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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 phrasal verbs for
business so let's go
step up
the first phrasal verb is step up step
up means to move up or to level up
usually to some kind of new challenging
position or to a challenging project so
i want to step up and do more for my
company or i want to step up and take on
this project there's a nuance of a
challenge a move upward a promotion
perhaps and new challenges new
responsibilities so in a sentence the
new ceo really stepped up on this
project great
step down
the next word is the opposite step down
to step down often means to resign or to
quit one's job especially at the higher
levels of business so a ceo might step
down from his position or her position
if they've made a big mistake or if the
company has had problems
so sometimes this can mean resign
sometimes this means just moving to a
lower position in the company you can
you'll have to look into the specifics
of the situation to figure out exactly
the meaning but step down means to go to
a position of lower responsibility so in
a sentence following multiple serious
mistakes the government official stepped
down
measure up
the next expression is measure up
measure up is a word or a phrasal verb
that we use to mean compare
we say how does something measure up or
does this measure up to meaning
is item a
equal to item b
is item a better than item b this is a
question or a word that we use to ask
how one thing compares to another thing
so like how does candidate a measure up
to candidate b
is a question of comparison between
these two these two items or does this
project measure up to our past work in
other words is this project equal to or
is it comparable to our past works so
measure up is used when comparing two
things so in a sentence how does the new
plan measure up to our past ideas
step aside
the next expression we've talked about
step up step down now we'll talk about
step aside so step aside means to move
out of the way it doesn't mean
necessarily to move up in in position or
to move down in position but step aside
means
just temporarily to remove someone or to
remove yourself from a situation so uh
you can use this not just in business
but uh maybe in a very crowded space
like let's step aside and have this
discussion you can use that in a
business meeting as well to step aside
is to remove yourself from a main group
or from one situation go away from that
situation temporarily
that's how we use step aside so in a
sentence the company feels you should
step aside like please move away from
this project
swoop in
the next expression is swoop in swoop in
so we use swoop uh for example with
birds uh we could say the birds swooped
in but in a business situation it's
somebody usually someone a person or
maybe a team that
suddenly joins the company or suddenly
joins a project and maybe makes a lot of
changes so for example a consulting firm
might swoop in to a situation or might
swoop into a project or maybe the boss
swooped into the meeting and made a lot
of changes so these uh these sentences
these are situations where something
suddenly happens by a one person or by a
group of people in another sentence the
consultant swooped in and changed around
our entire organization
shake up
the next phrasal verb is shake up shake
up means to
make a lot of changes at one time or to
maybe change an atmosphere or to change
a company feeling
this can also be applied to situations
outside of work like maybe art for
example
other industries manufacturing industry
it means to make changes for so one
person or one group makes changes so you
could say for example apple shook up the
smartphone industry when it introduced
the iphone so it means to make changes
or to bring about new change in a
sentence she really shook up our
department with her innovative ideas
come online
uh the next expression is come online
come online so this is interesting of
course you're watching this video
presumably probably on the internet
online right now but the expression come
online means become able to use
something usually publicly or at least
within your company
so when a new project comes online it
means it's it's now available it can be
used or it can be purchased
we typically use this expression for
some kind of service so for example a
web platform or
an application or something that other
people can use so come online means
become available come online means
become available in a sentence then our
new service is going to come online at
the end of the month
expand into
the next expression is expand into
expand into so we can use expand into to
mean moving
more or moving to another place or to
another industry
with your business operations
so we can use perhaps a country or a
region after this expression or we can
use an industry name after this
expression so you can say we want to
expand into china we want to expand into
japan with our business or you can say
we want to expand into the electronics
industry we want to expand into the
service industry expanding uh into
something talks about the direction you
want your company to move in expand into
so in a sentence we'd like to expand
into some other markets
to bring about
the next expression is to bring about to
bring about means to make something
