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Say, speak, tell or talk ?
Uses
Examples
Say
used with direct and indirect speech
Say is most often used without a personal object.
If we want to put a personal object after say, we use to.
She said that it was my last chance.
He said, ‘Good morning.’
She said that she would be late. (not She said me...)
And I say to all the people of this great country...
Tell
used with direct and indirect speech
after tell, we usually say who is told, i.e., tell...
bring or take?
bring or take?
Note that the difference in use between bring and take is similar to that between come and go. We use take to describe movement away from the position of the speaker/hearer and bring to describe movement to the place where the speaker/hearer is, was or will be:
*Can you take the car in for its service tomorrow, Jan? I’m going to take the train. *They’re not here. He must have taken them to the club. He’s taken my umbrella too. *These shirts that I bought don’t...
come or go?
Whether we use go or come all has to do with perspective and position.
go
We use go to describe movement away from the place or position where the speaker or hearer is:
*Are you going to the pub tonight? *Let's go and see Auntie Mary before the holiday is over. *They've gone to live in Australia and I don't think they'll ever come back.
come
We use come to describe movement to the place where the speaker or hearer is:
*Could you come here for a minute,... Person – Persons – People - Peoples
There is confusion about the best way to describe more than one person. It often feels better to speak of “three people” rather than “three persons”, but this suggests that people is the plural of person.
The words people and person derive from different Latin roots, the former from populum, referring to the people in the sense of the populace, the latter from persona, “an actor’s mask; a character in a play” and which in the English form person came to refer to an individual human being. (It was first...
See vs. Look vs. Watch
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See vs. Look vs. Watch
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See is a verb of perception, it is a sense. It is automatic and doesn't require a decision to use this sense. It is associated with things that we can't avoid.
Look and Watch are action verbs that require a decision for you to use them. They never happen automatically.
Look is used to suggest a direction for your eyes. Usually we use this verb when the things we look at doesn't move.
Look - camera, prices, mirror, sky.
*Look at this picture....
At or in?
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At or in?
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In is used for position inside large places – countries, districts, large cities etc, and in three-dimensional space (when something is surrounded on all sides.). At is generally used for small and unimportant places like villages, small towns etc.
*He lives at Ottappalam in Kerala. (Ottappalam is a village in Kerala.) *His brother lives at Mumbai. (Mumbai is a big city.) *Turn right at the next corner. *
*She grew up in Africa. *Let’s go for a walk in the woods. *He is in the...
Go or get?
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Go or get?
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Go (and not get) is used to talk about changes of colour. This is common in British English.
*Leaves go brown in autumn. (NOT Leaves get brown …) *She went green with envy. (NOT She got green …)
Other examples are: go white with anger/ blue with cold/ red with embarrassment
Turn and grow can also be used in these cases. Note that go is more informal than turn and grow.
Go (and not usually get) is also used with adjectives in a number of common...
Can or could?
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Can or could?
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We use can to say whether situations and events are possible theoretically.
*Glass can be blown. *Can gases freeze?
We use could to talk about past possibility.
*It was a place where anything could happen.
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Cases where can is not used
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We do not use can to talk about the chances that something will happen in future. We express this idea with may, might or could. Note that could suggests a less definite possibility than that is implied by may or might.
Compare:
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"Can" or "be able to" ?
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Can and be able to
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Be able to often has the same meaning as can.
*I am unable to/can’t understand his motive. *He is able to/can support her.
Can is preferred in expression like can see, can hear etc. It is also used in the sense of ‘know how to?’
*I can knit. (More natural than I am able to knit.) (= I know how to knit.) *I can see a ship. (More natural than I am able to see a ship.)
Be able to is preferred in...
Have or have got?
Have or have got?
Have got means exactly the same as have in affirmative clauses. Got-forms of have are informal, and are most common in the present.
*She has got a new boyfriend. (= She has a new boyfriend.) *My mother has got two sisters. (= My mother has two sisters.) *They have got a car. (= They have a car.)
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In questions and negatives, we do not normally use have without got.
*Has your sister got a car? (More natural than Has your sister a...
Hear or Listen ?
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Hear or listen to?
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Hear means become aware of sound through the ears. It is the ordinary word to say that something ‘comes to our ears’.
*‘Can you speak a bit louder? I can’t hear you.’ *Suddenly she heard a strange noise.
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Listen to
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Listen (to) is used to talk about paying attention to sounds one hears. It emphasizes the idea of concentrating. Note that you can hear something without wanting to, but you can only listen to something deliberately.
Compare:
*I heard them talking in the...
Work or Job ?
Firstly, on a grammatical level, work is both a verb and a noun, whereas job is only a noun. Let’s look at their meanings now.
Work is an activity in which you use effort or energy, normally to achieve a particular aim or task, rather than for fun or enjoyment. It is essentially the opposite of play, and to work means to do such an activity. Generally, we work in order to earn money, and this is often how we use the verb; to describe what we do to earn...
Learn or Study ?
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Is there a difference between the verbs 'learn' and 'study'?
I assume there must be one, otherwise why have two different words that mean exactly the same?
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We study in order to learn. Studying is the process, while learning is the outcome. Hopefully, you are both studying and learning English. You may have studied a lot yesterday afternoon, but you won't know whether you learned a lot until you take the exam.
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You should study hard in order to pass your English exam. And you just...
Do or Make ?
When 'do' or 'make' are used as main verbs it can be confusing to ESL learners. The verb 'make' goes with some words and the verb 'do' with other words. ucwords("
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We use the verb 'do' when someone performs an action, activity or task.
do a crossword
do the ironing
do the laundry
do the washing
do the washing up
'Do' is often used when referring to work of any kind.
do your work
do homework
do housework
do your job
!Note - these activities do...
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