Can You Solve This Advanced English Fluency Puzzle?

Hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's number 1

English Fluency Guide and today I'd like

to know if you can solve this advanced

English fluency puzzle so a lot of

people because they don't understand the

the root meanings of maybe even basic

verbs they have a lot of trouble

understanding things that they get two

more difficult more complex uses of

herbs especially with phrasal verbs

we're taking a bourbon combining it with

something else so you might learn the

word run where you're just thinking of

the idea of physically running but if

you understand and expand that idea run

to include maybe something that's

spinning around like an engine you can

also talk about time running like time

running out or water running so all

these different things were talking

about the motion of something as opposed

to only the idea of being able to run

with your feet so when we get to the

root of what a verb actually means it

becomes much easier to understand now

let's get into this kind of quiz that we

have here it's really it's a simple

problem if you expand your understanding

of what these things mean but let's look

at the screen right now and just we've

got we've got let's see a couple of

words appear we've got see look we've

got get and we've got something else so

we want to know what's the connecting

thing here and so I wanted to talk we'll

talk kind of briefly about what this

fluency puzzle is and see if you can

think of the word that goes in that ?

space and then we'll take that word and

then we'll expand upon it to show you

why it fits in that space but first

let's just talk about the words that we

can see looking at the difference

between C and look when you're seeing

something this is a more passive we have

maybe absorbing or you're receiving

information I could be looking in a

particular direction but then maybe I

don't see something because it's not

really coming i'm not receiving that

idea so look is a much more active thing

you're looking at something or you're

watching a particular thing its you

actively looking at something but when

you see something maybe you notice

something so something it's more like

coming into your eyes as opposed to your

eyes going out and looking at that thing

so the connection between C and look

it's very similar like that they're both

talking about using your eyes to get

some kind of information but the looking

at something is an active thing where

you're looking around you're actively

going out and looking at something in

particular and then you're connecting

with that information by seeing it so

the connection here and this is a very

simple idea but it's it's actually very

important if you're trying to think

about more broader understandings or

broader uses of these verbs looking

again at the difference between look and

see look as a whole process of were

actively searching for something or

actively paying attention to something

whereas see is just something at the

moment right when something hits our

field of vision and we notice it so

looking is more of a longer process and

seeing is something that happens right

at that moment now we can talk about

maybe seeing a movie but again this is

just trying to describe it as more of a

passive thing as opposed to looking at

the movie you don't really look at a

movie you receive that information

that's why we call it scene and we use

the verb watch when we're talking about

more actively looking at something for a

long time so that's why we talk about

watching TV or watching a movie but if

we talk about the actual receiving of

the information in a passive way we're

seeing a movie so I saw a movie last

week I was watching the movie but I was

getting information as well so as that

information hit my eye and my brain I

was seeing that information so what's

the connection between those things and

then get in the other verb that we have

there as well

in the case of get it's a lot like see

and this means we're receiving something

at a particular moment and we're talking

about the moment when that thing happens

it's a process but it's more talking

about the actual moment when we receive

something i could buy something i could

get something for free from a friend of

mine or I could maybe find something but

it's only when it maybe touches my hand

so I'm like maybe someone is throwing a

baseball at me I'm throwing something up

in the air and I catch it and write as I

catch it

I get that thing but the thing that

we're trying to translate if we want to

make this connection in this puzzle if

get is like see then what it looked like

when we see something we're talking

about that moment right when we see

something

and when we get something we're talking

about right at that moment when we

receive that thing again it doesn't

matter how we do it doesn't matter how

we see something but we see if we're

talking about right at that moment as

opposed to watching something which is

more of a process so in the same way if

you want to talk about receiving

something but the process you're talking

about like moving it from one place to

another

this is take to take something so the

answer to our little quiz here our

little riddle or puzzle is take so if

you think about trying to some maybe

somebody taking a particular saying

we're talking about the entire process

of something not just the moment when

you actually get something as an example

I might take a test so i'm experiencing

a whole process of something i'm in the

middle of taking something now this is a

