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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 177. The verb phrase today is " take

  • in" and we have 10 meanings and uses for the verb phrase " take in . " It's a very common

  • verb phrase and it could have many different meanings. All right. We'll give

  • at least one example maybe two for each use here. So let's look at the first one. The

  • first one means to allow someone to live in one's home. Okay. After my sister lost

  • her job and got kicked out of her apartment

  • I took my sister and her children in and they lived with me for three years. Okay.

  • So you took them in. You allowed them to live in your house. This is the first use

  • that we have of to take in. Okay. Let's look at number two here. To understand or

  • appreciate something that one is experiencing. All right. We got two for

  • this one. Let's look at the first one. Let's sit for a few minutes I want to

  • take in the view. So this is what you're experiencing and you want to appreciate

  • it. You want to appreciate the view. So you want to take in the view. Okay. And

  • the second one here is ... They use too many technical words and I couldn't take it

  • all in. So this one is understand. It means you couldn't understand it all. You

  • couldn't take it all in. Your brain couldn't absorb it all. Maybe the words

  • were too technical. Okay the third meaning here. To admit somebody usually

  • in to you know, with an institution like schools are an institution. The example

  • here we use is with a hospital. So here's the example. That hospital is completely

  • full. Maybe they don't have any beds left. They are not taking in any more

  • patients. So they're not allowing any more to come in. They're not admitting

  • any more. Okay. Number four. To make one's clothes smaller narrower or shorter. Okay.

  • So here's the example I bought this beautiful dress in ... at a second

  • hands store. But it was the wrong size. So I took it to a tailor and had it taken

  • in. So maybe she made it either shorter or he made it smaller. So it could fit her

  • better. Okay. Number five. To enter or flow in or allow in . All right. So here you say

  • my basement took in a foot of water due to a flood. So I don't know maybe you

  • know a lot of rain or maybe a river overflowed or something. And whatever it

  • is it caused your basement to fill up with some water. So your basement took in

  • a foot of water and then of course you would have to trouble having to get rid

  • of that or get it out and hopefully it'll dry up and not do too much damage.

  • All right. All right. And here we also have flowers need to take in sunlight. So

  • absorb .... they allow them. So the flowers allow sunlight in. They absorb the

  • sunlight. So they flowers can take in sunlight. Okay. Good.

  • Let's look at the next one here. Number six. To bring something to a place for

  • repair or a person for treatment or maybe even an animal for treatment. Okay.

  • I heard some strange noises coming from my engine. So I took it in. So I took it in

  • the service station and had it checked out. Yeah. So you took it in or into the

  • service station and had them look at it. Okay. Good or maybe you could, ... you know,

  • take an animal you know , take an animal in. You know, like in a vet or something.

  • And have them checked out too. Okay. Number seven here. To admit or receive a guest

  • or an employee you know, into your home. Also

  • sure. So we say they had difficulty raising four children. So they had to

  • take in a full-time nanny or a babysitter. So maybe they took one in

  • they had them live there too. So they took into it but she's an employee. This

  • time somebody working for you. Okay. Good number eight. To inhale or

  • breathe in. You take in air like that. So let's go hiking and take in some fresh

  • air. Okay good. All right and number nine. We could say to bring somebody to a police

  • station or arrest them. Yeah. So here's the example the police took in that

  • suspect for questioning. They took him in. They took him into the police station and

  • asked him a lot of questions. Okay or maybe they can take somebody in and

  • arrest them too. All right. Number ten here. To be taken in by. All right. This one's

  • slightly different because you got take in and you also followed it by, by. So if

  • you're taken in by someone or something it means that you had cheated or

  • swindled by them. All right here's the last example. She was

  • taken in by a phone scam. You know, maybe they called her up and they convinced her

  • to wire some money for some reason. Yeah. in Asia , they used to have a lot of the

  • ones where you know maybe they used to tell somebody that their child was

  • kidnapped and they heard a child crying and you know they just had to find

  • somebody that really had a you know either a grandchild or a child and they

  • might get nervous and they panic and they actually wire money and they get

  • taken in and when this never really was a kidnapping.

  • But anyway. So you could be taken in by a scam or you could be taken in by some

  • trick. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope it

  • was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 177. The verb phrase today is " take

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