happen to cause something to happen we
often use this to talk about change it
can be positive or it can be negative i
feel i tend to use this more in a
positive situation but that might just
be me
so to bring about means to cause
something or yet to make something
happen in a sentence don't you think we
should try to bring about change in our
company
take on
the next expression is take on so take
on if you if you can kind of make a
visual with this phrasal verb you can
take something and attach it to yourself
to take on something but this thing
you're taking is responsibility
uh so to take on something uh has the
nuance of a challenge or a new
responsibility
it's something that is generally seen as
positive but perhaps could be maybe a
lot of new work or a big new project for
example uh so i might say i want to take
on some new projects this year or you
could use it outside of business like in
a kind of aggressive situation like like
i tried to take on a really big guy at
the club but he punched me so
you could use this too but it has the
nuance of challenge every every time you
use it so in a different sentence i was
asked to take on more responsibilities
at the office
oh that's the end so those are 10
phrasal verbs for business i hope that
those are useful for you
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 crime related
words so let's begin
suspect
the first word is suspect suspect as a
noun please be careful not the verb form
to suspect though we can use that
suspect and suspect have slightly
different pronunciations as a noun
suspect means a person who may or may
not
have committed a crime may or may not
have done something bad to suspect
someone means to be suspicious to think
they may or may not have done something
so please be careful depending on the
grammar
suspect and suspect have different
pronunciations despite the same spelling
so suspect in a sentence the suspect was
seen running away from the scene
criminal the next expression is criminal
so a criminal is a person who is
convicted of a crime so to put that more
simply a criminal is a person who has
been determined to have done something
against the law they have done something
bad it has been decided
by a court of law or the governing body
so a criminal has indeed yes
been found guilty an expression we'll
talk about later so a criminal is
someone we know has committed a crime in
a sentence they arrested the criminal on
wednesday
victim the next expression is victim
victim a victim is a person who suffers
because of a crime or because of a
natural disaster also we can use victims
for natural disasters and for crime so
they are innocent they are they've had
no reason to be affected uh they're just
maybe the wrong place the wrong time uh
either way they are well i shouldn't say
innocent but they are the person who
suffers in this situation a victim is
the person who suffers in this situation
in a sentence the victim was an elderly
woman
guilty so the next expression is guilty
he is guilty of blah blah blah crime or
he was found guilty of blah blah blah
crime the nuance of guilty is having
done something bad so if you are guilty
of a crime it means you have done that
crime
but someone can look guilty we can use
guilty as an adjective to talk about the
way someone looks so guilty in a court
or guilty in discussing a criminal case
can mean
he or she did the crime he is guilty she
is guilty however we can say he looks
guilty or the dog looks guilty that
means that that person or that object or
that animal looks like they did
something bad but we don't know for sure
so guilty means has the nuance of doing
something bad
in a sentence you look very guilty
not guilty okay so on the other hand not
guilty
not guilty is the verdict so verdict is
the word used for decision in criminal
cases not guilty means uh not doing the
crime the crime was not done by that
person so a person who is found or
determined not guilty means they did not
do the crime or it's been decided that
that person did not do the crime they
are not guilty
okay in a sentence he was found not
guilty of the crime to plead to plead so
to plead is similar to to beg so to
plead means to humbly request something
it's this this is the image of pleading
like your hands together hoping very
much for something asking very humbly
for something but this is the verb that
we use in court cases in criminal cases
so we'll say
i want to plead not guilty for the crime
of blah blah blah so to plead uh means
to request consideration for something
so i want to plead not guilty means i
want to request
you the court the judge whoever my
community you find me you consider me
not guilty i did not do the crime so
but we use instead of that very long
expression we say i plead not guilty
this is a much easier way to express
that situation of course you can plead
guilty to a crime too in some cases so
he plead this is past tense to plead
changes to plead he pled guilty to the
crime of manslaughter for example
so in a sentence
the defendant pled not guilty
murder homicide so the next expression
uh i have murder and homicide here so
murder and homicide if you watch police
shows or if you watch you know movies
dramas which use uh like police and
fbi and so on you might have heard these
words but what's the difference so
