Name: English Tutor Nick P Lesson (246) The Difference Between Leftovers and Scraps
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is Lesson 246. Today, the lesson is the difference between leftovers and

scraps. Yes. Sometimes students will ask what's the difference between these two. All right.  let's take a look at the note here. Scraps or table scraps are

Adverbs of degree

usually small amounts of food that are usually too small to save for later.

Scraps are typically half-eaten or mostly eaten amounts of food from someone's

personal plate. So usually when you say scraps,  somebody had it on their plate already,

and they were eating and maybe you know not everybody finishes everything. They

leave little pieces of food on the plate. This is what we typically refer to as

Leftovers are amounts of food remaining. after a meal , especially food that has not been on someone's personal plate.  And are usually well worth saving and wrapped up , or put in Tupperware to be eaten at a later time. Of

course,  there could be some exceptions.  You know,  maybe somebody put out a lot of

food on a plate for someone and then they suddenly didn't feel well. They felt

kind of sick, and they hardly touched anything. And they had a real lot of food

on that plate. We might still consider that to be kind of like leftovers and

wrapped up too. But generally we think of scraps as smaller amounts. Amounts that

somebody was actually eating and putting in their mouth with their fork and stuff

that's actually left on the plate is usually what we refer to as scraps. So

it's usually smaller amounts.  Leftovers they could be a lot of leftovers. All

right.  Let's,  let's continue. Let's look at some examples. Some examples kind

of clarify it a little bit more . Let's look at number one. Give the scraps to the dog. Yeah I've seen this

even in the movies and I've had dogs in my family throughout my life.  Sometimes,  you know,  the dog's bowl.  A lot of dogs are willing to eat the scraps you know,  you just push it right

off the plate into their bowl and you know.  if it's the right or proper sort of

food. They will, they will eat it. So that's typical. We

never say put the leftovers  give the leftovers to the dog, we usually say give

the scraps to the dog. Or number two . Clean the scraps off the plates before putting

them in the dishwasher. So if you've owned a dishwasher before.  you know,  if

there's still like little amounts food on the plate,  you know,  you have to wipe

them off. That'll make the dishwasher a total mess. If you don't clean those off.

So usually again. Those are just you know you,  take a fork or a knife and you

just again push them off the plate.  Usually directly into the garbage bin.

Because they're usually not worth saving you know,  like I said, It's probably like

half-eaten stuff that's been in  someone's mouth before. So that's usually what we mean by

scraps. Okay. Let's look at the third example.  I wrapped up the leftovers and put them in the refrigerator. You

can have them tomorrow for lunch. Yeah again,  especially if you had like food in

the center of the table.  Maybe people picked from it. You know,  to

put on their plate.  But they didn't usually directly from that bowl or like I said

if it was actually on someone's plate if you know that they left a lot of

leftovers or they left a lot of food on the plate, we still might call that

leftovers. So it's usually scraps when it's becomes small amounts. All right. Let's look at number four.  Usually

after a large Thanksgiving meal,  there are plenty of leftovers

that can be eaten for several days. Yeah,  especially a Thanksgiving Day meal or a

Christmas Day meal. Usually we,  most families overcook and they not only do

they have turkey,  but they have a lot of other variety of different types of food in

bowls that you could choose from. And there's always a lot usually left over,

that even and everybody is still full and there's still plenty left over. Usually

they could be wrapped up,  and you know,  they might be eaten for the rest of the week.

There's usually so much food that's a typical example of leftovers. Okay.

Anyway,  I hope you got it.  I hope this has clarified the difference. How we use the difference

between these two more. Anyway thank you for your time. Bye-bye.