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hi everybody my name is alicia in this
lesson i'm going to talk about borrowing
and lending expressions i'm going to
share some sample requests you can use
for borrowing and lending things and i'm
going to introduce some time expressions
you can use with these requests to make
more specific questions so let's begin
okay
first i want to look at a category for
expressions you can use when you want
something so you want to receive
something in other words let's look at
the first sentence here then so it's
will you lend me your car here we're
using the verb lend and the person
receiving the item follows the verb lend
so in this case me who is receiving it
me i am receiving it
the item i'm receiving your car comes
after the person receiving it so in this
case lend is used but let's look at the
kind of opposite of this question can i
borrow some money so here the verb
borrow is being used but the person
receiving in this case money the person
receiving the item is the subject here
can i borrow some money
so here we're not saying can i borrow
some money from you you can include can
i borrow some money from you that's okay
but here it's understood we understand
the speaker wants to borrow money from
the listener
so this is a key difference
when the verb used is lend
the person receiving the item is the
object of the verb however when the verb
is borrow the person receiving the item
is the subject so this is something to
keep in mind let's look at some other
examples
here i'm not using the word lend and i'm
not using the word borrow here i'm using
use can i use some item
for a minute so this specifically
includes a verb what am i going to do
i'm going to use
the item so can i use your pen for a
minute can i use your computer for a
minute can i use your phone for a minute
for a minute means a short period of
time literally it means 60 seconds but
this indicates just a short period of
time about a minute perhaps
another one
if you don't want to use a will or can
you can also use just a simple please
statement so this is not a question but
please lend me
something something something so please
lend me your car please lend me your pen
this sounds quite formal actually please
lend me keep in mind though we cannot
use please borrow we can't say please
borrow me that's incorrect we can only
use lend here please lend me something
okay
let's go though to the next category
here which is borrowing and lending for
someone else so in these sentences i've
included you and me as the basic pattern
however if you're talking about someone
else or you want to ask person a for
something for person b how do you
explain that
let's look at these examples first
similar to this will you
lend person your item so this is very
similar to this pattern here i've
replaced me with person here so will you
lend your classmate your pencil will you
lend your teacher the paper so something
you want comes at the end of the
sentence here and the person follows the
verb right here
we can do the same thing when we're
using the verb borrow as we did in this
example sentence
here
we've replaced i in the original
sentence with person so can person
borrow your item so again because we're
using borrow the person receiving the
item is the subject of the verb so can
my roommate borrow your car
can my parents borrow your house for the
weekend for example so just keep in mind
that these two verbs
always follow the same rule about the
positioning of the subject and the
object and the person receiving
or giving the item let's look at one
more example though this is quite a
complex situation because the person
lending the item and the person
receiving the item are not participating
in the conversation the speaker and the
listener are talking about some other
group of people for example here
i wonder if person a
can borrow item from person b
so here we need specifically
to describe who is person a
and who is person b they're not
participating in the conversation so i
wonder if my dad can borrow
a tool from my uncle for example so
these two people are not participating
in the conversation
but we're discussing the possibility
this is how we would do it this is one
example of that
all right
so just to recap then these are kind of
the simple requests that i'm using and
that you can use when you're doing
borrowing and lending conversation
practice so can i will you and please
you'll notice please is not made as a
question please is just a statement uh
can i and will you our actual questions
there
so just remember can i borrow will you
lend because the subjects of the
sentence
indicate different people are receiving
and giving the item
also just to review as well this is a
key point from this lesson when you're
using the verb lend the person receiving
the item is the object of the verb as in
here please lend me your car will you
lend me your car me is the object here
when you're using the verb borrow the
person receiving the item is the subject
of the verb as we saw here can i borrow
some money i is the subject i am
receiving the money in this case
okay so with that i want to look at some
time expressions that you can add to
your request
so i talked about it in this point here
can i use something for a minute that's
an example of a time expression we can
use to make our request a little more
specific so
i've used two kind of patterns here the
first group uses four the second group
uses until so remember we use for for a
period of time a time period a length of
time in other words here for a minute i
talked about before for a bit is a
casual way to say a short period of time
for a sec a sec is short for a second a
second also a very short period of time
literally not a second one second but
very short period of time
here specifically for a week and for a
year so these are just some examples of
lengths of time you can use to add to
your request
in the other group until
here we see
some situations that might happen that
would cause the
speaker to return the item they have
borrowed or to return the item they have
been lended so can i borrow your car
until i get a new one for example or can
i borrow your calculator until i find
mine
so these sentences or rather these time
expressions show for example can i
borrow your calculator until i find mine
means at the point in time i find my
calculator i will return your calculator
to you so until i find mine shows that
another one until i can pay you back
this would be used for money so
we talked about here can i borrow some
money until i can pay you back it's
quite a
risky
question perhaps but until i can pay you
back is one example
here are some more specific ones with
time until tomorrow so until this point
in time until the test so again a
specific point in time so we can use
until and for with our requests for
borrowing and lending i hope that that
helps you make some more specific
questions anyway those are all the
things that i want to talk about for
this lesson if you have any questions
comments or would like to practice
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