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hi everybody welcome back to know your
verbs my name is alicia and in this
lesson we're going to talk about the
verb raise let's get started
let's start with the basic definition of
the verb raise the basic definition is
to lift something to a higher position
examples
raise your hand
let's raise the shelf a little higher
now let's look at the conjugations of
this verb
present tense raise raises
past tense raised
past participle raised
progressive raising
so now let's move on to some additional
meanings for this verb okay the first
one is to cause an increase in something
so this doesn't mean necessarily to
physically move something up but rather
to cause an increase in like an amount
or a number for example so examples of
this the government is raising taxes
next year
my landlord raised the rent so in these
cases we're talking about taxes and rent
the government raised taxes means they
increased the amount of taxes people
have to pay in the second example
sentence my landlord raised the rent
means my rent costs were increased my
rent costs went up they were raised my
landlord raised the rent let's go on to
the second additional meaning for this
verb
to cause to exist to cause to exist like
this is used for concepts some examples
this change raises a lot of questions
her behavior raised red flags
okay so here we're seeing concepts we're
seeing um sort of ideas it's not a
physical item that comes into existence
it's a concept in the first example
sentence
this change raises a lot of questions it
means from this change a lot of
questions come into existence so some
change happened and now i have lots of
different questions we use the verb
raise to mean came into existence like
something conceptually came into
existence in the second example sentence
her behavior raises red flags i've used
the expression red flags here so red
flags means a hint or some kind of
indicator of something negative a
negative quality about that person so
this is a kind of a this is a sentence
that has a negative feeling about it but
i've used the verb raised so the
sentence is her behavior raised red
flags which means her behavior caused me
to think that there was something
negative about her so her behavior was
maybe strange or kind of dangerous and
so i thought maybe this person there's
something kind of not quite right about
this person there were red flags so i
used the verb raised to say that
her behavior introduced that her her
behavior caused those red flags to exist
okay let's move on to the third one the
third one is to take care of someone or
something examples
my parents decided to raise chickens
where were you raised
so in these sentences we see someone
taking care of something else the first
sentence my parents decided to raise
chickens means to take care of like like
from when they're babies until they're
full grown adults my parents decided to
raise chickens so as they grow up
they're being taken care of in the
second example it's a question where
were you raised a passive question where
were you raised means where
were you taken care of until you grew up
essentially is the meaning but we used
raised to communicate that where were
you raised i was raised in the west
coast california where were you raised
massachusetts massachusetts
massachusetts all right so this verb is
used for parenting for sure it's used
so when you're talking about where you
grew up you can say i grew up in or i
was raised in so parents can use this i
want to raise my kids in place or in
environment just be careful we don't use
the word grow for people we can use it
for plants like i like to grow plants
it's fine we can't say i want to grow my
kids doesn't work we can't use that
raise instead
the fourth one is to increase another
person's bet this is a very specific use
of the word raise we use this in
gambling like at casinos for example
examples
i'll raise you twenty dollars
she raised him three thousand dollars
so this means uh there's an existing bet
in the first example i'll raise you
twenty dollars there's a bet that exists
somewhere so let's say for example the
bet is ten dollars that my opponent
played i however want to increase the
risk in the game so i say i'll raise you
twenty dollars which means from this
original ten dollars i'm going to add 20
that means the total bet is now 30
if the other person still wants to play
the game they now have to put in 20
dollars more to match my bet so to raise
means to add additional risk to a vet in
the second example sentence we see the
same thing she raised him three thousand
dollars so there's an existing bet she
increased the amount of the bet by three
thousand dollars so this is a very
specific use of raise but if you like
card games or casinos or gambling it
could be useful for you okay let's talk
about the next additional meaning of the
verb raise it means to collect money to
gather money to get money from different
sources
examples of this
let's raise money in a fundraiser
how are we going to raise money for this
project
so in these examples we're talking about
money this is very commonly used to talk
about money so we tend to use this
expression this this use of raise
is used to talk about money like
financial resources that we need for
some project or some charity or some
volunteer activity so we say let's raise
money or let's raise funds
to support this group for example
so this can be used to talk about
gathering funds gathering money okay
the variations let's talk about some
variations of this verb the first one is
to raise eyebrows to raise eyebrows so
the image of this is literally your
eyebrows go up like
why because we're experiencing mild
suspicion or surprise so when you hear
something and you kind of have this like
reaction to it's like what
that's the raising eyebrows expression
examples of this
her weekend plans raised some eyebrows
at the office
if you confront management you might
raise some eyebrows
so that means if you do that thing in
the first example sentence her weakened
plans raised some eyebrows at the office
it means something about her plans for
the weekend cause suspicion or maybe
surprise among the other people in the
office
in the second example sentence if you
confront management you might raise some
eyebrows it means if you do this thing
if you talk to management they might be
surprised or they might be suspicious of
you
so raise eyebrows means to be suspicious
or to be a little bit surprised of
something the next variation is to raise
the bar to raise the bar this expression
means like to set a higher standard than
previously or to determine a higher
standard than was previously set
examples
we need to raise the bar for our work
they've raised the bar at that
restaurant
in the first example we need to raise
the bar for our work it means we need to
set a higher standard for our work so
it's quite long to say but we say raise
the bar you can actually imagine this in
terms of sports like if you've seen
gymnastics when
there's like like we could imagine the
pole vault for example if the bar to
jump over the athlete to jump over is at
this level maybe it's easy but if we
raise the bar it becomes more difficult
and requires more skill to do that same
task so when we say we need to raise the
bar for our work or that restaurant has
raised the bar it means their standards
have improved or maybe their skills have
improved as well so it's a positive
thing all right the last one the last
variation is to raise hell to raise hell
so this means like to behave in a way
that can cause other people trouble it
often means like to be loud or to be
drinking to be noisy
to be
like out in society causing like
disruptions
often young people are known for raising
hell examples
a bunch of college kids are raising hell
at the beach let's raise hell these are
examples of like kids usually kids or
like young people that are just kind of
out to cause trouble like usually it's
because they're having a good time and
they're trying to do it like too noisily
or they're just having too much fun and
causing problems in their community
but sometimes people actually plan to go
out and cause problems for others so to
describe that activity we can say raise
hell to raise hell alright so i hope
that you found a few new ways to use the
verb raise of course if you have any
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all right so that's a recap it's not a
recap i'm tired gosh okay
okay so so that's an overview of a few
different uses of the verb
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