Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 231. The verb phrase today is to
descend upon or descend on. You know, somebody or something and we got three
meanings today and three uses. So let's look at the first one here. To drop
something on someone or something. Okay. So as bomber planes flew away
bombs descended upon that city. So this would be like in wartime. A plane flying
and the dropping bombs and as they flew away
you know, they'd dropped the bombs out. The dropped bombs are falling and they are
flying away. So as they're flying away the bombs descended upon the city
wherever they dropped those bombs. All right. We have another example here. He
parachuted out of the plane and descended on the land behind enemy lines.
This would also be like a war situation or maybe spy or something. They're
dropping him out of the plane and he parachuted down and he landed you know, on
enemy territory basically. All right. The third one here. Some children threw water
balloons from rooftops and they descended on the streets below. Yeah. I
don't know if you're familiar with this but sometimes the kids would do that.
They'd fill up a balloon with water and they'd drop it and you know, from the top
of the building it would come down and hit and it would explode of course when it hits
the ground. Hopefully it doesn't hit anybody, but it
could shock people if it's there by them. Water will spray This is what we mean by
you know you throw water, water balloons down basically. Okay. What are water bombs
basically. Okay good. So some children threw water balloons from rooftops and
they descended on the streets below. Okay good. Let's look at the next one.
To arrive in large numbers on a place. Okay. Okay so during the original
Woodstock Festival many hippies descended upon the town of Woodstock.
Yeah. The original one was in the late 60's. Yeah.
And it really overwhelmed the hotel in that town. They weren't ready for that.
Since then they have had a few anniversaries. I think that he had the
20th or 25th or I don't know. They've had a couple more since that time too and of
course they always get the large crowds going there. So a lot of people will
descend upon that town. Woodstock is actually a very small town in upstate
New York. So they're not used to getting so many people suddenly coming out of
nowhere. So that's the really . that's the feeling that they descended upon
that town. All right. Our next one here many bargain hunters descended upon that
department store to take advantage of their going out of business sale. So yeah
maybe think they were liquidating. They were you know 50% of 60% off. They were
selling things really cheap. Okay. And the last one here. Used about things that
suddenly arrive or appear. Okay. When shots rang out panic
descended upon the crowd. Yeah. So this could be you know a situation somebody
hears gunshots and everybody panics so that's what we say. We say panic
descended upon the crowd or descended upon the people. Or we do have a second
example here. As the Sun set darkness descended upon the lost hiker in the
mountain, So maybe he got lost. Then he's wandering out there and oh my god it's
becoming night. The sun is going down now he's in total blackness, especially if you
didn't have a flashlight and he wasn't planning on being there the whole night.
He was just going up for a hike for the day, got lost and you know, suddenly he's
trapped in the mountains alone at night. Completely dark no lights out there. So
darkness descended upon you know, the mountaintop there where he is. Okay.
Good anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for
your time. Bye-bye.