WORK - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar

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♪ Ve-ve-verb, verb, verb, ♪ the verb is the word.
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Ve-ve-verb—that's hard to say.
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Hey, everybody.
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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 “work.”
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Let's get started.
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The basic definition of the verb “work” is to fulfill duties for money or for compensation.
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Compensation means payment.
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So, for example, salary or an hourly wage, so compensation.
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So, to do things in exchange for money is work.
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This is a basic definition of the verb “work.”
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Now, let's look at the different conjugations of this verb.
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Present tense, “work,” “works.”
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Past tense “worked,” past participle tense “worked,” progressive tense “working.”
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Now, let's talk about some additional meanings of the verb “work.”
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Meaning 1, the first additional meaning is to function correctly.
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To function correctly means an object is behaving, is functioning in the proper way.
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So, let's look at some examples.
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“My computer isn't working today.
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What happened?”
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“The mechanic fixed my car and now, it works perfectly.”
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Meaning 2, yes, yes.
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Okay, the second definition is to produce a desired effect or result or to succeed at
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something.
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So, some examples of this.
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“His plan is crazy, but I think it might work.”
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“I don't think that'll work.”
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Fun fact, I took that example sentence, “I don't think that'll work” from a video game
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called, “Indiana Jones And the Fate Of Atlantis.”
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“I don't think that'll work”
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Next one, is to control or to cause to labor.
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To cause to labor means like to fulfill your duties to work as in the first the original
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basic meaning of this word.
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So, let's look at some examples.
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“Management worked the team way too hard last year.”
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“Today, we're working the computer remotely”
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Now, let's look at some variations, the first variation is “work on.”
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“Work on” means to try to affect, or like to try to influence, to try to persuade someone.
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Some examples of this, “Politicians often work on voters” fears.”
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So, to work on someone's fears, it's like they're affecting that.
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They are trying to persuade people by focusing on their fears in this example, sentence.
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“The movie works on viewers sympathy.”
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So, here “works on,” the movie works on means the movie is kind of is affecting the
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sympathy of the viewer and then as a result, influence happens so a change in emotion happens
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in this way, “to work on.”
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The second variation is “work out.”
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So, “work out” means to exercise.
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“Work out” can mean to lift weights, to jog, to do sports, whatever.
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“Work out” just means exercise.
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Examples of this, “I never work out,” “She's been working out three days a week
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for the last year,” overachiever.
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The third variation for this lesson is, “work up.”
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So, “work up” means to gradually make progress but with difficulty.
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Examples of this, “He worked up to asking the girl on a date.”
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“She worked her way up to becoming CEO of a company.”
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So, to “work up” to something is like slowly and with difficulty making progress.
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So, we can split this phrasal verb like, “She worked her way up.” or “He worked up to
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asking the girl on a date.”
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So, we pair “work” with the preposition “up” in this example.
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Okay, do you know a little bit more about the verb “work?”
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If you have any other variations, or if you know a different meaning of the verb, “work,”
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or if you just want to practice making a sentence with this verb, please feel free to do so
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in comments section.
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Thanks very much for watching this episode of Know Your Verbs, we'll see you again soon,
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bye.
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♪ We can work it out.
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We're working now, live to work, work to live, which will you be?
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Her pen works.
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It’s true, she just drew a picture of me.
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