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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and I answer them maybe first
question this week is actually two
questions I got two of the same question
I want to answer first question from
expedito Xavier said hi Alicia I would
like to know the difference between tour
forward and backward Thanks also from
Marcelo dos Santos Oliviera hi how do I
use the words toward and forward okay
let's discuss first toward means in the
direction of something so this can mean
any direction just in the direction of
something examples the car moved toward
the highway we headed toward the
restaurant I'm moving toward the park
then the word for word means moving in a
direction in front of you so this can
mean physically moving with your body or
it can mean like a concept or an
experience examples I took one step
forward the project is moving forward
smoothly we're going forward with this
idea so then backward is the opposite of
forward it means moving in a direction
behind you so again this can mean
physically with your body or it can mean
conceptually like with an idea or a
project he took three steps backward the
project moved backward because of the
mistake our boat is moving backward so I
hope that that helps you toward is kind
of any direction in the direction of
something forward is movement in front
of you backward is movement behind you
so hope that helps you a little bit next
question comes from a leaning heileen
alene says hi Alicia what is the
difference between Everybody Somebody
and everyone and when can I use them
okay
everyone and everybody are the same we
use them the same way I would say that
everybody is probably a little more
casual and maybe more commonly used than
everyone somebody however refers to a
person who is related to a discussion or
to a city
in some way so examples of this can
somebody help me cook dinner did
somebody pick up my phone somebody stole
my bag so in each of these example
sentences somebody refers to a person
who can hear the speaker or who is
closely related to the situation
everyone and everybody are just everyone
so there's no relation to the situation
necessarily so I hope that that helps
next question comes from R & R Epson
Moreira dos Santos hi what is the
difference between May and can ya common
question please check the ten minute and
fifty second mark of this video I talked
about May and can and the differences
and some examples in this video so
please check this out
I hope it helps next question comes from
Tom Titian - what's the difference
between difficult and hard okay
difficult and hard yeah if you're
talking about the level of challenge of
something they have the same meaning the
only difference between these two words
is that difficult sounds much more
formal than hard most native speakers
especially American English speakers use
hard to talk about a level of challenge
like this is really harder oh my gosh
that looks so hard or I don't know this
seems really hard
instead of difficult difficult is used
in more formal situations next question
next question comes from Dewey hi Dewey
says I frequently hear whatever it takes
but I don't know what it means please
explain it sure so this is often used in
expressions like I'll do whatever it
takes to get the job it means I will do
everything I possibly can to get the job
so this can mean good things or bad
things it means anything and everything
the person will do their best in order
to achieve some goal examples I'll do
whatever it takes to get into that
University will do whatever it takes to
win the contest so this is a very
determined phrase so it's something
that's like you're really really going
to try hard to do something and you want
to express that so you'll do anything in
order to achieve some
goal poke that helps those are all the
questions that I want to answer this
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