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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 cell.

Let's get started.

Okay, Let's begin with the basic definition of the verb sell.

Sell means to give money in exchange for an item or service to sell something.

Examples.

I sold my car.

We're selling our house.

Let's look at the congregations for this for a present.

Cell cells past sold past participle sold progressive selling.

Okay, so now let's talk about an additional meaning for this firm.

So a different meaning for the verb cell is to convince someone of something or to convince someone about something to persuade someone of something.

Examples.

You sold me on this idea.

He's terrible.

It's selling himself.

He always fails interviews.

So to sell is like to convince someone of something.

We see that in the first example you sold me on this idea.

You convinced me that this was a good idea.

In other words, you've persuaded me about this thing.

So you were successful in convincing me something of something that you want me to believe.

You sold me in the second example sentence.

He's terrible at selling himself, so to sell yourself in that case means to convince someone else that you're a good choice or your good option to sell yourself in this way in this context means you're trying to convince someone.

Persuade someone that maybe you're a good candidate for a job, for example.

So this meaning is like to convince someone of something, usually that something is good, really, to convince to sell someone on an idea or to sell yourself to sell oneself as well.

So there are a lot of variations that I want to talk about for this verb now.

So let's look at some variations for the verb sell.

The first variation is to sell out to sell out.

Actually, there are two different meanings for this, so let's take a look at the 1st 1 The first meeting of to sell out means to compromise for the sake of an advantage, so this is often used in like arts and entertainment, So an artist will compromise his or her work in order to get some advantage, usually money examples My favorite band sold out.

Many politicians have sold out over the last few years, so both of these examples refer to someone changing their artistic viewpoint or changing their opinions, changing their behavior in order to receive some advantage.

In the first example sentence.

My favorite bands sold out.

It sounds like the band stopped doing something that made them unique and instead, for example, joined the label or join the company.

And they're now following the company's orders in exchange for money.

In the second example sentence politicians have sold out.

It's like the politicians have changed their opinions or their behaviors in exchange for some money or some kind of compensation.

So this is changing your ideas for advantage.

Let's move on to the second variation for how to use sell out to sell out means to run out of inventory.

So you sell everything you sell completely.

All the stock, all the inventory of something.

There's nothing left examples.

We sold out of shirts this morning.

They're worried they're going to sell out of products, so to sell out means to have nothing left of anything.

So one point of caution to sell out while there are these two different meanings of compromising your artistic ideas and not having any inventory of a product because you've sold everything, Um, in cases like the first example sentence and the first meeting we talked about my favorite band sold out.

Depending on the context, that can mean the band's sold out of concert tickets.

For example, if a band or an artist is coming to a city or some other performer is coming to do an event that can refer toe like the event selling out, or maybe a product offered by the band's selling out.

So listen carefully to the context.

If it's a criticism of the artist or the performer, it's probably referring to the artist compromising their ideas.

If it's talking about, like an event, a performance and like no tickets being left or no products being left, then it's probably about no inventory.

So pay attention to the context here to understand the correct meaning of sell out in these cases.

Okay, let's continue on to the next variation, which is to sell someone or something short to sell someone short to sell something short.

This expression means to not consider something as valuable as it actually is.

Examples.

Don't sell yourself short.

Don't sell your friend short.

I think he has hidden talents so you can see that I'm using Don't at the beginning of both of these examples we commonly used.

Don't with this expression.

Don't sell yourself short.

Don't sell someone else short means Don't devalue yourself or don't devalue another person or another thing.

In other words, explain the true value of yourself or explain the true value of that thing.

Don't sell yourself short.

Don't sell your friend short so recognized the actual value in the thing you're discussing.

The next variation is to sell one's soul to the devil so sometimes will drop this to the devil.

We used the expression to sell your soul to sell one's soul.

This expression means to agree to do something which is usually negative in exchange for some kind of advantage, usually money or some other kind of minor.

No compensation.

Um, so examples of this she sold her soul when she signed the contract.

He's going to sell his soul in exchange for fame.

So when these example sentences, we see that someone has made a decision that is very serious.

We know that because we see the expression, sell your soul or sell one's soul.

So when we imagine, like, a soul is kind of like the core, perhaps of a human being, and we're selling it.

It's like the most important thing we could sell.

It's like the most valuable thing we have, so to sell.

It implies a very important or big decision.

In the first example sentence when it says she sold her soul when she signed the contract, it's like she lost a key part of herself.

She gave a key part of herself to this company, perhaps when she signed a contract in exchange for some kind of advantage in the second example sentence.

Ah, the he in the example.

He wants fame and he's going to sell his soul.

He will give something, ah, in order to get famous, in other words, so these are sort of situations that also imply a negative thing that the other person has agreed to do.

So maybe in the second example sentence, he's agreed to do something negative or something that's suspicious in exchange for fame.

So there's There's a negative nuance here, for sure, so those are a few different ways that you can use the verb cell.

I hope that you found something new.

Of course, if you want to check out some other ways to use, so I highly recommend checking out a dictionary off course.

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