Name: 英語の修飾動詞の使い方は？基礎英文法 (How to Use English Modal Verbs? Basic English Grammar)
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Welcome back to ask Alicia the Weekly Siri's where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe first question this week comes from result.

Wandy Hagen results, Results says Hi, Alicia, What's the difference between think and thought?

Okay, so I'm going to focus on the verb uses of these words.

So the simple answer is that think is present tense and thought is past tense.

We use think when we're talking about our opinions or ideas for things that are always true.

So, for example, I think summer is the best season, or I think tea is delicious.

We use fought to talk about our past ideas and opinions, Yes, but we use thought to talk about actions or activities that have been completed, and we want to refer to our opinions of those things.

So, for example, I thought the movie was great.

I thought dinner was expensive, so sometimes we want to talk about, like, a past situation.

So something that happened before, and we want to share our opinion of it.

But we don't use present tense Think we use thought to refer to that.

So I thought dinner was expensive last night.

Or I thought the movie was great, so the activity has ended, but we want to share our opinion of that.

So when we're talking about our regular like opinions and ideas like things we think are delicious always or things we enjoy or things we hate always we use present tense.

We would not use think for a completed action.

Like, I think the movie was great last night.

So I hope that this helps you understand the difference between think and thought.

Okay, let's move on to your next question.

The difference here is really just that Have a shower is perhaps more commonly used in British English.

We tend to use take a shower in American English.

Some other expressions you might hear related to bathing in English are hop in the shower, which implies a very short shower, were hopping the bath, hop in the tub as well, where tub refers to bathtub or have a rinse.

Maybe you might also here, take a rinse, which sounds like you're just rinsing your body off.

Maybe, like after a jog, for example, rinsing sweat off of the body, maybe rinsing some dirt off the body after doing some gardening or something.

So we have a few different shower and bathing related expressions.

But the most common one in American English is take a shower, have a shower is okay to use to.

It's just more commonly used in British English, so I hope that this helps you.

Next question comes from Far Region Hom Newer Hello for E.

Home Free Home says highly show What is the difference between had, have can and could.

Let's start by looking at, have and had their uses and the meanings.

It really depends on the situation so first we can use have in present tense to refer toe owning something had is the past tense form of the verb we can also use have and had to make perfect, tense sentences.

Perfect, tense statements and questions so have is used for present perfect tense had is used for past perfect tense.

We also use this in responsibility expressions like half two and had to, in present, tense and in past tense, respectively.

So let's look at a list of example sentences that show us how each one of these is used.

I had had four cookies by the time I left the office yesterday.

So these example sentences show us the variety of ways that we can use have and had some times together to make a lot of different statements moving on to the second part of your question about can and could.

These two words also have quite a lot of different uses we can use can in present tense to talk about our abilities and to make, like requests and offers we can use could to talk about our past abilities and to make polite, present, tense requests and offers.

We also use could to talk about unrealized situations.

Could you please help me with my homework?

If I had a lot of money, I could buy a house.

Now that couldn't have been Davey Davies at the office.

So can and could is also a very big topics.

I hope that this very quick introduction at least shows you some examples of how we use thes different words.

Next question comes from why he Hello, White Heat.

Why, Hean says, What is the difference between do you and are you?

Do you begins questions that are asking for help that are asking for information or maybe making requests and offers we follow.

Do you, with the present tense form of the verb, is the simple infinitive form of the verb.

Begins a question asking about someone's condition we follow.

Are you with a verb in the progressive tense with a noun phrase or with an adjective?

So this is kind of a good guideline that you can use when you're trying to decide between do you?

What kind of information do you want to know?

If it's a condition question you can probably use, are you?

If you're looking for information or trying to make a request you might use, do you instead?

Okay, let's we want to Your next question.