murder and homicide are used to mean the
same thing it means killing another
person with intention so to murder
someone else means to kill another
person and with intention there's a plan
to do it homicide is the word that is
used in legal terminology or in forensic
forensic meaning analysis of bodies
analysis of like blood for example of
bacteria so kind of
scientific analysis of a crime scene
so in those cases in the investigation
side and in the legal side they might
use the word homicide perhaps more
you might also hear homicide in news but
in everyday conversation
murder is perhaps more common so
the defendant was convicted of murder
the defendant was found guilty of murder
in a sentence she was found guilty of
murder manslaughter all right so another
expression manslaughter this is an
interesting word so manslaughter you can
see the word slaughter is there so
slaughter refers to killing something we
use slaughter uh in many cases to refer
to slaughter houses where cattle are
killed like pigs and cows for example
so it has the image of like brutally
killing however manslaughter refers to
an accidental killing so for example
driving in a car and just through some
strange accident
maybe a person
is hit by the car and they die but there
was no intention on the part of the
driver there was no plan there it was an
accident a terrible terrible accident in
those cases the word manslaughter is
applied
meaning an accidental death so in a
sentence this is a case of manslaughter
jury the next expression is jury jury
you may or may not have a jury system in
your country in the u.s jury system
there's a jury of your peers so peers
are people in your community people in
theory who are similar to you in some
way so a jury is a group of people who
makes a decision about a court case you
often have to give a presentation to a
jury so
yeah you might see these uh juries that
is in movies and in tv shows about crime
as well
in a sentence the jury was divided on
the case meaning the jury did not know
how to vote yes or no guilty
judge
the next expression is judge judge so
uh again your country may or may not
have something similar but a judge is
kind of uh if you if you've watched like
u.s crime shows or whatever you might
have seen these people they're
men and women who wear like these big
black robes usually and they sit high in
courtrooms above the other people
usually we also have in the u.s the
supreme court the supreme court is our
well supreme meaning most high the best
the highest level the supreme court
where we have uh what we call justices
but those those are essentially like
they are uh judges really they're the
highest level of judge in the u.s
so they have a special word justice but
they are judges so they make decisions
based on the law based on uh the legal
rules of the country or or of the city
or of the location where you are a judge
does that so in a sentence the judge had
a tough decision to make no oh that's
the end all right uh so those are ten
crime related words i hope that those
are useful for you keep an eye out for
these or keep an ear out for these
rather you might hear them in tv shows
and movies in the news as well if you
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soon bye hi everybody and welcome back
to top words my name is alicia and today
we're going to talk about
10 phrasal verbs for talking about
vehicles let's go the first phrasal verb
first phrasal verb is pull in pull in so
pull in is used usually when you're
driving very slowly we usually use it
for a parking lot so we'll use it in an
expression like pull into that space or
pull in over there in this sentence pull
into that space over there it means
usually to slowly move your car
into a space into a parking space or
maybe into a garage you're going into
something usually very slowly so pull in
over here pull in over there pull into
that parking lot pull into that driveway
for example so slowly move in to another
place we use the phrasal verb pull in
for that the next phrasal verb is pull
up pull up in this sentence i'll pull
the car up in front of the hotel we
usually use this when we want to slowly
drive and then stop at a location so for
example at a stop stoplight we would say
pull up to the stoplight so it means to
slowly drive to a place and then stop so
pull up next to the mailbox or pull up
next to my house pull up over there
means slowly drive and then stop at that
place is pull up that's how we use pull
up the next expression is back up back
up so back means reverse to back up a
car is to move a car slowly in reverse
so usually in most cases we drive cars
going forward but you sometimes need to
move your car in the opposite direction
back up out of the driveway for example
it means to go slowly in reverse to back
up in this sentence the truck backed up
until it touched the loading dock the
next expression we talked about pull in
now we have back in back in
so pull in means to drive forward into
something back in means to slowly go
backward into something usually a
parking space or a garage or something
so back in is going rev in reverse pull
in is going forward as usual so in a
sentence back into the parking space the
next expression is roll down roll down
this might be a little bit of an
outdated expression at this point in
