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and no longer thank you great question okay let's talk about no more and not anymore to start and then we'll go to the second part so no more can be used in a couple of different situations first let's talk about the everyday conversational use of no more we use no more to express like when something is too much for example if someone is bringing us lots and lots of food to eat we might say h no more meaning no more food please or no more of that please it's too much so we use no more

to mean I don't want anym of that so you might have just picked up on me also using anymore in this situation too so when I said no more please it means like too much I don't want that anymore but we cannot use not anymore in this situation we use not anymore to refer to a condition that has changed so for example if you worked at company a for a very long time and then changed your company you might use not anymore to express this in a conversation with another person they might say to you

hey are you still working at company a and you might say not anymore now I'm working at Company B so this expresses a change in condition so I am not anymore working at that company so not anymore is used to express a change in condition when I used no more to express that something was too much and I wanted something to stop I said no more please no more I don't want any more of that so we use this slightly different form to express something is too much and we use not anymore to talk about

a change in condition here's another example where you might use not anymore for example in a conversation between two friends talking about their dating life one person might say hey I thought that you were seeing that guy that you met at the bar last week and the second person might say not anymore we were in a good fit so again this expresses a change in condition we use not anymore to talk about something that is different from the expected condition so I hope this helps show the difference between no more and not anymore now let's

talk about no longer no longer we don't use no longer so much in everyday conversation but it can be used also like not anymore to talk about a change in condition or a desired change in condition for example you might hear a politician use the Expression no no longer to talk about a desired change for the future like no longer will we have to struggle in this situation so that means not anymore will we have to struggle in this situation so this use of no longer is often used in kind of like motivating speeches like

in a politics situation or maybe in like a war or battle situation in movies like no longer will we do this thing or no longer will we stand for this policy something like that it means we are not going to do that anymore so the grammar I'm using there is no longer will we this means we are not going to do that anymore so you can kind of think of no longer as like a more formal way of saying not anymore but we tend to use it to talk about our future plans or our future

expectations like I'm no longer going to be working for this company or I'm no longer going to do X Y and Z so this is talking about something that will not be true in the future or that we desire to not be true in the future so I hope this kind of clarifies the difference between these words finally the last point I want to make is about the first expression no more so we also use this no more in the same way as no longer to mean this is something we are not going to put

up with anymore so we use this no more again in more formal situations like when we're talking about struggle so like some kind of political difficulty for example like country a is giving country b a hard time and we will stand for this no more so again these kinds of Expressions no more and no longer tend to sound a little bit more formal but you may see them in like dramatic movies or in political situations we don't really use them so much in everyday conversation even in professional conversation but this is maybe how you might

see them used from time to time so I hope that this helps you understand the differences between these three Expressions interesting question okay great thanks very much for sending along that question let's move on to your next question next question comes from miam at hi Mariam Mar says what is the difference between immigration migration and immigration great question okay immigration migration immigration let's talk about migration first migration refers to animals the patterns of animals in the different seasons so we often use migration to talk about birds so migration refers to the seasonal movement patterns of

animals so Birds often migrate that's the verb form they migrate south for the winter they go to warmer climates so the noun form of this is migration we sometimes use migration to talk about people's movements as well like especially when we're talking about climate change people moving from certain regions of the world to other regions of the world as maybe climate change has affected their home region so migration is usually used to talk about the behaviors of animals in relationship to the seasons but you may occasionally see it used to talk about how people's movements

have changed in response to like climate related issues now though let's talk about immigration and immigration so they are very very closely related to immigrate with an E refers to leaving your own country so leaving the place that you are from or the place where you were born that is immigration immigration means going into the new country so you can see how these are very very commonly confused and very very easy to mix up if you get confused between them that's okay that's totally normal it's very normal to check the dictionary just to make sure

before you use one of these words so immigration maybe it can be helpful for you to think of immigration as sounding kind of like in right so I know it's IMM immigration but it sounds a little bit like in so remember immigration as going into the country immigration refers to leaving the country departing the country so as you can see they're very very closely related so you would say in a sentence I immigrated to Country a or I immigrated from country B that's the difference here immigration is the noun form immigration is the noun form

as well to immigrate and to immigrate are the verb forms so I hope that helps answer your question thanks very much for sending it along okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from Jose hi Jose Jose says hi could you please explain to us the usages of used to be used to and get used to I would really appreciate it okay thanks very much for this question so the answer to this question does depend on the structure of the sentence we have used to and this be used to so we have

these two things that really really depend on the structure of the surrounding sentence when we use the Expression used to like I'm used to doing this or I'm used to doing that it means I am accustomed to doing that thing so I'm used to cooking dinner every day or I'm used to exercising every morning it means I'm accustomed to doing that thing be used to on the other hand refers to the function of something so for example my phone is used to make calls refers to the function of my phone or this computer is used

to edit videos that refers to the function of that computer so when we use the B verb used to pattern we're referring to the function of something okay so we have this used to and is used to pattern to consider so let's talk about the last one get used to we use this in expressions like ah you'll get used to it or don't worry give it a couple weeks you'll get used to your new job this means you will become accustomed to doing something or you will become accustomed to a new situation get used to

something is used to express that future expectation that you will become accustomed to something you might also hear this used in past tense like ah after a month I got used to it which means it took about a month and then I was a accustomed to doing that thing so to get used to something is used to talk about becoming accustomed to a new situation or maybe to a new action that you have to do okay great so I hope this quick answer gives you a good introduction to the differences between these Expressions to recap

used to refers to being accustomed to something be used to refers to the function of something and get used to refers to becoming accustomed to something or in past tense refers to having become accustomed to something so I hope this answers your question thanks very much for sending it along okay that is everything that I have for this week so thank you as always for sending your great questions hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them maybe let's get to your first question this week

first question this week comes from ninad hi ninad I hope I said your name correctly ninad says what does clocks mean here before anyone clocks my my Chopper oh super great question so clocks this has a couple of different meanings we'll talk about this first one that we saw in your example sentence and then we'll talk about a second use of clocks as a verb here so clock as a noun of course is the thing that we use to tell time but as a verb it has a totally totally different meaning so don't think about

time at all with this answer so first let's look at the example sentence that you provided before anyone clocks my Chopper so Chopper is another way to say helicopter but clocks here means impacts or runs into or hits or damages in some way so we can sometimes use this word in like fight situations for example if we want to talk about a fist fight between two people we might say one guy clocked the other guy which means punched the other guy usually it refers to a punch some kind of impact in some way so we

