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 Fatima - aha Fatima says hi Alicia I love your
videos thank you they helped me with studying English my question what does
the word indeed mean and when should I use it uh yeah okay
indeed means yes it's kind of a formal sounding way of saying you heard
something you agree with it and you understand it all at the same time like
I said though it is kind of a formal expression so we don't really use it so
much in casual conversations you can use it to make something sound a little bit
more important than it actually is though so you might have heard me use
indeed on this channel - it kind of makes it sound like the conversation or
the topic is a little bit more important so you can use this when you agree with
someone and you understand something someone said like if someone says for
example wow the weather today is so hot you can say indeed and it sounds like
you say yes or I agree but it's a little bit more formal it makes the situation
sound like a little more important a little bit extra so it can be used in
kind of a funny way you might hear this used in like movies and TV in a similar
way or just to express formal agreement especially in more old-fashioned English
but essentially indeed means yes and I agree thanks for the question okay let's
go to your next question the next question comes from chance Ivy Lounge
and I think high chance ivy chance Ivy says hi Alicia could you tell me more
about half - in negative sentences and questions I'm wondering if we can use do
when have to is sometimes a modal equivalent I want to answer your
question about using half - with negatives and in questions because I
think that might answer your question about using
I'm not quite sure about the question relating to do so I'm going to focus on
your question about negatives and using half doing questions so to review for
everybody we use have two to talk about our responsibilities responsibilities
are things we must do it's our responsibility our task our job in some
cases to do that thing we often use have to for things we don't want to do
examples I have to go to the bank I have to go to work I have to finish this
project however when we use have to in the negative it means we don't have a
responsibility to do that thing right now also one very important point that I
think confuses some students is that we use have to for things that we can
reasonably be expected to have responsibility to do let's look at some
natural ways to use don't have to I don't have to go to the bank I don't
have to go to work I don't have to finish this project these are all
examples of things we might naturally be expected to have some responsibilities
to do if you use it in a sentence like I don't have to drink alcohol at work it
sounds really strange because in most jobs it's not an expected responsibility
to drink alcohol at work if perhaps you're like a bartender for example
maybe it's different but perhaps in the majority of jobs that would be a very
strange responsibility so saying I don't have to for something that you're not
responsible to do is quite strange let's move on to questions you asked about
questions I want to look at two patterns one is asking for information and one is
confirmation questions the first pattern asking for information I mean for
example what do you have to do today what do you have to do today is a
question about the other person's responsibilities for that
day if you ask this question the speaker will talk about the things they are
responsible for I have to go to work I have to go to the bank I have to finish
this project for example the other type of question however is a confirmation
question and this is perhaps a little more difficult for learners to
understand we will use something like this don't you have to go to work today
this question is asking the listener for confirmation in a case like this the
speaker thinks the listener should go to work the listener has some
responsibility to go to work but maybe the listener isn't going to work or
there's some kind of strange situation so the speaker wants to confirm don't
you have to go to work today then the listener can say yes I do have to go to
work today I'm leaving soon or no I don't have to go to work today I took
the day off for example so you'll hear these confirmation questions like don't
you or doesn't he doesn't she have to do something those are confirmation
questions the other ones are information questions
like what do you have to do why do you have to do that asking for information
about the responsibility I hope that helps answer your question relating to
do but if not please feel free to send another question I can also try to make
a whiteboard about this topic thanks very much for sending this question okay
let's go on to the next question for today next question next question comes
from owl Moyes hi Elmo's Elmo says which sentence is correct
I will pick up you from the hotel or I will pick you up from the hotel okay use
I will pick you up from the hotel we use I will pick someone up from location
always some more examples I'll pick him up from the airport can you pick her up
from the station we'll pick them up from the bus stop so I hope that helps you
use pick up pick someone up thanks very much for the question let's go on to the
next question next question comes from Sammy hi Sammy
Sammy says what is the difference between what's up and
app what's up is a greeting what's app is the name of an application a
smartphone application for communication so we use what's up to ask people how
are you in a more casual way what's app has a very similar sound to it yes it
sounds like what's up but it's not used we don't use whatsapp what's app is
what's called a play on words a play on words means like we're having fun with
words that sound the same or are spelled the same as other words in this case
what's app sounds like what's up but what's app is an application so
that's where the app in what's app comes from so this is a play on words this is
maybe a nice name for a communication application because whatsapp sounds like
what's up which is used as a greeting a way to start conversations so make sure
you only use whatsapp when talking about the application for example do you have
what's that you can't say do you have what's up or whatsapp you can't do that
so only use what's app when you're talking about the application use what's
up when you're greeting someone hope that helps you thanks for the question
okay let's move on to our next question okay next question comes from nur Don
and Manette hi nerd on your dad says hi Alicia what are the differences between
mind opinion thought and idea okay generally speaking we use mine to talk
about our brain the place in our body where we think about things so mind is
used like in the same way that we use brain it sounds less scientific if we
say brain all the time it sounds a little bit scientific like kind of
medical I suppose I use the expression keep that in mind
or keep this in your mind or put that in your mind a lot which means please
remember that or please think about that so that just means like put something in
your head and try to remember it in other words study or practice that thing
so your mind refers to this part of your body where you think about
your opinions then your next word is opinions opinions is your ideas about
the world the way that you see the world whether things are good or bad or tasty
or bad tasting your opinions are from your experiences and your information
the way you understand the world so my opinion is like my feeling about
something the last two words thought an idea can be used similarly sometimes
generally speaking if you want to use a thought you can use that to describe
anything that's in your head this can be an old idea a new idea just
something that happened recently or something for the future anything in
your mind can be a thought so that's being used as a noun there I'm not using
it as a verb as a noun a thought is just something some concept in your mind
idea is often used the same way as thought however idea often has the
feeling of a new thought so you can think of idea as a new thought we use
idea in situations where we're trying to think of new things so like for a
project you need an idea for a project means you need a new thought you need to
think of something new for a project we use the word idea to give that feeling
of something new we haven't seen it we haven't heard it before so if you want
to think about the difference between thought and idea you can maybe think
about idea as a new thought I hope that that helps you thanks very much for the
question let's move on to our next question next question comes from Suraj
hi Suraj Sirach says what are katha native and complex catenate of verbs
yeah tough question katha native verbs are verbs that we can chain together
this is kind of a more complex grammar point complex katha Native verbs are
katha native verbs are these verb chains that have an object so let's take a look
at a few examples they're going to come clean the house
he's going to help me do my homework she forgot to buy milk
so with this grammar point with cata Native verbs we can sometimes use the
infinitive form of the verb which is 2 plus the verb or we can use the gerund
form which is the ing form however this often changes the meaning here's a
really good example she stopped to smoke a cigarette this means she paused her
activities to smoke a cigarette we see the verb in the infinitive form to smoke
she stopped smoking cigarettes this means she quit smoking altogether she
quit the habit of smoking okay so I hope that that helps you thanks very much for
the question it's a big topic so maybe I can make a whiteboard video about it in
the future so those are all the questions that I have for this week
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