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hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
back to know your verbs in this lesson
we're going to talk about the verb carry
let's get started
let's begin with the basic definition of
this verb the basic definition of carry
is to move while holding or supporting
something examples
can you carry this bag
i always carry a pen
okay let's look at the conjugations for
this verb
present carry
carries
past
carried
past participle carried
progressive carrying
now let's talk about some additional
meanings for this verb the first
additional meaning is to move a person
or an object from one place to another
example
veins carry blood throughout the body
the bust carried the children to school
so here we see objects and people being
moved from one place to another
through or via or by something else and
we use the verb carry to describe that
in the first example sentence veins
carry blood throughout the body
veins are the uh like you can see them
on your arm usually blue colored they're
the kind of like pipes i guess you could
say like imagine them as pipes that
carry blood so blood travels through the
body through these veins so we can say
veins carry blood through the body so
veins are the method through which blood
moves throughout the body so veins are
carrying the blood we kind of can
imagine in that way they're caring
they're responsible for carrying the
blood so we can say that veins are kind
of responsible for moving blood around
the body we can use the verb carry to
explain that in the second example
sentence the bus carried the kids to
school the bus is the method of
transport for the kids so the kids are
moving from one place to another place
the bus is the method of movement so the
bus carried the kids to school we can
use carrie to talk about this
transportation the second additional
meaning is to have a gene or illness
examples
rodents are known to carry rabies
some people carry diseases they don't
know about
in the first example sentence we see
rodents are known to carry rabies
so rodents are like small like rats or
mice those kinds of dirty sort of
creatures wild creatures rabies is a
disease a serious illness that like
causes you to behave strangely and your
body has really strange problems too i
won't talk about rabies that much not so
important here but rodents are known to
carry rabies so the
um the small like the biological parts
the things that cause rabies they carry
that illness rodents are known to carry
so it doesn't mean carry like a backpack
really but carry a gene or carry an
illness carry a sickness inside the body
in this case rodents are known to carry
the sickness that is rabies inside their
bodies in the second example sentence
some people carry diseases they don't
know about it means some people have
diseases in their body but they don't
know about the disease so you can
imagine like we carry the disease we
hold it in our body and we move around
but we don't know about it we use the
verb carry to talk about this let's move
on to the third meaning the third
additional meaning is to make something
a success to make something a success
examples
his leadership carried the team through
a difficult time
her performance carries the show
so in both of these examples we see that
someone
carried something so someone caused
something to be successful because of
their actions or because of their
leadership as we see in the first
example sentence so his leadership
carried the team through a difficult
time means the team was successful in a
difficult time because of his leadership
but we use the verb carry to mean that
so
we can kind of imagine that this one
person in this case his leadership his
leadership um and his abilities to be a
good leader in other words were kind of
the thing that carried the team so we
can imagine the whole team
is on top of this one guy's leadership
skill so he is responsible for making
the team a success in a difficult time
so we use carrie to explain that in the
second example sentence her performance
carried the show it means her
performance was so good it was so
important that the show was a success
because of it so without her performance
maybe the show would not have been
successful but her performance was
really really good her performance made
the show a success her performance
carried the show
the fourth meaning of this verb is to
reach a distance to reach a distance
this can be like sound or it can be
something physical some examples of this
the sound of the thunder carried 20
kilometers
ash from the volcano carried into the
air
so here we're not actually carrying a
physical object in the first example
sentence it's sound traveling so the
sound of thunder carried 20 kilometers
it means we were able to hear the sound
of thunder 20 kilometers away from the
source so the sound carried in other
words we use carry to refer to sound
traveling a distance in the second
example sentence ash from the volcano
carried into the air it means the ash
from the volcano moved into the air we
could even say like the ash from the
volcano carried into the
next city for example so it traveled
into the next city it traveled some
distance but we can use carry to talk
about that as well
let's move on to some variations for
this verb so the first variation is to
get carried away to get carried away
this means to get too excited or too
involved in something usually it has
like a positive meaning we get carried
away because we're excited
about something but let's look at some
examples first
i got a little carried away baking last
night
he got carried away listening to music
both of these examples are pretty
innocent in the first example sentence
we see i got a little carried away
baking last night it's like i baked too
much last night the idea is that i was
too excited about my baking and i baked
too much or maybe i stayed up too late
making something i got carried away with
it i did too much of it because i was so
interested in this thing in the second
example sentence he got carried away
listening to music it maybe means he
spent too much time listening to music
maybe he forgot to do his homework or he
forgot to go to work or he was late for
work or something because he was carried
away he was so interested in listening
to music he forgot something or he did
too much of it in other words so this
generally just means that you're too
excited about something or too involved
in something so it can have a positive
meaning
the next variation is to carry over to
carry over means to continue into the
next period to continue into the next
period examples
unused data will carry over into the
next month
my airline miles carried over into this
year so these two expressions both use
like points or miles or some kind of
data in the first example sentence it's
like a mobile phone contract unused data
will carry over into the next month if
for example i have one gig of data
available on my mobile phone every month
but i only use 500 megabytes i have 500
megabytes remaining that's my unused
data that amount carries over to the
next month that means i have one
gigabyte plus 500 megabytes of data to
use in the next month so carry over
means that amount continues to the next
period we see the same thing in the
second example sentence my airline miles
carried over into this year meaning my
airline miles from the previous year
carried over or continued into this year
so maybe i didn't use those miles last
year but they continued into this year
and i can still use them so carrying
over means continuing something we see
it a lot in like credit card contracts
or like mileage plans or data plans
anything with data points numbers we
might see that sort of thing all right
so those are a few different ways to use
the verb carry i hope that you found a
new way to use it of course if you have
any questions or comments want to try to
make an example sentence or know some
different ways of using the verb carry
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bye-bye
carry on my way we're done
there'll be peace when you have done
additional meanings additional meanings
why do i do these things on camera
oh my goodness getting silly okay data
usage and i only use 500
megabytes what what was that okay so for
example
i'm sorry okay
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