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Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to know your verbs.

My name is Alicia, and in this lesson, we're going to talk about the verb Take.

Let's get started.

Yeah, let's begin with the basic definition of this burb.

So the basic definition of the verb to take is to remove something, but often without permission to remove it.

Some examples of this you took the last cookie.

Your dog is about to take your lunch.

Now let's look at the congregations for this burb present.

Take Takes past Took past participle taken progressive taking.

Now let's talk about some additional meanings for this Ferb the 1st 1 the first additional meaning is to receive or to accept something.

Some examples.

Does this restaurant take credit cards?

All the teachers took a 5% pay cut.

So in the first example sentence does this restaurant take credit cards?

Take here means, except in other words, this sentence means can I use a credit card at this restaurant?

But we use the verb take in an expression like this instead.

Does this restaurant take credit cards?

Desist restaurant, accept credit cards.

We use the verb take here in the second example sentence.

It also means accept or receive.

Ah, but in this case, it means, like probably that the teachers are not willing or they're not happy about a 5% pay cut.

But they have to accept it.

They have no choice but to accept it.

So they took a 5% pay cut.

So the expression all the teachers took a 5% pay cut shows they received it, or they accepted this 5% pay cut.

But maybe they weren't really happy about it or they didn't want to what?

They accepted it.

So the second additional meaning of this verb is to cause something to go to another place.

So, examples of this I should have taken an umbrella to the office.

That bus will take you to the airport.

Okay, so here we see take being used to describe maybe an object or a person moving to another location because of something else.

In the first example sentence.

It's a person like I should have taken an umbrella to the office, so I should have moved my umbrella from probably my house to my office.

I should have done that myself.

In the second example sentence That bus will take you to the airport.

It means via that bus using that bus, your body you, as a person will cause to be moved to the airports.

And we use the verb take to do that.

That bus will take you to the airport, move you to the airport.

Let's move on to the third additional.

Meaning for this for the third additional Meaning for this verb is to grasp, to hold or to rip something Examples of this Can you take my bag for a second?

Take this pen and write your name.

So here we see take being used to mean like hold something or grip something.

In the first example, we see a very common expression.

Can you take my bag for a second?

You're asking someone else.

Please hold this for a moment.

Please just carry this for a moment s so please take this bag.

Please take this phone.

Please take my keys or something for a short period of time.

It's sort of the feeling here in the second example.

Sentence.

Take this pen and write your name.

It's two commands.

Actually, Take this pen.

One meeting.

Put this pen in your hand.

Hold this in your hand.

And after that, write your name probably with the pen.

So we're meaning.

Ah, hold or carry or grasp something, but we use the verb take here instead.

In most cases we used take just for quick every day.

Expressions like these.

Okay, let's move on to the fourth additional meaning for the verb.

So the fourth additional meaning is quite open.

It's to do or to perform something.

So examples of this I've taken that test five times.

Let me take a look at that email.

So I said, This means like to do or to perform something.

But when I say perform, I don't mean like to perform entertainment.

I mean, like to do in action.

I mean perform as, like, the formal version of Do Something.

So in the first example sentence, I've taken the test five times.

It means like I have done essentially, I have registered and written the test, the act of test taking.

I have done that.

I've performed the test five times in the second example sentence.

Let me take a look at that email.

We could say, Let me look at that e mail, but saying Take a look.

It sounds a little bit more casual.

Uh, kind of a little bit quicker.

I supposed to if you say, Let me look at that email and maybe it sounds more focused.

Take a look.

Sounds like maybe a quick a quick click on Lee or it sounds a little bit faster.

I suppose so.

Take a look.

Means to do something.

Okay, let's move on to some variations for the verb.

Take off course.

Actually, with this verb, there are a lot of idioms and a lot of phrase over Bs.

So these air just a few.

You can check a dictionary online to see some more examples as well.

But these air some that might be useful to you right away.

