Name: 最近の行動を英語で話すには？ (How to Talk About a Very Recent Action in English)
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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 Javier.

What is the difference between able and capable?

In most cases, though, they mean the same thing.

So the key difference when you're using these words to mean ability to do something is that we use able and capable in slightly different sentence patterns.

When we use able, we tend to use able before a verb in the infinitive form, So that means able plus two verb.

So some examples we weren't able to finish the race.

So, in contrast, when we use capable, we use capable before a noun phrase, and we connect it to the noun phrase with the proposition of so the final pattern would be capable of noun phrase.

Some examples she's capable of dangerous things.

They're capable of surprising us at any moment.

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

Sadat says our win gain and earn the same.

Um, we often use this Ferb in contests or in competitions, something that involves, like a challenge of some kind.

We use gain when we're talking about adding to something that we already have or developing something naturally.

Our team gained new skills at the conference.

We use earn when we work to receive something.

Okay, so I hope that that helps you understand the differences between win gain and earn.

What's the difference between the and vow and these words?

First of all these words air old English we do not use these words in everyday conversation.

If you have come across these words somewhere in your reading or like in watching media, it's probably in something that was very old, or like in a movie that was set hundreds of years ago.

In a historical way, though, as a historical study of English, thou was used to mean you, Ah, when you is like the subject of the sentence.

So if you can imagine thou is kind of like subject you.

The on the other hand, is like saying you when you is the object of a sentence, so you object form.

The is the object form this appears in, like Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's works.

It also appears in stuff like the Bible, which has this very old fashioned way of kind of speaking and writing.

So a very well known expression from Shakespeare is the line.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day So the is being used in the object position there, Shall I compare thee?

Vow, on the other hand, is famously used in the 10 Commandments, so the 10 Commandments in the Bible are a list of rules, and the rules begin with Thou shalt not or Thou shalt something, so that means you should or you should not do something.

So those are examples of uses of the end thou, but they are not used today in English.

We Onley use them in these kind of archaic old settings, like I mentioned kind of religious or in like a literary senses.

So that's kind of the history of those two words.

I would not recommend using them in every day.

If you want to make a joke or you want to sound kind of old fashioned, really old fashioned to be funny, go ahead.

But in most cases, we don't use them, so I hope that this helps.

Next question comes from Roberto Cruz High.

Roberto Roberto says, When can I use bad or badly?

Bad is an adjective and badly is an adverb, so we use bad to describe Now owns some examples.

You can position it before the verb or after the verb.

I hope that that helps you understand these differences.

Next question comes from Alfa Tin High Alfa Tin Alfonsin says.

How do I talk about something that just happened about an hour ago?

And how do I ask someone about the recent past?

Use the same grammar that you used to write this question?

Use just so use just before a simple, past tense verb to describe something that happened in the very recent past.

I just talked about the difference between bad and badly.

You just woke up and then toe ask someone about the very recent past.

You can try, including the specific time point that you want to ask about.

So some examples of that might be Where were you an hour ago?

You can also use just to make a question, but there are some cases where this might sound a little bit aggressive, like, What did you just say, or where did you just go?

So using that tone of voice might sound a little bit like you're accusing the other person.

It can sound a little bit aggressive, so be kind of careful with these questions.

Also, if you want some more information and more details about this topic, you can check out the live stream that we did about the very recent past.

So that will give you some or example sentences and some patterns to try.