use clocks in this way to mean he punched the other person you might also hear people using clock in this kind of situation that you've described here clock's my Chopper which means impacts or hits my Chopper or hits my vehicle in some way he clocked me you might hear this used in like a car accident situation to talk about the impact of two vehicles so the reason that we use clock instead of like impact is because clock sounds a lot more casual and kind of rough and it sounds kind of more like a word we

would use in like a fight situation so there's a little bit of kind of an aggressive feel of this too so if you wanted to talk about a car accident in kind of a casual rough way like maybe if you're describing an experience to a friend or to a family member and not to for example the police you would maybe choose to use the word clock like ah the other car clocked me out of nowhere that sounds like you were impacted in a very surprising way and that it was kind of aggressive or it was

a very like shocking moment so clock can be used in this way to talk about hits and impacts and damages in fights and in other accident kind of situations so this is one use of clock as a verb I want to talk about one more use of clock as a verb and that is when we're talking about like racing scenarios in lots of cases so you might hear clock used in a situation like this we clocked him at 60 M an hour so this use of clock means track someone's spe feed or track someone's time

so when you clock a vehicle usually there's some kind of number that comes along with this meaning so in my example sentence we clocked him at 60 M an hour that means the pace of the car was traveling at 60 M an hour or the pace of the vehicle was traveling at 60 M an hour so when you hear clock used with a number usually this is what happens with this pattern it means that's the pace or that's the time that we track someone moving at so here's another example so for this example let's talk

about a runner someone running in a marathon or someone running in a running event if you want to describe that person's time you might use the verb clock to do it for example us say bolt was clocked at 1 minute 30 seconds for the race so that means that was the time that was recorded if it helps you you can think of this use of clock as having some relationship to an actual clock in that you use the clock to understand how much time has passed or the speed of someone's travels or whatever that might

be but this use of clock is usually used to talk about Pace to talk about the speed of something uh and we typically use it with a number so that's a quick way that you can figure out is this a hit and impact clock or is this a pace clock usually the pace and the time one will have some kind of number along with it usually when you talk about an impact there's not a number maybe you might hear somebody say oh he clocked my car at 60 M an hour and in that case it

might be kind of ambiguous and you might need to ask a follow-up question in that case even a native speaker would ask a follow-up question they might say wait do you mean he was traveling at 60 mes an hour or his car hit you and he was going at 60 M an hour like you might need to clarify a little bit and that's totally natural but I hope that this answer helps you understand the different uses of clock as a verb to recap we have impact to clock meaning something impacts something else and we also

have clock meaning to record the time or to record the speed of someone else's movement or someone else's travel so thanks very much for this interesting question I hope this answered it okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from V Hi V Von says I recently learned the expression to shed light on something I understand this means to reveal something but what does shed mean in this expression I checked the dictionary and it seems this word has many uses can can you talk about it yes definitely okay so yes the word

shed has a lot of different uses we have the noun form the noun form often refers to a small building a very small building like you can imagine it slightly bigger than a closet that we usually keep outside of our houses this is the place where we might store like gardening tools or other kind of homeuse equipment stuff that gets dirty easily we might keep this in a shed so that's a very very common noun use of this word but this expression to shed light on something uses shed as a verb and there are several

different uses of shed as a verb so let's break down a few of the most common ones first when we use to shed light on something as you said in your question it does mean like to reveal or like to give some kind of clarity to a situation so one key thing that you can think about with the verb form of shed is that a lot of the meanings of shed as a verb are related to like giving something or taking off something or removing something so in this case you can think of to shed

light on something as putting light on something when you put light on a Surface you can see it more clearly right so that's kind of one way to think about it the other uses of shed are closely related to this idea of removing something or revealing something so let's talk about a couple more first to shed is commonly used with animals so animals when they lose hair or for like maybe snakes and other reptiles when they lose their skin we use the verb shed to talk about that we would say for example H my cat

is shedding which means my cat is losing their hair maybe it's getting hot so the cat is losing their hair we call this shedding so they are removing their skin or they are removing their hair with a snake for example you might say oh the snake is shedding its skin so that means it's removing one layer of skin so to shed with animals means remov moving like some kind of hair or some kind of skin something like that we have a similar application of shed when we talk about humans and kind of like their bacteria

and their germs as well so one application that we see of shed in the news these days is when we hear people talk about shedding virus or shedding some kind of bacteria shedding something that means we are giving off some kind of germ or we're giving off some kind of virus or bacteria so again it's that same idea of kind of releasing something from your body so something is coming off of you in this case it's germs so we have this application for humans and we have it for animals but in both cases we're talking

about giving something off we also have the meaning of just letting go of something of throwing something away kind of with shed to so for example when we say like ah I need to shed these things from my life I need to shed these Concepts from my mind it sounds like you're letting go of something you're giving that thing to the universe maybe or you're you're going to stop thinking about that thing so we also have this this use of shed tends to sound a little bit more formal we might not use this so much

in everyday speech but you might see someone use this in a media situation like in a movie perhaps or in a TV show maybe we don't really use this so much when we talk to our close friends and our close family members but you may see this use of shed so the final use of shed that I want to talk about in this video is one that you kind of see sometimes in emotional situations when we talk about someone crying we often use the Expression to shed tears so again we have that same idea of

removing something or kind of letting something out giving something so in this case the tears come from our eyes you can think of the eyes kind of giving us our tears if you want to imagine it that way but we have this expression to shed tears which means to cry so that means referring specifically to the water coming from your eyes this is another common use of shed so to recap quickly as I said before all of these uses of shed have the common kind of meaning of giving something off or removing something or something

kind of being revealed in some way so I hope that this answers your question about the use of shed in the expression to shed light on and I hope this answer also helps prepare you for the other uses of shed that you might see here and there so thanks very much for this interesting question let's move on to the next question okay next question comes from Mari hi Mari Mari says I know there are some curse words in English people use when they're very angry or upset and they are rude words but sometimes I hear

people use words like shoot too are these words rude are these curse words how do I use them super good question yeah so yes there are many very creative sometimes curse words or swear words or bad words in English we have a few different vocabulary words we use to talk about them curse words or swear words or bad words these are the the words that yes they are rude and we should not use them in polite situations don't use swear words at work or when you're meeting like your relatives maybe I don't know maybe you

