Name: ACT - 基本動詞 - 學習英語語法 (ACT - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar)
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Welcome back to know your verbs in this episode, we're going to talk about the verb act.

It was hard to choose, like a basic definition of this for because I think depending on the person, there are a couple different meanings that you might think is the basic definition.

So I've kind of picked one for this lesson.

Okay, so the basic definition for this lesson is to take action to do something examples.

Okay, now let's look at the congregations for this Ferb Present Act acts past acted past participle acted, progressive acting.

So now let's talk about some additional meanings.

For this, for the 1st 1 is to perform as a character to perform as a character.

Some examples He acted in a musical last summer.

I love to act okay, so in the first example, sentence he acted in a musical last summer means he performed as a character in a musical last summer, so to act means like to perform in some way in a production.

So a musical or a theatre production by the way musicals are the performances with singing and dancing.

Usually, Ah, play is the same thing, but no singing and no dancing, really just talking.

It's just talking musicals, singing and dancing.

So ah, he acted in a musical last summer.

The second example sentence was I Love Toe act.

In other words, I love to perform as a character.

So this maybe is a common hobby for many people, I think.

Okay, let's go on to these second meaning for this murder to behave to me ever.

So this is a very open meaning to behave in some way.

It means, like your manners are like the way that you present to yourself for the way that you show yourself examples.

She acts like she's angry, but she's actually happy.

Okay, so in these examples were talking about a person's behavior in the first example sentence.

It means she's behaving in a way that makes it seem like she's angry.

So something about her behavior, maybe her facial expression or her body language or something like that.

She seems angry but she's actually happy in the second example sentence.

There's something about my dog's behavior that is strange.

So maybe my dog is behaving in a way that is not typical for my dog.

So maybe my dog is running in circles, but he doesn't usually do that.

I could say my dog is acting strange, so my dog is behaving in a strange way.

Okay, let's go on to another additional meaning for this firm.

The third additional meaning is to perform a function to perform a function.

My phone case acts as a credit card holder.

She's acting as a liaison with the new clients.

Okay, so in both of these sentences, we see one thing or one person is behaving or performing a specific function in the first example sentence.

My phone case acts as a credit card holder, so it has the function of a phone case.

Yes, but there's also this other function.

I can use my phone case to put credit cards inside so it acts as a credit card holder, too.

In the second example sentence, she's acting as a liaison with the new clients.

It means she is performing the function of a liaison.

A liaison is a person who is kind of a go between for communication between two groups.

She's performing the function of a go between.

She's acting as a liaison for the clients.

The fourth additional meaning for this verb is to have an effect toe have, in effect, some examples.

In the first example sentence, the poison acted quickly.

We're seeing it in the past tense, and it means tohave an effect in this case, So the poison had in effect quickly.

In the second example sentence, however, we're talking about an effect on people's emotions, not like a medicinal effect like we saw in the first example sentence.

The second example sentence was the sad story acted on the audience's emotions.

In other words, the sad story had an effect on the audiences emotions.

So that means probably that the audience felt sad or the audience felt maybe disappointed or something the audience is emotions were affected by the story by the sad story.

So we say the sad story acted on the audiences emotion, so this means to have an effect.

Okay, let's move on to some variations in how we use this, for the first variation is act upto act up.

This means to exhibit negative behavior toe have bad behavior.

The kids acted up at the dinner party last night.

Okay, so in the first example sentence, I mentioned asthma.

It's a lung problem or kind of a breathing related problem where it becomes difficult to breathe depending on different situations for different people.

So if I say my asthma is act sitting up, it means my asthma is behaving in a negative way.

My condition is not good because of my asthma, my asthma.

My illness, in other words, is kind of strong.

Right now, it's acting up, so I'm having problems because of my asthma right now.

However, it's a person in this case kids.

So kids acting up at a dinner party means kids were displaying bad behavior, negative behavior at a dinner party.

So acting up means something negative is happening.

Some kind of negative behavior is occurring.

Act Out also does mean to behave in kind of a negative way.

But the difference between act out and act up is act out.

Has the feeling of doing this bad behavior in order to get attention.

So you act out because you want to be noticed.

Some examples of this your son has been acting out in school.

She's only acting out because she wants attention.

So acting out is like you're making some kind of extreme behavior.