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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 karima
again hi karima prima says hi lisha
could you please tell me what does the
expression
give it a try mean give it a try is a
friendly way to suggest someone try
something so we use give it a try like
after we show someone a process we teach
someone how to do something we show them
how to do something and then we say okay
give it a try like now it's your turn
please try this thing i showed you if
you're at the golf course and you show
someone how to swing a golf club you
could say all right give it a try i
think we do it on this channel actually
we introduced like a vocabulary point or
a grammar point and then ask you give it
a try so it's a suggestion to try
something hope that helps you thanks for
the question okay next question next
question comes from sanju hi sanju sanju
says what is the main difference between
simple past and present and past
participle or perfect tense the main
difference is that simple past tense is
used for actions that started and
finished in the past there's often a
specific time point we know when the
action started and when the action
finished with perfect tense though we
don't know when the action started or
when the action finished so we used it
to talk about like life experience in
the past like maybe when it happened is
not so important but we use it for like
travel experience or job experience so
that's one thing that we do with perfect
tense the other thing is we use it to
talk about actions that started in the
past and that continued to the present
especially with the continuous tense we
also do this um to talk about the
effects of actions that started in the
past and continue to the present so like
for example i saw beyonce live last week
is a past tense sentence so when we want
to use the perfect tense like we've seen
beyonce live so many times that means
we've seen beyonce in the past many
times but when is not important so we
use that perfect tense we've seen we
have seen so another example like when i
get this question i sometimes will say
like i've talked about this many times i
have talked about this many times is a
perfect tense statement so in the past i
have discussed this this is something i
talked about uh at points in the past so
i can use perfect tense to describe that
so if you have any questions about
simple past tense or present perfect
tense i would recommend checking the
videos that we have on the website or on
the youtube channel so i talk more about
how to use these two grammar points
thanks for the question i hope that that
helps okay next question next question
comes from semi hi again sammy semi says
hi what's the difference
i want you to know i want to you know
i want you know from these choices only
the first one is grammatically correct i
want you to know so it could introduce
something it could introduce an idea
like i want you to know i did my best
the other two things that are you
presented here they're not grammatically
correct maybe with some punctuation or
maybe in a conversation with the right
emphasis they could be part of something
else i'm not sure but the other two
things uh are not grammatically correct
so the difference here is that your
first option is correct and it can begin
an idea i hope that that helps you okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from danny hi danny hi
again danny danny says i'd like to know
about finish
has finished and is finished okay
um finish can be a noun or a verb as in
the first item just finish in present
tense it's used like in present
situations or to talk about future
situations so like let's finish work or
we should finish this soon so we can go
to the party something like that let's
finish so that's an upcoming activity
let's go on to is finished when we see
this is finished it's actually finished
being used as an adjective so we know
that because we see is there is is our
verb so like he is finished she is
finished class is finished so it's an
adjective it's describing the situation
finished there we use that to talk about
something that is completed it's done so
we could use a verb form like class
finished at nine o'clock or we could say
like at nine o'clock class is finished
so that's the current state that's the
current situation uh the race is
finished or dinner is finished let's
compare that to has finished so has
finished is using the present perfect
form so finished here is the past
participle form of the verb finished
something has finished as i talked about
in one of the other questions in today's
episode
has finished that would be the present
perfect tense meaning that something
occurred in the past and the effects of
that continue to the present this is an
example of an effect continuing to the
present we would see has finished used
in like a polite situation for example
like i imagine at like a hotel breakfast
service if hotel breakfast ends at like
nine o'clock but i'm a guest and i
arrive at 9 30 and i want to eat
breakfast the hotel staff might say to
me sorry breakfast has finished so they
could say i'm sorry breakfast is
finished that's kind of direct sounding
but if they say breakfast has finished
we could think of it like
the like ending point for breakfast was
at nine o'clock but there's this effect
and the effect of that is that me the
guest like i can't eat breakfast now
because it finished in the past so we
could kind of think of it like an effect
so i hope that that helps you thanks
very much for the question okay let's
move on to your next question next
question comes from sridhar ready hi
again sridhar sritar says hi alicia
which one is correct in the following
sentences one not all questions can't be
answered by alicia or
two not all questions can be answered by
alicia the first sentence i read on your
site why use both not all and can't be i
thought using only one of them makes a
sentence meaningful yes thank you very
much you've found what is called a typo
a typo is a typing mistake so i checked
this out on the website we will fix it
you are correct this should be can so
not all questions can be answered by
alicia that would be the correct
sentence it should not be can't so we'll
fix that if you see a pattern like this
not all some things can be something so
that would be the correct way to build
this kind of sentence structure okay i
hope that helps and thank you very much
for this point uh next question comes
from antonio locko hi antonio antonio
says i am confused about when to use i
talk with blah blah blah versus i talk
to blah blah blah can you help with that
by the way you're very funny thanks i
talk to or i talk with yes i've spoken
about this very very briefly and i think
the video about speak versus talk
basically there's not really a
difference between two and with here
when we use two though i feel that it
has more of a one-way conversational
feeling like if you're giving someone
information if it's kind of just one
person sharing a lot of information
talking i might use two like go talk to
your boss about this or like let's talk
to my parents about this when you use
with however it sounds more like you're
participating in something together
you're participating in a discussion
together like you do things with another
person so there's someone else there
participating together with you so using
with to me sounds a little bit more like
there are other people participating
other people involved like i said it's a
really small point both of them are
correct you won't have any communication
problems if you choose to or with or if
you choose to mix them hope that helps
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