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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 okay

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synonym hi okay I hope I said your name

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right okay says award and reward have

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similar meanings what is the difference

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thank you great question award and

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reward these two words can be used as

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both nouns and verbs so let's break them

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down one by one first let's talk about

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reward let's talk about this as a noun a

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reward is something we get in return for

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doing something else so for example if

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you help your friend move into a new

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apartment they might give you a reward

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for example they might buy you pizza or

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they might buy you something or give you

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some money even perhaps in exchange for

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helping them we can understand this as a

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reward or for example if you see

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somebody posting like a missing sign

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like maybe someone's cat is missing it

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might say on that poster where they're

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talking about the details of their

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missing cat reward 100 so this means in

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exchange for finding my missing cat I

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will give you this money so we're

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talking about some kind of exchange of

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services or maybe some kind of exchange

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of goods I suppose in some cases but

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generally when we do something for

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someone else they might hopefully give

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us a reward in exchange for that thing

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we can use the verb form of reward in

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the same way so for example I found my

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neighbor's cat and he rewarded me with

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one hundred dollars or I helped my

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friend move into her new apartment and

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she rewarded me with pizza and beer it

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was a great time so we use reward to

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talk about these kinds of transactions

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right these kinds of doing good things

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in exchange for getting something else

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so whether or not you do the good thing

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just for the reward is a different

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conversation but this is what reward

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means let's compare this then to the

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word third award so let's talk about

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this as a noun to begin with an award is

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not something that we get in exchange

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for something it's not something that's

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related to a transaction rather an award

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is usually given to somebody else as

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kind of a recognition that they've done

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something really great so there's some

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kind of excellent quality about this

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person so for example a top scientist

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might receive an award for his or her

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work or maybe at your workplace you

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might receive an award for excellent

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performance that month so the key with

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award is that there isn't really some

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kind of transaction it's rather some

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kind of recognition of a great job done

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you might also be familiar with Awards

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shows especially in the entertainment

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industry so actors and actresses often

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receive awards for their performances

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they're receiving some kind of trophy or

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some other kind of maybe certificate

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that shows that other people think

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they're great so that's what an award

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essentially is so for example the

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actress was awarded an Oscar for her

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performance in the movie so an Oscar is

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a very very high level award for actors

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and actresses or for example I was

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awarded employee of the month at my job

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this month so we can use award as a verb

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or as a noun so the key difference here

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between award and reward is that award

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is used in situations where we're

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recognizing something great about

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someone else reward is used in

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situations where we're kind of talking

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about some kind of transaction someone

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does something in exchange for something

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else so I hope this helps you understand

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the difference between these two words

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thanks very much for an interesting

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question okay let's move along to your

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next question next question comes from

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Ginny hi Ginny Ginny says hi Alicia can

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you explain the word super glued I heard

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it from a conversation okay sure yeah

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super glued as a verb right past tense

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verb in this case so first let's talk

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about super glue as a noun what is super

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clue so if you don't know the word glue

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glue is a sticky material a sticky

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substance that we use to attach things

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to other things so for example if you're

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doing like a craft project you maybe

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will use glue to maybe put one piece of

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paper onto another and it stays there

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right it becomes hard and stays so this

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is glue basic glue is used by kids in

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schools to do arts and crafts projects

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super glue then is like the next level

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of glue so super glue is used to attach

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much tougher materials together so maybe

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wood for example or some kinds of fabric

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maybe so when we use super glue we can

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use this as a verb actually so although

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it's a noun super glue which refers to

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just like a mega type of glue we can

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also use this as a verb so to Super Glue

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something means to use use super glue to

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attach something to something else so in

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your question the word super glued means

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I used super glue to attach something to

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something else so this is what super

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glue means as a noun and it's also what

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it means as a verb so some other example

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sentences might be I super glued the two

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pieces of fabric together I don't think

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they're going to come apart or she super

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glued her fingers together oh no what

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should we do so super glue is sometimes

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used in kind of unsafe ways but this is

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actually kind of common example sentence

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that you may hear especially when kids

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are just finding out about super glue

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for the first time so I hope this helps

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you understand the use of super glue as

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a verb thanks very much for an

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interesting question okay let's move on

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to your next question next question

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comes from Lisa hi Lisa Lisa says hello

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I have a small question can you give me

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a definition of overwhelming and some

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examples thank you okay yeah great

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question let's talk about how to use

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over overwhelming because this might be

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the base at its core overwhelming means

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that something is too much emotionally

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feel really really strong emotions we

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can describe that as something that is

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overwhelming we can use this in positive

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situations and in negative situations

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something that causes you to feel a lot

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of Happiness could also be overwhelming

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like you feel so much happiness that you

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feel maybe you need to cry or something

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that could be described as something

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that is overwhelming on the other hand

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when you have something negative happen

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in your life like something very very

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stressful or very difficult you could

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also describe that as overwhelming so

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you feel such strong emotions relating

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to stress or sadness for example that

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you want to cry maybe we can describe

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that as overwhelming as well so let's

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take a look at some example sentences so

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you can see how it might be used first

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you could say my wedding day was so

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beautiful it was overwhelming I cried so

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this is an example of a situation that

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is very happy and that causes lots of

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emotion so it's like it's too much

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emotion at one moment and you feel kind

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of like a little bit out of control

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perhaps this is something we can

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describe as overwhelming in a positive

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way on the other hand a stressful

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situation might be something like my

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boss made me work so much overtime last

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month it was overwhelming so this

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expresses that someone is feeling

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stressed or upset about a situation that

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was emotionally just too much for them

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so we can use overwhelming to talk about

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these different kinds of situations also

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overwhelming so we use this to describe

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the situation outside us so my wedding

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was so beautiful it was overwhelming or

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my job was overwhelming last month so

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we're talking about the thing outside us

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when you want to describe your own

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emotions though use overwhelmed so we

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can use this in the same kinds of

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situations we just need to change the

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grammatical structure of the sentence a

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little bit so for example in a happy

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situation we might say something like my

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wedding was so beautiful I was

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overwhelmed or we might also say

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something like I was overwhelmed with

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happiness some people like to include

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the emotion at the end there so

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overwhelmed is the expression that we

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use to talk about our own feelings I was

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overwhelmed or I am overwhelmed again in

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a stressful situation we can do the same

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thing with this word so my work was

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really really difficult last month they

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overwhelmed so again we're talking about

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having too much to do too much to take

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care of feeling a little bit out of

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control there's just too much of a

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certain emotion so when you talk about

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your own emotions use overwhelmed when

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you talk about the thing outside you use

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overwhelming so I hope this helps you

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understand the use and the meaning of

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the word overwhelm filming and

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overwhelmed too thanks very much for an

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