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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe first
question this week comes from saad hi
saad saad says hi alicia i want to know
the difference between all
every and each okay
this is a big topic i made a whiteboard
video about this recently and it will be
out on the channel eventually but here's
a quick introduction let's begin with
all
all means 100
of something so we use all when we're
talking about a group so many of
something and 100 we want to focus on
the group with all some examples all the
questions in this series come from
viewers all my family members live in
another country
we use every when we want to talk about
the parts of a whole we use this with
the singular form of a noun so some
examples every person in our class
passed the test
every member of our team received an
award so in these cases with every we
see that there are individual parts to a
larger whole two like a group and we
want to mention the individual parts yes
but in relationship to the whole we use
every to do this in the singular form
each then focuses on the individuals so
we're not focusing so much on a group
but we want to really focus on the
individual we can use each with the
singular form and with the plural form
of a noun examples she wears earrings on
each ear
each person in our group gave a
presentation
so another point with each is that we
use each when there's only two of
something if there's more than two you
can use every or maybe each depending on
the situation just make sure if there's
only two like ears for example or arms
or legs make sure to use each using all
or every will sound strange because
we're focusing on large numbers so
that's a quick introduction to the
differences between these words i hope
that that helps you and please watch for
the whiteboard video to come out soon
okay let's move on to your next question
next question comes from velena hi
velena velena says hi alicia i would
like to ask you about the difference
between no wonder and wondering and how
to use it in sentences okay let's start
with no wonder so no wonder means that's
why that's why so we use it when we kind
of solve a mystery sort of it's like a
small mystery like no wonder this
happened or no wonder something in the
past when we're wondering that's the
progressive tense of the word wonder it
means we're thinking about something
like there's something we're curious
about or something that we would like to
know
but wondering is kind of like light
thinking i guess you could say so i'm
wondering about my future maybe so it's
kind of you're dreaming or you're
imagining something perhaps he's out of
the country no wonder he didn't answer
my phone call
you're out of salt no wonder your food
tastes bland excuse me i'm wondering
where the restrooms are
i wonder what's going to happen next
week so in the last example sentence
there i used wonder in the present tense
meaning it's just something that i'm
thinking about for the future you could
say i'm wondering about next week that's
fine if you're actually doing it now
with someone but wondering refers to an
action happening now in this moment so i
hope that that helps you understand no
wonder and wondering thanks for the
question all right let's move on to your
next question next question comes from
sweet devil hi again sweet devil a sweet
devil says hi alicia my question how do
i pronounce these words in fast
connecting speech
of it
of her of his
okay um well first with the her and his
examples that h sound almost disappears
like it becomes very reduced of her and
of his i'll give some examples in a
moment with of it
the two kind of connect they make a v
sound patterns that might use something
like this are not so common in everyday
speech but these are a couple cases
where you might hear it your sandwich
looks delicious can you give me some of
it that was a great performance did you
make a recording of it so in these
examples you can hear of it becomes of
it of it did you make a recording of it
can i have some of it so it's like a v
sound there
let's move on to the other two with the
h sound whichever movies have you seen
pictures of her are really interesting
so here you can also hear that that h
sound becomes very very soft and we have
that same
sound with of pictures of her are really
interesting whichever movies have you
seen
the same thing happens with of his how
many of his books have you read
what do you think of his work
so we have that same v again with of and
the h sound is very very soft it's like
i'm just exhaling the sound of is of is
of ur as well of it so kind of a theme
here is that the f becomes a quick v
sound almost and we're sort of just
releasing air to make the h sound with
the his and her examples of it of her of
his so i hope that this helps you with
this pronunciation point thanks very
much for the question okay let's move on
to your next question next question
comes from
zohair hi zohair zohair says what is the
difference between persuading and
convincing great question yeah many
people use these interchangeably
but there is a key difference to
convince someone means to change
someone's mind to change someone's way
of thinking so it refers to giving
someone information with the intent of
