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back to ask alicia the weekly series
where you ask me questions and i answer
them maybe
let's get to your first question this
week first question this week comes from
amir ibrahim hi amer amar says what is
the difference between two and into ah
great question yeah generally we use
into when we're talking about movement
from one place
inside of another place two is used
generally to talk about moving from
point a to point b so let's take a look
at a few examples first
let's jump into the pool
he walked into the store
we drove into the car wash
so in each of these example sentences
there's an object or a person moving
inside of a location so they're going
from outside a location to inside of a
location we use into to show that the
movement is happening and to show that
that object or that person is being
enclosed in something else
let's compare this then to the same
sentences with 2 instead of into for
example let's jump to the pool
he walked to the store
we drove to the car wash
these sentences are all grammatically
correct but they don't show movement
from something outside a place or
outside of a situation inside something
else actually these sentences express
the method by which we travel so in the
first sentence let's jump to the pool it
means like let's travel by jumping to
the pool like to the area next to the
pool for example in the second example
sentence he walked to the store it means
he traveled to the store by walking
in the third example sentence we drove
to the car wash it means the speakers
used a car to travel to the car wash so
into actually means going inside
something to means like the method by
which we travel to a location so this is
a key point of difference you'll notice
that just changing the preposition in
these example sentences totally changes
the meaning of the sentence so please
try to keep this in mind when you're
choosing between into and two into is
used to talk about moving inside of
something else and two is used to talk
about like the actual part where you're
moving to a location so you're moving
from point a to point b
not necessarily being enclosed in
something so this is a quick and general
rough guide for the difference between
these two i hope that it helps you
thanks for the question okay let's move
on to your next question next question
comes from alexi k hi alexi alexi says
hi alicia i can't understand the
difference between be used to and get
used to especially in the past tense
because there's no continuous tense in
russian can you give me some advice and
a couple of examples yeah nice question
and it does depend a little bit on the
sentence especially for be used to so
just a reminder we can use be used to or
be used to they have the same spelling
in different ways so we use be used to
to talk about something's purpose for
example this printer is used to print
models and we also use used to or used
to depending on the sentence to talk
about things we are accustomed to doing
so as in the example like i'm used to
having a busy schedule so please keep in
mind that although the spellings are the
same the meanings are different
depending on the sentence i want to
focus on the second type that i
introduced here this i'm used to having
a busy schedule so as a refresher we use
this kind of pattern when we want to
talk about something we're accustomed to
doing i'm used to having a busy schedule
in present tense
past tense and future tense however we
tend to use get used to get used to so
for example i got used to having a busy
schedule or i'll get used to having a
busy schedule we can also use it in
present perfect tense as in i've gotten
used to having a busy schedule you could
use it with the progressive tense too
i'm getting used to having a busy
schedule so what's the difference here
with all of these sorts of things we
don't use that present tense i am used
to or i am not used to unless we want to
talk about the current situation
something that's true now or something
that's not true now with the negative
for example i'm used to making q a
videos or i'm not used to making q a
videos those refer to something that is
true
now
we use get used to to talk about things
in the past or in the future or which
are currently in progress as with the
progressive form i'm getting used to
having a busy schedule that means i'm in
the process of being accustomed to
having a busy schedule
let's look a little bit more at the
other forms i talked about i got used to
i got used to having a busy schedule
means i'm now accustomed to it that part
is finished that's okay for me in future
tense i will get used to having a busy
schedule or i'll get used to having a
busy schedule it means i'm not used to
it now i'm not accustomed now but in the
future i will be so it will become okay
is what it means
in the perfect tense i've gotten used to
having a busy schedule means over time i
have gradually become accustomed to
having a busy schedule so in sum when
you want to talk about something that's
true now use the be used to structure or
not used to structure as i talked about
before if you want to talk about the
past or about the future or if you want
to talk about something that started in
the past and affects the present you can
use the get used to pattern these sound
a little bit more natural so i hope that
this helps you it's maybe a lot of
information but it's a small point that
i think will help you to sound a little
more fluent with this pattern so thanks
very much for the question all right
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from
ivan hi ivan ivan says hi alicia what's
the difference between past simple and
present perfect for example i lost my
keys versus i've lost my keys or i
bought a new car versus i've bought a
new car thanks okay yeah nice question
basically when we use simple past tense
we're talking about an action that
started and finished in the past when we
use simple past tense it's like we're
reporting information so i lost my keys
or i bought a new car or i sold my house
so it's like a fact a quick fact a
simple report it's done
when we want to communicate that some
past action
has an effect on the present we can use
the present perfect tense so for example
i've lost my keys or i've bought a new
house or i've sold my car so what could
the effect be there in the first example
i've lost my keys it's like at some
point in the past i don't know when but
at some point in the past i lost my keys
now i cannot find my keys i still cannot
find my keys so this is the effect the
negative effect on me right now is like
i can't use my car or maybe i can't go
home like i have to find my keys so
there's some effect from this past
situation losing your keys in the other
examples which were like i've bought a
house or i've sold my car maybe the
effects are like you have a lot of money
or you have to move to a new house or
now you have a new car that you can use
to drive around so when we use the
present perfect tents here we want to
communicate that there's some kind of
effect from this past action when we're
using simple past tense it's like we're
giving a quick report something is done
or we don't feel it's so important to
talk about an effect we just want like
to give this information i lost my keys
so it's a little bit quicker yes and
it's also just kind of like more direct
we don't think about the effects so much
of that action so that's a really quick
guide to maybe why we would choose to
use
present perfect tense as opposed to
simple past tense i hope that this helps
you thanks for the question okay let's
move on to your next question next
question comes from
sergey hi sergey sergey says hi alicia
what is the difference between consist
of and include
in what situations can i use these words
yeah
you can think of consist of to mean
is made of when we use consist of it's
like a more formal way of saying
something is made of something else for
example
this cake consists of flour
eggs butter and sugar
or
today's tour consists of a bus ride
lunch and a guided walk around the
eiffel tower so in each of these cases
we're talking about all of the things
that make up the subject of the sentence
so in these cases the subjects were the
cake and the tour for the day so
consists of means is made of this thing
is made of these various parts
include on the other hand is used when
we want to like highlight something
that's especially important so we don't
list everything
inside something we it's like we're
choosing maybe some category or we're
choosing some important feature of
something so we might say like
the ingredients for this cake include
eggs and butter so maybe we need to
include that for like allergy reasons or
like today's tour includes lunch so
maybe there's some key information we
want to include we want to share that
there for some reason so consists of is
like made of we talk about all of the
things used to make something includes
is used to highlight something or to
share a feature of something it does not
necessarily mean that's everything like
today's tour includes lunch doesn't mean
the tour is only lunch it means that
inside today's tour there is also lunch
so this is the difference between
consists of and includes i hope that
this helps you thanks for the question
okay let's move on to your next question
next question comes from pedro henrique
hi pedro pedro says what does the
expression have a blast mean oh have a
blast means to have fun it means to
enjoy yourself to have a great time it's
a very casual friendly phrase that you
can use with your friends or with your
family we tend to use it for things we
expect are going to be super super
exciting like going to an amusement park
or seeing a concert or traveling to
another country so you can use it in
present tense you can use it in past
tense whatever if you go to a concert
and you want to tell your friend about
it you can say i had a blast or the
concert was a blast if you want to wish
your friend an exciting time you can say
have a blast before they go
or if you want to talk about a future
plan your friend is traveling somewhere
you can say oh wow you're gonna have a
blast on your trip to europe so to have
a blast means to have a great time i
hope that this helps you
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