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G'day, guys and welcome to this Q&A,
Question and Answer episode of Aussie
English. Now, it has been a while
since I've done one of these, but I
think I'm going to try and bring them
back because you guys quite often
send me a lot of comments, a lot of
questions, a lot of emails about
different issues that you're having
in English. So, this week I put out a
request for everyone to send me
questions about specific issues they
were having. I did this on Facebook.
You guys sent me a whole bunch of
questions and I will try and go
through all of the ones that I
received in this episode.

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Alright, so the first one is from a
guy called Minsuk, so he said: "I am
currently learning Australian
English, thanks for the videos that
you share. I really enjoy watching
them. I'm confused about how words
that start with EX and EN are
pronounced for example: expensive,
exactly, enjoy, ensure. I use an
online Macquarie Dictionary and
according to it, I have attached the
screenshots, those words above are
pronounced either X or Schwa with an
X or N or Schwa with an N".  Alright,
alright, alright, so you get the
idea. He's asking about words that
start with EN or EX and it is
confusing when you see different
dictionaries give you the IPA, the
International Phonetic Alphabet, and
that the spellings differ. So, here
he's got the Schwa sound at the front
of some of these words /schwa/ the
Schwa sound /schwa/ and then he's
also got /e/ the vowel sound /e/ like
in the word head or bed, ok?

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So, this can happen because if you're
speaking incredibly quickly, like I
am at the moment, you can use the
Schwa when you are saying any word
where the vowel is not on the
syllable, not in the syllable that is
stressed, you can turn it into a sure
sound in English and I'm sure you
guys know about this because it's a
bit of a headache with regards to
English pronunciation. However, in
the case of these words: expensive,
exactly, enjoy, you can also use if
you pronounce it a little more
clearly the actual vowel sound, which
is that... Sound instead of
a....sound, ok?

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So, that's the basic rule there. It
doesn't really matter too much which
one you use, people will understand,
but the reason that the very first
letter the E there has multiple
sounds it has the correct vowel
sound, you know, expensive, exactly,
enjoy, but when speaking quickly
quite often we deemphasize that first
syllable because the second syllable
in these words is the one that's
emphasized. So, have a listen when I
say expensive, which syllable am I
emphasizing? Its pen, right?
Expensive. The same with exactly,
right? XAC, exactly. Enjoy, it's JOY,
ensure, ensure. So, that's the reason
that's happening with those words.
Don't worry too much about it, but
just be aware of the fact I guess
that syllables in long words in
English, well, anything with two
syllables or more, the ones that
aren't emphasized can often become a
Schwa vowel sound instead of the vow
that is written or that is pronounced
if the word is said very very well,
right? If you enunciate incredibly
well: expensive, exactly, enjoy and
it almost sounds weird to say it that
way.

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Christine has a question for me here.
"Hi, Pete. I'm always struggling with
the gerund or two plus infinitive
verbs and then when to use the
infinitive without to. I know that
it's impossible to solve these
problems in one lesson, but I've
given up hope that permanent
repetition might be helpful one day".
I think it's... It is one of those
things where repetition is definitely
going to help and I think the basic
thing isn't obvious the trying to
memorize a single rule that will
always help you, because the problem
in any language is that rules tend to
be broken, I would focus more on
common collocations that you're using
and get used to the fact that certain
verbs will be followed either by the
infinitive or by the gerund or
they'll be verbs that are followed by
the word to and then they'll be
followed by a word that isn't a
gerund or isn't the infinitive,
right?

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Like I'm looking forward to
Christmas, you know? Often people
will think they need to say I'm
looking forward to do something, but
will never use the infinitive after
that phrase I'm looking forward to
some thing, ok? One trick that I
suggest for a lot of people, and I'll
try and get into some of the basic
rules after this, if you can put the
words something after an infinitive
verb or whatever the sentence is if
the word something can go in there,
like I'm doing something, I'm
thinking about something, that would
be an example, I'm thinking about
going to the beach, I'm thinking
about having a shower, if you can put
the words something into a sentence,
usually you can turn something into
the gerund form of the verb if you
want to put a verb in there, right?
An action in there.

