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Maybe first question this week comes from Saad High, Saad Saad says highly Sha.

I want to know the difference between all every and each.

Okay, this is a big topic.

I made a whiteboard video about this recently, and it will be out on the channel eventually.

Ah, but here's a quick introduction.

Let's begin with all all means, 100% of something.

So we use all when we're talking about a group so many of something and 100% we want to focus on the group with all some examples.

All the questions in this series come from viewers.

All my family members live in another country.

We use every when we want to talk about the parts of the whole.

We use this with the singular form of a noun.

So some examples every person in our class passed the test.

Every member of our team received an award.

So in these cases, with every we see that there are individual parts to a larger whole to like a group, and we want to mention the individual parts, yes, but in relationship to the whole, we use every to do this and the singular form.

Each then focuses on the individual's.

So we're not focusing so much on a group.

But we want to really focus on the individual.

We can use each with the singular form and with the plural form of a noun.

Examples.

She wears earrings on each ear.

Each person in our group gave a presentation, so another point with each is that we use each when there's only two of something.

If there's more than two, you can use every or maybe each, depending on the situation.

Just make sure if there's only two like ears, for example, or arms or legs.

Make sure to use each using all or every will sound strange because we're focusing on large numbers, so that's a quick introduction to the differences between these words.

I hope that that helps you and please watch for the whiteboard video to come out soon.

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

Next question comes from Vilena hive.

Alina Alina says, Hi, Alicia.

I would like to ask you about the difference between no wonder and wondering and how to use it in sentences.

Okay, let's start with No wonder.

So no wonder means.

That's why that's why.

So we use it when we kind of solve a mystery.

Sort of.

It's like a small mystery like No wonder this happened.

Or, no wonder something in the past when we're wondering, that's the progressive tense of the word wonder.

It means we're thinking about something like, there's something we're curious about or something that we would like to know.

But wondering is kind of like light thinking.

I guess you could say so.

I'm wondering about my future, maybe a so it's kind of your dreaming or you're imagining something.

Perhaps he's out of the country.

No wonder he didn't answer my phone call.

You're out of salt.

No wonder your food tastes bland.

Excuse me, I'm wondering where the restrooms are.

I wonder what's going to happen next week.

So in the last example sentence there, I used wonder in the present tense, meaning It's just something that I'm thinking about for the future.

You could say I'm wondering about next week.

That's fine if you're actually doing it now with someone.

But wondering refers to an action happening now in this moment, so I hope that helps you understand.

No wonder and wondering.

Thanks for the question.

All right, let's move onto your next question.

Next question comes from Sweet Devil Haijun Suite double.

Ah, sweet devil says Hi, Alicia.

My question.

How do I pronounce these words in fast connecting speech of it of her of hiss?

OK, um well, first, with the her and his examples that H sound almost disappears like it becomes very reduced of her.

And of Hiss, I'll give some examples in a moment with of it, the to kind of connect.

They make a V sound patterns that might use something like this are not so common in everyday speech, but these air a couple cases where you might hear it.

Your sandwich looks delicious.

Can you give me some of it.

That was a great performance.

Did you make a recording of it?

So in these examples, you can hear of it, Becomes of it of it.

Did you make a recording of it?

Can I have some of it?

So it's like a V sound there.

Let's move on to the other two with the H Sound.

Which of her movies have you seen?

Pictures of her are really interesting.

So here you can also hear that that H sound becomes very, very soft.

And we have that same sound with of pictures of her.

Really interesting.

Which of her movies have you seen?

The same thing happens with of Hiss.

How many of his books have you read?

What do you think of his work?

So we have that same again with of.

And the H sound is very, very soft.

It's like I'm just exhaling.

The sound of is of is over as well of it.

So kind of a theme here is that the F becomes a quick V sound almost, and we're sort of just releasing air to make the H sound with the his and her examples of it of her ofhis so I hope that this helps you with this pronunciation point.

Thanks very much for the question.

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

Next question comes from Zo.

Higher hizo higher.

So higher says what is the difference between persuading and convincing?

Great question.

Yeah, many people use thes interchangeably.

Ah, but there is a key difference.

To convince someone means to change someone's mind to change someone's way of thinking.

