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Welcome back to know your verbs in this episode, we're going to talk about the verb act.

Let's get started acting.

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.

Fact.

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.

Act now and save money.

We need to act quickly now.

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.

So a play.

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.

My dog is acting strange.

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

She's acting like she's angry.

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.

We think she's angry.

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

My dog is acting strange.

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.

That's strange.

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.

Some examples.

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.

It's a phone case.

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.

So she is the go between.

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.

The poison acted quickly.

The sad story acted on the audiences.

Emotions okay.

In the first example sentence, the poison acted quickly.

We see the poison had an effect quickly.

That's what acted means here.

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.

Some examples.

My asthma is acting up.

The kids acted up at the dinner party last night.

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

Actually, asthma is a sickness.

It's the disease.

Asthma.

Asthma is very common.

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 asthma is there some problem with it?

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.

In the second example sentence.

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.

Okay, so the next variation is, too.

Act out toe.

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.

Or maybe it's that kind of scandalous.

Or maybe it's really rude.

Or maybe, like two sexy.

There could be lots of different ways to act out, but the idea is that the action happens because this person wants to get some attention.

Whether negative or positive, doesn't matter, just wants attention.

But we should be careful because this is different from toe act something out toe act.

Something out is different from to act out toe act.

Something out means to represent an activity with your body.

So that means to showcase a scene or to explain a scene in a movie or two kind of show somebody a gesture with your body.

So examples We acted out our favorite movie scene.

She acted out the story, So acting something out means using your body like physically using parts of your body to act out to show something.

So, for example, like a simple action.

If I want to act out making a phone call, I would do this.

Like making the gestures of making a phone call.

We could say this is acting out a phone call.

Hello, that's act.

Sting something out.

I'm using my body, and I'm using gestures to explain something to explain the behavior.

So this is different.

To act something out and to act out have very different meanings.

So be cautious toe act.

Something out takes a direct object to act out, does not So please be careful of this.

There some grammatical hints for you there.

All right, that's everything.

So I hope that you got some new ways of using the verb act Of course, there are other ways to use this word.

Check out a dictionary if you want to see some other information off course.

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