Difference between "Being naive" and "Being innocent" | English Grammar for Beginners

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sound in all of these words so we say these words rhyme so when we're very very little kids we learn to make very simple poems by creating short sentences that rhyme so that means the end of the sentence has the same sound as the end of the next sentence so here's a very very basic example of what it sounds like when the ends of the sentences that we put in our poems rhyme so I heard you like cake how about we bake what would you like to make so in these three lines we have the ending sounds that all rhyme right we have cake and bake and make so this is the simplest form of a rhyme we make short lines or short sentences that have the same sound at the end of them so this is as I said the simplest way to create a poem so you can start here if you've never created a poem before but then as you get more advanced and as you start reading more and more things a lot of poets so poet means person who writes poems a lot of poets go outside of this kind of General rhyming frame so we see this kind of rhyming style of song making and poem making in popular culture a lot today and that's very very common and very very popular there's no problem with it but if you read poetry from English authors you'll notice that there are a lot of different rules that they apply so the rules that more advanced poets and advanced authors use include considering the syllables which means the Beats of the words that are used in the lines they have specific numbers of syllables that they use in lines for example this is a different kind of poetry rule you might also read poets that use very very strong imagery so they choose to talk about maybe topics like love or they talk about topics like war and they use very strong images of those things to talk about the very like challenging experiences or the joyous experiences of life on the other hand you might have poets that use very very abstract imagery you might read something and you think what is this person talking about and it's actually a poem about love so depending on the poet depending on the writer they may use very strong imagery or when I said abstract that means it's very hard to understand exactly what it's saying so these are kind of very different from the very basic rules that we use in a lot of popular media today but these are also very very popular especially among people who appreciate literature and poetry and writing so these as I said are more advanced ways of writing poems but generally the topics that people cover are those specific life challenges or the specific kind of high and low points of life people talk about those and express themselves through their writing and so they choose different words and different rhythms and so on to express these things so In Sum if you want to get started with poetry and you're okay to just start with the super Basics which is great all kids in the U.S schools I think start with making poems that rhyme you can start there and if you want to look at more advanced topics you can try Google searching for a few very very famous poets and also search for analysis of those different poems that you find that will give you a really really good idea of the different ways that people write poems and choose their vocabulary words what was happening in the world at the time and so on so this is a super quick introduction to poetry but I hope that this answers your question and I hope that you enjoy creating poetry for yourself okay thanks very much for sending this question along let's move on to our next question next question comes from Spring High Spring spring says hi I'm spring from Vietnam hello I would like to ask you a question here's the context okay my friend and I went to the supermarket and forgot to take the key from our motorbike lock luckily it was still there after we were done shopping I told her we were lucky that no one stole the motorcycle she quickly replied to me that nobody came to take it but the supermarket doesn't have any barriers so it would probably have been easy for the thief to do it in this case is it grammatically correct for me to say oh you're so innocent or should I say oh you are naive I think that maybe she doesn't have much experience in life and is not thinking this thing through I hope that you take a look at my question thank you so much yeah really interesting question so the key question here is really what's the difference between innocent and naive right so someone who is innocent is someone who doesn't have very much knowledge about the world and it's not their fault we often say children aren't innocent they don't have life experience they don't know very much about the world and they just are learning things as they go right so someone who is innocent doesn't know those things and that's okay but on the other hand someone who is naive is someone who is probably old enough to have some life experience to know some things about the world and to understand the ways that the world works so if I were you if I were in this situation it sounds like naive is maybe the better vocabulary choice however using the word naive to describe somebody especially to them directly it can sound really insulting because you're saying you're old enough to know better right you're saying that like your life experience should have taught you this by now why don't you know this so it can sound kind of insulting to call someone naive if I were in your situation and I wanted to express this I might say something like you really want to see the good in people right but there are so many thefts that happen here we really want to take care so that expression I know that you really want to see the good in people means that you try to think about people in the best possible way even if that's not always true right so this is the difference between innocent and naive but just be careful if you call someone naive directly to their face you might upset them okay so let's take a look at just a couple more examples of the different ways that we can use these words so that you get an idea of how they're actually used let's start by talking about innocent so earlier I mentioned that we often say that children are innocent right they don't have a lot of like life experience or World experience but we can also use this in situations where someone doesn't have the specific kind of information required to make the right decision so let's say that