Say or Tell? Learn English with Simple English Videos

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Always useful videos from your channel. There was something in the video that grabbed my attention, you told the lady "how did you know I WAS English?" notice was since you are still English. That brings me to this when must we use the present "is"? because in some cases I think the past would be incorrect to use. Not very sure, though.

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Saad Altuilaai Oh good question Saad. Both forms would be possible there - so 'How did you know I'm English? or 'How did you know I was English?' (She discovered I was English in the past and 'I was English' matches)

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So glad you like it Thiago.

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We plan to Hanh!

[@IamTamila]

Could you explain please why you used in last sentence (in this video) "Now you can TELL when to say "tell" and when "say". Is it possible to use word say here?: "you can SAY when to say... ?

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

+IamTamila HI! Yes, you could say say here, but it would have a different meaning. 'Tell' here refers to recognizing the difference. 'Say' would simply mean speak the words.

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Hello Mohammad. Greetings to you in Dhaka. We're so glad you like the videos and wish you good luck with your studies.

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Great video with a lot of fun 1:36 ``Vicki Why you don`t talk to him`` and thank you for sharing lovely video with me.

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Me, too

[@fabianologfatec]

Hi Vicky and Jay. Could you please tell me what is the difference between 'have/has got' and 'have/has gotten'? I look forward to your reply soon. bye

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+fabianologfatec Oh, funny you should ask that because I am just working on a project with Jennifer where we plan to teach this point together. Until we do... We use 'has/have got ' AND 'have' to talk about things we own in both British and American English. In British English 'has/have got' is more common and in American 'have' is more common. (The question forms are Have you got...?' and 'Do you have...?' In British English the forms of 'got' are get, got, got. In American English the forms of 'got' are get, got, gotten. And that's about as much as I can tell you here, but like I said, we're working on a video that will look at this difference between UK and British English.

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Hi nice couples 🙋🏼‍♀️😍 can I know the difference between “ must” and “ should” please I always confused between them at university in exams 🥺

[@SimpleEnglishVideos]

Thanks for this request, Emy Emmy. It's a great question. We've made videos about lots of modal verbs but we haven't looked at these. Thanks for the suggestion.

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We should probably look at have to as well.

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[@noragasparyan7133]

Dear Vicky and Jay ,hello. I have a question and I need your advice. Do native speakers say '20 minutes' walk or twenty minutes walk?What is the right answer?I mean the apostrophe.As for me I'd rather say 20 minutes' walk.Thank you so much.

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Hi Nora. In this case, I think you're thinking in terms of something like the answer to the question 'How far is it?' and the correct answer is we would treat 'twenty minutes' as a possessive adjective that would require an apostrophe. So it would be 'It's twenty minutes' walk.' Other examples like this would be ten days' leave or my two cents' worth. But another answer to that question (which might be more natural) could be 'It's a twenty minute walk.' Then twenty minute becomes a straightforward adjective and no apostrophe is needed, but you'd need the indefinite article. Hope this helps.

[@noragasparyan7133]

@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thank you so much .You made it completely clear ,as clear as daylight.

[@imrankalandar4502]

Hello there I hope anyone could help me. Is this American english or British english?

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It's both Imran. I (Vicki) am British and Jay (my husband) is American.

[@nakidowu1275]

so didderent accents from u two guys?

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Well yes, Nakido. We come from opposites of the 'pond' (the Atlantic Ocean).

[@jasmeena2008]

Thanks so much ! But please I didn’t quite understand why we saying “ tell secret” Not “ say secret “ I hope you could see my question. Thanks again !

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This is a great question Jasmina. The answer lies in practice - so it's simple a matter of what people generally habitually say.

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I should say thank you for your great videos😍,and i want to tell you that our ielts exam has been cancelled due to corona virus for a while.😔

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Oh dear. So sorry to hear that Niloofar. But perhaps that means you have more time to practice?

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@@SimpleEnglishVideos yeah..but its so disappointing because we are not aware of certain time for the exam;then we might miss our opportunity to apply.but i try to master it as you said🤗🤗🤗

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Really nice

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thank you! :)

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Harry duck You're very welcome, Harry.

[@benalexender3046]

thank you so much

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+Basem Omda You're very welcome.

[@David_1875]

With tell you are telling someone but you could say, he said to me, or is that wrong?

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Hi David_Does_Gaming. "He said to me..." sounds strange because after 'say' we normally put the words that were said. But as we say at the start of this this video, there are some situations where say and tell are interchangeable, There are other situations where they are not though. Perhaps watch again and you'll see what I mean?

[@David_1875]

I get it now, thank you

[@steffis4480]

Hello Vicki and Jay! It's me again! 😳😳😳 May I ask something again? 🙈 The idiom " She is goin to go places." means that someone is succesfull or very skillful in specific areas. Do you know where it comes from? "To go places" when you are successful? 😯 Is it comparable with that someone is paving his way to the places he wants to be? Thank you so much for this lecture *___* Have a nice weekend you two! ♥

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Yes, you're right. When we say 'she's going places' were predicting that she will be very successful, Steffi. I've no idea how the idiom arose, but we do have a lot of metaphors in English where we see life as a journey. Paving our way is a great one, and there are many more. Babies arrive, we cross bridges when we come to them, sometimes we don't know where discussions are heading, we set out to be one thing and then we become another, things take unexpected turns... You know, I think you might have inspired a video here. :-)

[@steffis4480]

Oh Vicki 😍 Wow - that's such a wonderful way of looking at life. And you're so right when I read your examples and think of other metaphorical expressions in English. "the root of a problem" or "a blossoming romance" 💕 We use expressions like this in German as well, but most of our idioms are rooted (😋) in the middle ages I would loooove to learn more about it! 😍😍😍 Can't wait for another video from you about this topic! Oh that makes me extremely happy right now 😍 Thanks a lot Vicki ♥

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4:01 ...someone *says* ? It's " *say* ".

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:-)

[@HuongNguyen-sh7fs]

Love you.

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That's so kind of you to say Huong Nguyen. Thanks for writing to us and thanks for watching.

[@HuongNguyen-sh7fs]

Luckily that I have seen your video about what we shouldn't talk in English, so I didn't type "love you, Grandma" hihi. Thank you for your video.

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Ha! Thanks Huong. :-)

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I'm a native speaker but I'm here

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Hi Roman shogunate. You know, we have many native speakers who are subscribers and viewers of our videos, and we welcome your participation. Thanks for watching.

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Legenda in portugueses please

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Hi desativado. Sometimes our viewers kindly translate the captions into other languages for us. Maybe someone will read this and can kindly help with this one?

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Is she Rachel. . ?

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Yes, Rachel is a good friend of ours and she sometimes appears in our videos.

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very funny couples

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We're glad you enjoyed this video, Burak. Thanks for watching.

[@RepairsMX]

in spanish is like: Dice o Dile. thats how I understood.

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Glad you could find a way to understand that, Alejandro. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.

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i guess u two have diffenet accents

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We do Galeoti. Jay is from New York and I'm from the south east of England.

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Tell a joke.

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Exactly, Amith.