as a noun so let’s look at some examples
I took a trip to Europe last year I
might take an international trip this
autumn travel is generally used as a
verb though it can be used as a noun it
refers to going to another place it
sounds a little bit more formal than go
examples I traveled to Europe last year
I might travel somewhere outside the
country this autumn
the trip has a verb form but the word
trip as a verb means to make a mistake
while walking so it’s like you’re
walking along and there’s a rock or
something here and you make a mistake
like you misstep and maybe fall down
that’s to trip so when you say for
example I tripped to another city it
means this kind of walking was used to
travel to that city it’s grammatically
correct but totally wrong the meaning is
totally wrong so please use I took a
trip or I’ve traveled to to prevent this
completely if this is confusing for you
most native speakers will not use travel
we will actually just use went in the
past tense past tense of go I went to
another city I went to this country so
if you ever have like doubts about which
word you should use just use went hope
that helps you thanks for the question
the next question comes from Yuka hi
Yuka Yuka says what is the difference
between that and it for example that’s
awesome and it’s awesome a distance from
the speaker that’s awesome tends to be
used for something the speaker here’s
examples good news from a friend that’s
awesome an exciting item on a restaurant
menu that’s awesome an amazing moment in
a sporting match on TV that’s awesome
it’s awesome tends to be used for
something the speaker is familiar with
the speaker knows about that thing and
the speaker wants to express his or her
opinion about that examples my job is
going well it’s awesome
I have a nice new place to live it’s
awesome I’m visiting a new city and
telling my friends about it it’s awesome
that tends to be for things outside us
or distant from us it is sort of our
expression of our own opinion this is
not a perfect rule but it’s a general
guideline so I hope that that helps you
thanks very much for the question next
question comes from Mohammed hi Mohammed
Mohammed says hi Alicia been watching
your videos for a long time thank you
I’m wondering about the difference
between sound and seemed like when
someone comes up with a good idea
suggestion we say it sounds good or that
seems good when
you seem and sound yes I talked about
this in a previous ask Alicia video you
can check that video for a few more
examples we use sound for information we
get with our ears so something that we
hear from someone else or information
general information that we collect with
our ears we use sound or it sounds to
talk about that examples an invitation
for dinner sounds good
your coworker has a bad cough he doesn’t
sound good a vacation to the mountains
sounds good we use seams for things that
we cannot quickly confirm or we cannot
quickly verify like we use it for
something that has like a nice
appearance or maybe there’s something
that gives us the impression it is good
or bad or whatever adjective but we need
some more information to confirm that we
use seams in these cases examples an
interesting job offer hmm seems good you
find a low price on an airplane ticket
that seems good you find an error in a
document mmm this doesn’t seem right
this is just a general guide it’s not a
perfect rule but I hope that this is
something that can help you make better
decisions when it comes time to choose
one of these words so I hope that that
helps you thanks very much for the
question alright that’s everything that
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