live live leave lives
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improve your english skills today i'm going to show you the difference
between the words live leave life lives
live and why it is so confusing for english learners so
i believe that for you to stop confusing these words when speaking or when
writing it is important to understand the
difference between them and when i say difference i mean the definition and how
to use these words in written and spoken language
so let's take a look at the first word live
live is a verb okay if you think about
it live is the opposite of die
to die okay so i can use the verb live to describe
where i live for example i live in an apartment
not a house this is an apartment and i
live here okay in this definition i'm
not talking about the opposite of
die okay so when i am describing the
place
i live i use this verb
and this pronunciation okay now do you
live
in a house or in an apartment let me
know in the comments
another example not necessarily with a
house or apartment but
with a city or country my best friend
lives in australia or my best friend has
been
living in australia so i'm just using a
different conjugation
but it's the same verb okay now
pronunciation of the verb is
live okay when i'm talking about live
one verb that students usually confuse
is the other one which is this
leave okay now to leave
see the pronunciation is different live
leave okay so leave is when you go away
from a place or from a person
okay for example i am in my bedroom i am
listening to music
then my sister knock knock knock hey
priscilla can we talk
no leave me leave me alone okay so i
want her to go away
i want her to leave me alone
so i tell her to go away okay or another
example a little bit more dramatic
uh boyfriend and girlfriend and then i'm
looking at my boyfriend and i say
please don't leave me
because if you leave me i'll die
of course not because i'm me
anyway that's the idea okay so
another example that is not at all
dramatic
our plane leaves at seven
so we need to be at the airport by
four or five okay we can't be late
because our train is leaving with or
without us
okay another example in a very famous
song
start spreading the news
i'm leaving today
i want to be a part of it
new york new york
now an interesting observation here
whenever you use the verb
leave because you are going somewhere
you have to use the preposition for
i am leaving for new york so i am
getting out i'm leaving the place i am
and i'm going to new york so if you use
the verb
leave with this idea because you're
going somewhere else and you want to say
the name of the place you're going to
leave for i'm leaving for the office in
five minutes do you want a ride
do you need a ride okay so i'm going to
the office
and then i ask my husband or i ask my
wife or my friend
do you need a ride because i'm driving
so i can give you
a ride to the office and the
pronunciation is
leave there you have it
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now the next confusing word is
life okay now
the first word i showed you was the verb
live
the noun is life okay it's what
we have it's the state of being
alive which is the next word i'm going
to show you
basically this is what everybody has
okay
now if we think of opposites life
is the opposite of death
death is not a verb it's
the name of the situation okay now
unfortunately because of what is
happening
in the world right now which i can't
really
say here on the channel we are losing
many lives
okay now the confusion here is the
singular and the plural form
the singular form of life is life
the plural form of life is
lives okay now what is the situation
here
the verb is live and in the third person
of the singular form
he she it in the simple present i live
my friend lives okay
now the plural form of life
is lives and this is when
students get a little bit confused
they're like but there's lives what's going on
well the difference is that here lives will not be a verb
it is the plural form of life okay so unfortunately we are losing
i don't know when you're watching this
video but 2020 has been
a very interesting difficult and
challenging year
and unfortunately uh we have lost many
lives
around the world because of a very complicated virus
okay now the next word is alive
okay this is an adjective let's say
someone calls me and says that a friend
of mine had an accident and i'm like oh my god is my friend okay
is he alive
alive alive not
dead okay so is my friend alive yes
yes yes he's alive
but he's in surgery right now so can you come to the hospital
yes of course i'm coming but i'm happy
because my friend is alive
okay so i cannot say life because life
is not an
adjective it doesn't describe a state
okay so i am ah i'm alive it's a
beautiful day
to save lives grey's anatomy
dr mcdreamy it's a beautiful day
to save lives alive okay
so i am describing someone i'm
describing the
state of someone that is here with us
okay not dead not gone so my grandmother is
still alive
yes and finally something that i always
say
at the beginning of my live lessons
I'm live well that is another word it means that i am
real time right now that is not the case
of this video i'm not live on this lesson
i recorded this lesson i edited this lesson
and now it's here and you're watching it
so thank you very much
so i'm live and you will hear this a lot
on tv
and here we are live from alabama so tell me what do you think of the weather
oh amazing all right back to you peter
so that's the idea okay so if you hear that it is a
different situation
now are you ready for a quiz
i prepared a quiz with let's see seven
seven seven sentences you can see the sentences here and i'm gonna read them
and in the comments of this post and in the comments of this video you're going
to post the answers and how many correct answers you got because i'm probably
going to post the correct answers after
i show you the seven sentences okay so
here we go number one and we
are from times square
number two many were lost during the 9 11
your is the most precious thing you have
why are you me
jackson next door i feel so
we at eight don't be late
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