Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 386. The title of today's lesson is the
difference between overtime as a single word and over time as two words. Now
really over time is a single word but sometimes you get the connection of the
word over and time together, so a lot of times especially students in ESL
sometimes might get confused about this. So anyway let's take a look at you know
over time as and now first. Let's look at the note here. Overtime as a noun has
three meanings and uses. The first one is the extra hours that a person works at their
job, especially if one is paid by the hour
Yeah. If you don't get paid by the hour... if you get paid monthly you might not
get paid more for the overtime that you're putting in. Or I guess technically
you are putting in the overtime. You know, if your boss asks you to stay later
but again you may not see a difference in your paycheck. If you're paid by the
hour, you definitely will. Okay. All right. So let's look a couple of examples here.
All this overtime is wearing me out. Well you could say that. Meaning all
those hours, those extra hours you are working. Maybe it's making the person
really tired. Maybe it's the busy season. Maybe the
boss still wants it to work all those time, all that time. All right. Number two
here. The second one I've put in a lot of overtime this week. So again this is in
reference to the hours. Again still a single word. All right.
Overtime pays time-and-a-half. Usually in the US. that's the way that you do it.
So whatever your full-time is ... your full, your regular pay, you get an extra half.
So I think in the US if you work over 40 hours a week. Let's say for example,
you earn $10 an hour, so every hour over 40 hours usually it will earn
time-and-a-half. So you'll actually earn $15 an hour for every hour that's above
the normal 40 hours. That's what they mean.
Okay. Let's look at the second meaning as a noun. The money that a person is paid
for the extra hours that one works. Okay, good. So I earned a lot of overtime this
week so in this way you really refer to the money you're getting for it. Or
number 2. The second one we have here. The extra overtime I did this week
should add a lot to my paycheck. Okay. So all of these so far is over coming as a
single word. And the third example here. The period of time in which play
continues if you know two teams or players are tied at the end of the usual
time for the game. Yeah, especially games that run on a clock. So we, we don't
usually say this in baseball for example. That doesn't run by a clock. You would
say extra innings. You don't say baseball is going into overtime. You say baseball
is going into extra innings. But other sports, where they do run by clock it's
like set. This is the time. It's supposed to end and if right at that moment that
it ends, the the two teams just happen to be tied, they might have to go into
overtime to decide a winner. So in that case again we still use overtime is a
single word. Okay. And just a few examples. Because there was a tie we had to go
into overtime. Okay. Or that basketball game went into overtime. So any sort of...
again any sort of sport or competition that runs by clock and you know, if they
allow it to go later than that to break a tie, then that is they're
going into overtime. Okay. Now we do have one use of overtime here as an adverb
too. So we often hear that I have to work overtime. So here it's modifying work. I
have to work overtime, but it's still a single word today. So I have to work
overtime today. All right. Now finally we get to over time as two words.
So if we see over time as two words, it simply means as the time passes or as
the time had passed. You know of course if it's already in the past tense.
So over time his skills improved as he practiced. So as time passed his skills
were ... So in this case, over time is two words. As the time goes
by. The traction on your tires will wear out over time. So as the time goes by the
traction you know, the rubber on the bottom of the tires will wear out. Okay
Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.