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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

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mustakim hi mustakim I hope I said your

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name correctly Mystic M says what's the

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difference between he convinced me to do

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it and he made me do it okay great

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question yeah so the key difference here

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is about convinced versus made in this

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situation let's talk about he made me do

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it first so in situations where we say

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he made me do it or she made me do it or

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someone made me do it the feeling is

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that someone forced me to do something

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so in other words I did not want to do

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something and the other person forced me

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to do it anyway so my feelings were not

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important or my feelings didn't matter

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in the situation that other person or

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that other Force forced me to do

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something so this has kind of a negative

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feeling right you were asked to do

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something that you did not want to do

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and maybe you said I don't want to do

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this and you had to do it anyway that's

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the feeling with he made me do it or she

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made me do it let's compare this to he

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convinced me to do it so we can't

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imagine the same situation when we say

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he convinced me to do it it's like

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saying at the beginning it was something

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maybe I didn't want to do or I wasn't

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comfortable doing or I wasn't sure about

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doing but he talked to me about it maybe

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many times and told me this is a good

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reason to do it or you should do it

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because of this and so on after a while

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after some convincing or some persuasion

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I decided to do it so this is a very key

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difference between these two he made me

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do it means he forced me to do it I

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didn't want to do it he convinced me to

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do it means he talked to me about it and

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eventually over time I agreed to do that

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thing of my own free will so I decided

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to do it after talking to him about it

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so there's quite a lot of important

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Nuance going on between these two

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sentences please keep this in mind when

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you're talking about kind of persuasion

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and asking other people to do things

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someone making someone else do something

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sounds like they're being forced and

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convincing someone or persuading someone

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to do something else sounds like you do

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it after some discussion or after

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exchanging some information so I hope

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this answers your question about the

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differences between these two sentences

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thanks for an interesting question okay

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great let's go to our next question next

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question comes from Laman hi lemon Laman

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says hi Alicia should we say to fix

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mistakes or to solve mistakes and why

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nice question the answer is fixed

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mistakes so let's talk about why we say

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fixed mistakes and not solve mistakes we

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use fix to talk about some kind of

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problem something that is broken

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something that we need to repair you can

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think about a mistake as something you

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broke so maybe it's a situation you bro

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Oak maybe you had an argument with

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someone you need to fix the situation

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right so we need to repair something we

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can use this for physical items like

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physical objects like a machine that

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breaks a car that breaks you can talk

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about it with a relationship needing to

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fix a mistake in a relationship or just

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to fix a relationship and so on so you

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can think of using fix for things that

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are broken so think about a mistake as

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something that you broke right so when

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you submit a report with the wrong

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information that's a mistake right

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something you broke right on the other

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hand solve is used to talk about things

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like Puzzles things that are kind of

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like Mysteries there's maybe a right

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answer that's there somewhere but

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nothing is broken so for example my

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earlier example was a puzzle when you're

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doing a puzzle or maybe playing a word

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game there is a solution the situation

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is not broken maybe there's something

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that you don't know there and you need

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to solve it so think of solve as meaning

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find the answer or find the existing

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answer so when we're using the word

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solve in these situations we're not

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talking about some problem that exists

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when we use solve we're saying there's a

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correct answer here and I'm going to

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find it so we would not use it to talk

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about relationships or to talk about

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mistakes because a mistake is something

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that's done and finished and broken

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right we use solve when we're talking

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about these things that have some kind

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of solution and it's up to us to

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discover that thing let's look at a

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couple more examples

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she solved the complex mathematical

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equation

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we solved the big budgeting problem for

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the year

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okay great so I hope this really quick

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answer helps you understand the

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differences between fix and solve try to

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keep in mind we use fix for things that

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are broken or that we need to repair and

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we use solve to talk about things that

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have some kind of existing solution

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something that we know has a right

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answer so good luck using these in the

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future thanks for the interesting

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question okay let's move on to your next

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question next question comes from Renaud

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hi renad Renaud says hi Alicia I have a

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question I've seen some people say that

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Y is a vowel letter is that correct yeah

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good question so in the very commonly

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cited vowel rule in English we have a e

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i o u and sometimes y as vowels so let's

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break down that sometimes this sometimes

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refers to the different sounds that y

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makes depending on its location in the

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word so for example when y is at the

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beginning of a word in English in like

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99 of cases except for some very

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specific examples it's going to make a

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consonant sound for example yes your

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yep these words all make a yeah sound

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that's a consonant sound the Y is making

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a consonant sound at the beginning of

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this word y can also make a consonant

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sound sometimes in the middle of a word

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like in player or in backyard in these

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words y continues that sound that we saw

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in our earlier examples yes and your and

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so on however there are some words where

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Y is used to create a vowel sound for

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example we see this a lot when y comes

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at the end of the word as in play or boy

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at the end of these words we have the oi

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sound or the a sound there's not a

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consonant sound even though we have y

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there this is just the nature of the

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English language we also see some words

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where y acts as the only vowel in the

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word for example in the word him which

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means a church song the spelling of the

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word is

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h-y-m-n y here acts as a vowel him we

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also see this in the word my m y y acts

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as a vowel sound in this word as well so

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word it can take on a different sound so

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if it's a vowel sound or a consonant

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sound I'm not going to remember all

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these different locations for this

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letter the easiest way to test is just

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to say the word out loud if you get a ye

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sound as in your or yes that means the Y

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is acting as a consonant if you get a

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sound like e or oi or him and so on that

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means the Y is acting as a vowel so just

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decide if the Y is a consonant or a

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vowel if you don't know how to pronounce

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that word I would suggest just going to

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an online dictionary like

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Merriam-Webster for example type in the

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word you can do this in Google too and

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you'll get an icon you can press to hear

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the word then you can listen and decide

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why is a vowel or why Y is a consonant

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here so this is the reason that Y is

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sometimes called a vowel depending on

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its position in the word it can take on

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a different sound from yeah so thanks

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very much for this question I hope this

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answered your question too all right

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that is everything that I have for this

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