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hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome

back to know your verbs today we’re

going to talk about the verb by let’s go

all right let’s begin with the basic

definition of the verb by so the basic

definition is to pay money for goods or

a service to buy something examples I

bought a puppy

he buys flowers for his wife every month

ok now let’s look at the conjugations of

this verb present buy buys past bought

past participle but progressive buying

ok so now let’s look at some additional

meanings for this verb first one the

first additional meaning for today’s

lesson of the verb by is to give someone

money so they do what you want them to

do or so they don’t do something that

you don’t want them to do so this is

different from the original definition

in the original definition I said to pay

for like goods or to pay for a service

in this case you’re giving someone money

in exchange for like an agreement so we

can understand this meaning of the verb

by as like bribing someone we can think

of it the same way to bribe someone for

something examples the judges have been

bought the scandal stated that the

Parliament representatives had been

bought by an electric company you might

also hear it as in like to buy someone’s

silence that’s specifically you’re

giving them money to not say anything so

to buy someone means it’s very general

like to give them money in exchange for

an agreement of behavior of some kind to

buy someone silence is a specific kind

of agreement you’re specifically giving

them money to say nothing we often use

it in the passive voice like the judges

were bought in that case there’s no like

we’re not saying who we’re not saying

who bought the judges we’re just saying

the judges were fought but the judges

had been bought someone gave the judges

money to do or not do something so bribe

is one is one way to understand the verb

by the second additional meaning is to

believe to believe something examples I

don’t buy that for a second

they’re never gonna buy your story about

getting lost on the way to the airport

so in both of these by means believe in

the first example sentence I used

actually a really common expression

which is I don’t buy that for a second I

don’t buy that for a second so this by

means believe it doesn’t mean give money

for something so I don’t believe that

for a second

means even for a one-second period of

time I don’t believe that thing that’s

totally not believable I can’t believe

that so I don’t buy that for a second

that’s a really common expression in the

second example sentence I said they’re

never gonna buy your story about getting

lost on the way to the airport in this

example I said they’re never gonna buy

your story so here again buy your story

doesn’t mean give you money for a story

it means believe your story so they some

people they’re never going to believe

your story so this story that is fake

about getting lost on the way to the

airport or maybe the story isn’t

actually fake but it’s just not a

believable story in other words so by

means believe in these cases um will

often the use by like I don’t buy that I

don’t buy it

I don’t buy your story I don’t buy your

lies something like that relating to

speech or communication or storytelling

that’s a pretty good hint for this

meaning of the verb ba so maybe in a

little extra hint here this is often

used in negative statements like we saw

in these examples we’ll also see this

used with the preposition in to like

don’t buy into her lies so meaning don’t

believe her lies so to buy into

something can also mean to believe

something that someone else is saying

but we use buy into that faith as well

let’s move along to some variations of

this verb the first variation for this

lesson is to buy time to buy time this

means to stall so to stall means like to

delay an activity or to try not to do an

activity you’re like trying not to do

that for some reason so we used the

expression to buy time examples I called

in sick today and bought myself some

time to finish the project

he’s just buying time and waiting for

the company to make a decision all right

so on both of these we see that someone

is stalling or someone is trying to

delay something where someone is trying

to get extra time to do something in the

first example sentence I said I called

in sick today and bought myself some

time to finish my project meaning I gave

myself some extra time but we use the

verb by because it’s like it’s not free

really so I bought myself some time yes

but I had to use a sick day at work for

example so I bought some time in the

second example sentence he’s just buying

time it’s like we don’t know how but

somehow he’s stalling he’s delaying

doing something until a company makes a

decision maybe about his work so these

just mean giving yourself extra time

like you’re stalling or delaying

something else we use to buy time to

talk about that so let’s go on to the

next variation then the next variation

is to buy out to buy out to buy out

means to purchase all or part of a

company so that you are the owner of

that company examples company a was

bought out by Company B last year so

this means that to buy something out

means a company company a who does not

control yet company B purchases part of

that company or purchases a majority of

that company just enough sometimes so

that they can control the company so

that means that essentially Company A

purchases Company B and controls that

company then to so to buy out to buy out

all right the next variation for to buy

is the expression to buy the farm to buy

the farm is kind of a strange expression

which

means to die to die so as you can

imagine it’s kind of a casual expression

for to die it’s used in like light

situations even though death is kind of

a heavy topic I think but examples of

this if you keep riding that motorcycle

you’re gonna buy the farm the old man

bought the farm last week so both of

these expressions bought the farm just

mean to die so in the first example it’s

a warning like if you keep riding that

motorcycle you’re gonna buy the farm

means you’re gonna die so it’s dangerous

in other words in the second example

sentence the old man bought the farm it

doesn’t actually mean I suppose it could

mean in some specific situations that

yes an old man did buy a farm in fact

somewhere but in very kind of casual

informal settings we could say also the

old man died last week as well

so bought the farm means died yeah and

so how do you know which one

just from context just pay attention to

the conversation if it’s about a farm if

the conversation is about a farm and

living on a farm it’s probably about a

farm buying a farm if the conversation

is totally unrelated to farms it

probably means die or it could so just

pay attention to the conversation in the

context there so those are a few

different meanings and a few variations

of the verb bye I hope that you picked

up something new from this lesson and I

hope that you can use it in your

everyday life of course if you have any

questions or comments or if you want to

try to make a sentence with a use of

this verb by that we talked about in

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and we’ll see you again next time bye

Mike to some variation yeah I was a

Barbie fan when I was a little girl

honey Barbies in one can you needed to

buy another Ken doll that’s for sure

you need another can in that group

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