The first variation for this bird is to take after someone to take after someone to take after someone means to resemble someone or meaning to look like someone, but not just in appearance.

This can be in terms of personality in terms of your behavior, maybe in terms of your career choices.

So some examples of this she takes after her father.

I hope the kids don't take after their grandmother.

Okay, so the 1st 1 she takes after her father means she does something that is similar to her father.

In the second example sentence.

I hope the kids don't take after their grandmother.

The speaker hopes the Children don't have the same behavior or don't have the same something.

Maybe personality or me looks appearance.

They don't do something similar to their grandmother.

So to take after someone means to resemble someone in some way.

Okay, let's move on to these second variation for this word.

So the second variation is to take someone or something on so we can use to take someone on to take something on.

Both of these kind of have the image of a challenge of some kind.

So we're accepting a challenge.

This can be a physical challenge, or it can mean like a career challenge of Project Challenge, a conceptual challenge.

Examples.

If you threaten him, he'll take you on.

I'm taking on some new responsibilities at work in the first example sentence.

It could be a physical challenge if you threaten him, he'll take you on.

This could mean a physical fight, so accepting a physical fight, he'll take you.

One he will take you on means he will accept your challenge.

So that could mean having a physical fight.

It could mean having some kind of legal fight.

We don't know.

It's quite an open expression, but it means he will accept your challenge and try to win.

In the second example sentence, I'm taking on some new responsibilities at work.

We see that the speaker has received new responsibilities or maybe has agreed to take new responsibilities, has agreed to accept new responsibilities.

And they're going to try to, uh, achieve those things like achieve new goals, for example.

So I'm taking on I'm accepting and tryingto work hard on a new challenge.

Okay, let's move along to the third variation.

The third variation is to take something back to take something back actually has two different meanings, depending on the context.

Let's start with the 1st 1 The first meaning of to take something back is to return something to a store.

Examples.

I need to take back that sweater.

Have you taken back those shoes so here to take back just means to return an item to a store, something you purchased.

You want your money to be returned to you.

So you return the item and you receive your money.

We say take back.

I need to take this item back to the store.

I need to return.

This item is what it means.

However, there is a second meaning for to take back.

It means like to cancel or to nullify something that you previously said or previously wrote.

Usually because there was a mistake or there was something wrong or you offended somebody.

There was some problem with what you said.

Examples.

You should take back what you said about her.

Our manager took back her comments about our design when she saw how successful it waas.

All right, so in these examples, we see people in situations where someone should sort of cancel or someone should, like, agree that the thing that they said in the past was wrong in the first example sentence, you should take back what you said about her.

It means you need to recognize that you said something incorrect or inappropriate about her, and you should recognize that.

And, like, uh, trying to sort of fix the problem.

Fix that situation so you can't, Of course not unsafe words.

If that makes sense, you can't just, uh, physically remove your words from someone's memory.

But you can recognize that you made a mistake and say that, like you can say, Okay, I take it back.

I'm sorry.

Like I cancel what I've said before.

In other words, in the second example sentence, we see it in past tense.

Our manager took back her comments, so meaning the manager recognized that she made a mistake.

So her previous comments were probably negative about the design.

She took back her comments, meaning she recognized her mistake.

And she admitted she had been wrong when she saw that the design was successful.

So we see to take back or, in this case, past tense took back.

Refers to recognizing in the past that you made a mistake in your speech or in your writing, um, and things 02 people.

So I made a mistake.

I take it back.

So those are a few new ways to use the verb take, I hope.

I hope that you found something new that you can use quickly.

Of course, as I said, there are many, many different ways to use.

Take as both a noun and a verb.

For that matter, please take a look at a dictionary.

If you want to get some more details about this word, there's lots to know.

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Let's think Go look, Take why am I snowshoeing?

So the second additional meaning is to cause something to go to another place you see my hand with No think second meaning is to cause something to go to a different place.