have a special relationship with your family and it's okay in your family culture to use swear words that's cool that's up to you but generally yes swear words are not acceptable in polite situations however we do have these kind of substitute swear words so if you're in a situation where maybe you injure yourself or you make a mistake and you want to kind of express your frustration but you need to do it in a polite way we do have these kind of soft curse words so shoot is one perfect example of this so regarding whether

you can use them or how to use them and so on these are words that you can use pretty much anywhere little kids are taught to use these words to express their frustrations in a polite and soft way too so it's okay for adults to use them as well so shoot is one example of this another good one is darn d a RN so when you make a mistake people might say darn so this is a very very very soft way to express frustration or to express that you're feeling upset so I would say shoot

and darn are probably some of the most common ones in American English and those are probably some of the most popularly taught to kids some other examples of sort of soft swear words might be dang it dang it so dang it is d a n g i t dang it so again we use this when we've made a mistake or something has gone wrong and you might often hear people using this kind of snap sound along with that too dang it I messed that up or dang it I didn't do that correctly whatever that might

be so that's another common one so you could put darn and dang it together to get darn it as well so you might have heard that in like a cowboy movie somewhere along the line too that's another one that you might hear in media from time to time so each person kind of chooses whichever sorts of soft curse words they feel are the most appropriate or sometimes we just make up something in the moment that sounds kind of funny so some other common ones that you might hear are people using the word fudge to mean

that they've made a mistake they can use this as a verb like ah I fudged this or you might use it as an exclamation like ah fudge I messed it up fudge is a type of chocolate so this is a pretty soft kind of curse word so you might hear that you might also hear people using the pattern son of a something so this word in an official curse word ends with a very rude word but some people like to use some kind of crazy word at the end of this expression so one that you

might hear sometimes is son of a gun that's a good one or you might hear people say like son of a beeswax or something kind of weird they might they might create something totally original you can do that with curse words if you want to just make something up that's fine to do I have a friend who says like son of a biscuit I think so you can make up kind of whatever you feel like expresses yourself in that moment and just choose use like a really soft word to kind of express your frustrations but

the point is here there are a few swear words that are kind of soft so shoot darn dang it fudge darn it these kinds of things and Son of a plus a kind of soft word these sorts of things express our frustration and they kind of tell the other people around us ah I'm aware I made a mistake or h i really hurt myself something like that so you can use these to express those frustrations and you will not be considered rude for doing that these are much much better choices than using a very rude

swear word but of course if you are in a situation where you hurt yourself you can just use ow or or those kinds of sounds are totally fine don't worry about choosing a word most of us just go ah when we hurt ourselves so you can do the same thing too you don't need to think of a specific vocabulary word unless you want to so I hope this answers your question about these kind of soft swear words I hope that you enjoy choosing some and finding some creative new ones for yourself all right that is

everything that I have for this lesson thanks very much for watching this video it's me shaking it's a dance that's the shake is a dance what's a dance dance okay hi everybody welcome back to know your verbs my name is Alicia and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb Shake let's get started the basic definition of the verb Shake is to move up and down in quick short movements some examples shake the ingredients together in a bag she confidently shook his hand so now let's take a look at the conjugations for this

verb present Shake shakes past shook past participle shaken Progressive shaking so now let's talk about some additional meanings for the verb shake the first additional meaning is to move around because of physical or emotional disturbance some examples the buildings shook in the earthquake his voice shook as he told the sad story in these example sentences uh we see that there's some kind of disturbance that's happening uh so in the first one it's a physical disturbance so the buildings shook in the earthquake there was some physical disturbance and the buildings shook so meaning the buildings moved

like side to side maybe up and down so this motion uh we refer to as shaking uh because of some kind of disturbance in the second example sentence though it's someone's voice so a person's voice shook his voice shook when he told the sad story so in this case it's not like physical motion but it's like the voice sounds unsteady so um this is related to an emotional disturbance so it's a sad story he feels emotional so his voice is shaking it's like you're you're struggling not to cry or you're struggling to hold back emotions

like you can hear a person's voice change um when they're trying to hold in uh to not release kind of strong emotions so we refer to that as like a shaky voice uh to use the adjective form um but we can also use a verb uh shook in this case past tense his voice shook when he told the sad story the second additional meaning for the verb Shake is to get away from something or to become free from something some examples I can't shake the feeling I'm being watched she finally shook her habit of snacking

so in these example sentences we see that shake is being used to refer to getting free of something to shake something so in the first example sentence we see a common expression I can't shake the Fe feeling so I can't shake the feeling means I can't get free I can't escape from this feeling that I have in this case I can't shake the feeling I'm being watched that means I feel always like someone is watching me so probably not a good feeling I can't shake the feeling or like I can't shake the feeling that this

was the wrong thing to do so some kind of feeling you can't escape from we could say I can't shake the feeling in the second example sentence we see Shake used to talk about a bad habit so the example is she finally shook her habit of snacking or we could say her bad habit of snacking so to shake a habit means to escape from or to be free from a bad habit some negative thing that you don't want to do anymore you might have heard this uh meaning applied in that song from Taylor Swift where

she says Shake It Off uh she repeats the expression shake it off where Shake It Off is like negativity shake it off there means Just Let It Go like break free from it escape from that negative feeling so to shake something off is just to let it go shake it off so imagine like it's like dust on your body and you just make a shaking motion and it comes off like you're free you're escaping from that negativity that's the kind of image that she's trying to um suggest in that song to Shake it Off the

next additional meaning for the verb Shake is to upset someone so to upset means like to cause their emotional stability to be disturbed so this can mean to cause someone to be angry or to be sad to be disappointed um usually angry or sad though let's take a look at some examples the awful story really shook me he was shaken by the sudden changes at work so in both of these example sentences Shake is being used to refer ref to a feeling of like unhappiness of Anger of sadness some kind of change from regular emotional

stability in the first example sentence the awful story really shook me it means like that story was so awful that it affected me it upset me emotionally so like I felt really sad or I felt really angry or maybe unhappy in some way so to feel shook by a story is like something really affected you like strongly affected you so you feel quite upset it's not just like a common I feel sad or something it's more like a strong kind of deeper feeling wow that shook me uh in the second what was the second one

he was Shake shaken by the sudden changes at work okay in the second example sentence he was shaken by the sudden changes at work it means sudden changes at his job caused him to feel very upset so all these new things happened and he felt like really surprised or really unhappy or really stressed out so they upset him from his regular like emotional stability he was shaken he was shaken so we can use that uh to refer to a strong emotional disturbance the fourth additional meaning is to decrease stability to decrease stability this is slightly

