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  • Hello everybody welcome back to Let's Talk, this is me Meera. Today we're going to just

  • try to get rid of some confusion, now what is this confusion about? I've heard so many

  • people usingbecauseandsoincorrectly, and why do you think that happens to us? It

  • happens to us because we end up thinking that oh, they're just the same, what's the difference?

  • I will tell you what the difference is, so that you can use them correctly henceforth,

  • are you ready to get your facts corrected? And just correct your English by learning

  • what's the difference. Let's begin with some sentencesOkay, now can you tell me a little

  • bit about the sentences? The first sentence is “I won the race”, “I worked hard

  • isn’t it a little incomplete? It is. Now we always add certain words to combine two

  • sentences, right? Two clauses or two sentences. In this case these two sentences also need

  • a word that combines these two together and it makes more sense to us, what are these

  • words called? They are calledconjugations”, okay? Conjugations are what? It's a word that

  • combines two clauses or two sentences and guysbecauseandsoare also conjugations,

  • okay? Now I have to tell you thatbecausehas a word, that will tell you how that is

  • different, it is the cause of something, it is the cause of an action, okay? It tells

  • you what caused the action and that is how you use the wordbecause”, to tell anybody

  • what was the cause of the action. Now for example, ‘I won the race’, ‘I worked

  • hard’, if I have to usebecausein this sentence, how would I use it? “I won

  • the race because I worked hard.” The cause, it has to explain the cause of the action,

  • okay? I won the racewhy? Because I worked hard. Coming to my second point you guys,

  • it will always tell you the reason, and the question you must ask or you can ask to get

  • an answer with the wordbecausewould be, why it happened, why something happened

  • or how come it happenedNow for example, ‘I won the race’, how come? Because I

  • worked hard. Did you get it? Correct! Again let me repeat this, I won the racewhy?

  • How come? How come did you win the race? Because I worked hard. See how I explained using the

  • wordbecausethe cause of the action. Now moving to the next segment which is the

  • wordso”. Nowsotells us the result of an action, okay? The way, “because

  • tells us the cause, “sotells us the result of an action and the question you can

  • ask is, ‘what happened’. Let's take a look at this, ‘I won a million dollars.’

  • ‘I am happy.’ Now we need to combine these two sentences and we will use the conjugation,

  • so”, the word, “so”, “I won a million dollars so I’m happy.” Who wouldn't be,

  • right? Well I’m happy, what happened? I won a million dollars. Now if you have to

  • use the word, “so”, you only have to ask the question, ‘what happened?’ “I won

  • a million dollars, so I'm happy.” that's what happened, you get it? Now I'll tell you,

  • I'm just going to repeat these two sentences so that I make sure that you have understood

  • it because that is my job, let's get started, I won the race because I worked hard, okay?

  • Now I'm gonna usesoin the same sentence, “I worked hard, so I won the race.” Now

  • I'm going to write these down so that see I use the wordso”, so that you don't

  • get confused. ‘I won the race because I worked hardokay you guys? See the way

  • I have used the wordbecause”. Now let's take a look at the same sentence using the

  • word, “so”, ‘I worked hard’, what happenedso I won the race’, okay? See

  • the difference? Now let's take a look at the second sentence, ‘I won a million dollars,

  • I'm happy. “I'm happy because I won a million dollars.” Okay, why are you happy? Because

  • I won a million dollars, who wouldn't be? Now same sentence with the wordsothe

  • way we did previously, “I won a million dollars so I am happythe sentences literally

  • reversed and interchange when we use eitherbecauseorso”. Now guys there

  • is a little bit of an addition when we speak aboutso”, so is also used as anadverb”,

  • see what I've written here? It's also used as an adverb what helps us express or tell

  • us a little bit more about the verb. Okay, now for example, “he walks so fastit's

  • a simple rule, its verb + so. Now as soon as I use the wordsoover here, it tells

  • you the intensity of how fast he works and that's another way we use the wordso

  • but that as an adverb and not as a conjugation but the reason why I've written it over here

  • is because I don't want you to be confused anymore and that is why we have these sentences

  • over here. I won the race because I worked hard. I worked hard so I won the race, okay?

  • I won a million dollars, I'm happy. I'm happy because I won a million dollars. I won a million

  • dollars so I'm happy. Alright guys, I hope I have helped you at least a little bit to

  • get rid of your confusion as far asbecauseandsoare considered… I will be back

  • very soon with another interesting topic that will help you sort out your confusion and

  • learn a little bit more. But that's all for the day guys, make sure that you take the

  • quiz down below and you would understand how well you have understood this lesson for the

  • day. Alright guys, I will see you soon until then, keep smiling, keep practicing, spread

  • a lot of love this is me Meera, I will see you soon. Ciao.

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