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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

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the weekly series where you ask me

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questions and I answer them maybe let's

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get to your first question this week

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first question this week comes from L Hi

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l l says how do I use so far and until

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now thanks oh this is a super super good

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question so so far and until now can be

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used a lot of the time in the same

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position in a sentence but they have

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different nuances so let's take a look

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at some examples and we'll talk about

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the differences between them so first

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I've had a great week so far and I've

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had a great week until now okay so

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what's the difference between these two

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first both of these sentences are 100

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correct I've had a great week so far and

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I've had a great week until now they are

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100 correct sentences so let's talk

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about what kinds of feelings these two

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choices give the sentences so far sounds

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like everything has been good and it's

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going to continue to be good probably or

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it's not going to be bad in other words

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so in the so far sentence it's like

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saying this far in the week from maybe I

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don't know Monday until Thursday or

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whatever everything has been good and I

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expect that it's going to continue I

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have no reason to think that anything is

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going to change things are good and

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that's my expectation at the moment

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however in the second sentence my week

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has been good until now sounds ominous

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so ominous means that something sounds

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kind of different or scary or dangerous

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in some way it sounds like something bad

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is coming when you say I've had a great

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week until now it sounds like something

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just happened that was bad so that's

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like saying Monday was good Tuesday was

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good Wednesday was good and until this

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moment something happened in this moment

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that made it bad my week was good until

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this point so this is a key difference

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between I've had a great week so far and

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I've had a great week until now so again

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so far sounds like everything is good

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and I expect it to continue to be good

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on the other hand until now sounds like

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everything was good but then something

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just happened and now it's not good so

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keep this in mind you can use this

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expression to talk about lots of

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different periods of time so for example

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you could say I've had a great year so

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far or I've had a great year until now

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kind of dramatic effect in things like

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movie trailers so in the previews to

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movies so for example you might see a

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preview for like an action movie or an

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adventure movie that says you thought

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you knew everything until now or

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something like that you might hear until

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now used in this way that until now is

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is kind of marking some kind of dramatic

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point or some kind of change point we

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don't use so far in that way so far

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isn't really used to Mark a point of

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change until now suggests that something

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has happened that has changed everything

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that was before that point so when we

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they're not so if it helps you you can

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example of the movie preview when they

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say something like you thought you knew

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the whole story until now or whatever

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introducing some kind of new information

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they do have different feelings so keep

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this in mind when you're talking about

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your day or your year or your week or

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whatever until now and so far are both

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correct but they do have different

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feelings all right I hope that answers

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your question let's move on to our next

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question next question comes from Hugo

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hi Hugo Hugo says hi Alicia my question

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is there any difference between in case

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of and in the event of for example in

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case of rain the event will be canceled

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ah good question in case of and in the

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event of generally are used in the same

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situation we use these Expressions to

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talk about the possibility of something

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happening so in your example that's a

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really common example in case of rain

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the event will be canceled or we could

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say in the event of rain the event will

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be canceled so both of these just mean

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if essentially if there's rain the event

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will be canceled canceled that's

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essentially what they mean so generally

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speaking we use in case of and in the

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event of in the same way however I would

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say that perhaps in the event of tends

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more formal or more official

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documentation so you might see in the

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event of in the small text like at the

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back of an agreement or at the back of a

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manual or something like that so you

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emergency conditions another place you

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of a water landing your cushion can be

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the in the event of pattern more so than

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the in case of pattern in case of would

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probably be used more when we're talking

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a schedule for example like a classroom

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schedule like I said an event schedule

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schedule as well things that are maybe a

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little bit less serious and then in the

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event Dev might be used more for things

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that are a little bit more official like

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insurance or safety regulations so they

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do mean the same thing they just mean if

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this happens then something else will

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happen but I hope that this answers your

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question thanks very much for sending it

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along okay let's move on to your next

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question next question comes from

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Ibrahim hi Ibrahim Ibrahim says hi

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Alicia I have a question about might and

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could with B is there a difference

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between that might be him and that could

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be him can I use them in the same

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situation thanks ah good question okay

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so a little bit of modal verb review

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him are both completely correct

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sentences they're 100 correct but yes

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there is a difference between the two so

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you might use these Expressions if

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you're in a situation where you're

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looking for someone like you're talking

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to your co-workers and you're looking

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for someone else in a crowd and you

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could say that my be him or that could

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could be him it means there is a

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possibility that's him so maybe you

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can't see the person clearly you just

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want to express the possibility that

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that's the person you're looking for so

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looks like but you just have some kind

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of basic idea and the guy maybe arrives

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on time or he's in the place you're

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expecting you might say that could be

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there's a chance or anything like that

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we're just saying there's a possibility

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him it sounds like there's a little bit

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of Hope like maybe there's a possibility

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say that could be it just sounds like

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it's a possibility statement when we say

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more example situation that uses the

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same Concepts so let's imagine that

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you're using your phone to search for a

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location you arrive and you look around

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and you think Hmm should I say this

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might be the right location or should I

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say this could be the right location

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saying that it's good or bad just I just

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want to say like a neutral report of

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possibility however if I say hmm this

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I am correct so I'm not 100 sure but

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possibility might gives us a little bit

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of a chance that we're correct at least

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in a positive sentence so I hope that

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this helps you understand the

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differences between might be and could

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be thanks very much for sending this

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question in all right that is everything

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that I have for this week thank you as

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always for sending your super great

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questions remember you can send them to

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me at englishclass101.com ask hyphen

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