changing the way that they think
to persuade however is giving someone
information or telling someone something
with the aim of causing them to take an
action so to convince is referring to
someone's thinking to convince someone
of an idea
to persuade someone is to cause them to
take an action like to persuade someone
to give you money for example so
convince ideas persuade actions some
examples we convinced my parents that we
were responsible enough to take the car
out for the night
i convinced my team of the importance of
social media
we persuaded management to buy us new
equipment i'm going to persuade my
parents to loan me a few hundred dollars
for a vacation
so here you can see convince is used to
talk about a way of understanding a way
of thinking persuade is used to talk
about getting someone to do an action to
take an action so i hope that this helps
you understand the difference thanks
very much for the question okay on to
your next question next question comes
from luis regiorri hi luis luis says hi
alicia my question is what's the
difference between hint and clue in your
videos you say for example here we have
a hint could we use clue instead ah yeah
for sure in a case like this you could
use hint and clue in the same way clue
is something that i feel is used more
when we have like a mystery or there's
kind of like a puzzle to solve you might
also hear it in like detective stories
so if like a detective is investigating
something and they're looking for
evidence when they find something they
might say oh this is a clue in their
like mystery solving process
clue was my favorite board game but clue
that's a i mean it's a great example if
anyone has played the game clue
absolutely your job in that game
is to collect information to collect
evidence about a murder that happened so
that's your job you're collecting clues
so that's sort of the feel of the word
clue you're trying to solve a mystery so
when i said it's okay to use clue
to replace the word hint you can kind of
imagine that like a sentence could be
like a puzzle especially if you're
learning so you're trying to solve the
mystery of the meaning or the grammar of
the sentence so if you can think of it
that way it's okay to use the word clue
i prefer to use the word hint and yes i
do use that word a lot in our videos
because hint has the feeling of
something that's communicated indirectly
so i'm not saying something clearly or
maybe my example sentence doesn't say
something clearly but i'm looking for
these small like bits of information
that kind of tell me indirectly
something so when i say here we have a
hint it's like
i'm kind of referring to this indirect
information i'm getting from this
sentence someone's vocabulary choice for
example could give me like a hint about
that person's emotions for the day so
it's an indirect way of receiving
information is a hint so i prefer to use
hint but i think it's fine to use the
word clue let's look at a few more
example sentences that maybe can show
some of the differences in how these
words are used also i want to point out
that both hint and clue can be used as
nouns and as verbs we found a clue at
the scene of the crime a fingerprint
we don't have any clues as to who robbed
the store
this announcement from the ceo might
include some clues about upcoming policy
changes can you give me a hint about
your surprise party plans management
hinted that we might get a bigger budget
next year
here's a hint about the meaning of the
sentence okay so i hope that this helps
answer your question about clue and hint
thanks very much for sending it okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from muhammad saleh hi
muhammad muhammad said what's the
difference between sympathy and
empathy yeah
sympathy refers to seeing feelings in
another person seeing emotions in
someone else and recognizing those
feelings because you have also
experienced them so if for example your
colleague or your friend like they have
an emotional situation like a
family member has passed away and you
have also experienced that you can say
you experience sympathy for that person
because you have the same experience
that's the noun form sympathy as a verb
it's sympathize as an adjective it's
sympathetic some example sentences i can
sympathize with your work struggles we
had a tough time last month i'm lucky to
have a boss that's very sympathetic so
empathy is different from sympathy in
that we recognize feelings in another
person but we have not experienced that
situation ourselves we only recognize it
and we can maybe imagine what the other
person feels like but we don't have that
experience ourselves so empathy is the
noun form
to empathize is the verb and empathetic
is the adjective some examples i was so
relieved my friends empathized with my
need for support
it's wonderful to have empathetic
colleagues
so i hope that this helps you understand
the difference between sympathy
shared feeling and empathy and
understanding of someone else's feeling
hope that that helps you okay so that's
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i was going to say see you next week
no sorry no
proxima nos vemos la proxima
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again again
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