KEEP - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar

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Verbs are life.
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Verbs are life.
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Life is verbs.
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Hi everybody, my name is Alisha.
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Welcome back to Know Your Verbs.
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In this episode, we're going to talk about the verb, “keep.”
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Let's get started.
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The basic definition of the verb, “keep” is to have in possession.
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So, like to own something, or to hold something is to keep.
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Here are the conjugations for this verb, present tense, “keep” “keeps.”
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Past tense, “kept,” past participle tense, “kept,” progressive tense, “keeping.”
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Now, let's talk about some additional meanings of this verb.
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The first additional meaning for this lesson is to stop something from going somewhere.
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This can mean to stop a person like from leaving, or from going to another place or to stop
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an object, from moving or from going somewhere.
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Let's look at some examples.
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“Is our manager at the office?
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Can you keep her there for 10 more minutes?”
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Okay, next one.
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“Keep that car inside the gates.”
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So, don't let it go outside the gates, keep it inside the gates.
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Meaning number two, additional meaning number two for the verb “keep,” to cause to remain
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in a condition, or to cause to remain in a situation.
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Let's look at some examples.
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“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
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So here, “sorry to keep,” sorry to make you stay in the waiting condition, in the
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waiting situation.
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“Sorry to keep you waiting.
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“The boss has kept us wondering about changes for months.”
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That was past participle.
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The boss has kept us wondering so we remain in the state of wandering here.
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“The boss has kept us wondering for months,” so has caused us to wonder continuously for
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a period of months is the meaning of this sentence.
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Meaning number three for this lesson is just to stay or to continue something.
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So, this is a very broad example.
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Let's look at a couple examples.
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First, “Keep your head.”
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“Keep your head,” sounds really strange, right?
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So, to keep your head doesn't mean like hold on to your head but the expression “keep
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your head” means control your emotions.
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So, here your head doesn't refer to your head as the object necessarily, it refers to your
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emotions.
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So, controlling your emotions to keep your head means like to continue your kind controlled
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emotional state.
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So, if someone is getting maybe too excited or they're getting really angry, you can say,
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“Keep your head.”
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Let's look at another example of them.
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“Keep in your lane.”
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So, it's like imagine you're driving, a lane is the lines on the road.
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Those are the lines on the road that people can drive cars in.
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So, “Keep in your lane” means stay in your lane, in other words.
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Continue in your lane.
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We say “keep” but it doesn't mean “hold.”
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It means continue in your lane.
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So, if someone else, if maybe, the person you're driving with is trying to move to a
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different lane, you can say, “Keep in your lane, just stay there.”
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So, it means stay.
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Another example might be, “Keep quiet.”
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“Keep quiet” means stay quiet or continue being quiet but we just say, “Keep quiet”
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to mean continue that state.
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Meaning number four of “keep” is to persist in a behavior.
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So, to persist means to do something many, many times, to continue doing something many
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times.
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In this case, a behavior.
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A behavior is repeating.
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So, let's look at some examples.
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“This guy keeps calling me.”
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So, a guy in this case keeps calling my phone.
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“He keeps calling me.”
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So, repeatedly, this person is calling me repeatedly.
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“He keeps calling me.”
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Another example, “We kept sending messages until they responded.”
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We kept sending messages until they responded so, meaning we continuously, we repeatedly
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sent messages to someone or maybe to a company until we received a response.
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So, when we received a response, we stopped sending messages.
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“We kept sending messages until they responded.”
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Let's go on to some variations of the verb “keep.”
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The first variation is to “keep an eye on someone.”
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This expression means to watch, like to watch someone closely often too.
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Some examples, “Yes, she's keeping an eye on me.”
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“She always keeps an eye on the screen.”
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“Our boss keeps an eye on our work.”
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Example.
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“Keep an eye on him.
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He's up to something.”
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If someone says, “Keep an eye on him,” or like, “Keep an eye on her,” with that
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kind of suspicious intonation, this is kind of a negative expression like that person
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is suspicious so watch that person to keep an eye on him.
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But, if you say it with an upward intonation kind of happy, like “Whoa, keep an eye on
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him.
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He's doing exciting things,” that means like you should watch that person and expect
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something positive like we have positive expectations for that person so this is an important phrase
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to listen to the intonation.
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Okay, next example of that though, “I'm keeping my eye on you.”
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So, again, this is an expression where intonation is important.
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“I'm keeping my eye on you” and “I'm keeping my eye on you,” have very different
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meanings.
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So, “I'm keeping my eye on you,” with that downward intonation sounds suspicious.
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I'm suspicious of you, “I'm keeping my eye on you.”
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If, however, we emphasize you with that kind of upward intonation in the sentence, “I'm
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keeping my eye on you,” it sounds like I'm expecting good things from you.
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I'm going to watch you with positive expectations.
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The next variation is to “keep one's eyes open.”
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“To keep my eyes open,” “to keep your eyes open,” so to keep your eyes open.
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I use this actually a lot in live streams, I think.
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I say, “keep your eyes open for that,” or “keep an eye out for that.”
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So, actually you can use, “keep your eyes open,” or “keep an eye out.”
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That's sort of a weird expression.
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So, let's start with “keep your eyes open.”
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So, plural eyes, two eyes, “keep your eyes open” usually for a thing.
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“Keep your eyes open for new ideas.”
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or “I'll be keeping my eyes open for the exciting announcement.”
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So, that means I will be watching for an announcement or please watch for new ideas in the first
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example sentence.
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So, “keep your eyes open” means watch for something.
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The expression, to “keep an eye out” for means the same thing but we use the singular.
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So, “I keep an eye out for new ideas,” “Keep an eye out for an exciting announcement.”
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We can use either the singular or the plural eye or eyes.
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So, did you learn a little bit more about the word “keep?”
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I hope so.
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If you have some other meanings or if you know some other variations, have any questions,
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or if you want to try to make an example sentence, please feel free to do so in the comment section.
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Thanks very much for watching this episode of Know Your Verbs and we'll see you again
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soon.
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Bye.
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