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

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Let's get your first question this week. First question this week comes from Ramzad.

Hi Ramzad. Ramzad asked, I have been to London. I have been in London.

In these two sentences, is the speaker currently in or out of London? Okay, interesting question.

So again, these two pieces we are going to talk about are, I have been to London and I have

been in London. Okay, so first, they could both be part of another larger sentence. And to answer

your question, they could both be said in London or out of London.

Okay?

We need a little bit more information about both of them.

So let's break down the first one and what they could be saying here.

I have been to London.

Could be a sentence on its own.

In this situation, it means the speaker is just talking about their life experience.

I have the experience of visiting London. That's what this means. Like, you could say,

I have been to London two times. You could say, I have been to London before, or I have been to London many times, right?

We simply want to talk about our life experience.

You could say this in London, if you wanted to, like someone might say, oh, have you been to

London before? Is it your first time here? They might say, yes, I have been to London many times.

You can say that in London. You could also say the same conversation outside of London. Okay?

So both of those are possible.

100% possible. So let's compare this to I have been in London. This piece is probably just a

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