Name: 英語のスピーキング力を高めるには？アリーシャに聞く (How to Improve Your English Speaking Skills? Ask Alisha)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:13:23.000Z
Duration: 16 min 53 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Want to speak real English from your first lesson?

命令形

Sign up for your free lifetime account at EnglishClass101.com.

to 不定詞

I'm going to use the Force to make you watch this whole video.

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Ask Alisha.

The weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them, maybe.

You can send your questions to me at EnglishClass101.com/ask-alisha.

Harley asks, “What is the use of 'get' plus adverb or preposition?”

This is a question about phrasal verbs with “get.”

We can use a lot of different things after the word “get.”

In your example, “to get down,” we use it when dancing.

For example, like, “I want to get down this weekend.”

It's sort of an old-fashioned expression though, “to get down.”

We can use a lot of different words after the verb “get,” though.

For example, “get into,” to get into something means to become interested in something.

You might hear, “to get at,” like, “get at me” or “get at your professor,” to

get at means to reach out to or to communicate with but it's a very casual expression.

You can say, “get after,” like, “I need to get after my homework,” for example.

It means to chase after or try to do something.

Also, “to get in,” like, “to get into a club,” “to get into a restaurant,”

“to get into a party,” the nuance is that something is challenging but you can gain

access to that thing, like, “I got into the party last night but I wasn't on the list.”

There are a lot of different uses of the word “get.”

I can't talk about all of them in this video because there are so many.

So, if you're curious about the various phrasal verbs that we can use with the word “get,”

Long An asks, “What is the difference between simple past tense and past continuous tense

Simple past tense, we use for actions that started and ended in the past.

So, the beginning of the action and the end of the action happened in the past.

So, for example, the sentence, “I ate breakfast.”

The past continuous tense, however, or the past progressive tense is something we used

to talk about an action that was continuing at a specific point in time in the past.

If I want to use the past progressive tense, I can say, “I was eating breakfast.”

Using that continuous tense, using that progressive tense implies I want to explain something

else that happened at that time or maybe I want to add some more information.

So, for example, “I was eating breakfast at 8 o'clock this morning.”

or, “I was eating breakfast when the phone rang.” or, “I was eating breakfast and

“I was eating breakfast while studying today.”

By using the past progressive, I am explaining that an action was continuing at a specific

point in time, as in the example, “I was eating breakfast at 8 o'clock.”

Or, I can use past progressive to show one action was happening at the same time as another

If I use just the simple past tense, I'm just saying a simple fact, in other words.

This action happened, “I ate breakfast at 8 o'clock.”

If I want to emphasize the continuous nature of the action for some reason like, “I was

In that case, it might be in response to a question like, “What were you doing at 8

So, if someone wants to ask maybe what you were doing at a specific point in time, like

someone is suspicious of you, like, “What were you doing last night?”

You can say, “Oh, I was having dinner with my friends last night.”

But, past tense, simple past tense is something we use for actions which start and finish

But, progressive, the progressive tense in past can be used to emphasize the continuing

“What's the difference between 'on time' and 'in time'?

Is it, 'You arrived just on time?' or, 'You arrived just in time?'”

We use “on time” to refer to doing something at the correct time, doing something at a

So, for example, “I need to get to work on time.”

Or, “Did you make it to your appointment on time?”

“In time,” however, is used when we want to kind of give a nuance of rushing or hurrying

“I need to leave my house now to get to the airport in time for my flight.”

“I need to study for my test now if I want to be in time for the party later.”

“You should probably leave now if you want to be in time for the movie.”

“In time for something else,” so, I want to do action A to make my schedule meet this

other condition, this other thing I would like to do with this other thing I need to

“In time for” has the nuance of a deadline.

We can use this expression in like a panic, like, “Oh, my gosh!

“In time” means like before the deadline.

Whereas, “on time,” has the meaning of completing an action or completing something

The next question comes from Gearson Silva.

What is the difference between 'shade' and 'shadow'?”

字幕リスト動画再生

英語のスピーキング力を高めるには？アリーシャに聞く (How to Improve Your English Speaking Skills? Ask Alisha)

specific

episode

pronunciation

phrase