Easy But Messy!(Cool!)

LVN   Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:46 pm GMT
Hi everyone!
You know,I'm very bad at English. So please help me!
My questions are:(Please tell me when we use each situation)
1) What is the defferent between "so","very" and "too"?
For example:
_It's so hot!
_It's very hot!
_It's too hot!
2) What is the defferent between "because","since" and "cause"?
For example:
_She doesn't love me because I'm very weak at english.
_Since you're Vietnam, can you tell us some Vietnam traditional food?
_I don't go to shool by bus every day cause I dont have enough money.
3)The defferent between "house" and "home"?
_It's her house.
_It's her home.

I've a lot of questions but now I forget them. If notice some errors in my sentences please point them out to me!
Thank you very much!
Uriel   Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:01 pm GMT
It's so hot!
_It's very hot!

These are roughly the same.


_It's too hot!

"Too" here means "excessive"; more than enough.


2) What is the defferent between "because","since" and "cause"?
For example:
_She doesn't love me because I'm very weak at english.
_Since you're Vietnam, can you tell us some Vietnam traditional food?

In this case, "since" means the same as "because". But Vietnam is the country; the people in it are Vietnamese.


_I don't go to shool by bus every day cause I dont have enough money.
3)The defferent between "house" and "home"?

It's actually not "cause", it's " 'cause ". The apostrophe means letters have been left out. In this case, those letters are "be" -- 'cause is simply short for "because". "Cause" without the apostrophe is a different word.


_It's her house.
_It's her home.

Technically, these mean roughly the same thing. In English, "house" can simply mean the building, while "home" sort of means the building itself plus the qualities of ownership and belonging. Home has a few more emotional connotations than "house", but depending on context, they can often be interchangeable.
Deborah   Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:47 pm GMT
"Home" can also refer to things other than the house you live in, for example, "I love New York, but San Francisco is home." "My dance company is my second home." These are examples of the "qualities of ownership and belonging" that Uriel mentioned.