more figurative way of understanding the

verb to take what I'm talking about

something over a long period of time to

take something i'm taking a test i'm in

the middle of the test but then at the

end i get my score so I get a particular

score and I get it at that moment as

opposed to describing a particular

length of time now just to make sure you

understand this i want to go over a

whole bunch of these different uses of

take and help you understand how it's

more of a process we're talking about

something traveling from one place to

another whether that is you moving or

whether that is maybe a physical thing

or something moving you it doesn't

really matter but these are all examples

of taking they're describing a process

as opposed to something like get where

we're talking about that instant of

touching something of receiving

something you can take the wheel when

you're driving so this means you're

putting your hands on something and it

shows you moving to that thing to hold

that object now just thinking about very

quickly the difference between taking

someone's hand and holding someone's

hand these are really the same thing

when you're talking about it in a

conversation away but the difference is

actually quite interesting if you hold

someone's hand typically you're

describing actually like your hands are

already connected to each other you're

holding hand and whether you're moving

like you're walking down the street with

someone you're holding hands with them

you can just describe the connection is

already been made you're holding

something in your head

but if you take someone's hand this

means you move your hand up to that

person and you actually grasp their hand

you move your hand to take their hand

you're moving something again you're

talking about the whole process not just

holding the hand but actually moving

from your location to their location so

it's the whole length of the process so

it's not just like getting some one hand

you're taking someone's hand in the same

way you can also take a seat

so instead of just sitting down you're

moving to a particular location and then

you're holding that thing so it's not

just like getting a particular seat when

you get the seat you're describing that

one instance of now the seed is mine so

the seed has moved from somebody else's

or it was maybe nobody else's feet but

it's mine now but if I'm taking my see

it means i'm standing up and we're

describing me sitting down and then

taking that thing so it's the whole

movement from in one position to

something else or I could do take out

some if I'm at a restaurant and I want

to carry some food and go out of the

restaurant with that i am taking that

food out and moving that food with you

know the intention to go outside of that

restaurant but it's talking about the

whole experience of moving from one

place to another

now I could be moving from a particular

situation from one place to another and

that's why we talk about taking a plane

or taking a taxi or taking a train so

I'm I'm like I'm the one being moved but

again we're describing that whole that

whole situation in the same way we can

also talk about time we can talk about

one person moving from one activity to

another so it took me three hours that's

saying like the spanned from one o'clock

to four o'clock it took me three hours

to take my test or it took me four hours

to go swimming or it took me 10 hours to

do something we're talking about the

experience of something taking a

particular amount of time so I'm

controlling something for particular

amount of time but that's why we use

take and not get in these instances

we're still holding something or

controlling something but get again only

refers to that moment when you finally

take possession of something when you

have possession and you're moving with

that thing that's when you take it now I

know some non-native speakers will have

trouble understanding things like take a

bath

or take a test because in British

English people will often use different

expressions like I'll have a bath as

opposed to North American English where

we will talk about taking a bad again

we're talking about the experience

itself as opposed to like the I mean the

meaning is basically there and the same

in a conversation away but if you're

really listening carefully or thinking

about the difference between where the

way we're explaining these two verbs to

have a basket means you're kind of

receiving that whole experience but to

take a bath means you're going through a

whole experience from the first time you

start the bath and then you go through

and then you're taking an experience so

that's why we describe something is like

taking a bath or taking a trip or taking

a test all of these things are ways of

describing a period of time elapsing but

your instead of maybe controlling a

physical thing you're controlling and

experience the whole point of this video

is to get you to expand the way you

think so that way when you're listening

to a new verb or even a basic verb that

you already know you can begin thinking

about different ways you might apply it

but that also changes your understanding

of the verb itself if you have enjoyed

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but there really are so many things that

you can take even something that may be

sounding quite basic and it actually has

a much more complicated and interesting

usage or way of thinking about it and if

you can take this then it will actually

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