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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 take let's get started
let's begin with the basic definition of
this verb so the basic definition of the
verb to take is to remove something but
often without permission to remove it
some examples of this
you took the last cookie
your dog is about to take your lunch
now let's look at the conjugations for
this verb
present take
takes
past
took
past participle taken
progressive taking
now let's talk about some additional
meanings for this verb the first one the
first additional meaning is to receive
or to accept something some examples
does this restaurant take credit cards
all the teachers took a five percent pay
cut
so in the first example sentence does
this restaurant take credit cards take
here means accept in other words this
sentence means can i use a credit card
at this restaurant but we use the verb
take in an expression like this instead
does this restaurant take credit cards
does this restaurant accept credit cards
we use the verb take here in the second
example sentence it also means accept or
receive
but in this case it means like probably
that the teachers are not willing or
they're not happy about a five percent
pay cut but they have to accept it they
have no choice but to accept it so they
took a five percent pay cut so the
expression all the teachers took a five
percent pay cut shows they received it
or they accepted this five percent pay
cut but maybe
they weren't really happy about it or
they didn't want to but they accepted it
so the second additional meaning of this
verb is to cause something to go to
another place so examples of this
i should have taken an umbrella to the
office
that bus will take you to the airport
okay so here we see take being used to
describe maybe an object or a person
moving to another location because of
something else in the first example
sentence it's a person like i should
have taken an umbrella to the office so
i should have moved my umbrella from
probably my house to my office i should
have done that myself in the second
example sentence that bus will take you
to the airport it means via that bus
using that bus your body you as a person
will cause to be moved to the airport so
we use the verb take to do that that bus
will take you to the airport move you to
the airport let's move on to the third
additional meaning for this verb the
third additional meaning for this verb
is to grasp to hold or to grip something
examples of this
can you take my bag for a second
take this pen and write your name
so here we see take being used to mean
like hold something or grip something in
the first example we see a very common
expression can you take my bag for a
second you're asking someone else please
hold this for a moment please just carry
this for a moment
so please take this bag please take this
phone please take my keys or something
for a short period of time is sort of
the feeling here in the second example
sentence take this pen and write your
name it's two commands actually take
this pen one meaning put this pen in
your hand hold this in your hand and
after that write your name probably with
the pen so
we're meaning
hold or carry or grasp something but we
use the verb take here instead in most
cases we use take just for quick
everyday
expressions like these okay let's move
on to the fourth additional meaning for
the verb so the fourth additional
meaning is quite open it's to do or to
perform something so examples of this
i've taken that test five times
let me take a look at that email
so i said this means like to do or to
perform something but when i say perform
i don't mean like to perform
entertainment i mean like to do an
action i mean perform as like the formal
version of do something so in the first
example sentence i've taken the test
five times it means like i have
done essentially i have registered and
written the test the act of test taking
i have done that i've performed the test
five times in the second example
sentence let me take a look at that
email we could say let me look at that
email but saying take a look it sounds a
little bit more casual
kind of a little bit quicker i suppose
too if you say let me look at that email
and maybe it sounds more focused take a
look sounds like maybe a quick a quick
look only or it sounds a little bit
faster i suppose so take a look means to
do something okay
let's move on to some variations for the
verb take of course actually with this
verb there are a lot of idioms and a lot
of phrasal verbs so these are just a few
you can check a dictionary online to see
some more examples as well but these are
some that might be useful to you right
away the first variation for this verb
is to take after someone to take after
someone to take after someone means to
resemble someone or meaning to look like
someone but not just an appearance this
can be in terms of personality in terms
of your behavior maybe in terms of your
career choices so some examples of this
she takes after her father
i hope the kids don't take after their
grandmother
okay so the first one she takes after
her father means she does something that
is similar to her father in the second
example sentence i hope the kids don't
take after their grandmother the speaker
hopes the children don't have the same
behavior or don't have the same
something maybe personality or maybe
looks appearance they don't do something
similar to their grandmother so to take
after someone means to resemble someone
in some way okay let's move on to the
second variation for this verb so the
second variation is to take someone or
something on so we can use to take
someone on to take something on both of
these kind of have the image of a
challenge of some kind so we're
accepting a challenge
this can be a physical challenge or it
can mean like a career challenge a
project challenge a conceptual challenge
example
if you threaten him he'll take you on
i'm taking on some new responsibilities
at work
in the first example sentence it could
be a physical challenge if you threaten
him he'll take you on this could mean a
physical fight so accepting a physical
fight he'll take you on he will take you
on means he will accept your challenge
so that could mean uh having a physical
fight it could mean having some kind of
like legal fight we don't know it's
quite an open expression but it means he
will accept your challenge and try to
win in the second example sentence and
taking on some new responsibilities at
work we see that the speaker has
received new responsibilities or maybe
has agreed to take new responsibilities
has agreed to accept new
responsibilities and they're going to
try to
achieve those things like achieve new
goals for example so i'm taking on i'm
accepting and trying to work hard on a
new challenge okay let's move along to
the third variation the third variation
is to take something back to take
something back actually has two
different meanings depending on the
context let's start with the first one
the first meaning of to take something
back is to return something to a store
examples
i need to take back that sweater
have you taken back those shoes
so here to take back just means to
return an item to a store something you
purchased you want your money to be
returned to you so you return the item
and you receive your money we say take
back i need to take this item back to
the store i need to return this item is
what it means however there is a second
meaning for to take back it means like
to cancel or to nullify something that
you previously said or previously wrote
usually because there was a mistake or
there was something wrong or you
offended somebody there was some problem
with what you said examples
you should take back what you said about
her
our manager took back her comments about
our design when she saw how successful
it was
all right so in these examples we see
people in situations where someone
should uh sort of cancel or someone
should like
agree that the thing that they said in
the past was wrong in the first example
sentence you should take back what you
said about her it means you need to
recognize that you said something
incorrect or inappropriate about her and
you should
recognize that and like try to sort of
fix the problem fix that situation so
you can't of course
not unsay words if that makes sense you
can't just
physically remove your words from
someone's memory but you can recognize
that you made a mistake and say that
like you can say okay i take it back i'm
sorry like i cancel what i've said
before in other words in the second
example sentence we see it in past tense
our manager took back her comments so
meaning the manager recognized that she
made a mistake so her previous comments
were probably negative about the design
she took back her comments meaning she
recognized her mistake and she admitted
she had been wrong when she saw that the
design was successful so we see to take
back or in this case past tense took
back refers to recognizing in the past
that you made a mistake in your speech
or in your writing
and saying so to people so i made a
mistake i take it back
so those are a few new ways to use the
verb take i hope i hope that you found
something new that you can use quickly
of course as i said there are many many
different ways to use take as both a
noun and a verb for that matter please
take a look at a dictionary if you want
to get some more details about this word
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bye-bye
let's take
a look at
take
why am i snowshoeing
so the second additional meaning is to
cause something to go to another place
did you see my hand
no what was it i was like the second
meaning is to cause something to go to a
different place
that was pretty good actually
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