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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 pass let's get started
okay the basic definition of the verb
pass is to move beyond someone or
something
examples
let's pass this car
i passed you on campus earlier
so let's talk about the conjugations of
this verb
present
pass passes
past
past past participle past
progressive passing
okay so now let's talk about some
additional meanings for this verb the
first additional meaning is to decline
something so for example let's imagine a
conversation between two people
a want some cake
b
i'll pass
second example
i'm gonna pass on drinks tonight
okay so in both of these example
situations we see someone declining
they use the expression i'll pass or i'm
going to pass so to pass means like to
refuse or to decline something it's kind
of gentle
but it's just quick also so it's very
clear but rather gentle too like ah do
you want to go for drinks i'll pass or
i'm going to pass on that for tonight
something like that it's very quick and
easy to understand but also a casual
note in other words okay let's go to the
second meaning for this verb
the second meaning is to go beyond an
amount or to go beyond a specific day
some examples of this
our channel passed 1 million subscribers
this year
don't eat that i think the expiration
date has passed
so in both of these example sentences we
see that some amount or some date
has been moved beyond so in the first
example sentence our channel passed 1
million subscribers this year it means
our channel went beyond 1 million
subscribers so there was some goal or
some point one million in this case and
we went above that or beyond that in the
second example sentence it's a date
specifically the expiration date for a
product or you might know like the best
buy date it's sometimes it's different
but the expiration date is like the last
day that the product can be eaten or the
last safe day to consume the product so
the expiration date has passed means
that the product is beyond that date so
in both of these examples we're seeing
some amount or some specific day
and then we're talking about going
beyond that so this is another meaning
of the verb pass the third meaning is to
be successful as in a test or an
application something like that examples
of this
i passed the test
if the house passes inspection we can
move in next week
so both of these are referring to
successfully completing something or
like successfully uh like achieving
something so in the first example i
passed the test it means i finished the
test and i had an acceptable score but
we use past it's much easier to explain
with pass in the second example sentence
about a house inspection
the situation is if we pass the
inspection so meaning if the house is
inspected and it's considered acceptable
we can move in next week so this means
like there's some kind of check some
kind of like uh grading or inspection or
examination and if that's okay
great like we're successful so this is
another meaning of pass the fourth
meaning is to give something this is
usually within like the range of our
bodies so some examples of this
can you pass me the salt
she passed him 100
so in both of these examples we're kind
of imagining situations where people are
pretty close to each other so can you
pass me the salt is a request like maybe
you're sitting at the same table with
someone and you can reach them with your
arm or you can reach pretty close to
them anyway uh in the second example
sentence she passed him 100 it's like
they they must be pretty close they're
probably pretty close there's some
object they could pass
so they could give to the other person
uh within arm's reach within a distance
of their arms so pass can just mean to
give something like this motion usually
it's like passing something it's kind of
this image so those are a few additional
meanings of the verb past let's go on to
some variations now
the first one is to pass something off
as something else so this expression
means to make something seem like
something else or to pretend that
something is something else this sounds
like quite a long expression but let's
look at some examples of how it's used
he tried to pass off his dog as a wolf
the criminal was trying to pass off one
dollar bills as 100 bills
so in both of these examples we see
someone is pretending object a is object
b in the first example sentence there's
a guy who's trying to pretend his dog a
is a wolf so it's not really a wolf he's
pretending it's just a dog in the second
example sentence a criminal is trying to
pass off is pretending that one dollar
bills are 100 bills so uh trying to pass
off means like maybe they're making some
kind of effort to persuade people that
oh object a really is object b
but in many cases it's pretty easy to
see it's not really object b so to pass
something off as something else okay
let's go on to the second variation for
this verb the second variation is the
expression to pass out to pass out
this expression means to fall asleep but
it means to fall asleep because you're
extremely tired you're sick or you're
drunk usually so there's it's not quite
a usual it's not like
it's not like the typical fall asleep
kind of gently calmly pass out is like
you're just so tired or it's like you
have no control it's just ugh it's it's
like a strong kind of rough version of
falling asleep it's passing out so
examples of this
i almost passed out on the bus
one of my co-workers passed out at her
desk today
yeah so as we talked about these are
both examples of situations where it's
kind of like a rough way to fall asleep
like almost passed out on the bus like
the image is i was so tired i was
sitting on the bus and i just almost
completely fell asleep i didn't plan to
really in the second example a co-worker
passed out at their desk it's like
someone was so tired they're sleeping at
their desk so it's kind of a rough image
of falling asleep the third variation
for this verb is to pass up to pass up
this means to not take advantage of a
chance or an opportunity so it means
like to let something go to let an
opportunity go
examples
you passed up a raise why
for some reason he passed up a full
scholarship
okay so both of these are examples of
situations that seem to present a big
chance or a big opportunity but we're
using the expression passed up in the
first example we saw pass up a raise you
passed up a raise why like why would you
not
take the raise so why would you let go
the chance for a raise so you have the
chance to earn more money a raise means
more money you have the chance to earn
more money why would you let it go
that's the speaker's question here you
said no you declined or refused why in
the second example sentence he passed up
a full scholarship the expression full
scholarship means your college or your
university tuition the money you pay to
take classes at university a full
scholarship means everything is paid for
you get free university education
essentially so in the sentence he passed
up a full scholarship the speaker is
probably confused why would he uh
decline such an opportunity that's a
huge opportunity free education free
money essentially why would you do that
so to pass up is to let an opportunity
go
so those are a few hopefully new ways
that you can use the verb pass of course
there are other ways to use this verb if
you know about them if you have any
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bye
present pass passes
past
oh that's confusing yeah
did you start again i guess not
i'll just start this whole thing again
because i interrupted myself with my
weird observation okay you've seen lord
of the rings i have but i'm not
gandalf's very famous line the you shall
not pass
when he's like protecting the group from
the balrog oh no
i have seen them all but i think i've
only seen them all once oh wow
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