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Speak and Talk: Difference

There is not much difference between speak and talk. They are usually both possible in most situations.

Formality...

Talk is less formal than speak. In fact, talk is the usual word to refer to informal communication.

◾ I want to talk to you.
◾ I think you should talk to him.
◾ I don’t know why she has stopped talking to me.
◾ I would like to talk to you about the film I watched yesterday.
◾ Stop talking nonsense.
◾ We talked for an hour.

Speak is often used for exchanges in more serious or formal situations.

◾ Speak your mind.
◾ I was so shocked that I could hardly speak.
◾ They are not speaking anymore.
◾ Actions speak louder than words.

Speak is not usually used before sense, nonsense and other words with similar meanings.

Lectures etc...

Talk is often used for the act of giving an informal lecture. Speak is preferred for more formal lectures.

Compare:
◾This is Ms Susan Fernandez, who is going to talk to us about cookery.
◾ This is Professor Susan Fernandez, who is going to speak to us on recent developments in stem-cell therapy.

Speak is the usual word to refer to a person’s ability to speak a language.
◾ She can speak English. (NOT She can talk English.)
◾ She speaks ten languages fluently.

Speak is also the word to refer to speech on the phone.
◾ Could I speak to Alice, please? (More natural than ‘Could I talk to Alice?’)

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"You and I" versus "you and me"

This article provides a simple way to choose between you and I and you and me.

Consider the following sentence:

You and I should have lunch.

Is the correct form of this sentence You and I ... or You and me ...? This is a common source of confusion in English.

Fortunately, there's an easy way to decide whether to use I or me in such sentences. All you have to do is drop the word you then try the sentence with I and me one at a time.

For example:

I should have lunch.

Me should have lunch.

Clearly the preferred form in this case is I; thus, the original sentence was correct to use you and I.

Here's another example: He'll blame you and I. Drop the word you then try the sentence with I and me one at a time, like so:

He'll blame I.

He'll blame me.

You can see that the second of these is correct. This means that the original sentence should have been: He'll blame you and me.

Easy.

On a related note, when using phrases such as you and me, you and I or them and us, it has traditionally been considered courteous to place the reference to yourself last. For example, we prefer:

He'll ask you and me later.

over:

He'll ask me and you later.

- Tim

Phrasal verbs with pass

A large number of phrasal verbs use the word pass. The most common among them are given below.

Pass away - to pass away is to die.

•My grandmother passed away last week after a prolonged battle with cancer.

Pass as / pass for - to pass for someone/something is to be accepted (often wrongly) as being a particular type of person of thing. The phrasal verb pass as also means the same.

•She is nearly forty-five, but she could easily pass for thirty. (= She could easily be accepted as a thirty-year old woman.)

Pass by - to pass by someone/something is to go past.

•We passed by a super market.
•As I passed by her window, I heard her speaking on the phone.
•Somebody passed by the window, but I couldn’t see their face.

If something passes you by, you fail to notice it.

•‘Did you notice that weird expression on her face?’ ‘No, it completely passed me by.’

If something passes you by, you fail to take advantage of the opportunities it offers.

•I have always felt that life is just passing me by. I wish I could do something more worthwhile.

Pass on - to pass something on is to give someone something that someone else has given you.

•Could you please pass this message on to Peter?
•Could you please pass the salt?
•When your kids outgrow their clothes, you could pass them on to someone else who might need them.

Pass on can also mean ‘to transmit an infection’.

•If your daughter is down with flu, don’t send her to school. Otherwise, she will pass on the virus to everyone in her class.
•When the price of raw materials increases, manufacturers almost always pass the extra costs on to the consumer.

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