there's somebody who works in a really big company there are lots of different departments there's a and b and c and d and there's a bunch of them so let's say that some guy who works in Department B has to work with someone from Department F okay and they each have different rules in the places where they work so this guy B goes to F and says hey I need to file this report and F says great okay please do that right away and so B does it and there's a mistake in it and F gets really really angry and it's like why is this not done correctly and if's co-workers might go he's innocent be guy is innocent he doesn't know B has different rules for filing reports than we do in Department F so this is a situation in which just the type of knowledge is different in this situation we might say he's innocent don't worry about it it's just a different policy or a different way of doing something so we can also use the word innocent to talk about situations in which someone's life knowledge or just like their job knowledge as well doesn't quite match with the other persons and it's not anybody's fault it's not a problem but we just want to point out that's not something to get mad at that person about we just want to say he's innocent it's okay he did it according to his rules according to what he knows let's fix the problem another way so we tend to use innocent more when we're talking about kids and very young people that don't have a lot of life experience you may hear it in like a job situation like this someone may use it from time to time but probably in the situation I described with all of the different departments you would probably hear somebody say like oh he just did it the way he knows how or something like that but you may hear someone say oh he's innocent or oh she's innocent to mean that person has nothing to do with the problem or they didn't do it on purpose or something like that so this is how we use innocent and we use naive as well as I said before to describe people who should be able to know the way the world works or should have a little bit of knowledge or information but don't as I said before we typically don't use this word when we're saying this to someone directly we typically use it to talk about someone else like there's a new hire at the company but she seems a little bit naive I notice that she doesn't know this this and this so you typically use it to talk about somebody else we typically don't say you're naive or I think you're really naive it sounds quite aggressive and quite direct okay great so those are the differences between the word innocent and naive I hope this long answer helped you understand the differences between them and also gave you another expression that you can use when you're speaking directly to someone about their life and World Experience thanks very much for sending this interesting situation and question along all right let's move on to our next question next question comes from Bruce hi Bruce Bruce says which preposition is appropriate to use before a reservation for example I made a reservation under Bruce's name is it under or with or by nice question yeah generally we say the reservation is under so and so's name so the reservation is under my name or the reservation is under his name the reservation is under my mom's name whatever we usually use under to talk about the reservation name so when you arrive at the hotel you arrive at the restaurant you usually say hello there's a reservation under Alicia or you might also say hello there's a reservation for Alicia When we arrive there when we talk about making the reservation however we use under so I would say I made a reservation under my name or I made the reservation under Alicia we don't use with we don't use by we don't use four I'll come back to four in a second because we use four in a different way but let's talk about the other options that you presented with in particular I want to talk about if you use with to talk about a reservation if you say something like I made a reservation with your name it sounds suspicious it sounds like you created a reservation using my name and I might think why why did you make the reservation using my name why didn't you use your name so generally when you say I made a reservation with his name or with your name or with that name it's going to sound a little bit suspicious and the reason for this is that the person making the reservation could use their name right so when you use with it's going to sound a little bit suspicious so please keep in mind that using width tends to sound a little bit suspicious even if for example your boss says to you hey can you please make a reservation at this restaurant please use my name when you get that permission from your boss to do that and then you make the reservation it still sounds better to say under the reservation is under your name or I made the reservation under your name you don't really use with in this case as well it sounds most natural to use under to do that the next preposition you suggested was buy we do not use Buy in any way in this kind of pattern so you don't have to worry about buying the same thing goes for two we don't use two to talk about making a reservation I made a reservation to her or to me nope don't use it don't worry about it but I want to talk about four we do sometimes use the word for when we want to talk about making a reservation not for ourselves it's not my reservation in other words when we want to make a reservation and the reservation is a different person's reservation great so I hope that this answered your question please make sure to use under someone's name when you make a reservation from now on thanks so much for sending your question along all right that is everything that I have for this week thank you as always for sending me your awesome questions please remember to send them to me at englishclass101.com ask hyphen Alicia there is also a link for this in the YouTube description so please send me your questions to the official question submission page I will definitely read your question if you send it there I will probably not be able to read your question if you send it somewhere else there are way too many YouTube and Facebook and social media comments so please please please make sure to send me your questions at the official question submission page where I will definitely check it out alright if you enjoyed this lesson please don't forget to give it a thumbs up and 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