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Hi, everybody.

My name is Alicia.

In this lesson, I'm going to talk about borrowing and lending expressions.

I'm going to share some sample requests you can use for borrowing and lending things, and I'm going to introduce some time expressions you can use with these requests to make more specific questions.

So let's begin.

Okay.

First, I want to look at a category for expressions you can use when you want something, so you want to receive something.

In other words, let's look at the first sentence here then.

So it's will you lend me your car here?

We're using the verb lend, and the person receiving the item follows the verb blend.

So in this case, me.

Who is receiving it?

Me.

I am receiving it.

The item I'm receiving your car comes after the person receiving it.

So in this case, lend is used.

But let's look at the kind of opposite of this question.

Can I borrow some money?

So here the verb borrow is being used, but the person receiving in this case money.

The person receiving the item is the subject here.

Can I borrow some money?

So here.

We're not saying Can I borrow some money from you?

You can include Can I borrow some money from you?

That's OK, but here it's understood.

We understand the speaker wants to borrow money from the listener.

So this is a key difference when the verb used is lend the person receiving the item is the object of the verb.

However, when the verb is borrow, the person receiving the item is the subject.

So this is something to keep in mind.

Let's look at some other examples here.

I'm not using the word lend and I'm not using the word borrow here.

I'm using use.

Can I use some item for a minute?

So this specifically includes a verb.

What am I going to do?

I'm going to use the item.

So can I use your pen for a minute?

Can I use your computer for a minute?

Can I use your phone for a minute?

For a minute Means a short period of time.

Literally.

It means 60 seconds, but this indicates just a short period of time about a minute.

Perhaps another one if you don't want to use Ah will or can.

You can also use just a simple please statement.

So this is not a question.

But please lend me something Something, something.

So please lend me your car.

Please lend me your pen.

The sounds quite formal actually.

Please lend me.

Keep in mind though we cannot use Please borrow We can't say Please borrow me.

That's incorrect.

We can only use lend here.

Please lend me something.

Okay, Let's go though to the next category here, which is borrowing and lending for someone else.

So in these sentences I've included you end me as the basic pattern.

However, if you're talking about someone else or you want to ask person A for something for person B, how do you explain that?

Let's look at these examples first similar to this.

Will you lend person your item?

So this is very similar to this pattern here.

I've replaced me with person here.

So will you lend your classmate your pencil?

Will you lend your teacher the paper?

So something you want comes at the end of the sentence here and the person follows the verb right here.

We can do the same thing when we're using the verb borrow, as we did in this example sentence Here.

We've replaced I in the original sentence with person.

So can person borrow your item so again, Because we're using borrow the person receiving the item is the subject of the verb.

So can my roommate borrow your car?

Can my parents borrow your house for the weekend, for example?

So just keep in mind that these two verbs, um, always follow the same rule about the positioning of the subject and the object and the person receiving or giving the item.

Let's look at one more example, though this is quite a complex situation because the person lending the item and the person receiving the item are not participating in the conversation.

The speaker and the listener are talking about some other a group of people, for example, here I wonder if person a can borrow item from person, be so here.

We need specifically to describe who is person a and who was person be there not participating in the conversation.

So I wonder if my dad can borrow a tool from my uncle for example.

So these two people are not participating in the conversation, but we're discussing the possibility this is how we would do it.

This is one example of that.

All right, so just to recap, then these They're kind of the simple requests that I'm using and that you can use when you're doing borrowing and lending conversation Practice.

So can I.

Will you And please you'll notice please is not made as a question.

Please.

It's just a statement.

Can I and will you are actual questions there.

Eso just remember Can I borrow Will you lend?

Because the subjects of the sentence indicate different people are receiving and giving the item also just to review as well.

This is a key point from this lesson.

When you're using the verb lend the person receiving the item is the object of the verb as in here.

Please lend me your car.

Will you lend me your car?

Me is the object here.

When you're using the verb borrow the person receiving the item is the subject of the burb as we saw here.

Can I borrow some money?

I is the subject.

I am receiving the money in this case.

Okay, So with that, I want to look at some time expressions that you can add to your request.

So I talked about it in this point here.

Can I use something for a minute?

That's an example of a time expression we can use to make our request a little more specific.

So I've used to kind of patterns here.

The first group uses four.

The second group uses until so remember, we use four for a period of time, a time period, a length of time.

In other words, here for a minute I talked about before, for a bit is a casual way to say a short period of time for a sec.

A sec is short for a second a second, also Ah, very short period of time, literally not a 2nd 1 second, but very short period of time here, specifically for a week and for a year.

So these are just some examples of lengths of time you can use to add to your request and the other group until here we see some situations that might happen that would cause the speaker to return the item they have borrowed or to return the item.

They have been lended.

So can I borrow your car until I get a new one, for example, or can I borrow your calculator until I find mine?

So these sentences, or rather, these time expressions show.

For example, can I borrow your calculator until I find mine means At the point in time I find my calculator, I will return your calculator to you.

So until I find mine, shows that another one until I can pay you back, this would be used for money.

So we talked about here.

Can I borrow some money until I can pay you back?

It's quite a risky question, perhaps, but until I can pay you back is one example.

Here are some more specific ones with time until tomorrow.

So until this point in time until the test, so again a specific point in time so we can use until and four with our requests for borrowing and lending.

I hope that that helps you make some more specific questions.

Anyway, Those are all the things that I want to talk about for this lesson.

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