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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 354. The title of the lesson

  • today is don't say workable when you mean something works well. Yeah. I've

  • noticed this with a number of students, a number of times might do this. So let's

  • take a look at the note here. If something is workable, it means that

  • it is possible for something to happen or be done with the circumstances as

  • they are. You know, or with the situation the way it is at that time. Okay.

  • if you say that a plan, system, etc. is workable, it has not happened yet.

  • So you don't know really a hundred percent how it's going to work out. But you

  • think that it's a good chance that it will work out. But it could be likely to

  • do or work well. Then we say something is workable. All right. Let's continue.

  • If you mean something is already working in a positive way or in a good way, you

  • should say something is effective, successful, working well or working out

  • nicely etc. And there's a lot more ways you could say that. All right. Let's take a

  • look at them. Let's continue here and with the X of course this is wrong this

  • is where a student might make a mistake. So if the student says this product is

  • workable. It helped to improve my illness. No. You can't say that. Well first of all,

  • it means that you will already be using it. When we say it's workable,

  • it means we haven't even started it yet. We just think that it could be

  • successful. We think that it could work out. So you can't say the product is

  • workable when you have tried it. Here in this case, it said it helped to

  • improve my illness. So you obviously did try it. So here's a couple of ways that

  • you could say it correctly. This product works well.

  • It helped to improve my illness or you could say this product is very effective.

  • It helped to improve my illness. Okay. Let's look at the next one here.

  • With the X again. This is . The plan is going well. It is very

  • workable. Well if you say the plan is going well. It means the plan has already

  • been put into action. So you you can no longer say workable. Workable again means

  • you didn't try it yet. You just think that it may work out. Okay and of course

  • we have several here with a correct way of saying it. So if you rephrase it, you

  • say the, the plan is going well. It is very effective. Well that's fine. It's already,

  • it's already been put into action and things are working out.You know, in a

  • positive way. The plan is working well. Again you could say that. The plan is

  • working out or though it's working out nicely. You could say all of those.

  • All right. Good and just one example of you know, how you might use workable. This is

  • an a/v part. And A says can I change my appointment to Monday at 9 a.m. And B

  • says that's workable. Meaning that, that's possible and he says I can do that for

  • you. So that ... so he's going to change it now. So but workable means that it hadn't

  • been done yet. But you think it's possible to work out it's possible to do.

  • Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 354. The title of the lesson

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