time but prior to the use of automatic
windows usually now i think most cars
have a button and the window will
automatically roll down but we used to
have a manual a hand crank in
in cars to roll down windows so this
motion which was used to move the window
that was the that was also the verb we
used we use roll so this motion is like
roll and then the window comes down so
we combined the two to say roll down the
window in a sentence roll down your
window it's hot in here the next
expression is head up and head down
these are very common expressions when
you are trying to navigate in a city you
don't have to use these only in cars you
can use them when you're walking or
traveling on foot as well on bicycle
whatever you can use head up and head
down any time you are trying to go
somewhere so head up and head down
really just mean go so i could say like
head up the street until you see a
starbucks and then turn right generally
though the difference between up and
down here it has kind of like a north
and south at least in english it has a
north-south sort of feel so if for
example i'm talking about um well the
west coast of the usa seattle is in the
north and los angeles is in the south i
would say i'm heading down i'm going to
head down to los angeles from seattle or
i'm going to head up to seattle from los
angeles it sounds really strange if i
say head up to los angeles because
los angeles is south of seattle so
when you're thinking when you're
speaking geographically when you're
speaking in terms of north and south for
places it's better to use head up or
head down depending on the location
you're talking about coming from let's
see in this sentence head down this
street for a while
the next expression is run over run over
this is a this is a word that we use uh
when in a car let's say you're driving
your car and then an animal comes out in
front of the car but you continue going
we say you are going to run over so to
run in this case is not a human running
but a car running so the car is running
is going is continuing over something
else so we can say like don't run over
any animals or be careful not to run
over your brother in the example
sentence i think you ran over a squirrel
true story my little brother once ran
over me in a golf cart that is true my
brother and i were playing one time and
my grandparents had a golf cart and my
brother and i were outside running
around we were playing like a james bond
like kind of spy game like we're like
okay i'm gonna drive the golf cart and
you have to run alongside and jump in
and i was like okay but i tried to jump
i don't know i got nervous but it was it
wasn't really going that fast but like
somehow things went wrong and i fell
down or maybe i tripped or something
like that when i was running i fell down
and he just he ran over me
in the golf cart like ran over my leg
just drove right over my leg and i was
like
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we got in big trouble i was fine yeah no
i died uh the next word is pull over so
pull over means
usually you are driving in the car and
you want to make a stop so usually we
use this like on the side of the road or
in a place where you wouldn't usually
stop or in kind of a strange not
necessarily strange but maybe not a
typical place to stop a car so for
example if there's like a bee in the car
and you're like i need to get this bee
out of my car you can pull over to the
side of the road we usually use it like
pull over to the side of the road and
you know do what you need to do or maybe
you need to pull over at a rest stop
pull over at a bathroom essentially okay
so in a sentence pull over at the next
rest stop yeah so pull over is also used
by the police as well as like a command
it's a it's a temporary situation so the
police are going to stop you they say
pull over to the side of the road and
then you have to move your car to the
side of the road where it's safe and
they talk to you and then you can
continue down the road after you've
finished speaking to them police will
use it as a command the next phrasal
verb is pull out pull out so for example
when you are
coming out of a parking space for
example you can say like pull out of
this parking space and turn left it
means like to exit something slowly so
to pull out of a parking space or to
pull out into traffic so turning from
one one lane to another maybe busier
lane the image is going kind of slowly
and then picking up the pace somewhere
else so to pull out into is another
common expression pull out into traffic
or pull out of a space and turn left or
pull out of the driveway for example in
this example sentence a super slow truck
pulled out in front of us on the
mountain road
the next expression is get on get on we
use get on usually for large roads so a
highway or a major street uh usually the
traffic is moving very quickly we say
get on the highway get on the
five so like in the u.s lots of highways
major roads are labeled with numbers so
like california one a big state highway
is the number five highway the five so
you could say like get on the five at
the next exit or get on the five at the
street for example so to get on means
like to to join with your car
that uh major road in a sentence get on
the highway here okay so that's the end
those are 10 phrasal verbs for talking
