Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 445. .
The title of today's lesson is the difference between
fee, charge and fare. Okay. Now there is some crossover between
fee and charge. Fare is pretty clear. It's separate it's mostly to do with
transportation. All right. Let's start. Let's take a look
at the note here. A fee is a type of charge
that must be paid in order to be allowed to do something,
such as an entrance fee, registration fee, etc. Yes. So you're paying to be
allowed to enter a place or you're paying to be allowed
to, to register. So you're paying that. So it's an
entrance fee or registration fee. We also use the word fee
for professional services, such as lawyers. So we say lawyers fees.
We definitely do not say lawyers charges. We say lawyers fees.
Doctors fees, consultants fees, tutors fees etc. Yeah. We don't use
charges for any of those. The word fees is also used for some
regular payments to schools or institutions,
for example like tuition fees. Yeah. We don't say tuition charges. We usually say
tuition fees. Let's continue. A charge is an amount
of money that you must pay for a service. Okay or installation and some
items. So yeah. So you what, you what is the charge to install that ? Or so what
are the installation charges ? We don't usually say
installation fees Okay. All right and all right. Let's.
so let's continue here. Note we say shipping fee, but we say delivery charges.
Okay. So what's the difference ? I , I think we're a little more likely to use
shipping fee, if you actually use a real mailing service like if you sent
something through the post office or UPS or DHL. You're probably a little
more likely to say the word shipping fees. Delivery charges,
maybe there's a trucking company that delivers it or maybe you buy from
you know, one of these big, big box (chain ) stores like maybe you buy from IKEA or
something. and they deliver something for you. Then
they that'll be a delivery charge. They have a truck that comes and
they deliver it themselves or they hire another company to deliver
it for you, but it's not the usual like a
you know, regular shipping company. All right. Entrance
fee or charge of admission ? Yeah so we
definitely say entrance fee. We don't say entrance charge. All right.
But we do say sometimes charge of admission. It's a little more formal but
you might hear that. How much is the charge of admission ?
You could hear that. That's okay. But you, you don't say fee of admission.
So these are just two different ways of saying the same thing here.
So this is a little bit of ... kind of a little bit of a crossover.
All right. We often say something is free of charge. Meaning no cost you know,
so do I have to pay for you know, shipping ? Maybe you might say
that's free of charge. You don't have to pay
or you might say that there are no fees for something too. (Free shipping)
All right. But we don't we don't say free of fees. That would be weird.
All right. Let's continue. All right. Here's some examples where we use... where
some students might get it wrong and you know where we should use the other word.
So if you order from the Internet, there will be a delivery fee.
No. We don't (say )delivery fee . It sounds weird. We don't say that.
There will be a ... there will be a delivery charge.
Maybe depending upon how it's being shipped or there will be
shipping fees. You could say that too. Okay.
Or again with the X, this is wrong. What is the fee for that doughnut ?
You should never say fee for a doughnut. To be honest the most common thing we might
say is what is the price of that doughnut ? You know, how much is
that doughnut ? What is the cost of that doughnut ? You
might use you know, phrases like that or terms like
that. All right. Let's continue. What is uh the entrance charge ? So again
here remember, we say entrance fee. Okay. How much are the lawyers' charges ? No. Of
course these are lawyers. These are very professional
people. They usually have fees. So how much
are the lawyers' fees ? So the one with the check that would be correct.
Or again the X is wrong. If you order a meal in a restaurant , you must pay a
service fee. No. It's definitely service charge. So I
like to do with the tipping where, where you, you don't just leave the tip
the restaurant automatically makes you pay for the service. Then
that would be a service charge. Not a service fee. Let's continue.
All right. Here we and we just know that a fare is , a fare is money that you
pay for a trip. So you know, somebody might say here with
the X. how much is that taxi fee ? No we don't say taxi
fee . We say taxi fare. You know, taxi fare,
bus fare, plane fare, train fare. We use them all for that. Okay. Anyway,
I hope you got it. I hope this helped, so that you could
clearly see some differences of way we might use it
in one situation or another. I hope it was useful. Thank you for your time.
Bye-bye.