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Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to know your verbs.

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

Let's get started.

Okay, let's talk about the basic definition of the verb fly.

The basic definition is to travel through the air to travel through the air.

Some examples.

We flew to Moscow from London.

A bird flew into my window.

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

Fly flies past flu past participle flown progressive flying.

Okay, so now let's talk about some additional meetings for this Ferb.

The first additional meaning is to wave in the air while being attached to something else.

So this is like flags or we'll see some other examples.

Example.

Sentences That boat is flying a French flag.

Let's fly kites this afternoon.

So in both of these example sentences, we see objects which are waving in the air in some way, but they're attached to something else.

In the first example sentence.

It's a flag.

The boat is flying a French flag, which means the boat is displaying a French flag.

The flag is attached to the boat, but it's waving in the air in the second example Sentence.

Let's fly kites this afternoon.

Ah, kite is a toy that, ah, waves in the air, but it's attached to a string that a person holds.

So we use the verb fly to talk about this activity.

Let's fly kites this afternoon.

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

The second additional meaning is to move very quickly to move very quickly.

Some examples of this his sports car flew past us on the highway.

She flew down the hall to turn in her paper before the deadline.

Okay, so in both of these example sentences, we see the word fly or a conjugated version of it.

However, it doesn't mean traveling through the air, it just means moving super fast.

So in the first example, it's a sports car.

The sports car flew past us on the highway means the sports car went past as very, very quickly.

So we use the verb flu, I think because flying like in order to fly, you have to move quickly.

There's not really slow flying, so we use the verb fly or, in this case, flew past tense to express that the car was traveling very fast.

In the second example sentence she flew down the hall.

It means probably she was running, so she was traveling really quickly to turn in her paper before the deadline.

So when we want to talk about moving fast, like extra extra fast, we can use the verb fly instead of, like, move or run or drive.

So it's kind of like an extra level of speed so you can try that out.

Okay, let's go on to the third.

Meaning for this for the third, meaning is to escape.

To escape some examples.

My bird flu, its cage.

He had to fly from the city to save his life.

Okay, so fly is used in these sentences to mean escape.

You won't really hear this use so much in everyday conversation.

You may, however, see this in novels or in other writing.

It's a little more common these days to see that in written English, especially when telling stories, or maybe when reading things from a long time ago.

We don't use it that much in everyday conversation in American English these days, but it does have this meaning to escape.

The fourth meaning is to pass information quickly, like gossip or rumors or accusations.

Passing information quickly.

Examples.

Accusations of mismanagement are flying.

Rumors flew that they were dating.

So the idea here is that information is moving so quickly it's like the information is flying from one person to another.

It's so fast.

In the first example, accusations of mismanagement were flying.

So here it's a passive expression.

Um, we're flying, presumably among people in the company or in like among people who are related to the situation.

But accusations were flying means like all these accusations were going around and very fast speed.

In the second example, sentence rumors flew that they were dating.

It's like all these people have rumors have ideas about this couple.

Are they dating?

Aren't they dating?

What's the story?

So all of those are rumors that people are passing quickly among one another.

Okay, so now let's look at some variations.

Some other ways to use this, for the first variation is to fly at someone to fly at someone this means to move quickly at someone like an attack.

Examples.

The murderer flew at the hero.

She flew at me, shouting about my mistakes.

When when someone flies at someone else, the key proposition there is at someone else.

It's like one person doesn't move.

But another person, usually because they're feeling extremely emotional, like, kind of moves quickly towards them, usually like because they're angry.

I think, um, and maybe they're gonna attack this other person, but they move very suddenly and very quickly to another person.

So again, we use the verb fly to talk about that very quick, very sudden motion.

In the first example sentence, the murderer flew at the hero.

It's like the hero was standing somewhere and a murderer tried to attack.

The hero flew at the hero, moved quickly.

The second example sentences the same.

She fluid me shouting about my mistakes.

So there's some anger, some unhappy feeling that's happening there, Um, but we use the verb fly to talk about quick motion like attacking motion.

The next variation is to fly blind to fly blind.

This expression means to do something without being able to see the way forward it means to do something by guessing.

When I was researching this, actually, it said that this phrase originated or started in World War two.

Actually, pilots in World War Two when, like their radio controls are their communications stopped working.

They had to fly their planes using on Li like the controls they had in the plane so they couldn't contact anyone outside the plane.

So, um, flying blind actually, uh, come The flying part comes from that apparently blind means unable to see unable to see so flying blind.

Now, these days, doesn't Onley mean flying a plane without having communications?

It means doing something without being ableto have, like outside helper outside guidance or knowing exactly what to do.

So examples our radios air down were flying blind.

I have no idea how to fill out these forms.

I'm flying blind.

So in the second example, in particular, it's kind of a modern day situation where I don't know what to do.

I'm doing my best with these forms, but I'm flying blind.

I have no idea what to do.

I'm guessing so those are a few new ways.

I hope that you can use the verb fly.

There are some other ways, too.

So if you know some other ways, or if you have any questions or if you want to try to make an example sentence, please feel free to do so in the comments.

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