about vehicles i hope that those were
useful and some of these phrasal verbs
you can use in situations other than
cars and automobiles uh so if you have
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to know your verbs my name is alicia and
in this episode we're going to talk
about the verb die
okay let's begin with the basic
definition of this verb the basic
definition of the verb die is to stop
living or to stop existing examples
she died yesterday
doctors say he might die within a year
let's look at the conjugations for this
verb
present die
dies
past
died
past participle died
progressive
dying
so now let's talk about some additional
meanings for this verb the first
additional meaning for this lesson is to
disappear gradually some examples the
noise died down a short while after the
concert ended
my interest in eating meat died after i
watched a documentary so in both of
these examples something gradually
decreased in the first example sentence
after a concert ended the noise died
down so actually we can say died down to
like it sounds like it it was up here
like because we're using the word down
there it sounds like the volume was up
here maybe and it gradually came down so
the noise died is okay like the noise
died after but the noise died down
sounds even more gradual so this is sort
of like an extra variation on this
meaning in the second example sentence
we saw my interest in eating meat died
after i watched the documentary so it's
like oh i saw this documentary and my
desire to eat meat went down quickly
like it died it stopped it ceased uh so
that sounds like so no i saw this
documentary and i was done wanting to
eat meat so it kind of means to go away
or to disappear so especially with down
like to die down that sounds extra
gradual okay good let's talk about the
next one okay so the second additional
meaning for today's lesson is to stop
working like a machine or computer
examples my car is dying on the side of
the road oh no my phone battery died oh
no i have a graphic for this
oh no
my phone battery died
that's not true
okay
all right anyway so so in both of these
examples we used dye to mean that some
machine or some device stopped working
usually because it ran out of power or
because there's some technical
malfunction so in the first example my
car is dying on the side of the road
there could be
a number of reasons why the car is dying
maybe it's out of gas maybe there's like
a technical problem
maybe it's just i don't know something
else has gone wrong we don't know but
for whatever reason the car is not
moving or the car is not functioning
correctly so the car is dying on the
side of the road in the second example a
very common one oh no my phone battery
died in the past tense it means my phone
ran out of battery my phone ran out of
power out of energy so we say my phone
died we don't even need to say battery
just my phone died it's perfect that's a
very natural sentence oh no my phone
died so those are a couple additional
meanings excellent
now let's go on to some variations for
the verb die so the first variation i
want to talk about is to die of an
emotion or to die of a feeling so this
is an expression we use when we feel
that thing that emotion that sensation
very strongly so strongly we feel like
we could die of or we can also say die
from that thing examples
i could die of happiness
and i'm dying of hunger
so in the first example i could die of
happiness that's an example where we
could substitute of for from so i'm i
could die from happiness that's also
okay we could say i could die of
embarrassment or i could die from
embarrassment or sadness or loneliness
something like that
it's an emotion we feel so strongly we
feel like we could die because of it in
the second example sentence i use the
progressive i'm dying of hunger it means
i'm so hungry i feel like i could die
but i'm using the progressive tense
which means i feel this way now i'm
dying now because i'm so hungry dying of
hunger means at this moment you are
dying
well not literally but you are so hungry
you feel like you're dying i'm dying
all right let's go on to the next thing
so let's go on to the next variation the
next variation is to be dying to
verb so to be dying to do something
examples so to be dying to do something
means you have a very very strong desire
to do that thing you really really want
to do this thing so examples of that i'm
dying to see that movie he's dying to go
home so in both of these sentences you
see i'm using the infinitive form of the
verb after dying he's dying two she's
dying too i'm dying to do something we
need to use two plus the verb that's the
infinitive form of the verb so dying to
do that thing means the speaker or the
subject really really wants to do that
action that verb
so that's what it means to be dying to
do something you're not actually dying
it just means you have a strong desire
to do that thing
all right good so those are a few
variations a couple of additional
meanings i hope that you picked up some
new ways to use the verb die
if you have any questions or comments or
if you know a different way to use the
verb die or if you just would like to
try to make an example sentence please
feel free to do so in the comments
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die