different from the third meaning which was to upset someone this one is specifically about decreasing stability so it can mean in like some kind of um belief um or it can mean in an organization let's look at some examples the bad news shook her confidence this is a scandal that could shake the entire government so in the first example sentence uh the bad news shook her confidence so here it's not just her but what is being upset what is decreasing in stability here her confidence so maybe the other parts of her personality are fine but

confidence is affected in this case so the bad news shook the bad news decreased the stability of her confidence so in other words her confidence kind of decreased she didn't feel so confident after hearing the bad news in the second example sentence the Scandal could shake the government it means this Scandal is probably so big that it could decrease the stability in the government so that means something really terrible happened and because of that the government's like regular functions or the government's regular ways of doing things um might not continue so it's decreased stability that's

the Nuance of this use of shake one more small point about this one is that this is sometimes used with up so like in the second example sentence uh this Scandal could shake up the entire government like to shake up something is like to kind of change a known idea like we thought we knew everything before but this new information has shaken everything up has shaken up the government like oh it's caused some changes so like we lost some stability this could be a good thing though like to shake up a scientific field for example

like maybe some new discovery shakes up a scientific field but in that moment of like Discovery or like in my second example of like Ain handle in that moment maybe stability decreases but it could it could lead to something positive in the future so you really have to pay attention to the situation to understand is this a positive thing or a negative thing the first variation is to shake one's head to shake one's head is this motion it's this it's this side to side motion that means you disapprove it means no generally uh so let's

look at some examples of this he shook his head when I asked if he was okay don't shake your head at me so to shake your head just means to say no like you don't have to say anything you can use this motion to mean no or to show just disapproval to show like rejection of something so in the first example sentence he shook his head when I asked if he was okay means he did not say anything but he shook his head he made this motion meaning no I asked are you okay and his

response was this meaning no so we use that to talk about that action in the second example sentence it's a command so don't shake your head at me maybe a mother would say this to her child or father might say this to his child like a child shaking their head like this like I don't want to do that or rejecting something their parent said uh the parent might say don't shake your head at me so meaning don't say no to me so the next variation and I put these two together cuz they're very similar they

are to shake loose or to shake something out so these expressions mean to use a shaking motion to remove something so to shake loose or to shake something out let's look at some examples she shook her bag loose from the hook shake the dirt out of the rug so in the first example sentence she shook her bag loose from the hook it's it's like uh her bag is attached to a hook so a hook is like this sort of thing you hang your bag here if the bag is stuck maybe or there's some problem or

I don't know you can't reach it easily um in this case she shook her bag meaning she made this shaking motion to remove her bag from the hook so she shook her bag loose we use loose to talk about that but you can use this expression if there's some like I don't know I don't maybe you go to buy candy from a vending machine and it gets stuck when you buy the thing so you might shake it you might shake your candy loose from the vending machine in that case too so to shake something loose

means to um get something out of like a jammed situation in the second example sentence though we see Shake out so uh the second example sentence was shake the dirt out of the rug it means again make a shaking motion to remove dirt from a rug so means do this and get the dirt or what whatever else is in the rug out so remove the dirt from the rug by shaking it so to shake something out of something else okay so those are hopefully a few new ways for you to use the verb Shake I

hope that you found something new uh if you have any questions or comments or would like to try to make an example sentence please feel free to do so in the comment section of this video hi everybody welcome back to know your verbs my name is Alicia and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb air let's get started let's begin with a basic definition of the verb air the basic definition is to broadcast on radio or TV some examples when is this episode going to air this radio show airs every week now

let's take a look at the conjugations for each verb present air airs past aired past participle aired Progressive airing so now let's talk about some additional meanings for this verb the first additional meaning of the verb air is to express opinions this is often though um complaints or problems some examples they air their grievances at the meeting please air any issues with this policy at the next conference so in these example sentences we see air used to talk about expressing something expressing an opinion but as I said this is typically some kind of problem there's

an issue there's um something that people want to complain about so when we air a grievance as in the first example sentence it means Express a complaint really or say a complaint make a complaint but to air a grievance sounds quite formal so a grievance is like something you are grieving in other words something that makes you unhappy uh but it's a noun a grievance so to air a grievance means to express a complaint to talk about a problem that you have in the second example sentence uh where the expression air any issues you have

with the policy it means again to complain about a policy or to share your opinions about this policy uh to share any maybe problems you have about the policy so to air means to express an opinion the second additional meaning is to expose to air for ventilation we often use out with this meaning let's take a look at some examples he aired his laundry outside we airing out the bedding today so in the first example sentence he aired his laundry outside we see that he is exposing his clothes probably to air outside somewhere so that

means like hanging up clothes so that air can flow through them air as a noun here that means that the um like breeze or sunlight or whatever makes the clothes feel fresh hopefully so to air laundry refers to letting laundry be exposed to like sunlight to the outdoors in the second example sentence we're airing out the bedding today it means the same thing it means our bedding so bedding refers to like sheets or like covers or pillowcases for example to air out bedding means to expose that to sunlight to air to the breeze so that

it becomes more Fresh So to air out um is sometimes used or we might just see air to air something as well it means to expose it to Fresh Air to expose it to the Sun as well this is definitely a short episode but I think it's important to keep in mind that air actually as a verb has some very interesting and quite different meanings so keep an eye out for it the next time you see it used as a verb in a sentence I hope that you found something new uh anyway if you have

any questions or comments about this verb please feel free to let us know in the comment section of this video hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them maybe let's get to your first question this week first question comes from anishka hi anishka anishka says hi Alicia I love your ask Alicia series and my question is can you explain the difference between beside and be besides great question yeah let's start by talking about beside with no s at the end the word beside means next

to so for example please sit beside me or her bag is beside the couch so beside is used to talk about the position of something on the other hand besides with an S at the end is used to talk about situations in which we need to add a little bit of extra information to prove a point so here's an example of this let's say you're thinking about going to a concert and you really want to go but you're not able to because you have a family engagement for example like you have a family birthday party

or something you might say I really wanted to go to that concert but I have to go to this family party tonight besides the tickets were really expensive so that besides means in addition to this situation something else so we kind of use besides to connect to points that are making the same argument and we typically do it with kind of negative situations like we're saying in the first part I'm not able to attend this concert that I wanted to go to also the tickets were really expensive so it's kind of like you're supporting the

