Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 432. The title of today's lesson
is the difference between especially and specially . Yeah. I've had this you know , asked from
a number of students have sometimes gotten confused. And it's easy to see
why students could get confused between these two. So let's take a look at the
note here. The words especially and specially are both adverbs and both can
often be substituted by the word particularly. And of course they sound
similar that the spelling is close. especially and specially. Okay. However
they are used pretty differently. The word especially usually means someone or
something that is exceptional. You know clearly better than somebody else in
comparison to others. Or that something applies to one person or one group. You
know, more than to another or more than, more than to others. Okay. So let's give
some examples. Example number one. You should choose John to give the
presentation. He is especially good at speeches in front of groups. Now you're
saying he's exceptional. He's better than the others.
He's more qualified than the others. So you should especially choose him. If you
tried to use he is specially good that doesn't really make sense here. You have
to say especially good. So he's exceptional in comparison to the other
workers there. He's the most qualified to do this. All right. Let's look at number two. Warn
everyone to be on time for the meeting early tomorrow, especially Jane. She tends
to be late a lot. Okay. So now in this case this is more like the second one
here. Where they say that something applies to one person or group more than
another. Because Jane is often late, you especially should warn her.
You know, because most people will probably just follow the normal rules,
but she tends not to do this. She's , she just has this really bad habit of often
being late. So you should especially warn her.
Tomorrow's important. You got to be on time. Okay. Let's continue. The word especially
is also often used when one is trying to stress, to stress you know, that something
is either very important or true. That things are very important or true. So
let's look at example here. Make sure to dress your daughter in a warm coat,
especially because the temperature will drop a lot tomorrow. So this is the
conditions. So if you know the situation here and you know, for this, this is this
is especially true or this is especially important. You need to do this. Yeah . Again
you wouldn't say specially because you would say especially because. Okay. Now
let's look at specially, especially is used with something that has been
prepared or made ready for a particular purpose or to do or accomplish something.
So we say specially. So let's look at the first example here. The airport uses
specially trained sniffer dogs to try to find drugs and weapons. Yeah. They
definitely this ... they hit to train these dogs. They had to prepare these dogs. So
that's what we mean by in this sense if we say specially. So it's often used ... Yeah
when, when we're trying to say that you know, something needed to be prepared.
Something needed to be ready or made ready for this purpose. Okay. Rooms at
Disneyland have been specially designed with images of Disney characters. Yes.
Again so you know, they prepared the rooms. To be you know, very decorative you
know. To have a better atmosphere for their image. So they prepared it that way.
So they, they are specially designed for this reason for this purpose. Okay good,
Number three here. If you don't eat meat you can order a specially prepared
vegetarian meal. You know like on a plane. They often
ask you that. You know, if you're a vegetarian you could get a vegetarian
meal. You have to order it before time and they specially prepare it for you.
They want to know before time because usually it's not that many. Maybe there's
like a handful of people on the plane that might do this. So again they need to
prepare it ahead of time. Get it ready ahead of time for this purpose because
the purpose this person doesn't eat me. Okay. Anyway, I hope now you've got a
better and a clearer feel of when you would use especially and when you use
specially. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your
time .Bye bye,