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Welcome to the AID is the English Podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host
Sochil. And Sochil today we are in the grammar zone and I have a couple of phrasal verbs
and then in adjective, but they all use the word point. And I thought this might be an
interesting one to look at a little bit more closely. And so our first one is point
at. And what does it mean to point at someone or something?
You just take your index finger usually and you point it in the direction of that person
or thing. Yeah, and just make sure it's your index finger and not a different finger.
That might get you in trouble. Yeah.
Here's an example. She pointed at the painting on the wall. The teacher pointed at the
map to show us where the country is located. So yeah, it's really easy. And let's just
a quick aside here. It is considered rude to point at people sometimes.
Yeah, it can be. If you see your friend and you're like, hey, you're what your other
friend and you run into your other friend, you're like, hey, is that blah blah blah over
there and you point at them and you go say hi, like that should be fine. But if you like
see someone and just use your common sense here. But in a lot of context, it can be used.
It can be rude. Like if you point at someone and say, oh, did you see their shirt? Like
even if you like their shirt, you think their shirt is really cool and you point at them
because that person doesn't know necessarily, right? And so if they just see you pointing,
they might feel kind of embarrassed. And so that's why it's considered bad manners.
Right. Sometimes you'll see this in movies, you know, like, I don't like you, you know,
that too. Yeah. But that's more of like poking instead of.
I don't like you. Yeah. Okay. So point at is just a physical gesture. Like you said, using
your index finger. So what about to point out something? What does that mean?
It can be used like figuratively and to point something out is usually you catch a detail
or an aspect of something and you bring it to the attention of others. Exactly. That's
the definition I have here to bring something to the attention of others by mentioning it
or highlighting it. So yeah. He pointed out the errors in the document. So that means
like there was some kind of document and there were some grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes.
And one person didn't see the mistakes, but the other person pointed them out like, Hey,
look at this. This is spelled wrong or hey, this needs to be changed to this or whatever.
So you're pointing out the problems. Yeah. Another example is I'd like to point out that
we need to finish this project by Friday. So bringing to the attention of the group,
hey, everyone, we need to finish this by Friday. So they're pointing out some fact or
piece of information. Right. Yeah. Okay. Good. And the last one is pointed and pointed
has kind of multiple definitions, multiple meanings and say like she gave him a pointed
look, which is another definition, which can mean a sharp look. Yeah. Sharp look that
kind of means or insinuate something like say that that this boy is disrupting the class
and the teacher gives him a pointed look. She's looking at him like, you know, a sharp
shut up kind of look without saying anything. Yeah. Yeah. We call it sometimes we call
it side eye or something a little bit. Yeah. Or you can also say like, she gave him a
pointed look and then said, you know, you're like singling someone out with the pointed
look. So yeah, it doesn't have to be a pointed look. It could also be a pointed remark
or a pointed comment too. So it's for she made a pointed remark about his lateness. You
know, the students always late and then she made a pointed remark. It'd be just a very
short sharp remark, you know, like know who it's for and other words. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Exactly. Meeting around the bush. No beating around the bush. Very obvious, very clear,
very pointed, just direct into the point. And there's another one here, just like to
be sharp, like the pencil has a pointed tip. Yes. It just means a sharp object or your
shoes have your heels have pointed toes. So you know, you have a point on them. Yeah.
Right. Right. We have pointed toes instead of round toes, a round toe shape, which is
rounded and the point toe shape, which is like a V. Yes, exactly, exactly. So something
that's sharp that has a pointed edge to it, like a pin, a pencil, something like that.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We covered it. I think we got it. We did it well. Yeah. All right.
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