argument with this besides word to show there's this other reason that you weren't able to do it so when you're talking about these situations in which something kind of negative is happening and you want to mention another negative thing you can use besides to do that so let's look at another example of this let's say you're talking with someone about a new job opportunity and you want to know how they're doing they might say something like well I was really interested in the job and the interview went well but I'm not sure that it's the

right fit for me besides there's been a lot of negative information in the news about this company lately so this is another situation in which you're kind of talking about something that you're choosing not to do or ultimately you're not going to do and you're giving some extra information to back up that feeling that you have to back up that opinion so to back up means to support that opinion so in both of these situations you're talking about something that is not going to happen as expected and then you're also giving another reason for that

with besides like saying in addition to this sort of kind of uncomfortable situation or this unfortunate situation there's this other thing that leads me to make the same decision so this is how we use besides with an S but we use beside with no s to talk about something that is next to or by or near us so I hope that this answers your question thanks so much for sending it along okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from Assan hi Assan Assan says hi Alicia can we use among and between

interchangeably nice question no you cannot use them interchangeably so among is used when we're talking about a group of something so for example let's say you're in the forest and you are standing in the middle of the forest there are lots of trees around you right you could say I am standing among the trees right so that means you're kind of inside a group of something right you might also say this when you're in a group of people as well like oh she's standing among the people in the crowd so this sounds like you're surrounded

by something or when you have like a blot of things to choose from you might say like choose your favorite color from among these choices which sounds like there are many different options for you on the other hand between is used when there are just two things so again if you are in the forest for example and you decide to stand between two trees you would not use among to describe that you would say I am between two trees I'm standing between two trees you wouldn't say I'm among two things we use between when we

have two choices we would do the same thing when we're choosing our favorite color for example if you said please choose your favorite from between these two colors it sounds like there are only two options so this was a really quick breakdown of the differences between among and between but the general guide to keep in mind is that we use among when there are many options or many choices or many things to consider in the situation and we use between when there are two things to consider in the situation in my earlier example about the

forest we also use between to talk about a position that is in the middle of two things so I hope that this quick answer helps you understand the differences between among and between thanks so much for sending it along okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from Francis oh hello Francis I hope I said your name correctly Francis says hi Alicia could you tell me the difference between in front of and opposite thanks okay nice question yeah so infront of versus opposite the key difference here is really kind of in your

position and kind of in what you want to express in this situation so I know that's a very very vague answer so let's get into what I mean in front of let's start here so when we say that something is in front of something else it means that the position of that thing for example my phone is directly like before something else so I could say my phone is in front of me right now yeah or when you think of like your house you might be able to think of something that is in front of

your house maybe there's a fence in front of your house or a road in front of your house right so in front of refers to anything that is in the position like before you or before something else on the other hand opposite is used when we have kind of you can think of like a direct reflection of something on the other side so what does that mean so for example when you go to a restaurant or to a cafe you're sitting in the restaurant in the cafe and on the other side of the table is

another person right you're there with your friend for example you could say my friend is opposite me so why is opposite okay to use here it's because you are one person and your friend is one person we use opposite when the two things are facing each each other and they are about the same so another example of this would be buildings so let's say you're thinking about your house for example you could say my house is opposite my friend's house so that sounds like there are two houses they're kind of the same style building the

same kind of thing and they are directly on the other side of one another you could say yes my friend's house is in front of my house or you could say I am sitting in front of my friend that is also okay to say but we use opposite when we're talking about something that's like a direct reflection of something and there is some flexibility with this expression we tend to use it a lot when we're talking about cities and buildings and cities so for example if you say I live opposite the bank that's okay of

course your house is not a bank that's fine to say I live opposite the bank it's just like you're saying you live in a direct like line of sight from that thing and the two things are kind of roughly the same so if I put my phone on the table at a restaurant I would not say I'm sitting opposite my phone that sounds kind of strange because the two things are not equal so this is how we use opposite to talk about positions so in some we can use in front of to talk about something

that is kind of before us anything that is before us that we can kind of see or that we can interact with that thing is in front of us that's our position on the other hand opposite is used when there's kind of a reflection happening so one person is here one person is there one house is here one house is there they're kind of equal sorts of things this is how we use opposite to talk about position so I hope that this helped you understand the difference between in front of and opposite thanks so much

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it a thumbs up and subscribe to our Channel if you haven't already also check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your English studies thanks very much for watching this week's episode of ask Alicia and I will see you again soon bye hi everybody my name is Alicia welcome to the 2000 core English words and phrases video series each lesson will help you learn new words practice and review what you've learned okay let's get started first is lobby lobby lobby a Lobby is the basic place in a hotel usually

where people can wait or people can make arrangements to meet someone else it's kind of a space for everyone to use here's an example Hotel lock Lobby hotel lobby hotel lobby wakeup service wakeup service wakeup service wakeup service is a service you can request from hotel staff you can ask the front desk staff at the hotel to call your room at a certain time to wake you up here's an example I used the wakeup service to call me at 6:00 a.m. I used the wakeup service to call me at 6:00 a.m. I used the wakeup

service to call me at 6:00 a.m. sweet sweet sweet a sweet is a type of hotel room in a sweet style hotel room there is a kitchen and maybe a sitting area included inside the room here's an example hotel suite hotel suite hotel suite cycling cycling cycling cycling is a popular sport cycling uses a bicycle usually people who cycle like to go for long distances and even participate in competitions here's an example cycling race cycling race cycling race auto racing auto racing auto racing auto racing is short for automobile racing so this refers to a

sport where cars are raced on a racing track here's an example racing car on an auto racing track racing car on an auto racing track racing car on an auto racing track Scotch tape Scotch tape Scotch tape Scotch tape is actually a brand of tape this is a very commonly used kind of very clear thin tape we of use around the house in the office at school and so on here's an example roll of Scotch tape roll of Scotch tape roll of Scotch tape be born be born be born so we use born to talk

about the date of our birth or the location of our birth make sure when you use this verb that you change the B verb to match your subject for example I was born he was born she was born or you were born and so on for example I was born in 1980 I was born in 1980 I was born in 1980 get a job get a job get a job to get a job means to go out and search for a way to earn money this can be a part-time job a full-time job a freelance

job and so on here's an example my brother finally got a job my brother finally got a job my brother finally got a job die die die the verb to die means to no longer be alive we can use the verb to talk about people no longer being alive animals plants basically any living thing here's an example die of an illness die of an illness die of an illness Tokyo Tokyo Toyo Tokyo is a very very big city in Japan it's one of the biggest cities if not the biggest city in terms of population in

