Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Ivy. Hi Ivy.

Ivy asked, hi Alicia. What's the difference between where and put on? Super good question. Yeah, it's very

important to choose the correct one here. So let's start with put on. When we use put on to talk about our clothing, we use it to mean the action of taking the clothes from the closet or from a basket, from the floor, whatever. We take it from that position and place it on the body.

That is the verb put on.

So to put on a hat means only this motion, done.

So put on is only about placing the item on your body.

You can use this for accessories also, like to put on your glasses, or to put on a jacket,

or to put on your shoes. So this is just that one short motion, placing the thing on your body.

Let's compare this now to wear. So when we use the verb to wear, we talk about the condition of having something on our body.

So for example, I might say, I usually wear a black shirt in these videos.

Or today I'm going to wear a raincoat.

So it's like saying the condition is going to continue, right? I'm going to put this thing on my body,

or I usually put this thing on my body, and it stays there. So we tend to use wear a lot in the progressive form.

Like I'm wearing a black shirt, or he is wearing glasses, right?

We wouldn't say, like, for example, he is putting on glasses.

We wouldn't use that unless he's in the action at the moment of putting that glasses, putting those glasses on his face.

So this is only for this action, right?

When we use to wear, it means that is the current

status of that person's clothing. It's a way to think about it. So we use wear to talk about

like having that thing on the body, but put on is only for placing that thing on the body. So I hope that

this answers your question about the differences between wear the body. So I hope that this answers your question

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