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in this episode we're going to talk about the verb look so let's go

the basic definition of the verb look is to use your eyes to use your skills of

vision - yeah to use your eyes to look to turn your eyes towards something to

use your vision is to look the difference between the verb see if you

watch the see episode of know your verbs seeing means to perceive something with

the eyes look means like to focus the eyes on something to direct your

attention towards something whereas see is like to take in something to perceive

to gain information with the eyes Luke is just focusing your attention in

something on something conjugations let's check out the conjugations of this

verb present tense look or looks past tense looked past participle looked

progressive or continuous tense looking so let's check out some of the

additional meetings of the verb look first to appear in accordance with here

are some examples she's had a rough year yeah she looks at Bern second example

he's 60 he doesn't look it okay so in these example sentences look is

referring to matching some other information about a person or about a

condition about a situation so in this case in the first example sentence we

hear she's had a rough year and then the response to that is yeah she looks it so

it means it in other words the it here means as though she's had a rough year

she looks meaning she appears in accordance with the fact she has had a

rough year but that's a very long thing to say instead we say yeah she looks it

she's her appearance suggests what you have just said she's had a rough year

yeah she looks it where it equals rough year and looks shows that matches so her

look matches this rough year fact we've learned about her the second sentence is

similar someone says he's 16 meaning he's 60

years old but we hear the negative response he doesn't look it meaning he

does not appear as a 60 year old man meaning in other words he probably looks

much younger than 60 he doesn't look it could be that he seems way way older

than 60 years old like if someone looks ancient if someone has the appearance of

a very very old person and you go oh my gosh he's 60 he doesn't look it that's

possible too that's possible I suppose so do you just have to gauge based on

the intonation so we can use an expression like that to mean someone is

significantly younger or older the next meaning is two seam to seam

here are some examples this looks pretty tough this is looking like it's going to

be easier than I thought in these example sentences we can

replace the verb look with seam the meaning stays the same so this looks

pretty tough has the same meaning as this seems pretty tough so to seem and

to look have the same meaning in these examples in the second example sentence

we saw this is looking like it's going to be easier than I thought

we can replace looking with seaming and the meaning stays the same this is

seeming like it's going to be easier than I thought so both of these we can

simply replace the verb and we have the same meaning in these cases so look

means to seen why would you use look instead of seeing what is the difference

here for me personally I think seam sounds slightly more formal than look I

would not use seam in most cases I would say looks in most cases when I want to

say seam if I want to sound slightly more formal or slightly more polite I

would probably use seen this seems to be the problem what seems to be the problem

instead of what looks like the problem look at how it looks like this one's

your problem I look sounds like not nearly as formal alright next is to have

in mind as a goal to have in mind as a goal here are some examples we're

looking to buy a new car by the end of the month he's looking to complete his

job transfer by next month so both of these sentences define a goal they

explain a goal we're also using the progressive form of looking so that

means we are in the progress of working towards a goal or in the progress of

completing a goal in the first example sentence we're looking to buy a new car

by the end of the month means our goal is to buy a new car by the end of the

month and we are currently trying to do that but this is quite a long expression

so instead we use look we are looking to buy a new car I suppose we could replace

this with the verb aiming to we're aiming to buy a new car aiming but

aiming sounds rather formal and looking is a little bit more casual so we're

looking to buy a new car in the second sentence he's looking to complete his

job transfer by next month we see the same thing his goal is to complete his

job transfer and his aim is to do it by next month so he is currently

working towards his goal he's looking to complete something we use it in the

progressive tents to show he is currently trying to achieve this goal to

achieve this outcome the next meaning is to express with your

eyes or with your face so you're actually you're creating an appearance

with your eyes or your face and expression in other words here are some

examples she looked surprised they look pretty angry here both of

these examples are talking about an expression a facial expression or some

appearance that is created with the face or with the eyes so in the first example

we see she looked surprised in past tense

this indicates that with her face something about her face or her eyes

showed surprise she created a surprised face with her facial expression in other

words so she looked surprised in the second example they look pretty angry

present tense they look pretty angry means their

facial expression appears angry their what something they are doing with their

face or their eyes creates an angry look look as a noun here so too they look

pretty angry is their expression appears angry let's go on to some variations of

this how can we pair other words with look to create a new meaning first is

look into look into this means to investigate here are some examples we

need to look into these accusations have you looked into the requirements for

your license both of these mean to examine or to

investigate something so in the first example sentence we need to look into

these accusations means we need to investigate these accusations we need to

maybe research we need to search for more information about something so look

into kind of contains all of that find more information about something but

look into is much shorter and easier to say to look into something it does sound

more casual you could replace this with the verb investigate we need to

investigate these accusations instead of look into these accusations and

- gate sounds more formal than looking - in the second sentence have you looked

into the requirements for your license we see the same thing have you

investigated the requirements for your license but investigated sounds quite

polite quite formal so instead we use have you looked into past tense have you

looked into the requirements past tense shows investigation but it doesn't sound

so formal as investigate the next variation is look the other way look the

other way this means to direct your attention away from something unpleasant

here are some examples you can't just look the other way while your boss

mistreats the employees in your company we shouldn't look the other way when our

fellow humans are in trouble so these example sentences show the use of look

the other way meaning to look away from something unpleasant in the first

example about a boss mistreating employees in a company it means we can't

just turn our attention away from the mistreatment of the employees in the

company or we should not do that that's a bad idea

we should not direct our attention away from this unpleasant situation if

there's a bad situation there we should not ignore that situation in other words

we should not look the other way we should not turn our attention away from

this bad situation and in the second example sentence we shouldn't look the

other way when our fellow humans are in trouble it's a more general statement

but if other humans fellow humans other people are in trouble we should not

ignore it we should not ignore it we should not turn our attention in another

way ok so I hope that this video helped you level up your understanding of the

verb look if you have any questions or comments or know some other uses of the

word look please let us know in the comment section below this video thanks

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extremely correct yes excellent work French target examine I looked away ah I

would I didn't realize how much I use the grip look oh my gosh oh my gosh look