Verb Patterns (+to/-ing): Catenative Verbs - English Grammar

hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them maybe first

question this week comes from Fatima - aha Fatima says hi Alicia I love your

videos thank you they helped me with studying English my question what does

the word indeed mean and when should I use it uh yeah okay

indeed means yes it's kind of a formal sounding way of saying you heard

something you agree with it and you understand it all at the same time like

I said though it is kind of a formal expression so we don't really use it so

much in casual conversations you can use it to make something sound a little bit

more important than it actually is though so you might have heard me use

indeed on this channel - it kind of makes it sound like the conversation or

the topic is a little bit more important so you can use this when you agree with

someone and you understand something someone said like if someone says for

example wow the weather today is so hot you can say indeed and it sounds like

you say yes or I agree but it's a little bit more formal it makes the situation

sound like a little more important a little bit extra so it can be used in

kind of a funny way you might hear this used in like movies and TV in a similar

way or just to express formal agreement especially in more old-fashioned English

but essentially indeed means yes and I agree thanks for the question okay let's

go to your next question the next question comes from chance Ivy Lounge

and I think high chance ivy chance Ivy says hi Alicia could you tell me more

about half - in negative sentences and questions I'm wondering if we can use do

when have to is sometimes a modal equivalent I want to answer your

question about using half - with negatives and in questions because I

think that might answer your question about using

I'm not quite sure about the question relating to do so I'm going to focus on

your question about negatives and using half doing questions so to review for

everybody we use have two to talk about our responsibilities responsibilities

are things we must do it's our responsibility our task our job in some

cases to do that thing we often use have to for things we don't want to do

examples I have to go to the bank I have to go to work I have to finish this

project however when we use have to in the negative it means we don't have a

responsibility to do that thing right now also one very important point that I

think confuses some students is that we use have to for things that we can

reasonably be expected to have responsibility to do let's look at some

natural ways to use don't have to I don't have to go to the bank I don't

have to go to work I don't have to finish this project these are all

examples of things we might naturally be expected to have some responsibilities

to do if you use it in a sentence like I don't have to drink alcohol at work it

sounds really strange because in most jobs it's not an expected responsibility

to drink alcohol at work if perhaps you're like a bartender for example

maybe it's different but perhaps in the majority of jobs that would be a very

strange responsibility so saying I don't have to for something that you're not

responsible to do is quite strange let's move on to questions you asked about

questions I want to look at two patterns one is asking for information and one is

confirmation questions the first pattern asking for information I mean for

example what do you have to do today what do you have to do today is a

question about the other person's responsibilities for that

day if you ask this question the speaker will talk about the things they are

responsible for I have to go to work I have to go to the bank I have to finish

this project for example the other type of question however is a confirmation

question and this is perhaps a little more difficult for learners to

understand we will use something like this don't you have to go to work today

this question is asking the listener for confirmation in a case like this the

speaker thinks the listener should go to work the listener has some

responsibility to go to work but maybe the listener isn't going to work or

there's some kind of strange situation so the speaker wants to confirm don't

you have to go to work today then the listener can say yes I do have to go to

work today I'm leaving soon or no I don't have to go to work today I took

the day off for example so you'll hear these confirmation questions like don't

you or doesn't he doesn't she have to do something those are confirmation

questions the other ones are information questions

like what do you have to do why do you have to do that asking for information

about the responsibility I hope that helps answer your question relating to

do but if not please feel free to send another question I can also try to make

a whiteboard about this topic thanks very much for sending this question okay

let's go on to the next question for today next question next question comes

from owl Moyes hi Elmo's Elmo says which sentence is correct

I will pick up you from the hotel or I will pick you up from the hotel okay use

I will pick you up from the hotel we use I will pick someone up from location

always some more examples I'll pick him up from the airport can you pick her up

from the station we'll pick them up from the bus stop so I hope that helps you

use pick up pick someone up thanks very much for the question let's go on to the

next question next question comes from Sammy hi Sammy

Sammy says what is the difference between what's up and

app what's up is a greeting what's app is the name of an application a

smartphone application for communication so we use what's up to ask people how

are you in a more casual way what's app has a very similar sound to it yes it

sounds like what's up but it's not used we don't use whatsapp what's app is

what's called a play on words a play on words means like we're having fun with

words that sound the same or are spelled the same as other words in this case

what's app sounds like what's up but what's app is an application so

that's where the app in what's app comes from so this is a play on words this is

maybe a nice name for a communication application because whatsapp sounds like

what's up which is used as a greeting a way to start conversations so make sure

you only use whatsapp when talking about the application for example do you have

what's that you can't say do you have what's up or whatsapp you can't do that

so only use what's app when you're talking about the application use what's

up when you're greeting someone hope that helps you thanks for the question

okay let's move on to our next question okay next question comes from nur Don

and Manette hi nerd on your dad says hi Alicia what are the differences between

mind opinion thought and idea okay generally speaking we use mine to talk

about our brain the place in our body where we think about things so mind is

used like in the same way that we use brain it sounds less scientific if we

say brain all the time it sounds a little bit scientific like kind of

medical I suppose I use the expression keep that in mind

or keep this in your mind or put that in your mind a lot which means please

remember that or please think about that so that just means like put something in

your head and try to remember it in other words study or practice that thing

so your mind refers to this part of your body where you think about

your opinions then your next word is opinions opinions is your ideas about

the world the way that you see the world whether things are good or bad or tasty

or bad tasting your opinions are from your experiences and your information

the way you understand the world so my opinion is like my feeling about

something the last two words thought an idea can be used similarly sometimes

generally speaking if you want to use a thought you can use that to describe

anything that's in your head this can be an old idea a new idea just

something that happened recently or something for the future anything in

your mind can be a thought so that's being used as a noun there I'm not using

it as a verb as a noun a thought is just something some concept in your mind

idea is often used the same way as thought however idea often has the

feeling of a new thought so you can think of idea as a new thought we use

idea in situations where we're trying to think of new things so like for a

project you need an idea for a project means you need a new thought you need to

think of something new for a project we use the word idea to give that feeling

of something new we haven't seen it we haven't heard it before so if you want

to think about the difference between thought and idea you can maybe think

about idea as a new thought I hope that that helps you thanks very much for the

question let's move on to our next question next question comes from Suraj

hi Suraj Sirach says what are katha native and complex catenate of verbs

yeah tough question katha native verbs are verbs that we can chain together

this is kind of a more complex grammar point complex katha Native verbs are

katha native verbs are these verb chains that have an object so let's take a look

at a few examples they're going to come clean the house

he's going to help me do my homework she forgot to buy milk

so with this grammar point with cata Native verbs we can sometimes use the

infinitive form of the verb which is 2 plus the verb or we can use the gerund

form which is the ing form however this often changes the meaning here's a

really good example she stopped to smoke a cigarette this means she paused her

activities to smoke a cigarette we see the verb in the infinitive form to smoke

she stopped smoking cigarettes this means she quit smoking altogether she

quit the habit of smoking okay so I hope that that helps you thanks very much for

the question it's a big topic so maybe I can make a whiteboard video about it in

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