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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 296. Today we're going to look at the
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difference between resident, dweller or inhabitant. Yeah, because these can be
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confusing words. Sometimes students will ask what's the difference between all
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these three. All right. Let's take a look at the first note here. A resident is
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someone who lives in a particular place, especially a home and in an official
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sense. A resident usually has an official address one can receive mail at. All right.
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So that's one of the big things about a resident is that it's very official. And
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you actually have a place that can receive mail. It's an official residence,
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official residency is important in many ways and different states have different
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time limits before one can declare residency of a state. The period usually
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is around six months. Okay. Once residency is established, this can allow a citizen
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certain benefits, etc. Basically, such as voting, having a right to send children
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to school. Okay, in that particular area their local area. Yeah, and it will also
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affect your taxes you know your local taxes. You your local taxes. The word resident only
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applies to humans. So we cannot use resident with animals. So that's one big
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clear difference between resident and the next two. Okay. Let's, let's continue
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with the note here. The word dweller could apply to humans or animals and the
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focus is often in on a particular type of area or one's nearby environment. So
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the focus is on the environment that you're around, when we're talking about a
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dweller. For humans, common examples might be a city dweller or a slum dweller.
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So you know, maybe the idea of the slum, it's a bad neighborhood or something
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like that. So the that's sort of the immediate area.
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Okay. We definitely use it for animals, such examples as a tree dweller or a
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cave dweller. Yeah. So for example you know monkeys or Apes are tree dwellers.
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Maybe a bear could be a cave dweller. So again the focus is on the immediate area
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around you, you know, and describing that area. The environment around you. So we
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say dweller. Dweller really means to dwell, means to live. So you're living in that
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particular area. Okay. Let's, let's go on. Inhabitant now inhabitant and dweller are
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probably a little closer than that with resident. An inhabitant is someone who
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generally lives in a place, but an official address is not important.
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So you know, you just like we say here a homeless person could be an inhabitant
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or a dweller. But you know, he residency maybe he has, maybe he did have residency
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before. And he he since, he lost his home nobody officially knows where he lives.
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Or maybe he was a person that was never really a resident of that state. Maybe
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they became homeless and they went somewhere else and lived on the street.
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They were really never a resident there, but if they lived there for a period of
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time. Then they're still an inhabitant. If you're living in this place you're
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inhabitant whether you're a person or an animal or you can even use it for plants.
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Okay, good. Let's go on. So a homeless person could be.
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An animal could be an inhabitant as well. But again, when we say an animal is an
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inhabitant, it's usually in a more broader or wider sense. As opposed to
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like a dweller where it's you know, like specifically on a cave or a tree it's
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not on this broad area, like the whole country. Or you know, maybe you could be
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an inhabitant of like a jungle which could be like very large or a forest or
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something like that. Good so that's the way we'd say it. Yeah.
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Okay. Let's continue. So here are some examples that we would use. Example one,
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you must be a resident of a state to legally vote in their election. So again,
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it's more in the official sense. Number two. Slum dwellers or slum
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dwellers often live in poverty. Yeah. So so it's a real focus on the area that's
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around them. You know a slum could just be a very small part of a city. So the
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focus is on your immediate area when we use it with people or animals. Okay.
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Monkeys are tree dwellers. Again these are just focusing on the actual tree. This is
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this is that particular area. That's , that environment that they live in. Okay.
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Nearly three percent of inhabitants of that city are homeless. Okay. So that's
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the way we use it. W do use it well obviously it's still of a place, but it's
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on a broader sense you know like of the entire city. These people are
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homeless. You're not focusing on just you know, like a neighborhood or something
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like that and the last part is, that endangered species is an inhabitant of
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this forest. So again. It's a much broader sense. It's not focused on like a cave or
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a tree or something along that line. Okay. Good well I hope you can see a
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difference. Obviously, there is some crossover though. If you're like a you
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know a slum dweller or a city dweller, you know, you are also an inhabitant of
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that city. Or if you, you know, if you are a city dweller, it's very possible you
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are a resident. You may have an official address. So there is some crossover with
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these. But you have to look at where the focus is . On resident, the focus is on
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being official, and being recorded. With dweller, the focus is more on your
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immediate area. And there they want to focus on the the idea of
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the area around you. And inhabitant is kind of a broader sense. But it also means
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that you just live in this place generally. Okay anyway I hope you got it.
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I hope it's clear.Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.