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hi everybody welcome back to know your
verbs my name is alicia and in this
episode we're going to talk about the
verb walk let's get started
let's look at the basic definition of
this verb the basic definition is to
make progress on foot examples i walked
around the neighborhood yesterday he
walks around the office to stretch his
legs
now let's look at the conjugations of
each verb present
walk
walks
past
walked
past participle
walked
progressive walking
now let's talk about some other meanings
for this verb first additional meaning
for this lesson is to cause an animal to
walk let's look at some examples make
sure to walk the dog later have you
walked the dogs today
so here you'll see walk the dog so this
is quite common for dogs we don't really
walk meaning we don't really take the
animal out and like go for a walk with
the animal so like we usually just use
this expression with dogs we don't
usually say like walk the cat or like
walk the
bird or walk the sheep i don't know we
usually use it with dogs so walk the dog
so it's part of the animal's exercise
the necessary exercise
so we use walk before dog in this case
so make sure to walk the dog have you
walked the dog means cause the dog to
walk the second meaning i want to talk
about for this lesson is to accompany
someone on foot so you're traveling with
someone on foot examples of this she
walked her friend to the station will
you walk me home all right first example
sentence says she walked me to the
station she walked me to the station so
we're following the past tense walked
with the person being accompanied in
this case me she my friend maybe she
walked me she accompanied me to the
station on foot is what this means but
we use walked to make it nice and short
and easy to understand she walked me to
the station in the second example
sentence will you walk me home it's a
request meaning will you please
accompany me home on foot so you're
within walking distance you can walk to
your home you're asking another person
will you please walk with me to my house
so to accompany someone on foot we can
use walk to do that third meaning for
this is actually more of an advanced
meaning this meaning is to avoid as in
like to avoid criminal punishment let's
look at some examples of this the
defendant walked despite a lot of
evidence i don't think he'll walk the
judge is tough
so here
walk means avoiding punishment but we
use it in like legal situations i think
the reason is because when a
criminal or someone who has been accused
of criminal behavior
is not convicted meaning they're not
guilty or they are allowed to be free
they are not taken to jail they can walk
out of the courthouse or they can walk
out of the you know prison or wherever
they're being kept wherever they are
being held they can walk so we use the
verb walk to mean avoiding punishment
but it's usually just used in criminal
or legal situations so this is a more
advanced use of this verb but to walk
like i don't think he'll walk means i
don't think he'll be allowed to go free
so i don't think he'll get away i don't
think he'll avoid punishment i don't
think he'll walk
now let's talk about a few variations on
the verb walk to walk on eggshells to
walk on eggshells super interesting
so to walk on eggshells means to
exercise great caution so in other words
be really really careful to be super
careful so the image eggshells are very
fragile it's easy to break them so to
walk on eggshells means you have to be
very very careful otherwise you'll break
the eggshell so to walk on eggshells
means you have to be very careful let's
look at some examples of when we might
use this expression my manager is in a
really bad mood today everyone is
walking on eggshells i had to walk on
eggshells at that dinner last night so
if you don't know this expression
walking on eggshells you might think
like what is this person talking about
when you hear this expression like
everyone is walking on eggshells today
what
but it just means everyone is being
really really careful everyone is being
really cautious in the first example my
manager is in a bad mood everyone is
walking on eggshells today means
everyone is being very very careful
because the manager is in a bad mood and
people don't want to
make him or her unhappy
in the second example i was walking on
eggshells at dinner last night means i
was being very careful at dinner last
night maybe it was a high pressure
dinner situation so walking on eggshells
means being very careful okay let's go
to the second variation so i prepared
two variations that are very similar
here they are to walk into and to walk
in on so very similar to walk into
what as one word into into to walk into
and to walk in on let's look at to walk
into first so to walk into means to
crash into something when walking so
you're walking walking walking and crash
into something examples of this i walked
into a wall this morning have you ever
walked into a glass door
yes i have
i've walked into a screen door as well
too who has not who has not walked into
a door seriously and do it all the time
so it means you're you're walking and
you
i hope accidentally you crash into
something as you're walking of course if
you want to upgrade this you can say i
ran into a door that means your speed is
different so walk into a door and run
into a door it's just the speed is
different there but you can change the
motion verb if you like but now let's
take a look at uh to walk in on so
different very different meaning
actually to walk in on so to walk in on
something means to enter a situation
accidentally it's usually something like
uh kind of scandalous or kind of
embarrassing you walk in on something
accidentally maybe you don't want to see
or you're surprised to see that so let's
look at some fairly mild examples of
this first she walked in on us gossiping
they walked in on us watching youtube
videos at the office
you're watching youtube okay so to walk
in on past tense is my first example she
walked in on us
gossiping so what was the situation she
walked in on accidentally us so us
meaning some group of people we were
gossiping and someone entered that
situation accidentally it was very
uncomfortable oh no we were gossiping
maybe about that person we don't know
but some kind of awkward or
uncomfortable situation she walked in on
us gossiping on us gossiping in the
second example sentence uh they walked
in on us watching youtube videos at the
office so again they walked in on us in
this case we're watching youtube videos
in the office we could of course change
the sentence like i walked in on my
co-workers watching youtube videos in
the office we could change that around
it means accidentally entering a
situation that's a little bit
uncomfortable in some way so you can
find many different examples of how this
is used but i'll leave that up to you
alright so those are a few different
ways perhaps for you to use the verb
walk i hope that it was helpful for you
if you have any questions if you know of
some other ways to use the verb walk or
if you just want to try to make an
example sentence please feel free to do
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is that how you walk
oh that's just running
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