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Baby, let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Adila. Hi, Adila. I hope I said your name correctly. Adila says,

when do we use above and over when we're talking about speed, temperature, and so on. Nice question. Yeah. So we use above and over to refer to too much

of something, especially when we're talking about the speed of something or the temperature of something,

as in your example. So to give a very, very common example of this, when we are driving in a car,

there's usually a speed limit, let's say in the USA, 60 miles

an hour, right? So if you drive 70 miles an hour, you are going above the speed limit, or you are

driving over the speed limit. We can use both of these words to talk about going beyond the limit.

So if a police officer stops your car because

you're going too fast, the police officer might say, did you know that you were going over the

speed limit or did you know you were driving above the speed limit, which means too much, right,

in these cases? We do the same thing for temperature. So for example, let's say you want to talk about

a really, really hot day. And let's say you want to describe like the hottest part of the day.

You can say the temperature today was over 30 degrees, like 30 degrees Celsius. It's really, really hot, right?

You can say the temperature was above 30 degrees as well.

So this means it is more than that.

So this is what above and over are used to do when we're talking about numbers, data, right?

So of course, we can use it to talk about how much of something, like a quantity of something,

but when we're talking about these other concepts, like how quickly we are moving,

or how hot or how cold something is, we can use above and over to refer to beyond that.

And of course, we can also do the opposite. We can also talk about things that are less than with the word under.

So, for example, temperatures were under 3 degrees today or temperatures were under zero.

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