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So, if I'm thinking about something,
something there is a noun, if I want
to think about a thing that is an
action, I have to use the verb, but I
have to turn the verb into a noun by
turning it into the gerund by putting
ING on the end of it. I'm thinking
about eating, I'm thinking about
walking, I'm thinking about going, so
you just have to kind of get used to
those patterns. The rules that I've
found here, though, Gerunds are best
for the use in sentences about
actions that are real or complete or
that have been completed, right? I
stopped worrying about the future, In
that example worrying was real and it
happened until it's stopped. Another
example could be we really enjoy
running in the mountains. In this
example running is real and it's
something that we like to do. We
really enjoy running in the
mountains, ok? So, you enjoy that
action, right? You enjoy doing that
thing.

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Infinitives, on the other hand, are
best for use uses in sentences where
they're about actions that aren't
real or that are abstract, right?
That will occur in the future. So,
for example I'd like you to talk
about something. I'd like you to talk
about something. In this one I am
asking someone that I want them to
talk about something, but I don't
want them talking about something
because it hasn't happened yet. I
want you to talk about something, I'd
like you to talk about something. Can
we have a walk without you stopping
to take photos? Imagine you're a
photographer and you're out there
with your wife or something and she
says "can we just take a walk without
you stopping to take photos?", right?
So, in this example we're going on a
walk, but the taking of photos hasn't
happened yet,  so we use the
infinitive to take photos, right? Can
we just take a walk without you
stopping to take photos because it
hasn't happened yet. So, yeah,
gerunds are difficult. They're a bit
of a pain in the arse, just keep
persevering, the good thing is if you
use infinitives where you're trying
to use gerunds or vice versa people
will generally know what you mean and
if they don't they'll ask you to
clarify, ok?

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Maggie. She has asked: "how vs. what
did you end up here?" Ok, so, to end
up somewhere, to end up somewhere
means to ultimately be in that
location, right? Maybe I have a
really busy day today and I end up in
Geelong to have dinner with my
friends. That's like at the end of
the day that's where I finished, I
ended up in Geelong to have dinner
with my friends. So, the only thing
that I was a bit confused about here
was the sentences you were using were
how did you end up here, which makes
sense, how in what way, could you
explain how you ended up here? I
ended up here by driving in or I
ended up here because I did so and
so, but then you used the sentence
what did you end up here, and that
doesn't really make any sense in
English, it doesn't... Because when
you use a what question you're asking
for a noun, right? And if you end up
somewhere in that verb there's no,
there's no object. So, there's no
noun that's involved in that verb, so
it sounds very strange to say what
did you end up here right?

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It's kind of like where you greet
someone and you say "how are you?"
and they'll say good or bad, they're
using an adjective, so how questions
you will usually describe how you're
feeling with an adjective or how
something appears with an adjective.
What questions, what is a noun it's
asking for and noun. What are you
doing? I am doing this thing right.
Or what is that? This thing is blah
blah blah, ok? So, how questions
they're generally used when asking
for a description, an adjective. What
questions when you are asking for a
noun.

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Lewis. "My problem is being stuck
every time I talk to someone
especially when it comes to deep
conversations. For instance, while
I'm talking I suddenly pause for a
few seconds because the words that I
want to say wouldn't come to me in my
mind quickly enough. So, the person
who is listening to me sometimes gets
frustrated or loses their attention
listening to me. I ended up getting
frustrated with myself too because I
know tons of vocabulary, but it seems
like I can't use them when I'm
speaking". So, the biggest issue here
and I find the same with French and
Portuguese, it's you need to use it
to maintain it and you have to
practice it In order to be able to
use it. So, even if you know a lot of
vocabulary this is that sort of
difference between active and passive
vocab, right? I know a lot more
vocabulary in English they'll
recognize and understand than I can
necessarily use when I'm speaking and
that tends to be the same for
everyone in any language, you're
almost certainly going to know a lot
more than you ever use.

