Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 272.
The title of today's lesson is the difference between
alive and living. Today in this video we're only
going to look the difference between
alive and living as adjectives. Of course,
living sometimes could be a noun.
It could mean the living meaning the
people that are still alive.
It could mean the living like in
comparison to ghosts. We do have the
phrase ' to make a living ' which is like a
salary , but that's not the ones we're talking about today.
Today we want to emphasize how and why sometimes students
might use it incorrectly.
And in this situations we have to focus on these meanings.
So when 'alive' is an adjective here.
The focus is on that you're not dead , and when you say
living as an adjective in this sense, it
means still continuing to exist, still to be alive.
Okay. So let's so let's look at some examples .
The first one here of course, again, with the X.
This is wrong. If we say , every alive soldier from World War Two
is in his 90s or older. Of course,
that sounds awkward, that sounds weird . It
would be correct to say every living
solider from World War two is in his 90s or older.
Yeah. If you said alive I don't know,
it sounds like every not dead every soldier.
That's really awkward. It's weird
Here we want to emphasize that somebody
is still existing. it's still going on.
We're not emphasizing that somebody is not dead.
So in this case, living is the one that is proper.
Let's continue. With the second one.
Again, with the X this is wrong.
Every alive creature needs some
nourishment to survive. All right. Again
it's awkward. It's weird. It should be
every living creature needs some
nourishment to survive. yeah. It would be weird,
like saying every not dead creature.
It just sounds awkward, it just sounds weird.
Here again, we want to emphasize that something is
still existing, still continuing to exist.
Not the fact that you're just not dead.
All right. Let's look at this example. He is lucky to be alive,
after that horrible accident.
Okay this one I prefer alive, a little
bit more because we really want to
emphasize that you're lucky that you're
not dead, but this is one where you could
have a little bit of an overlap. Could
you get away with he is lucky to be
living after that horrible accident ?
Maybe because you could almost say
getting think of it as still existing.
Maybe. So there is a little bit of an
overlap. Where either one might be okay.
But I still like alive better because I
think you want to emphasize not dead.
That that accident didn't kill him. Okay.
Let's continue. The next one. Life for him
is a living hell. Even though I think
living hell might actually be a phrase.
But still it would be weird to say life
for him is an alive hell. That would that
would that would be weird. That would be
awkward. Here we want to again emphasize
that this state of hell is still
continuing. it's still going on. So his
very uncomfortable horrible life is
still continuing. So it's a living hell.
All right. Let's look at the last one here.
That tiger ate this poor zebra alive.
Yeah. You would not say that tiger ate
this for zebra living. Alive here, you want
to emphasize that the at the moment or
the time the tiger was eating him, the
zebra was not dead yet. So he ate the
poor zebra alive. So you really want to
emphasize not dead at that moment. So
alive is better here. Okay anyway I hope
you got it. I hope you got more of a feel of when it's
probably better to use alive and when
it's better to use living as adjectives.
Okay. I hope it's clear I hope you got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.