hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them
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question
this week first question this week comes
from
manjira hi manjira manjira says hi
alicia your lessons are very useful
i have a question about ever and never
i'm a bit confused about using them
for example i never seen and i
ever seen i'm unable to understand
properly
okay yeah let's review this point so
first of all
never means not ever you can think of it
as like the negative of ever so
we cannot use ever alone to talk about
life experience
we can however use never alone to talk
about life experience
for example if you want to talk about
the mona lisa
you could say i have never seen the mona
lisa
you cannot say however i have ever seen
the mona lisa we cannot do that we can
say
i have seen the mona lisa so please keep
in mind when we use
never and ever we typically put it
together
with present perfect expression so i
have never
for example i have never seen the mona
lisa or i have seen the mona lisa
so we cannot use ever alone in cases
where we use
ever plus the verb we use it in
questions and we use it in full sentence
responses to things
for example have you ever seen the mona
lisa
or the mona lisa is the most famous
painting
i have ever seen in situations like
these we can use
have ever followed by the verb but we
cannot use
ever like i have ever seen we cannot use
that to express
life experience life experience that we
have we can use
i have never seen though so i hope that
this helps you this is a very
very quick introduction to these points
i would recommend
if you want to review this please take a
look at this video on the channel i made
a lesson about using
never and ever and i hope that it can
answer your questions so please have a
look at that
thanks very much for this question all
right let's move on to your next
question next question
comes from hiro hi hiro hiro says hi
alicia
i take many pictures especially portrait
and nature pictures so
i have a question what's the difference
between photograph
and photography how should i use these
words great question yeah
photograph first of all photograph is a
countable noun so we can
count photographs images pictures we can
say one photograph
two photographs three photographs a
photograph
is the individual image photography then
refers to the entire activity the
process of
taking pictures editing pictures all of
those things together as a hobby or as
an activity
that is called photography so you can
say i'm interested in
photography and i take lots of
photographs
so keep in mind photography is the
activity
photograph is the result here so
one point that i want to make though is
that we don't really use the word
photograph so much in everyday
conversation unless we're talking
to somebody who shares our hobby or
they're also
in that field typically instead we say
picture instead of photograph so instead
of i like taking photographs you could
say
i like taking pictures i would not use
image so much
image is a much more general word we use
image to talk about like things that you
see
on the internet you know so it can be a
picture but maybe it's a painting
so an image of a painting image is a
more general word
photograph refers specifically to
something that's captured by a camera
but we use picture as well to talk about
that more commonly
in everyday conversation so in some
photography
activity photograph one picture i hope
that this helps you
thanks very much for the question okay
let's move on to your next question
next question comes from uvani amanda hi
uvani
ivani says hi alicia if you can would
you please explain to me
how we can use take out take off
take over and overtake with examples
sure
okay let's begin with take out to take
out to take
something out means to remove something
from an
indoor location and take it to an
outdoor location so a very common use of
this
is take out the garbage please take out
the garbage
so to take something out of one location
and put it outside that location to take
something out
you might also hear take out used to
mean like
uh to kill someone or like to injure
someone
especially in like action movies or
maybe in like sports
like oh no that soccer player took out
our goalie
so that means that soccer player injured
our goalie so the person in charge of
keeping the goal
or we need to take out this person in an
action movie might mean
we need to kill this person or we need
to remove this person from the situation
so that's probably a less common one in
everyday everyday english we use take
out to mean remove from a building
usually
your next one was take off to take off
has a couple different meanings as well
to take off can mean remove like with
clothing like i need to take off my
sweater
or please take off your shoes before you
come in the house so to take off
means to remove something as with
clothing or maybe it's just covering
something
else like take the blanket off the
computer
so it means to remove something usually
clothes or other covering
takeoff can also be used to talk about
aircraft so when a plane
goes from land to flying this process is
called
take off as a noun but when we want to
describe it using a verb we can say
the plane is going to take off to take
off means to
leave the ground as with a plane so take
off has these
two meanings so the next item on your
list was take over
to take over means to gain control of
something
so you might hear this in stories you
might also hear this in business like
company a
took over company b in past tense that
means company a
gained control of company b to take over
something or maybe my work is taking
over my life
means my work is gaining control of my
life
so to take over means to gain control
finally
the expression overtake so overtake
means to
pass someone or something else
especially in like a competition
or in a race so for example uh
i was overtaken in the race by another
runner so that means somebody else
passed me in a race so that was a
passive form
or you could use something like uh we
need to overtake the competition next
year so that means we need to pass
the competition in the year ahead so to
overtake is
not quite a phrasal verb to overtake is
one word
on its own but it does use take in there
yes so i hope that this helps you thanks
very much for the question
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