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So, in order to use more vocab, you
need to get it into your active
memory by using it, right? By
practicing it. So, I would take note
of the things that you constantly
find yourself trying to say, but
having difficulty saying and I would
practice those things whether it's at
home, whether it's with friends. The
point here is that you need to
actively work on it for it to
suddenly be useful when speaking off
the cuff, when you're talking and
you're not reciting anything from
memory or off a paper. You need to
practice these things, so that they
become very common and easy for you
to recall, ok? So, the difference
here for you is I think you need to
move important words or phrases from
your passive vocab, From your passive
English into your active vocab or
English in the way that you can do
this is by paying attention when you
can't think of certain things you
want to say, even if you know ah
bugger normally I know what I want to
say here, pay attention to that, try
and take a note of it even if it's a
mental note, write it down in your
phone, write it down with a pen on
your hand and come back to it later,
you know? Even if you write it down
in your native language and then
later look it up in English. Just
take some note or else these mistakes
or these issues are going to repeat
themselves again and again and again.

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And it happens to me all the time in
Portuguese when I am speaking with my
wife and I want to say something and
I switch into English because it's
the easiest thing for me to do. It
doesn't help me actually use the
Portuguese word, right? And it's the
same thing even if I ask her what's
the word for this in Portuguese? If I
don't say it, if I don't take note of
it if I don't try and practice what
she just told me, I forget it and
we're in the same position next time.

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Milena. She wants to know about THE,
A and AN, so articles in English. So,
there are two articles in English,
well, two types of articles. There's
the definite article THE, so this is
used for specific things like names
of things or people, plural things,
singular things and measurable nouns
and then we have the indefinite
article which is used for non
specific things and it's singular,
right? A and AN, so we have the
definite article THE and we have the
indefinite article A and AN. So,
basically I know that a lot of
Russian speakers have trouble with
this. If you want to talk about a
specific thing, so imagine the
computer in front of me. I don't want
to talk about just any computer, a
computer, I want to talk about these
single specific computer that is in
front of me, my computer. I need to
use the definite article when I'm
speaking with someone.

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So, I can't use the computer at home
because it's broken at the moment. If
I said I can't use a computer at home
because it's broken at the moment,
that would suggest that I have many
of them and the specific computer
doesn't matter. It's just that one of
them I can't use, I can't use a
computer at home. So, quite often
these are important in English
because they're the way in which the
listener when speaking with you will
know whether it's a specific thing
that you're talking about or a
non-specific thing.

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Michel. Michel has the question"
"what's the difference between
noticed and realized?". Noticed and
realized. Now, I look this up and
because I was thinking I'm like they
are different, but I'm pretty sure
the definitions are going to be very
similar, right? Very similar. So, I
looked up notice and the definition
was to become aware of something, to
become aware of something, which you
know that's the definition of the
word. It can be used in other ways as
well, but for the for all intents and
purposes the majority of the time
it's used as to become aware of
something, but it's usually when you
visually see it or when you
physically perceive that thing,
right? So, if I notice light on the
wall, it's because I can see the
light on the wall coming through the
window, right? If I notice a smell
it's because I can smell, you know,
that smell it's in my nose. I notice
it, I perceive it physically.

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If I hear my wife singing in the
background, I notice her singing in
the background. I'm becoming aware of
it. However, with realize we wouldn't
use this for physical things. You
don't realize that light is hitting
the wall. You don't realize that
there's a smell you don't realize
that your wife is singing in the
background, at least not as
naturally, it doesn't sound as
natural to say I realized this thing
was happening if you mean you have
perceived it. We would use realize
and the definition is become fully
aware of something as a fact, ok? To
understand something clearly. So, we
use realize when it is something that
is going on in your mind and you
suddenly understand the thing. You
suddenly become aware of it as a
fact, right?

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So, if I realize that my keys are in
my car, it's not that I see them.
It's not that I noticed the keys are
in the car. It's that maybe I'm away
from the car, I'm sitting in front of
the computer in front of me at home
and all of a sudden I'm thinking and
I'm like oh crap! I left my keys in
the car. I realized my keys were in
the car. I could use notice, I've
just realized, I could use notice if
I noticed the keys aren't on the
table here and that is where I
noticed they weren't here, so I
realized they were in the car, right?
So, again, think about notice as
something physical. You see the
thing, you hear the thing, you smell
the thing, you taste it, you touch
it. Whereas realize it's a mental
thing where you suddenly realize, you
suddenly understand that something is
a fact, ok? Hopefully that makes
sense. I know it's confusing
especially in Spanish French and
Portuguese and Italian those Romance
languages because they often have the
same verb, I think in Portuguese it
would be realizar, but it means
something different. It doesn't mean
the same thing. I think you can use
it like that to perceive something,
right? But we wouldn't use it like
that in English.

