BEEN vs GONE | What's the difference?

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Yes Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome back to another lesson with me Tom. Today we are getting deep
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with grammar. We are looking at the difference between been and gone. Any idea?
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We're about to find out.
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Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English. If you haven't met me before my name is Tom and I
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teach fresh modern British English so that you can take your English to the next level
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and achieve your life goals. Thank you so much for joining me today guys. We're looking
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at the difference between been and gone. Not everyone knows the difference and it's really
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important. Now before I get started guys you can become a member of Eat Sleep Dream English.
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You can get access to live streams with me. You can ask me your questions live and you'll
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get lots of extra content. If you are interested, you can hit that join button underneath this
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video. Also guys remember to stay around till the end of this video where I have my new
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feedback section where I look at your comments from the last video and I rely to them. I'm
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looking forward to that one, it was super fun last time. We're going to do it again.
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Ok but enough of that, let's get going.
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The main confusion lies in that fact that we use been and gone as the past participle
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for go. However the meaning is different. We are talking here about the present perfect
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here right so have or has plus the past participle so been or gone. Now if I said to you 'I've
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been to Paris' that would tell you that I visited Paris and then I returned. It was
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a complete visit. I went, I came back. Done. If I said to you 'I've gone to Paris' that
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means that the visit is not complete. I went there and I am still there now. So that's
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all it is. One of them is a complete visit, you go there, you come back. The other one
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is incomplete. Let's think about this visually, ok? So I am in London now and I say to you
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'I've been to Hong Kong.' Where am I when I tell you this? I'm in London, right? Because
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it's a completed visit. I've been to Hong Kong and I've returned. It's a complete visit.
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Ok. Now maybe we are on the phone and I tell you 'I've gone to Hong Kong' well where am
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I when I say that? That's right, I'm in Hong Kong. Ah Hong Kong, love this city. Little
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bit hot though, don't need this jumper. Because it's an incomplete visit. I am there and I
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haven't returned yet. So as you can see, one is a complete visit one is an incomplete visit.
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Alright, let's do a little quiz to test you.
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How did you do? Was that ok? Did that make sense? Alright, it's quite simple really but
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yeah it's important to get the difference. Ok guys, let's get into this brand new section
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where I feedback on some of your comments from the last video which was 36 words that
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you don't know how to say correctly. Now some of these comments were so awesome. So the
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first one, Jesca Chang says that she visits Loughborough every single day. Now Loughborough
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was one of the words that we looked at that you couldn't pronounce and Jesca didn't know
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how to say it but she visits that city every single day. Awesome! Alright, so now hopefully
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you know how to say it Jesca. Thank you for your comment. William Gutierrez asked for
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the difference between mouth and mouse. The beginning sounds are the same mouth and mouse.
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So the most important thing here is what are you doing with your tongue at the end of the
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word. With mouth you are blowing air out and your tongue is touching your top teeth. Mouth.
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So I am blowing air out. Mouth. Now with mouse my tongue is down and I am blowing air out
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but it's not touching my teeth. Mouse. So the difference there is the height of your
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tongue, where your tongue is. For mouth it's touching and for mouse it's not touching.
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Ya Ta asked for the word brewery. That is tricky. That is a hard one. Let's break it
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down, so we've got two sounds here brewery. So 'I visited the Guinness brewery yesterday.'
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Brewery. Ok, just two sounds that's all your need. I hope that helps. I love this comment
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from Serzhan, sorry if I got your name wrong there. This was referring to a video a week
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ago which was all about the brand new words in 2018 that the Oxford dictionary had just
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added to the dictionary. Now what I love about this is that Serzhan has watched my video.
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I've taught a few of the words from the new list of words but then they have gone and
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researched the other ones. They've shown so much curiosity and passion to learn more English
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above and beyond Eat Sleep Dream English and that's so awesome. By the looks of the comment
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they found a word called 'cakeism'. Love it! What a great word and they are also suggesting
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that we come up with some new words like chairdrobe which is basically like your wardrobe but
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you know when you come in from a long day and you get changed and you don't put your
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clothes into the wardrobe you just throw them onto a chair. A chairdrobe. I love that idea.
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I wanted to add to that a floordrobe cos I just throw mine on the floor. But I love it
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and I love your passion for learning Serzhan so thank you very much. Now I also love this
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comment from Patrice. Patrice comes from France but is living in the UK and has a daughter
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and is trying to learn more about British English and British culture so that he can
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teach his daughter. I love that so much. That is exactly what Eat Sleep Dream English is
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about. It's about you guys being able to help the people around you and yourselves of course.
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And wow! I mean what an amazing father you are to be doing that, that's incredible so
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thank you so much for your comment and I want to do everything I can to help you to teach
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your daughter and anyone else that's trying to help their family learn English let me
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know because that's an amazing thing to do. And finally a lovely comment from Anita. Anita
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came on the meet-up that we did last week. We met up in London,there was about 15 of
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us Eat Sleep Dreamers and we walked round Regent's Park, Primrose Hill and then we ended
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up in a pub just having a chat, having a conversation, just getting to know each other and making
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friends and I think a few of you guys went off afterwards to Winter Wonderland to hang
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out so that's what it's all about guys making a community. Anita thank you so much for coming.
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Lovely to meet you and I'll plan another meet up really soon and I hope to see a lot of
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you guys there. Alright guys thank you so much for hanging out with me again. Remember
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to check me out on Instagram and on Facebook. Join the YouTube membership scheme and have
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a great day thats all you need to do have an amazing day. Until next time guys this
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is Tom, the Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.
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