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welcome to this video today you're going

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to learn

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how to use according to and

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in terms of this is a question that a

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student had submitted and it's a great

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question so i'm happy to answer it for

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of course i'm jennifer from

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jforestenglish.com

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you feel confident

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take your career

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let's talk about the difference between

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according to

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and in terms of now these are two

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very nice expressions they'll help you

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sound advanced and fluent in english but

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they have completely different meaning

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so they're not interchangeable

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let's start with according to according

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to

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is a preposition to form a complete

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sentence we need

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a noun according to and then

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a noun so something or someone

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what does this mean it means as

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stated by as stated by

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someone or something so we use it

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to let the person know that the

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information that we're giving you

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was stated by someone else

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or even something else something else

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such as a document

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a sign a commercial

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anything like that for example a company

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could call me

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and say according to our records

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you have an outstanding balance with us

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so here this noun the something is

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our records of course records they're

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just files

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pieces of paper in a computer system

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right

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so they search my name and they see i

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have an

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outstanding balance so the person on the

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phone

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is letting me know that it's not me

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who's saying this it's the file it's the

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record

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according to our records

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another example we could say according

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to

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doctors we should drink eight

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glasses of water a day so let's say i'm

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talking to a friend and i say

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according to doctors you should drink

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eight glasses of water a day

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well my friend will take the advice more

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seriously because she knows it's not

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coming from me

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what do i know it's coming from a doctor

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which all of a sudden the advice sounds

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more

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official so we use this a lot before we

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share

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information just so the other person

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knows where the information

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came from now let's talk about in terms

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of

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in terms of is a phrase to complete this

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phrase we need

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one of two things a noun or a gerund

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a gerund is a verb in ing form

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what does this mean it's used to

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identify

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a specific topic or specific area

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of focus for example i could say

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in terms of studying abroad london's

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a great choice so now when we're having

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a conversation

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i've given you the topic so we know

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we're not talking about

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just general tourism general

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entertainment

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we're not talking about food choices or

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the cost of

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living we're talking specifically about

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studying abroad in terms

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of studying abroad london's

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a great choice and notice here because i

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used a verb

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it's in the gerund form now remember we

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can use

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a noun so i could say in terms of

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universities oxford is a great choice

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so now we're not talking about anything

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we're talking specifically about

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universities so this is a really great

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phrase that you can use before

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meetings before you give a presentation

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or before

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you give any information to let the

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person know what specifically

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you'll be focusing on in that

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conversation

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so now you have two great expressions in

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your vocabulary

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according to and in terms of

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of course it's your turn to practice i

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want you to leave

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two examples in the comments below one

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with according to

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and one with in terms of and if you

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