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Sara has a question here: "in
Australian English when you say yeah,
nah, does that mean no? And do you
use nah, yeah, too? And is there any
difference even slightly between
using no and yes to this type of
saying?". So, first and foremost
there no and yes are used much more
formally. So, you can use them
anywhere but yeah and nah will be
used informally, right? So, quite
often if I'm speaking with friends in
just an informal casual conversation,
I'm not going to say no or yes,
unless I'm really, really trying to
emphasize something like if someone
was annoying me and asking me the
same question, you know, Pete, is it
your birthday tomorrow? Pete, is it
your birthday tomorrow? Pete, is it
your birthday tomorrow? I might say
yes! Yes, it is! Yes! Yes! Or I might
say no! No, no, no, no, it's not! No!
If I really want to emphasize it,
I'll say no or yes.

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If, on the other hand, they just ask
me casually I'll say yeah, it is. Or
nah, nah, nah it's next week, It's
next week. So, use yeah and nah in
relaxed casual conversations. In
Australian English we do double these
up, so you may hear. Yeah. Nah. Or
you might hear Nah. Yeah. So this is
a difficult one to explain but
basically the last word you hear is
the one the person means. So if
someone said to me Do you like the
footy and I don't like the footy I
might say again. Now I don't I don't.
So you'll often hear yeah first and
then now afterwards and then quite
often they'll say they don't, they'll
recapitulate which answer It is.
Yeah, nah, nah, nah, nah, I don't ,I
don't.

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The other way around can happen too.
So, Pete, do you go to the beach very
often? Nah, oh, yeah, yeah I do,
yeah. Yeah I do. So, I think that
one's less common, I think you'll
most often hear yeah, nah, instead of
nah, yeah, but they do happen. The
thing to remember is the last word
said is usually the word the yes or
no the person means, ok? So, if you
hear yeah, nah, they're saying no. If
you hear nah, yeah, they're saying
yes, ok? And I think the reason that
we do this is to show that we're
accepting the question, right? So, if
someone says to you whatever question
is, are you going out tomorrow? You
know, yes no questions. Are you going
out tomorrow? If I accept the
question first, I'll say sort of yeah
and then as I realise that I'm
actually not going out tomorrow
that's when I'll say oh, nah, so
that's I think why it's happening. I
haven't looked too deeply into this,
but I have a feeling that's the
reason we do the yeah, nah thing. We
double up on it because the first
one's kind of an informal way of
accepting something, I guess, right?
Or agreeing with the question kind of
a thing, and then the last one is the
actual response. So, you're going out
tomorrow? Yeah, nah, I'm not going
out.

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Hoang. Hoang has a question: 'pull a
sickie or take a sickie, which sounds
more natural?'. I think I would say
pull a sickie. I think you could use
both, so like take a sickie would be
like to take a day off, to take a
sick day, to take a sickie, whereas
if you pull a sickie, I guess, in
that sense the use of the verb pull
in that phrase makes it sound like
it's more malicious, right? Like to
pull a joke, I guess, or to pull a
prank on someone, to pull a sickie
it's more like you're not actually
sick and you are pretending to be
sick to get out of work or to get out
of school, so you pulled a sickie,
whereas if you take a sickie that
doesn't suggest to me that you are
doing something malicious or not, it
suggests that you are simply not at
work because you're sick.

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So, I'd probably use pull a sickie to
emphasize you are tricking whoever it
is at work, your boss and your taking
the day off, whereas if you say I
take a sickie that would just be that
you are at home sick and you're not
going to work. Maybe you are faking
it, maybe you're not faking it, but
we don't know from the expression
itself.

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Angela. 'First I hope your baby is
growing well and her mom has
recovered'. Yes he's going well,
mom's recovered, but he is crying a
lot at night and we're sort of trying
to get into the rhythm of things
there with that, but he's going well,
Noah is going well. 'What kind of
tense is in the sentence we are
done?'. So, Angela that is where
you're using the present tense
because the first verb there are is
in the present tense, we are
something, we are an adjective, we
are done, and so you're simply saying
we are finished, ok? So, you're using
the present tense and done in this
case is an adjective instead of a
verb, OK? We're done. It'd be like
saying wear green or wet tired, ok?
So, present tense and the verb has
become an adjective.

