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afterward 和 afterwards 有什么区别?如果难以说明的话,请教我一下例句。
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They’re the same and can be used interchangeably. For example:
I went home afterward.
I went home afterwards.
These are both correct and mean the same thing.
I read that afterward is more common in North America and afterwards is more common outside of North America, but both are common. As someone from North America, I use afterwards all the time :)
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The same goes for "anyway" and "anyways"?
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Basically. Anyway is said to be more formal, and anyways is informal. Personally, when I’m talking, I almost always use anyways. But both are okay.
For example, these sentences are basically the same:
I didn’t want to go anyway.
I didn’t want to go anyways.
Another word that works like this is toward/towards. For example, these both work:
I walked toward him.
I walked towards him.
I hope that makes sense!
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What does it mean to give his away?
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In this case, the manager isn’t allowed to keep something (“his own”) and he didn’t receive compensation for it. So he had to get rid of it for free, basically. Hope that makes sense, and let me know if you have more questions!
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What does give his own away means here?
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In this case, the manager has a medal, and he will give it to one of the “youngsters” if there aren’t enough medals to give to them all. Hope that helps!
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What does "issue" mean?
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Yeah, pretty much! I said that for a couple reasons. First, I do want to make sure you understood. I know what it’s like to be a language learner, and sometimes I need to hear something in a new way to fully understand it.
Also, I’m aware that my explanation may not be sufficient, and that I maybe didn’t fully answer your question the way you wanted me to. So it’s a way of saying “feel free to tell me if my explanation wasn’t good enough” :)
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That’s a good question! Issues are usually broad topics, things that would impact a lot of people. People also have varying opinions on issues, so they are easily debatable. As I mentioned before, something like climate change or taxes.
Concerns tend affect a smaller group of people, and they have an aspect of anxiety or worry. For example, a slippery floor might raise safety concerns, because somebody might fall. However, as you can see, this would only affect a relatively small group of people - those walking on the slippery floor. While a singular person can have concerns, they don’t have issues (actually, they can, but that means something entirely different).
Finally, matters are more neutral, and tend to refer to events themselves rather than someone’s feelings about them. For example, a king might not concern himself with the matters of commoners. Here, matters just refers to the commoners’ everyday lives, and perhaps their everyday problems. And it refers more to what the commoners do more than how the king or the commoners feel about it.
Hopefully that answers your question! The difference between this is very subtle so it was quite difficult to answer. Obviously the best way to learn the difference between words like these is to see them in action, so I would recommend looking up example sentences for each one if you can :)
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Whats is it? Problems?
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Yeah. It’s usually not a nice thing to say. It implies that the person is mentally unstable.
I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard the song Issues by Julia Michaels, but it’s a pretty good example of this usage of issues.
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