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Confused Words – DESERT or DESSERT?
Did you eat desert or dessert? Particularly recommended for students from India, this lesson explains the difference in pronunciation and spelling between these commonly confused words.
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These are very very confusing words, especially when it’s about the verb, same pronunciation as a noun, and meaning is totaly different. . . Complicated, but I’ve learnt it, thank you Rebecca for explanation, very useful :)
thaks fot the lesson!
I made a mistake! I wanted to write “thanks” instead of “tanks” “my bad”
Thank you Rebecca. You guys are doing wonderful social work. Expecting such lessons in future too…Thank you…
Where is the quiz ??
yea yash where is the quiz?????????
You really don’t need quiz. . . If you understand this lesson, you can make quiz all by yourself :)
hi rebeeca how r u?i just wanna ask about how can i use have u seen and did u see ? i mean what is the difference between them? my best wishes for u good teacher.
Did you see – Past Tense, you use this phrase when you know exact moment when something happened. For example: Did you watch that football match “yesterday”?, this phrase is almost always followed by some adverb which shows us exact moment when something happened, in this case that is “ÿesterday” etc. Have you seen – Present Perfect, you use this phrase when you don’t know when something happened, so the question begins with have or has. . . This verb tense is most difficult, because many languages don’t have that tense :)
Thanks for helping out, Mark. That was a good explanation.
Sometimes there is not much difference in meaning between the Past Simple and the Present Perfect. However, if you refer to a finished time, such as yesterday, then you must use the Past Simple; If you refer to an unfinished time, like today, this week, this year, my life, etc, then you can use Present Perfect.
Abdulelah, please consult a good grammar book for a fuller explanation. My best wishes to you.
Dear Rebecca,
thanks a lot for solving this,and thank God to find this website,
you are much much much better than our teacher,
I want to see more and more
thanks very much.i nead a quiz if you donot mind
Rebecca U made me understand easily pretty lady.so long n’ goodbye.
Rebecca,
You are a very nice teacher because you explain difficult issues with easy explanation. Thank you very much!!
Rebecca,
Do you offer class on line?? It is possible to talk with you on the skype??
i´d like talk you, teacher. Today, i found this web page and it was very useful.
have a nice day.
I do not offer online lessons at this time. Thanks for asking. I wish you the best.
awwwhh this lec z only fr indian’s lolxx…..
Hi teacher Valen
How are you?
I am a new student.
hi
Hello Rebecca and everybody! Rebecca, thank you for the lesson! These words are really confusing. I hope I won’t forget this lesson. At least for now :), everything is clear.
hi everyone, hi from turkey
hi rebecca thanx for all the lessons that you made for us i just want a lesson about the GRE test
Dear Rebecca!
Thanks a lot for your lessons! The way you talk to us is very understandable. You are such a lovely person in all things. I am glad that i have a teacher like you.
Elena
hi my name is khulan. i am new student.
iam from in Mongolia.i want learning english but i can`t. help me please
wow mam ur explanation is amazing i really thankful to u & myself also cuz once i ws feeling bore i type business conversation & inside saw ur video nw i’m happy alott cuz daily i’m taking 1hour lesson frm u all. thanks alottt:)
Thanks so much
Thanks Rebeca! Your class was very useful.
Thank you Rebecca for the lesson. your teaching style is very good and easily understandable. I have confusion about the use of the world apparent. could you please help me on this.
i saw your lessons on online it was realy best I learn so much it is realy a great job you people doing
Awesome.
Thank you .
HI Rebecca,
Can you please update your countable and non-countable page to include words with suffix MENT, TION? Nation(s?), government,(s?), Compliment(s?), endorsement(s?), condition(s?)…..etc THANK YOU!
thank u very much
hi rebecca. can i ask u a question?? what’s difference between unemployable and jobless
Unemployable means that you maybe don’t have qualification for some job, and jobless is your current status, I think this is the basic difference :)
Thanks, again, Mark. You are right!
thank my teacher!
thank u so much :x
Thank you do much. I would like to practice my eng.
very important class. I didn’t know that
your website Rebecca is head and shoulders above the others and your colleagues are very nice too, way to go guys(honestly i used a dictionary to write)
thanks rebecca
Dear Madam
my name is shamim alam.from nigeria but i am bangladeshi.i am doing a job in here.i dont know good english.could you healp me please.how i can learn english.& how i can learn grammar…please reply my….Thank you madam
hi,Shamim. first of all listen to the radio and watch T.V a lot.if you are single try to find a girlfriend or boy friend who can speak English originally. and if you are married find an English family.I think you are Moslem.OK. believe!that God doesn’t leave you all alone and he shows you the best way to learn it.So don’t worry.I’m sure you can do this.truly…..mosaeedi USA
thanks a lot
Excelent, Rebecca! I love your lessons!
