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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you asked me
questions and i answered him maybe first
question this week comes from
khan singh sham hi khan singh khan sang
says hi alicia if the first verb in a
particular sentence is used in its first
form then what form should the
subsequent verb be
for example the poet says that the great
terror of russia crippled the russian
people in this sentence i used the first
form for the first verb says for the
second verb i used the second form of
the verb crippled is my sentence
grammatically correct can you explain
and when do we use verb forms one two
and three
okay so first to clarify for all viewers
uh this expression first form or second
form or third form first form refers to
the infinitive form of a verb so like
the simple present tense form
second form refers to past tense and
third form refers to the past participle
form of a verb
second yes your sentence is
grammatically correct the one that i've
just read here
but third as far as a rule for when to
use like first or second or third form
verbs you can make a lot of different
combinations it just depends on what you
want to say so you can make
grammatically correct sentences by using
first and then second or maybe first and
then third but it just depends on the
meaning you would like to communicate
for example
my parents say i work too much
and my parents have said i work too much
my parents said i worked too much last
month
all of these sentences are grammatically
correct and all of these sentences use
different combinations of first second
and third form verbs it depends on what
you want to say so a refresher first
form simple past tense is used for
general facts and for things that are
always true like regularly occurring
actions
second second form the simple past tense
is used for actions that started and
finished in the past
third third form the past participle
form of a verb is used like when we're
making present perfect or past perfect
expressions or when we're talking about
unreal situations so depending on what
you would like to communicate your verb
conjugation is going to change there's
not a rule in english for like using
first form and then second form or it
must be second form then first form
there's not a rule like this it depends
on what you want to communicate so i
hope that this helps you and i hope that
you experiment a lot to see how the
different verb conjugations can change
the meaning of a sentence okay thanks
very much for this question let's move
along to your next question next
question comes from naveed abbas hi
naveed naveed says dear alicia i'm from
pakistan when do we use someone and
someone and anyone and anyone what is
the difference between these two
combined and separated words hope you
can teach me thanks ah nice question
first point i want to mention some and
one so with a space between sum and one
this is not something we use in everyday
modern english we don't use sum and one
separated so don't think about that
don't worry about that
someone and anyone however we do use so
this is someone and anyone with no space
we use someone when we want to make
positive statements when we make
requests and when we make offers for
example can someone help me make dinner
would you like to speak to someone
anyone is used in information questions
and in negative statements i don't know
anyone at this party
have you seen anyone wearing a top hat
recently
finally any one is used when we want to
emphasize the word one and we do this
when we're making choices for example
you can have any one of these donuts
or
i would be thrilled to have any one of
these computers
so it shows that maybe there are many
choices and all of them are good choices
so you'll hear any used to emphasize one
in this way so i hope that this helps
answer your question thanks very much
for sending it along okay let's move on
to your next question next question
comes from tu lei hi tu tu says hi
alicia could you please explain why uh
is used for cell phone and the is used
for table in this sentence there is a
cell phone on the table okay
so to refresh we use indefinite articles
uh and an when we introduce new nouns in
a story or in a situation
we use the definite article
the when we want to refer to something
that is known in a story or in a
situation
so here let's imagine you walk into a
room a table so i use a there to show
this is a new noun a table
when i want to refer to this same table
again later in my conversation or later
in my story i use the
so i could say for example i walked next
to the table so the table means the same
table i introduced earlier
if i see there's something on the table
a cell phone i would say oh a cell phone
on the table
so when i use a or n i'm introducing a
new noun or something that is unknown in
the situation so in this example
sentence there is a cell phone on the
table
the speaker knows about the table
already but the speaker maybe notices a
new item a cell phone in this case so
the sentence the cell phone is on the
table is also grammatically correct so
depending on the situation and depending
on the story depending on the
conversation we might use uh and the in
different ways but they're also correct
so it just depends on whether the
speaker knows the noun or not are they
introducing it if so a or an if they're
not introducing it if they're referring
to something else in the story the so i
hope that this helps answer your
question thanks very much okay let's
move on to your next question next
question is from emma hi emma emma says
hi alicia i love your lessons thanks
would you please show us the differences
among suggest advise offer recommend and
propose thanks in advance
okay big question let's compare suggest
and recommend first
um so we use suggest and recommend in
almost the same way it's like you're
giving someone your opinion about
something however when you recommend
something it has the feeling of personal
experience so for example if i recommend
a restaurant it's because i've been to
the restaurant i thought it was good and
i want you to go there or i think it
would be a good choice for you
if i recommend music to my friend it's
because i listen to the music and i
think it's a good fit for them when
we're using suggest it doesn't
necessarily mean that there's personal
experience involved it's more like
you're giving your advice to suit that
person's situation
so for example hmm your computer isn't
working i suggest you restart
i suggest this hairstyle i think it
would suit your face
so suggest because it doesn't have that
feeling of like personal experience it
can sound a little bit like disconnected
or maybe a little bit more formal than
something like recommend let's move
along then to advise advise was the next
verb so when you advise someone it means
you give them your opinion but when you
advise someone it sounds like you do
that regularly like there are jobs in
which people advise others so those job
titles are called like advisor to
something so when you advise someone
you're giving them your opinion and it's
usually for something formal or kind of
important to advise examples the lawyer
advised me not to comment on this
my team has been advised regarding this
issue so this word does sound a little
bit formal
okay let's move on to the next word
which was offer so offer think about
offer as like the step before give so
you want to give someone something if i
decide i want to give you my phone for
example but i want to ask you if it's
okay is it appropriate i can offer it
and i would say would you like my phone
so that's an offer it's like the step
before give so to offer someone
something is to ask them if they would
like that thing
so some other examples
he offered her a drink
the whole team was offered a promotion
so offer doesn't mean give it's like the
step before give okay the last word that
was on your list was propose ah so we
use propose informal situations we use
this like in business situations or
other work-related situations when we
want to give a new idea we want to
present a new idea a fairly serious idea
we also use this when we are asking
someone to marry us so some examples i'm
going to propose a new product for next
year
my brother proposed to his girlfriend
so you can hear proposed tends to be
used for more serious situations it's
like suggesting something but kind of
formal so suggest is used for like small
everyday things as is recommend propose
is like you're bringing a new idea to
someone and asking for permission to do
that so i hope that this helps you
thanks very much for this question all
right let's move on to your next
question next question comes from faisal
said hello faisal
faisal says what's the difference
between us and we
ah the difference is the part of speech
we acts as the subject us acts as the
object so it depends on the position of
the word in the sentence if you're using
we if you want to talk about a group of
people as the subject of your sentence
use we
if you want to talk about a group of
people including you as the object of a
verb so receiving some action we use us
some examples
we talked to the boss
the boss talked to us
we chased the bullies
the bullies chased us
so in these example sentences you can
see i reverse the subject and the object
in each case so we is the subject of the
sentence us is the object of the verb i
hope that this helps you thanks very
much for the question okay that is
everything that i have for this week
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