the world here's an example Tokyo is really convenient Tokyo is really convenient Toyo is really convenient let's review I'm going to describe a word or phrase in English see if you can remember it then repeat after me focusing on pronunciation ready do you remember how to say the open space usually in a hotel where people can meet others lobby lobby and how to say the service you can ask for in the hotel where the front desk staff will call you in the morning wakeup service wakeup service okay what about the type of hotel room that

has a kitchen and maybe a sitting area included sweet sweet do you remember how to say the sport that's done by riding a bicycle for long distances cycling cycling okay let's try the sport that's played by using Cars That Vary fast speeds on a racetrack auto racing auto racing what about the word that describes the common office tool that is very sticky on one side and used to connect two things together Scotch tape Scotch tape now let's see if you remember how to say the verb we use to talk about the place of our birth

or the date of our birth be born be born another one what about the expression we use when we finally find a way to earn some money in exchange for doing some tasks get a job get a job do you remember how to express when someone or something alive no long longer is living die die and finally do you remember how to say the name of Japan's biggest city Tokyo Tokyo well done see you next time bye hi everybody my name is name is Alicia in this lesson I'm going to talk about prepositions that we

use in common present perfect tense sentences I'm going to talk about four prepositions and how we commonly use them let's get started okay first I want to practice a few examples with the preposition to to so we use to one of the uses of to is to express motion or to refer to some motion happening so we use two in present perfect tense Expressions when we're talking about traveling or we're talking about movement from one place to another so these are a few common verbs that we use to with of course for today's lesson I'm

focusing on present perfect tense but of course you can use these verbs in other tenses with this preposition too so some very common examples are I have been to to place or I have traveled to place I have driven to place so for this lesson these are all the past participle forms of the verbs but again you can use uh for example past tense or a future tense expression as well another key point is when you use the preposition to you need to use a specific place name for example I've been to China or I've

traveled to France or I've driven to school so we're using a specific place name here a common error a common mistake that I hear among Learners is that people will use the word there here like I have been to there that's incorrect we need to use a specific place name here we can't use there and a preposition if you want to say there just remove the preposition I've been there oh I've traveled there I've driven there there and then it's perfect so again two plus a specific place or there with no preposition another situation where

you'll use two is when you're talking about movement of like objects as well so in this case digital objects we can imagine files as digital objects for example he has sent the files to the clients so here again with this two we're talking talking about some movement in the first example it was movement of people like an actual body or bodies moving from place to place in this example we're talking about data or we're talking about objects moving from place to place so with a verb like maybe send in this case sent the past participle

form we use to to talk about that so the item or items in this case that is moving and the direction here so we're marking this destination and we're showing the movement the relationship here with two so we use two to express motion to talk about movement and we use two before the destination the place where we're going or in this case uh the person receiving something okay so now let's go to at the second part I want to talk about is at we use at to Mark the location of something the place where an

action occurs the place where something happens so there are many different verbs that we can use with at and similar to two we follow at with a specific location so again we don't say at there we can't use that pattern we need to use at plus a specific place name or like a city name country name and so on so some examples of verbs you might use are study or see or stay so these are verbs that aren't relating like to movement we're not moving from one place to another and objects aren't moving from one

place to another place rather these verbs are talking about actions where like we as people people remain in place or as objects the object remains in place there's not movement really so when we want to express that we put the verb uh in this case past participle form and then we follow that or we follow the verb phrase with at and connect it to the place so for example I have studied at ABC College I have studied at ABC college so I cannot use two here I have studied two ABC college is incorrect because this

verb is not indicating Motion in some way it's study so study is the action and we're talking about the place where the action happened so there's not like we're not reporting on movement or motion of any kind another example we haven't seen a basketball game at the city Arena we haven't seen a basketball game at the city Arena so again at is marking this specific location where activity seeing a basketball game happens or in this case has not happened so the speaker is saying we have not had the experience of watching or seeing a basketball

game at this Arena so we're marking the location with at my verb is C here again we're not talking about motion or movement we're talking about staying in one place and doing something in that location one more example she has stayed at that hotel she has stayed at that hotel so my verb is stay the past participle form is stayed and I'm talking about that hotel specifically that hotel so yes I'm using that that's fine in a conversation I might say something or the first person in this conversation might say something like oh hey does

she know that hotel or has she heard of that hotel and the followup might be yeah she has stayed at that hotel so a specific Hotel here again this is the action staying staying is the action we mark it with at so we cannot use to here she has stayed to that hotel is incorrect because two marks motion stay is not a motion it is not a movement we are doing it in place in this location so please be careful when you're choosing between at and to uh for these kinds of Expressions yes we can

use both prepositions before a specific place but they have different functions so at marks our location for something two is marking our motion and movement towards a location okay so let's go on to the second part of this lesson for the second part I want to talk about four and sense very very commonly used with present perfect tense first we use use four to Mark time periods time periods so a length of time we use four to mark this for example he has worked here for two years he has worked here for two years so

the activity is working in this case he has worked here and we're marking this time period years with four so four shows us the length of time that something happened so this sentence means he's still working here like this is an ongoing activity this is still happening and we want to mention how long the activity has happened another example she has been sleeping for 10 hours she has been sleeping for 10 hours so yes this is an example that's in the present perfect progressive form that's fine you can use the same rules with present perfect

Progressive again we're marking a time period with four you'll notice too that these are all in the plural form so make sure it's not to year or four 10 hour whatever we need to make sure to pronounce clearly and right in writing this s here to make the plural form so this is marking a time period a length of time one more example we have been dating for six months we have been dating for six months so that means six months ago we started dating and since that time I'll talk about since in just a

moment for that time period until this conversation the dating has continued so they have been in a relationship so we use four to mark this kind of time so we cannot use to we cannot use at here so we don't use two because we're not showing motion of some kind we he has worked here two two years is incorrect we cannot use at because we're not sharing some location of an activity the focus here is on a period of time so let's compare this to since since we use since as a preposition to Mark a

past point in time to Mark a past point in time so this is a key difference with four four marks a period of time since Marks a past Point only so we're not marking like a d ation we're not marking a length of time since tells us when something started or maybe the last time something happened depending on the sentence so let's look at some examples I've lived here since 2013 I've lived here since 2013 so since Marks our past point in time 2013 so that means beginning in 2013 and continuing until this conversation I've

