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0:08Welcome back to Ask Alisha, the weekly series
where you ask me questions and I answer them,
0:14First question comes from Myfta.
0:17“What is the difference between ‘fate’
and ‘destiny’ and when can I use them?”
0:24So, both “fate” and “destiny” refer
to an outcome in the future.
0:29It's kind of like a big outcome.
0:31We use “fate” and “destiny” when talking
about like epic stories, really big stories
0:36or like really kind of big life moments, for
example.
0:40The difference in meaning, though, is that
“fate” often has a kind of a negative
0:47Like there's a negative outcome, something
bad is going to be the outcome.
0:51“Destiny,” however, sounds like something
really positive, something good or maybe like
0:57you're going to have a leadership role or
there's something happy that's going to happen
1:02“It's your destiny to save the world.”
1:04“He accepted his fate and sat in the dark
dungeon.”
1:07“We're going to be the leaders in our community.
1:11“Her fate was decided the moment she stole
from the company.”
1:15So, you can hear in these sentences, even
just the feeling of the sentence, it's kind
1:20of a negative situation or a negative idea
with “fate” and something kind of positive
1:26or happy or optimistic with the word “destiny.”
1:28So, that's the difference between them.
1:31Thanks for the question.
1:33Next question comes from Shokruk.
1:36I'm very sorry, Shokruk.
1:38Can you explain passive voice?”
1:41Actually, I would recommend checking this
video where I talked about the difference
1:45between active and passive voice.
1:48I hope that this helps you.
1:50This could be a nice introduction to this
grammar point.
1:53So, please check this out.
1:55I'll try to make sure a link goes in the description
of this video.
1:59Thanks for the question.
2:00Next question comes from Jitu.
2:04“How do you use words like ‘sit,’ ‘wear,’
‘stand,’ ‘live,’ ‘work,’ in simple
2:10past and past continuous tense?
2:13If they're used in these tenses, what is the
difference in meaning?
2:19So, a quick grammar review.
2:20We use simple past tense for actions that
started and finished in the past.
2:25“I sat at my desk and worked today.”
2:28“She stood next to me and watched me work.”
2:31“I lived in that place for three years.”
2:34Then we use the past continuous or the past
progressive tense to talk about actions that
2:39were continuing in the past.
2:41So, we use this when we want to talk about,
one, actions that were interrupted.
2:46So, we're doing something, doing something,
doing something, and then another action happens
2:52Or, when we want to talk about what we were
doing at a specific point in time, a continuing
2:58action we were doing at a specific point in
time.
3:01So, we don't want to explain it had finished,
we only want to explain that it was continuing
3:08“I was sitting at my desk working when the
phone rang.”
3:11“She was standing next to me, watching me
work, when the manager came in.”
3:16“I was living in that place in 2012.”
3:18So, maybe you can see, we use simple past
tense for actions that started and finish,
3:24just a simple action like a simple report
of that action.
3:27We’ll use the past progressive or the past
continuous tense to talk about actions that
3:33continue and then were stopped by another
action or to refer to something that was happening
3:39at a specific point in time in the past, something
that was continuing like, “I was living
3:44there,” or, “I was working at that company
that year,” for example.
3:47So, I hope that that helps a little bit.
3:50Thanks for the question.
3:52Next question comes from Pullum Abadi Nusantara.
3:58What is the difference between ‘goes wrong,’
‘went wrong,’ and ‘gone wrong?’”
4:02Oh, the difference is the point in time.
4:04These are just different points in time where
a mistake happens.
4:07So, let's make example sentences to see exactly
what the difference is.
4:13“I hope nothing goes wrong with this project.”
4:16Something went wrong with the project.”
4:18“Everything has gone wrong with the project.”
4:20So, here, we see a future tense statement,
“I hope nothing goes wrong,” that's a
4:25future, a future request, a future wish, a
future hope.
4:29“I hope nothing goes wrong.”
4:31We see a past tense, “Uh-oh.
4:33Something went wrong.”
4:34So, a mistake happened and is finished.
4:36And, “Everything has gone wrong,” it means
everything from the beginning of the project
4:43until the present time, everything has been
mistaken, there's been some problem with everything
4:49that has continued until the present point
in time.
4:53So, these are just different grammar points,
different points in time where a mistake happens.
4:58I hope that helps answer your question.
5:00Next question from Dulce Coromoto Putana Vandervelt.
5:08What's the difference between ‘on the beach’
and ‘at the beach?’
5:11Also, between ‘to lay’ and ‘to lie.’”
5:15Okay, you have two big questions.
5:16First, the difference between “on the beach”
and “at the beach.”
5:21So, “on the beach” is used to talk about
activities that happen on the surface of the
5:26beach, things that are like about the surface,
like the sand itself, physically on the beach.
5:32“I want to enjoy the Sun on the beach.”
5:34“He found a shell on the beach.”
5:36“At the beach,” however, is for activities
that happen there.
5:40They aren’t on physically, like the surface
of the beach.
5:44It's just four things that happen in that
location.
5:47“Let's go swimming at the beach.”
5:48“She said to meet at the beach.”
5:50So, I hope that helps answer that question.
5:53Let's go on to your next question which is
more difficult.
5:56“Lay” and “lie,” the difference between
these two.
5:59Actually, native speakers confuse these all
the time.
6:02So, if you make a mistake, don't worry too
much about it.
6:05The difference is “lay,” the verb, “lay,”
in present tense uses a direct object.
6:11“Lie” does not use a direct object.
6:13“Lay down your bag here.”
6:15“Lie down on the sofa.”
6:16But, this gets more complicated because the
past tense form of the verb, “lie” is
6:24“He lay down on the sofa.”
6:25“We lay down and went to sleep.”
6:27The past tense of “lay,” however, is “laid.”
6:30“We laid our bags on the table.”
6:33“She laid her keys on the desk.”
6:35So, the difference between these two is just
that one verb takes a direct object and one
6:42In most cases, you're not going to cause any
communication problems by making a mistake
6:48Native speakers do it all the time.
6:50But if you want to know the difference, that's
what the difference is.
6:54Next question comes from Imon.
6:57“What does ‘there's still a lot of room
for improvement’ mean?”
7:02It means improvement is still possible.
7:05This is an expression that's used to give
like criticism and encouragement.
7:10So, the speaker is communicating to the listener.
7:13Like, “I think you can do better,” something
better is possible.
7:18“There's room for improvement” means something
better than this is still possible.
7:23So, “I think you can do better than this.”
7:27Those are all the questions that I want to
answer for this week.
7:30Thank you, as always, for sending me your
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7:52Such air traffic. Many plane.