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Samira. 'How do we improve
paraphrasing?' Now, this is a
detailed sort of response, I guess,
I'll try and do it off the top of my
head, but I was recently creating a
lesson for paraphrasing for the IELTS
Exam, we're creating a course at the
moment with two other girls and it's
going to be an eye its course much
more in depth where we go through
systematically how you guys can
approach studying for the IELTS and
then how to do well on it, but I had
to do the paraphrasing one recently.
The main place that's going to help
at least in terms of ice or writing
an essay is when you're writing, ok?
Usually you are responding to a
question in an essay and paraphrasing
is a powerful tool that you can use
in any language, let alone English,
to show that you fully understand the
question, but then also that you have
a wide range of vocabulary that you
then use to answer the question
without just copying and pasting the
question, ok?

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So, for example, if the question was
do you think the government should
decide whether or not people can take
drugs? If you responded to that
straightaway and said I think the
government should decide whether or
not people can take drugs,  you
haven't paraphrased, really. You've
just taken the question and you've
put I think in front of that
question. So, in order to paraphrase
what you need to do is take the
phrase, the paragraph, the sentence,
whatever it is and you need to say
the exact same things, so you need to
keep the meaning that that sentence
has, but you need to use different
words.

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So, a way of paraphrasing 'do you
think the government should decide
whether or not people use drugs'
could be 'do you think the state
should control whether or not the
public uses illicit substances'. So,
do you see what I've done there? I've
used a whole bunch of synonyms
instead of the original words that
were in the question, ok? And so you
can do it in terms of synonyms, where
you could take the exact sentence and
you just change the words in the
sentence. So, government to state,
drugs to illicit substances, you can
do that, but then on top of that you
can restructure sentences. So, for
instance, instead of saying I think
that the state shouldn't control
whether or not the public uses
illicit substances, you could say
instead I think the public should be
able to use illicit substances
without any interference from the
state, ok?

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So, basically you've kept the meaning
of the original content, whatever
that is, a sentence, a paragraph and
you've used your own words to
describe it or to reference it, but
you've used your yeah, you've used
your own words and maybe you've
changed the structure as well to show
that you have a much deeper
understanding of English and that you
have a deeper understanding of the
question being asked, right? Because
you're saying that question again,
but with different words. So, that's
the answer to that one, paraphrasing,
it's very, very important when it
comes to writing, when it comes to
responding to essay questions on the
IELTS on anything else, so it's
something you might need a practice,
though, ok? Get a few phrases, try
and rewrite them in your own words
and just get used to doing that.

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I have a question here from Stan: 'do
you think reading is the best way to
improve English or do you think
writing is?". So, I think they're
both important, but I would say
reading is much more important than
writing because ultimately I think
passive vocab is really really
important. Active vocab still really
important, but I think that in order
to develop your active vocab you need
to develop firstly your passive
vocabulary and a good way of doing
this is through reading, reading
reading.

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And I would say it's helpful because
you keep seeing so many different
words and you'll see them in many
many different situations, ok? So,
it's a really, really good way of
knowing how English is used or how
any other language is used and being
given different contexts, where the
words are used to describe different
events different things different
situations and, so it's a very good
way of getting a better understanding
of what a word means, right? Instead
of say looking it up and then trying
to write an article or write an essay
yourself, where you're relying on
your active understanding, your
active vocab within English,
passively you can absorb a whole lot
more and really get a sense of how
words are used. So, I think do both,
but I definitely think read, read,
read.

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And I noticed that like growing up my
sister used to read a heap, she used
to read books all the time. She was
an animal, I was much more sort of
into sports and skateboarding and
getting outside, but my sister loved
reading and I think this kind of
reflected in when we would speak. She
would quite often have a much more
developed vocab than me when we were
younger kids because she spent so
much time reading. She also wrote a
diary, which I'm sure helped as well,
but I think first and foremost having
the ability to write well, you need
to have the ability to read well or
at least you need to have read a lot.
If that makes sense, so good
question, Stan.

