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okay hi everybody welcome back to ask
Alisha the weekly series where you ask
me questions and I answer them maybe
first question this week comes from
Karima again haiku Rema Rema says
tyleshia could you please tell me what
does the expression give it a try mean
give it a try is a friendly way to
suggest someone try something so we use
give it a try
like after we show someone a process we
teach someone how to do something we
show them how to do something and then
we say okay give it a try like now it's
your turn please try this thing I showed
you if you're at the golf course and you
show someone how to swing a golf club
you could say alright give it a try
I think we do it on this channel
actually we introduce like a vocabulary
point or a grammar point and then ask
you give it a try so it's a suggestion
to try something hope that helps you
thanks for the question okay next
question next question comes from Sanju
hi Sanju Sanju says what is the main
difference between simple past and
present and past participle or perfect
tense the main difference is that simple
past tense is used for actions that
started and finished in the past there's
often a specific time point we know when
the action started and when the action
finished with perfect tense though we
don't know when the action started or
when the action finished so we use it to
talk about like life experience in the
past like maybe when it happened is not
so important but we use it for like
travel experience or job experience so
that's one thing that we do with perfect
ends the other thing is we use it to
talk about actions that started in the
past and that continued to the present
especially with the continuous tense we
also do this to talk about the effects
of actions that started in the past and
continue to the present so
for example I saw Beyonce live last week
is a Peston sentence so when we want to
use the perfect tense like we've seen
Beyonce live so many times that means
we've seen Beyonce in the past many
times but when is not important so we
use that perfect tense we've seen we
have seen so another example like when I
get this question I sometimes will say
like I've talked about this many times I
have talked about this many times is a
perfect tense statement so in the past I
have discussed this this is something I
talked about at points in the past so I
can use perfect tense to describe them
so if you have any questions about
simple past tense or present perfect
tense I would recommend checking the
videos that we have on the website or on
the YouTube channel so I talked more
about how to use these two grammar
points thanks for the question I hope
that that helps okay next question next
question comes from semi Huygens semi
semi says hi what's the difference I
want you to know I want to you know I
want you know from these choices only
the first one is grammatically correct I
want you to know so it could introduce
something it could introduce an idea
like I want you to know I did my best
the other two things that are you
presented here they're not grammatically
correct maybe with some punctuation or
maybe in a conversation with the right
emphasis they could be part of something
else I'm not sure but the other two
things are not grammatically correct so
the difference here is that your first
option is correct and it can begin an
idea I hope that that helps you okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from Danny hi Danny hi
again Danny Danny says I'd like to know
about finish has finished and is
finished okay finished can be a noun or
a verb as in the first item just finish
in present tense it's used like in
present situations or to talk about
future situations so like let's finish
work or we should finish this soon so we
can go to the
aarti something like that let's finish
so that's an upcoming activity let's go
on to is finished when we see this is
finished it's actually finished being
used as an adjective so we know that
because we see is there is is our verb
so like he is finished she is finished
class is finished so it's an adjective
it's describing the situation finished
there we use that to talk about
something that is completed it's done so
we could use a verb form like class
finished at 9 o'clock or we could say
like at 9 o'clock class is finished so
that's the current state that's the
current situation the race is finished
or dinner is finished let's compare that
to has finished so has finished is using
the present perfect form so finished
here is the past participle form of the
verb finished something has finished as
I talked about in one of the other
questions in today's episode has
finished that would be the present
perfect tense meaning that something
occurred in the past and the effects of
fact continued to the present this is an
example of an effect continuing to the
present we would see has finished used
in like a polite situation for example
like I imagine at like a hotel breakfast
service if hotel breakfast ends at like
9:00 o'clock but I'm a guest and I
arrive at 9:30 and I want to eat
breakfast the hotel staff might say to
me sorry
breakfast has finished so they could say
I'm sorry breakfast is finished that's
kind of direct sounding but if they say
breakfast has finished we could think of
it like the like ending point for
breakfast was a nine o'clock but there's
this effect and the effect of that is
that me the gas like I can't eat
breakfast now because it finished in the
past so we could kind of think of it
like an effect so I hope that that helps
you thanks very much for the question
ok let's move on to your next question
the next question comes from syringe are
ready Huygens sweetheart sardar says hi
Alicia which one is correct in the
following sentences one not all
questions can't be answered by Alicia or
two not
all questions can be answered by Alicia
the first sentence I read on your site
why use both not all and can't be I
thought using only one of them makes a
sentence meaningful yes thank you very
much you've found what is called a typo
a typo is a typing mistake so I checked
this out on the website we will fix it
you are correct this should be can so
not all questions can be answered by
Alicia that would be the correct
sentence it should not be can't so we'll
fix that if you see a pattern like this
not all some things can be something so
that would be the correct way to build
this kind of sentence structure okay I
hope that helps and thank you very much
for this point next question comes from
Antonio loco hi Antonio Antonio says I
am confused about when to use I talk
with bla bla bla versus I talk to bla
bla bla can you help with that by the
way you're very funny Thanks I talked to
or I talked with yes I've spoken about
this very very briefly and I think the
video about speak versus talk basically
there's not really a difference between
two and with here when we use two though
I feel that it has more of a one way
conversational feeling like if you're
giving someone information if it's kind
of just one person sharing a lot of
information talking I might use to like
go talk to your boss about this or like
let's talk to my parents about this when
you use with however it sounds more like
you're participating in something
together you're participating in a
discussion together like you do things
with another person so there's someone
else there participating together with
you so using width to me sounds a little
bit more like there are other people
participating other people involved like
I said it's a really small point both of
them are correct you won't have any
communication problems if you choose to
or with or if you choose to mix them
hope that helps you alright that's
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