lived here I've lived here so since tells us when it started in this case here though let's look at a negative we haven't seen you since high school we haven't seen you since high school so since comes before high school here now High School is not like a point in time like a year or a month or a day no but it marks a point like in life high school so we can understand High School is our point in the past here and the action we haven't seen you so that means from high school until

this conversation the speakers did not see the listener in this period of time so high school is the starting point the conversation is the ending point and they want to express in this period uh they did not meet they did not see each other one more example she hasn't come to work since Monday she hasn't come to work since Monday so here our specific past point is Monday since tells us that and she hasn't come to work so starting at this point in the past starting at Monday this person she has not come to work

so until this conversation so no appearance by this person so since is marking some past point in time for is marking a period of time a duration of time so we can't use these uh inter changeably we can't switch them up also we cannot use to or at in these cases either no location is being given like yes High School a high school is a location but here we're talking about a period of life that is high school a time period of Life uh so we can't use at we can't use to here so I

hope that this is helpful uh in choosing between for and since and I hope this is helpful in choosing between to and at of course we can use other prepositions as well but these are some very common ones and I think good ones for Learners to practice so I hope that it was helpful for you of course if you have any questions or comments or if you want to practice making example sentences or if you want to talk about some other prepositions please feel free to do so in the comment section of this video also

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an energetic person if someone has a lot of energy you can say they're energetic you can use this if someone is really active or hyper happiness nothing is more important than happiness this is a noun form of the word happy when you're happy you are experiencing happiness emotional my friend gets so emotional when she talks about politics if someone shows very strong feelings about something you could say they're being emotional if a movie song or something else makes you feel like crying from happiness or sadness you can say it's emotional anger you have to control

your anger anger is a thing you feel when you're angry if something really bothers or annoys you it makes you feel angry jealousy jealousy is an ugly thing jealousy is what you feel when you are unhappy that someone else succeeded it's also something you feel if you think your boyfriend or girlfriend like someone else excitement the thought of going to Disney World fills me with excitement if you're really looking forward to something fun you can say that you feel excited grumpy I'm always Grumpy in the morning until I have some coffee if someone is grumpy

it means they're not not happy and you probably should leave them alone a grumpy person usually seems really negative remorseful I feel pretty remorseful about how I quit my job feeling remorseful about something is similar to feeling sorry about something proud I'm really proud of my son for making such good grades feeling proud of someone is when you feel really good about them for something they did you can also feel proud of things you've done like if you're proud of how hard you worked okay that's all for 10 words to describe your feelings and if

you really want to become fluent and speak English from the very first lesson go to englishclass101.com please leave a comment and don't forget to subscribe I'll see you next time bye [Music] are you struggling to understand conversations in your target language this video will improve your listening skills using practice dialogues how do you know if your language skills are improving our team of teachers have designed a free quiz to determine your actual learning level so click the link in the description to get your free assessment and unlock lessons that are right for you in this

lesson you'll listen to a dialogue with the text second you'll review the key vocabulary followed by the English translations and finally you'll review the dialogue with the text again to master what you learned first listen to the dialogue with the text on the screen look at this blouse Jess wow that's a nice color it looks very pretty on you Ashley thank you I really like it are you going to buy it I think I am but I wish it were on sale it's a bit expensive well there's no sales tax in Portland is that considered

on sale ha that's sealed the deal I'll buy it now you will hear the key vocabulary followed by the English translation blouse a woman's loose upper garment resembling a shirt blouse blouse our second word is color the appearance something has because of the way it reflects light color color next we have pretty visually pleasing attractive pretty pretty next is buy to get something in exchange for money buy buy our next word is sale the exchange of a commodity for money sale sale next we have tax compulsory contribution to State Revenue tax tax next is considered

thought carefully about considered considered next is sealed the state of being joined or rendered impervious sealed sealed and our last word is deal agreement or transaction between people deal deal finally let's review the dialogue again see if you can understand more this time look at this blouse Jess wow that's a nice color it looks very pretty on you Ashley thank you I really like it are you going to buy it I think I am but I wish it were on sale it's a bit expensive well there's no sales tax in Portland is that considered on

sale huh that's sealed the deal I'll buy it this is the end of the lesson in this lesson you improved your listening and mastered key vocabulary for everyday life conversation don't forget to click the link in the description to get your free assessment and unlock lessons that are right for your learning level keep practicing and move on to the next [Music] lesson hi everybody my name is Alicia in this lesson I'm going to talk about Expressions you can use to decline or reject invitations so these are expressions you can use to politely say no to

something let's get started okay on this side of the board I want to talk about some casual Expressions these are expressions you can use with friends with family members with close co-workers these are everyday Expressions you can use to say no when someone invites you to something let's let's start with the first one thanks for the invitation but so at Native speed this sounds like thanks for the invitation but you can use this in speech and you can use this in writing a couple of points thanks for we use thanks for and we use the

invitation the invitation so this the means your invitation this time thanks for the invitation but and after but we include some reason so I'm going to say no here's my reason thanks for the invitation but I have to work that day thanks for the invitation but I have to work that day so I've used that day in my example but you can change that day to I have to work tonight or I have to work tomorrow or I have to work that weekend whatever the time whatever the day of the invitation you can change this

part of the pattern sorry I have to work that day at Native speed this sounds like thanks for the invitation but I have to work or thanks for the invitation but I have to work that day okay the next one I already have plans I already have plans please notice here plans is in the plural form so not I already have a plan but I already have plans we use this plans to talk about something we already decided to do I already have plans this one is one I personally don't use a lot because it's

not specific if someone says sorry I already have plans I feel like it's a lie like they don't want to join me and they don't have a good reason not to so they say this I feel like this is one you can use if you really don't want to join someone and you don't have a good reason to do that uh or you don't have a good reason not to join so I don't like to use this one generally I'll try to be specific like ah sorry I have to work like there's usually a reason

I can't do something but you may hear this which means someone already has a plan of course you can use this as well if you have if you really do have a plan and you just you don't want to tell the other person it's a private plan or there's some reason you want to keep it a secret you can use I already have plans okay the next one is I'm not feeling well I'm not feeling well so don't forget this m I'm I'm not I not but I'm not I'm not feeling well well this means