So it refers to giving someone information with the intent of changing the way that they think.

To persuade, however, is giving someone information or telling someone something with the aim of causing them to take an action.

So to convince is referring to someone's thinking.

To convince someone of an idea to persuade someone is to cause them to take an action like to persuade someone to give you money, for example, so convince ideas, persuade actions.

Some examples.

We convinced my parents that we were responsible enough to take the car out for the night.

I convinced my team of the importance of social media.

We persuaded management to buy us new equipment.

I'm going to persuade my parents toe loan me a few $100 for a vacation.

So here you can see convinces used to talk about a way of understanding or way of thinking.

Persuade is used to talk about getting someone to do an action to take an action.

So I hope that this helps you understand the difference.

Thanks very much for the question.

Okay, on to your next question.

Next question comes from Lease Reggie Ori.

Hyleas Louise says, Hi, Alicia.

My question is, what's the difference between hint and clue in your videos?

You say, for example, here we have a hint.

Could we use clue instead?

Ah, yeah, for sure.

In a case like this, you could use hint and clue in the same way.

Clue is something that I feel is used more when we have, like, a mystery or there's kind of like a puzzle to solve.

You might also hear it in like detective stories.

So if, like a detective is investigating something and they're looking for evidence when they find something they might say, Oh, this is a clue in there like mystery solving process.

But clue that, I mean, it's a great example.

If anyone has played the game, clue Absolutely.

Your job in that game is to collect information to collect evidence about a murder that happened.

So that's your job.

You're collecting clues.

So that's sort of the feel of the word clue.

You're trying to solve a mystery.

So when I said it's okay to use clue to replace the word hint, you can kind of imagine that, like a sentence could be like a puzzle, especially if you're learning.

So you're trying to solve the mystery of the meaning or the grammar of the sentence.

So if you can think of it that way, it's okay to use the word clue.

I prefer to use the word hint.

And yes, I do use that word a lot in our videos because hint has the feeling of something that's communicated indirectly.

So I'm not saying something clearly.

Or maybe my example.

Sentence doesn't say something clearly, but I'm looking for these small like bits of information that kind of tell me indirectly something.

So when I say here we have a hint, it's like I'm kind of referring to this indirect information I'm getting from this sentence.

Someone's vocabulary choice, for example, could give me, like a hint about that person's emotions for the day.

So it's an indirect way of receiving information is a hint, so I prefer to use hint.

But I think it's fine to use the word clue.

Let's look at a few more example, sentences that maybe can show some of the differences in how these words are used.

Also, I want to point out that both hint and clue can be used as noun and as verbs.

We found a clue at the scene of the crime.

A fingerprint.

We don't have any clues as to who robbed the store.

This announcement from the CEO might include some clues about upcoming policy changes.

Can you give me a hint about your surprise party plans?

Management hinted that we might get a bigger budget next year.

Here's a hint about the meaning of the sentence.

Okay, so I hope that this helps answer your question about clue and hint.

Thanks very much for sending it.

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

Next question comes from Mohammed Saleh.

Hi, Mohammed, Mohammed said.

What's the difference between sympathy and empathy?

Yeah, sympathy refers to seeing feelings in another person, seeing emotions and someone else and recognizing those feelings because you have also experienced them.

So if, for example, your colleague or your friend like they have an emotional situation like a family member has passed away, and you have also experienced that you can say you experience sympathy for that person because you have the same experience.

That's the noun form.

Sympathy as a verb, it's sympathize as an adjective.

It's sympathetic.

Some example sentences.

I can sympathize with your work struggles.

We had a tough time last month.

I'm lucky to have a boss that's very sympathetic.

So empathy is different from sympathy in that we recognize feelings in another person.

But we have not experienced that situation ourselves.

We Onley recognize it, and we can maybe imagine what the other person feels like.

But we don't have that experience ourselves.

So empathy is the noun form.

To empathize is the verb, and empathetic is the adjective.

Some examples.

I was so relieved my friends empathize with my need for support.

It's wonderful to have empathetic colleagues, so I hope that this helps you understand the difference between sympathy, shared feeling and empathy and understanding of someone else's feeling.

Hope that that helps you.

Okay, so that's everything that I have for this week.

Thank you.

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