Name: English Tutor Nick P Lesson (354) Don't Say Workable When You Mean Something Worked Well
Uploaded: 2019-08-11T16:16:19.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson  354. The title of the lesson

today is don't say workable when you mean something works well. Yeah.  I've

Past simple

noticed this with a number of students,  a number of times might do this. So let's

take a look at the note here. If something is workable,  it means that

it is possible for something to happen or be done with the circumstances as

they are. You know,  or with the situation the way it is at that time. Okay.

if you say that a plan,  system,  etc.  is workable,  it has not happened yet.

So you don't know really a hundred percent how it's going to work out. But you

think that it's a good chance that it will work out. But it could be likely to

do or work well. Then we say something is workable. All right. Let's continue.

If you mean something is already working in a positive way or in a good way,  you

should say something is effective,  successful,  working well or working out

nicely etc.  And there's a lot more ways you could say that. All right. Let's take a

look at them.  Let's continue here and with the X of course this is wrong this

is where a student might make a mistake.  So if the student says this product is

workable. It helped to improve my illness.  No. You can't say that. Well first of all,

it means that you will already be using it.  When we say it's workable,

it means we haven't even started it yet.  We just think that it could be

successful. We think that it could work out. So you can't say the product is

workable when you have tried it. Here in this case,  it said it helped to

improve my illness. So you obviously did try it. So here's a couple of ways that

you could say it correctly. This product works well.

It helped to improve my illness or you could say this product is very effective.

It helped to improve my illness.  Okay. Let's look at the next one here.

With the X again. This is .  The plan is going well. It is very

workable. Well if you say the plan is going well. It means the plan has already

been put into action. So you you can no longer say workable. Workable again means

you didn't try it yet. You just think that it may work out. Okay and of course

we have several here with a correct way of saying it. So if you rephrase it,  you

say the,  the plan is going well.  It is very effective. Well that's fine. It's already,

it's already been put into action and things are working out.You know,  in a

positive way. The plan is working well.  Again you could say that. The plan is

working out or though it's working out nicely. You could say all of those.

All right. Good and just one example of you know,  how you might use workable. This is

an a/v part. And A says can I change my appointment to Monday at 9 a.m.  And B

says that's workable. Meaning that,  that's possible and he says I can do that for

you. So that ...  so he's going to change it now. So but workable means that it  hadn't

been done yet. But you think it's possible to work out it's possible to do.

Okay. Anyway,  I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.