Name: 'Win', 'earn' and 'gain' - Learners' Questions
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T09:51:22.000Z
Duration: 4 min 58 s
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What's the difference between win, earn and gain?

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Win is an irregular verb, so when one have one, it means achieve first place in a competition contest, fight, argument, bet or attempt at something.

I went near wind can also mean get something that other people are also trying to get, and this is especially useful in a business context where we talk about winning and order winning a contract or winning the right to do something for example, the most successful bid will win the contract.

To build the bridge win can also mean gain the support of someone we talk about winning support, winning approval, winning the heart of someone or winning someone over, for example, the politician's speech.

One over the hostile crowd and they started cheering.

Now let's talk about earn earned on have earned and noticed that day.

When you earn, you receive an amount of money in exchange for your work.

People earn an amount of money but never asked him about it.

Or a person can earn a living, which is make money to survive.

For example, I could never earn a living as a translator because I'm not fluent in any other language.

Professional monkey, though in a business context, earn means receive as profit companies earn shares earn and accounts, for example, So far, the movie has earned 1,003,000,000 scwill ian jillion pounds.

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Urn can also mean receive something deserved.

We can talk about things like earning praise, earning respect or earning your place at a particular organization.

And quite frankly, after this video, I think I've earned a nice cup of tea.

Now let's talk about gain gained and have gained, and there's that did sound again.

When we gain, we get obtain something positive, we can talk about gaining support, gaining an advantage or gaining confidence.

For example, in my first video, I was quite nervous.

Things gain height, they gain weight, they gain speed or they gain value.

For example, actually, my jeans are a little bit kind today.

Finally, we can talk about something gaining ground or gaining traction or popularity on this means becoming more popular on DME or accepted by society things like ideas or movements.

For example, veganism is gaining ground at the moment as more and more people become vegan.

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