Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 411. The title of today's lesson is the
difference between miss and lose. Yeah. I heard this one come up a lot in class.
All right. So let's , let's take a look at the note here. First you know, if we say
miss, miss basically needs to fail to notice something. That's the one that
you'll really have to compare to lose. Now I'm giving you the second meaning
here because sometimes if you use miss wrong, it might be understood as the
second one, which means to feel sad that someone is not with you. Okay. Now if we
say to lose it means to be unable to find something. So it is a little similar
to fail to notice something or be able to unable to find it, but we use them
very differently in English. So let's look at the first example again with the
X. This would be wrong. So if somebody said this. Did you miss your train pass ?
No. We wouldn't say that we would say did you lose your train pass ? Miss in
this sense because it's not used correctly, actually would have almost
to a foreigner it would have more the second meaning here. It would did I miss
it ? You mean did you feel sad that I wasn't
with my train pass ? So it wouldn't really make sense. It would almost be a little funny
in a way. So we say here did you miss your train pass ? Of course, that's wrong.
You should say did you lose your train pass ? Were you unable to find it ?
It's not like you fail to notice it. You just can't find it. Okay. Let's look at
the next one here. Did you miss your umbrella ? You don't have it anymore. So this
would be wrong again. This is the same situation here , if you say did you miss your
umbrella ? Meaning e like do you feel bad that you're ... you don't have your umbrella
anymore ? You should be saying did you lose your umbrella ? Maybe you were out
with somebody and they noticed that at the beginning of the day you had your
umbrella . Now Oh what happened to your umbrella ? It's gone.
Did you lose your umbrella ? You know, that's what you might say to someone. You
wouldn't say did you miss your umbrella? Oh Okay good.
Let's look at the next one. You missed a vocabulary word. All right.
Now this one's a little bit more questionable. This comes up in class a
lot because you know I often will cover you know, articles and I go over a lot of
vocabulary words. And once in a while you get busy and you know, maybe you go past
one. So I don't know could you say you've missed a vocabulary word ? Maybe. But these two
down here would be better. You should really say you skipped a
vocabulary word. That would be the best or you forgot to explain one vocabulary
word or you forgot to cover one vocabulary word. That'd be good too. You
definitely do not say you lost a vocabulary word. You didn't lose it.
The first one is more questionable you didn't really miss it . You had seen it
but maybe got busy and you didn't realize that you didn't cover it. So skip
is really better in this sense because that's usually the situation. You maybe
get distracted with other questions maybe you thought you covered it already.
It's not like you didn't notice it. You knew it was there, but you got busy you
got distracted. It's more like you skipped a vocabulary word or again you
forgot to cover a vocabulary word. Those would be the better ways of saying it . Okay.
And here I'm just giving you an example of you know a very good use of miss. Like
if you are an editor. I've done that before I was an editor for an English
magazine before and if you if somebody said to you missed a couple of errors,
like you were checking or trying to catch all the errors . Somebody said. You missed
one. I found these couple you you checked it already but you didn't catch
these. So you missed them. So that really means you failed to notice them. That's a
good use of it. So you missed a couple of errors.
The second proofreader because usually in these magazines, it is better to have
several proof readers just in case somebody misses something, the backup
one may catch it. You know, because maybe different people just spot things better
so it's better to have several editors or several proof readers to make sure
you know, you miss as little as possible. So the second proofreader caught them . So that
would be a good use of miss. Okay . Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. I hope
you found it informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.