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So, I have a question here from
Ardesheer. Ardesheer asks: 'can we
use lounge as a verb to address
people taking to seats on public
transport?'. So, can we use the
lounge as a verb. That's a good
question, you can use lounge as a
verb. So, for instance if I'm
lounging around at home, it's kind of
the idea that I'm lying down on a
couch spread out relaxing, right? I'm
lounging around or your dog might be
lounging around in the sun he's lying
down just relaxing. You could say
that with someone using two seats on
public transport, although, I would
say lounge around, right? They're
lounging around on these seats,
although, I think mostly I would
probably just say they're taking up
two seats or they're lying across two
seats, lounging around gives the
impression that they're relaxing,
whereas if you're saying that they're
lying down on two seats or they're
taking up two seats it has more of a
negative implication to it, which is
this sort of situation you have here
on public transport right where the
person shouldn't be taking two seats,
but they are.

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So, Atif asks: 'please can you tell
me the difference between to and
for?' and this is the last question
for today, so thanks for sticking
with me, guys. Please tell me the
difference between to and for. Now, I
know that this is a really difficult
one for a lot of speakers, especially
Portuguese speakers because in
Portuguese they'll use for in the
same situations that in English we
would use to. So, I've tried to look
up a more detailed response to when
and where to use each of these and
I'll give that to you guys now, so
to: we used to when we are talking
about destinations, so you're going
to a destination. I'm going to
Melbourne, you would never say I'm
going for Melbourne. That would make
it sound like your barracking for a
team that is called Melbourne. If you
said I'd go for Melbourne instead of
I go to Melbourne.

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We used to when we're talking about
the time, ok? It's quarter to three,
it's quarter to eight, ok? To that
time is in there's distance being
covered, that there's 15 minutes
until we get to that time. We use it
for distance, it's about 20
kilometres from my house to the
university. So, again, there it's
like your covering space, you're
covering time in order to do that to
get from one position to the other
you go to that position, ok? So, time
and distance. We use it when
comparing things. So, I prefer the
colour green to the colour red. I
prefer green to red. We use it when
we're giving. So, I give the pizza to
my wife. She loves pizza. Kel loves
pizza. I give it to her, and again
that's the idea that I have the
pizza, I give the pizza and the pizza
goes to my wife. It changes from me
to her. It covers distance, it covers
space, you know? So, we're using to
to show that. And then you can also
use it for motive and reason. So,
with a verb I came here to see you. I
came here to do something, right?
That's why we use the word to in
front of infinitive verbs, to do
something. Motive and reason.

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So, with four for, for is used for a
bunch of different examples.
Benefits, right? So, running is good
for you. It's good for you, it's good
for you. We use it for a period of
time, so I was somewhere for a period
of time. I was in Australia for two
years, for that duration, for two
years. I was there for a while. We
use it for schedule, so I make an
appointment for the 18th of April to
go to the dentist. I made the
appointment for that day. We use it
when we're agreeing with people, are
you for or against something, right?
Are you for or against the government
allowing people to use drugs? Are you
for that thing? So, you're pro or are
you against it? Meaning you're not,
you know, you are contra that thing,
right? You're against that thing. We
use it for doing something to help
someone, right? So, I do something
for another person. I clean the house
for my wife. I change the nappy for
my baby, right? I do that thing for
someone else, I do it to help that
person.

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We can use it with motive and reason
when we're talking about nouns, so
let's go out for a drink. You could
also say let's go out to drink, so
that's a tricky one there if you're
using a noun, let's go out for a
drink, if you're using a verb, use
to, let's go out to drink. And then
the last one here is function. So,
with a verb ending in ING we'll use
for before that verb, ok? So a ladle
is a spoon that is used for serving
soup, a ladle is used for doing
something. So, what's the purpose of
this thing? It is for doing
something. So, there you go, for
versus to.

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Side note for Brazilians: don't use
for when you're talking about going a
distance, right? If you are going to
somewhere or you're giving something
to someone, if there's a change from
one position to another position or
from one time to another time, don't
use for, make sure that you used to.

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Anyway, guys! It's been a long
lesson! I hope it helps. I would love
to know what you think. If you enjoy
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