dying to be
alive
yeah
that's a hanson song anybody listen to
hansen this is how i this is how i
express a strong desire to do something
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from sanju hi again sanju sanju says hey
alicia
how can i think fully in my target
language whenever i see you speaking
fluently i feel like i want to become
like you so how can i make my
communication like yours ah this is a
very common question and it requires
practice it requires regular practice so
this means you need to practice a little
bit
every day
where you can immerse yourself in the
language you're studying if you're
studying english try to use english as
much as possible in your day so if you
can try to make a time in your week or
in your day when you only speak english
or you only read english so try to read
english books watch english tv or movies
listen to music in english talk to
people in english where you can you need
to get used to using it in your everyday
life so that your brain gets used to
using it when you're just thinking about
things so this takes time absolutely you
need to practice and you need to give
yourself time every day and every week
to get used to doing this so practice
every day practice regularly of course
if you really want to practice speaking
like me you can mimic me you can shadow
me if you want but please keep in mind
as i've said on this channel before i'm
speaking in a way that's helpful for
learners so i'm trying to use very clear
pronunciation i'm trying to use kind of
simple grammar or grammar that's not
super complex
and i'm also not speaking in exactly the
same way that native speakers do in
everyday conversation so please remember
that the way i speak on this channel is
not necessarily the way that native
speakers talk in everyday life
that being said
if you want to use me for your shadowing
practice please feel free you won't have
any communication problems if you
practice speaking like me so i hope that
this helps you if you're interested
there are some other videos on the
channel that have lots of tips about how
to think in your target language and how
to get used to applying english in your
everyday life so definitely check those
out too okay i hope that this helps you
thanks very much for the question all
right let's move on to your next
question next question comes from
eric poshkov hi eric eric says what's
the difference between present perfect
and past perfect okay
present perfect is used one for general
life experience in the past at a
non-specific point in time this can be
an experience you had or an experience
you did not have so when the point in
time is not important we can use present
perfect to talk about that for example i
have been to france
i have never written a book we also use
present perfect tense to talk about
actions that started in the past and
continue to the present or the effects
of that action continue to the present
you'll see verbs used with progressive
tense in this case too so for example
have been plus the ing form of a verb we
also commonly use for and since to talk
about the entire length of time an
action has happened or has been
happening rather so for example
i have been speaking for about four
minutes or
he has been listening to me
since i started this video so this is a
common way that we use present perfect
tense past perfect on the other hand
refers to things that happened in the
past so we're not talking about the
relationship between the past and the
present we're talking about the
relationship between a past action and
some other past point
so for example i had been studying for
three hours when i fell asleep so in
that example sentence we see that there
was one past continuing action and a
second action that happened closer to
the present that interrupted the action
when i fell asleep so we can use past
perfect tense to show like sequences if
you're telling a story and there are two
points in your story that were in the
past you can use past perfect tense to
explain the thing that came first
then use simple past to explain the
thing that happened nearer to the
present as i did in this story as i also
mentioned in this example sentence if
you want to describe a past action that
was continuing and that was then
interrupted you can use this pattern
this past perfect to simple past tense
pattern so we use it for that we also
use it to talk about life experience
again so general life experience or no
life experience but at a past point in
time so for example uh by my 10th
birthday
i had saved 100
for example so by my 10th birthday is a
point in the past i'm obviously not 10
years old now so by my 10th birthday i
had saved that means up until that point
in time i had saved 100
so when we want to talk about past
experiences in relation to other past
points you can use the past perfect
tense
so you can find some other videos about
present perfect tense and soon about
past perfect tense on the channel soon
so i hope that you check those out for
some more information i hope that this
helps you too thanks very much for the
question all right let's move on to your
next question
next question comes from
hanas bayou hi hanas hana says what's
the difference between follow and
subscribe because they have the same
meaning okay
um for online media hubs like twitter