I'm sick so I'm a little bit sick that's the feeling here I'm not feeling well in the Progressive form here shows that this is my condition now so at Native speed thanks for the invitation but I'm not feeling well so this means I'm sick sorry I can't join you and you can use good here too you will hear native speaker say I'm not feeling good I'm not feeling so good I'm not feeling great you can change it a little bit but this is another common way to reject an invitation okay another very useful one this

one I use a lot uh honestly is I'm really busy with work I'm really busy with work of course you can change work to studies I'm really busy with my studies or I'm really busy studying for a test again I'm don't forget this m sound I'm really busy and you can change this you can remove really and say sorry I'm busy with work I can't I'm busy with work that's fine as well really is just an emphasis word sorry I'm really busy with work also we use this preposition here I'm really busy with work or

if you are at the office when you reply to this in most cases you can say I'm really busy at the office today or I'm really busy at work today sorry I can't come you may also hear that used uh for places I'm really busy at the office sorry I'm really busy at school today you can use it for places too or you can use with Plus work or studies at Native speed it sounds like thanks for the invitation but I'm really busy with work okay last one is I'm spending time with my family I'm

spending time with my family so again I'm I am plus the progressive spending I'm spending spending time so spending time means I'm taking time or I'm using my time now to be with my family I'm spending time with my family so this means I have a plan or right now uh my uh I am actually in the act of spending time with my family so you can use this uh to mean now at the moment or you can also use this expression to mean on that day so on the date of the invitation you can

use the same expression too so sorry I'm spending time with my family on that day so in Native speed sounds like thanks for the invitation but I'm spending time with my family okay so these are a few good examples I think of reasons you can give uh when you need to reject an invitation some other things you might hear at the beginning of this statement are sorry I can't sorry I can't so this is common in like text messages because it's so short this is especially common when you're talking with very close friends like you

don't need to say thanks for the invitation every time but this is very quick and easy sorry I can't I have to work that day so follow sorry I can't with one of these expressions or something similar another good one is I would love to but I would love to but so this to is like a response to the invitation a verb in the invitation for example do you want to see a new movie this weekend so I would love to see a new movie but we drop the rest of that uh expression I would

love to verb from the invitation but I have to work that day I already have plans so I would love to so this means this is an unreal situation like that sounds good that sounds awesome I want to do that but I can't so we use would here instead of will because this is unreal a future thing that is unreal so I would love to but I can't so these are casual Expressions you can use with your friends okay let's go to some formal Expressions on this side of the board of course these Expressions you

can use at work as well they don't sound rude I would suggest using this one for work invitations to sound a little bit more polite but sometimes you have invitations that are more formal uh so perhaps a business event or an academic event here's one example of a way to reject an invitation I appreciate the invitation but I am unable to attend I appreciate the invitation but I am unable to attend so here I appreciate the invitation this is a leveled up form of thanks for the invitation so I appreciate the invitation but so we

have the same pattern here just the level of formality is different I appreciate the invitation but I am unable unable means not able I cannot do something I am unable to attend so to come in other words so this is for us some kind of work event some kind of maybe academic conference for example I appreciate the invitation but I'm unable to attend you may hear a reason after this I'm unable to attend due to something something I'm unable to attend due to a prior engagement or something like this so engagement a prior engagement means

a plan I made before so a prior prior means before for engagement means some kind of activity some kind of appointment so this is a fancy way of saying thanks for the invitation I can't come because I have other plans that's what this means in a formal setting so this is quite common uh for again more polite situations I want to introduce one more here uh this one is one that we use in writing please not we use this in writing this is a very common way to begin a rejection letter so this is something

uh you may see from universities in particular if you apply for a school you apply to enter a university or you maybe apply for a job or something similar and you receive a rejection letter or rejection email you may see this near the beginning of the message so the message is we regret to inform you that or we regret to inform you you may see it without that this means we are sorry to tell you so regret means we have sad feelings about something like we don't want to tell you this but we have to

we regret to inform to inform means to give information to tell someone something to share someone or to share information with someone so we regret to inform you means we're very sorry to tell you that your application has not been accepted your application has not been accepted so this could be a school application it could be a job application or something else has not been accepted you may also see simple past tense your application was not accepted it just means no sorry your application was not accepted or sorry we can't accept you at this time

so this is a very common way to begin the rejection message again this is something that we use in writing we don't really use this in speech but it's quite well known okay let's look at one more way to reject an invitation unfortunately I am not able to participate this time unfortunately I'm not able to participate this time or perhaps you might hear unfortunately I'm not able to attend this time time so a couple points unfortunately shows like ah it's too bad that's kind of what it means sorry it's too bad but I am not

able so again we see this I am not able which is just like I am unable both are correct you can choose whichever you prefer I am not able to participate to participate so this means it could be an event it could be some kind of activity whatever to participate you might use this sometimes instead of attend maybe if someone uh invites you to speak at an event or something like that you might use participate instead of just attend the event and this part is nice to include this time this time so that means for

this event in particular I'm not able to participate sorry but it's like in the future maybe I can so this time shows that you know you can maybe not come now but perhaps in the future if there's an opportunity you might be able to join so I like to include this time when I have to reject an invitation in a formal way so finally I want to end this by talking about like positive ending so how to conclude a message or how to conclude uh some kind of rejection message we tend to end them with

a positive feeling so next time this is a good one for for your friends and for your family members sorry I can't see a movie with you tonight next time so this means next time we have this chance or I'll spend time with you next opportunity so next time is a really quick and easy way to say like please invite me again or let's find another day to get together this is a good one for events I hope I can come next time I hope I can come next time means I hope I'm able to

attend I hope I'm able to join your event or join your party whatever the next time it happens or the next time you do something this one we wish you all the best this is another one that you will see usually in writing this might come at the end of a rejection letter we wish you all the best we wish you all the best means like all the best in your life we wish you lots and lots of good things in your life so like we don't want you to feel upset though this was maybe

a sad letter but we have good wishes for you we wish you all the best okay this is another good one for events for like maybe parties or conferences that you cannot attend I hope it's a great event I hope it's a great event I hope it is a great event or I hope it's a good event or you can change event to to party or to conference or to seminar whatever the activity is and finally best of luck with best of luck with the event or best of luck with your studies so again this

is like saying good luck you can change good luck to best of luck excuse me and when we use best of luck or good luck we use the preposition with best of luck with the event or good luck with the event or best of luck luck with your studies so this introduces again like some kind of well-wishing expression best of luck with something or good luck with something so these are some ways that you can reject or decline offers so I hope that this was helpful for you of course if you know any other Expressions

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