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so many of my students ask me what is the difference between it doesn't matter and i
don't care and in our first case you can use it in the same way it can mean the same thing so
you could say for example do you prefer red wine or do you prefer white wine and you answer
it doesn't matter or you answer i don't care in that case they more or less mean the same
thing i don't really have a preference that's fine but you can use i don't care
to be more emphatic more forceful more assertive sometimes defiant a little angry
so let's say that you're driving a little over the speed limit it happens and you have somebody
sitting next to you and they say hey hey you're going over the speed limit you can say i don't
care or i don't care so you can see by the way i'm saying that the intonation that i'm using
that it is stronger than it just doesn't matter i don't care i could care less i don't give a rat's
ass the next one is to care about something or someone and care for someone or something and
here's the basic idea the difference between the two is that when you say you care about someone or
something most people care about their family for example they have a lot of consideration
for them it's important there's an emotional connection you could say he cares about his kids
she cares about her marks a lot of people care about their physical appearance it's important
to them it matters but you will hear some people use care for that way but it's not that common
a more textbook style of using care4 and maybe you don't know this one a lot of people don't is it's
a more formal a more classy way of saying when you don't like something so let's say for example that
you're traveling and you go to visit a friend of a friend you go to their house and they say oh
i made this food just for you you look at the food it's disgusting there's no way you're gonna eat it
so instead of saying oh i don't like it that's a little too direct you could say oh i'm sorry
i don't care for that kind of food that way you're not going to offend anybody
and it sounds really nice it sounds very classy then we have take care of and be careful of
these are different so when you take care of someone notice that we use of on the end you
take care of someone it means that you give them special attention so you could say well you know
my mother-in-law is really old so i'm taking care of her while the rest of the family is traveling
or something like that but if you say be careful of your mother-in-law that means she's kind of
dangerous and if you're not careful she's going to do something bad to you another one that i
will add in there is take care you'll see this at the end of a lot of messages emails text messages
maybe someone will even say it to you but in this case it's just a nice way of saying goodbye
take care take care of yourself and i hope that you enjoyed this quick 30 day challenge
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