2020-02-17
6 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome to a podcast where I try to help you with your understanding of the english language aspects of grammar and also help you to communicate with other people in a more enjoyable way than perhaps you do so already.
So we're always willing to take suggestions and if you have any, well, you'll be able to contact me and I'll give you the details at the end of this particular podcast.
So, what do I have for you today?
Well, we're going to talk about three particular words and show you the differences, but also similarities between the three.
And the three words are gain, g a I n, earn.
Earn and win.
W I n.
And people get confused with them because they have similarities, but they also have differences.
So I'm going to give you examples of both.
Often when we talk about gain, earn and win, we might be talking about money, okay?
So we can earn income.
Okay, so we earn an income.
When we are working, we can gain some benefit from something, and that could be because somebody gives us something because of the job we're doing.
For example, they give us the use of a company car, so we gain some benefit from that.
Or if we are lucky enough to have money to invest and we invest it, then we gain if the asset that we buy goes up in value, for example, a house or a share, and we of course lose on the other side if the value goes down.
So gain is something that we don't necessarily have to work at.
Okay, earn, we have to work to get paid.
We have to work for a week or a month, whatever period of time.
So we earn that income.