and facebook and youtube they have the
same feeling they have the same meaning
like you click the button and you
receive updates from that person or from
that company or whatever
in terms of kind of a more historical
meaning though the word subscribe was
and is used for regular publications so
for example we subscribe to a magazine
or we subscribe to a newspaper when you
subscribe to something there's an
expectation that you will receive that
thing on a regular basis on a regular
schedule so for example if you subscribe
to a monthly magazine you expect to
receive the magazine once a month that's
a subscription so this same word carries
over into youtube when we subscribe to
someone's channel we expect to see their
content we expect that when that person
creates something we are going to
receive it so in youtube's case this
means we have like you know a channels
you follow list or we see like something
in our email that says oh this channel
has posted a new video so subscribe in
this way means like you have some kind
of expectation of receiving something
somewhat regularly of course not
everyone on youtube posts regularly but
this is the idea
to follow however like with twitter or
with facebook or instagram um it's like
you're just waiting for updates from
that person maybe you're not expecting
to receive something on a regular basis
but if that person or that company or
brand or whatever chooses to share
something you're saying you want to have
the ability to quickly and easily check
that thing so this is why we don't
really use like subscribe for twitter or
subscribe on facebook or on instagram it
sounds more like a service for youtube
though it makes sense because it's like
we're getting something regularly many
people on youtube create content
regularly so subscribe is a better fit
in this case okay so i hope that this
helps answer your question thanks very
much for sending it along all right
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from abrar hi abrar abrar
says are like and seems the same word if
not what's the difference and how do we
use them thanks okay it depends on how
the words are used we can use both of
these words to share our opinion of
someone or something like in these
example sentences she seems nice she
seems like a nice person
notice how in the first example sentence
here we follow seems with an adjective
she seems nice
in the second example sentence she seems
like a nice person we're using like and
we need to follow this with a noun
phrase so a nice person is a noun phrase
when you're using like in this way you
need to follow like with a noun phrase
you can't use an adjective there as we
did with seams so we follow the same
rule when we're using like to make
comparisons for example
he eats like a pig
you look like my brother
so when we're making comparisons like
this we need to use a noun phrase after
the word like also we can use seems with
verbs for example
this seems to be the right answer
he seems to like hiking so another quick
point about the word seams is that we
use seam or seams when we want to make a
guess or share an opinion about
something but maybe we can't quickly
confirm so like she seems nice it's like
our opinion our quick opinion of that
person but maybe we don't know yet she
might not be a nice person we don't know
but when you want to make a quick guess
about something that you can't actually
check you can't really confirm you can
use seams to do that in the second
original example sentence i introduced
she seems like a nice person we're
combining seem with like there so she
seems like that means it's like you're
comparing this person she to a nice
person that's kind of the idea here so
she has the appearance or i guess she
seems as though she is a nice person so
this is an over complicated explanation
but think about using like when you want
to compare things think about using seem
when you want to maybe just share a
simple adjective or maybe when you want
to make a quick guess about someone so i
hope that this helps you thanks very
much for the question all right let's
move on to your next question next
question comes from junior hi junior
junior says hi alicia someone once said
to me you're neat and i was kind of
confused what does it mean
okay neat is kind of like a cute word or
a nice word that means cool or
interesting it sounds very casual very
friendly maybe a little bit childish we
would use neat in the same way as we use
cool but cool is a little bit rough neat
sounds kind of precious and nice and
childish a little bit so you can say
that someone's drawing is neat or that
someone is neat however there's a second
meaning of neat which means tidy or
organized so if someone like came to
your house and said wow you're neat like
to talk about the way that your house is
organized or like to comment about how
clean your space is it could have this
meaning so it depends how did the person
use the word when they were speaking to
you what was the situation so it can
mean cool great awesome nice or it can
mean tidy and organized some other
examples i saw that movie it was neat my
new computer is neat
your parents are really neat aren't they
okay so i hope that this helps answer
your question thanks very much
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