Lovely !!! Excellent explanation and very helpful and friendly teacher :-)
please tell me how do we pronounce this word dessert – ‘de-zert’ or ‘du-zert’???????
idiot Rebeca told us on her lesson¡
Thanks a lot, Rebecca.
This class of differences between Desert & Dessert was really understandable and I did enjoy it as per your excellent way of teaching….Thanks again.
thanks rebeca,i love this lesson.
ah… there is no quiz. thanks anyway. :)
Hello madam
thank you so much for the explanation, but I would like to ask you a question about the menu at restaurant, they put “cheese” under the column of dessert, so why? personaly I don’t consider “cheese” as a dessert, thanks for the reply.
you shouldnt to say madam to rebeca on her country it doesnt use
thanks for this lesson teacher
thank u very muach Rebecca you are definitely great teacher, u know this word is really confusing u beacuse it’s very close to each other, but any way i learn it thank u again.
thanks kha , I understand !
I don´t see the quiz!!!!!!!!!!!1
Thank you Rebecca. These two words are really confused me for a long time. Thanks your explanation.
It’s very useful.thanks for your explanation rebecca.
English is very difficult but I don’t give up
Thank you
I got a lot Thank you very much.I want to know that is their any way to develop my spoken English by using online conversation or any software —replaying to me.
very good, i had a lot of confuse beteewn disert and dissert,,,,,,,LORD Please bless our teachers they great
is not have a quiz what is that the teacher said you take a quiz is not have
thank you very much for your clear explanation. thanks again
Hello, Ms. Rebecca,
First of all i would like to thank you a lot for your efforts.
I am eager to speak english like you or at least close to your accent, i dont how but trying a lot can you advise me how can i get the noth american accent.
I am rager to change my accent but I dont know how.
Appreciate your soonest reply to email, I am very serious.
my email id. dali_ali75@yahoo.com
thank you Rebecca its extremely useful
very nice, appreciated job.
Wow! what a splendid way to teach.
Hello everyone who is working for this site.this is wonderful job doing by your team and its very appreciable. I would like to say Hercules Thankx to you
thanks a lot!!
so usefull…..
Hi Teacher i am new student, i am from pakistan. your way of teaching is so good and your web really facilitate us to learn more and improve our english grammer. so many thanks for this great working.
thanks for this lesson
am new student i like engllish please how is learn english
hi teacher the lesson is very good
That was a awesome lesson! My vocabulary is not very good so please make more tutorials to widen my mind of vocabulary. I am primary 5 in Singapore.
Hi Rebecca ,
I’m Abdul Hameed from Iraq . I’m a teacher of English and I always watch your videos lesson which admired me very much. I’d like to appreciate your efforts in sereying such topics in an easy way especially in those lessons on confused words . Thanks again and again . I hope you’ll give lessons for advanced learners .For example topics on listening comprehensions or writing essays using your easy and enjoying method .
awesome. you all are the best.
thanks,now it is clear.
i am very glad to learn with you tanks so dear TEACHER
Thank you So much
Many many thanks ma’am!!!
thank you for the teacher
good
where’s the quiz?
Thanks REBECCA!! You are the best!
dear rebeca very interest lesson. thank very much
Thank you Rebecca , but where is the quiz.
I always do this mistake, hopefully I will not be doing that mistake anymore :)
Rebecca thanks for your lesson. I always got confused with these words. Now, after your exelent explanation they will be a lot more clear.
Thank you for this excellent lesson. Many thanks for dessert as well.
I want to learn English fast. How can I do it.. Tell me what I have to do and thank you for teachnig rebecca (:
thank you teacher you are the best
Very very helpful lessons, i leardned something i didn’t know, thnak you so much
Good!!! Thanks so much Rebecca!
we need quiz each lesson
In the past I was very confused about that. but now I understand. Thank you very much.
COOL, Thanks : )