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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 raised let’s get started

with the basic definition of the verb

raised the basic definition is to lift

something to a higher position examples

raise your hand let’s raise the shelf a

little higher now let’s look at the

conjugations of this verb present tense

raised raises past tense raised past

participle raised progressive raising so

now let’s move on to some additional

meanings for this verb okay the first

one is to cause an increase in something

so this doesn’t mean necessarily to

physically move something up but rather

to cause an increase in unlike an amount

or a number for example so examples of

this the government is raising taxes

next year my landlord raised the rent so

in these cases we’re talking about taxes

and rent the government raised taxes

means they increased the amount of taxes

people have to pay in the second example

sentence my landlord raised the rent

means my rent costs were increased my

rent costs went up they were raised my

landlord raised the rent let’s go on to

the second additional meaning for this

verb to cause to exist

to cause to exist like this is used for

concepts some examples this change

raises a lot of questions her behavior

raised red flags okay so here we’re

seeing concepts we’re seeing sort of

ideas it’s not a physical item that

comes into existence it’s a concept in

the first example sentence this change

raises a lot of questions it means from

this change a lot of questions come into

existence so some change happened and

now I have lots of different questions

we use the verb raised to mean came into

existence like something conceptually

came into existence in the second

example sentence her behavior raises red

flags I’ve used the expression red flags

here so red flags means a hint or some

kind of indicator of something negative

and

negative quality about that person so

this is a kind of this is a sentence

that has a negative feeling about it but

I’ve used the verb raised so the

sentence is her behavior raised red

flags which means her behavior caused me

to think that there was something

negative about her so her behavior was

maybe strange or kind of dangerous and

so I thought maybe this person there’s

something kind of not quite right about

this person there were red flags so I

used the verb raised to say that her

behavior introduced that her behavior

caused those red flags to exist okay

let’s move on to the third one the third

one is to take care of someone or

something examples my parents decided to

raise chickens where were you raised

so in these sentences we see someone

taking care of something else the first

sentence my parents decided to raise

chickens means to take care of like like

from when they’re babies until they’re

full-grown adults my parents decided to

raise chickens so as they grow up

they’re being taken care of in the

second example it’s a question where

were you raised a passive question where

were you raised means where were you

taken care of until you grew up

essentially is the meaning but we use

raised to communicate that where were

you raised I was raised on the west

coast California where were you raised

Massachusetts Massachusetts all right so

this verb is used for parenting for sure

it’s used to so when you’re talking

about where you grew up you can say I

grew up in or I was raised in so parents

can use this I want to raise my kids in

place or in environment just be careful

we don’t use the word grow for people we

can use it for plants like I like to

grow plants is fine we can’t say I want

to grow my kids doesn’t work we can’t

use them raised instead the fourth one

is to increase another person’s bet this

is a very specific use of the word raise

we use this in gambling like at casinos

for example examples I’ll raise you $20

she raised him $3,000

this means there’s an existing bet in

the first example I’ll raise you $20

there’s a bet that exists somewhere so

let’s say for example the bet is $10

that my opponent played I however want

to increase the risk in the game so I

say I’ll raise you $20 which means from

this original $10 I’m going to add $20

that means the total bet is now $30 if

the other person still wants to play the

game they now have to put in $20 more to

match my bet so to raise means to add

additional risk to a bet in the second

example sentence we see the same thing

she raised him $3,000 so there’s an

existing bet she increased the amount of

the bet by $3,000 so this is a very

specific use of raise but if you like

card games or casinos or gambling it

could be useful for you okay

let’s talk about the next additional

meaning of the verb raise it means to

collect money to gather money to get

money from different sources examples of

this let’s raise money in a fund raiser

how are we going to raise money for this

project so in these examples we’re

talking about money this is very

commonly used to talk about money so we

tend to use this expression this this

use of raise is used to talk about money

like financial resources that we need

for some project or some charity or some

volunteer activity so we say let’s raise

money or let’s raise funds to support

this group for example so this can be

used to talk about gathering funds

gathering money okay

the variations let’s talk about some

variations of this verb the first one is

to raise eyebrows to raise eyebrows so

the image of this is literally your

eyebrows go up like why because we’re

experiencing mild suspicion or surprise

so when you hear something and you you

kind of have this like mmm reaction to

it’s like what

that’s the raising eyebrows expression

examples of this her weekend plans

raised some eyebrows at the office if

you confront management you might raise

some eyebrows so that means if you do

that thing in the first example sentence

her weekend plans raise some eyebrows at

the office it means something about her

plans for the weekend cause suspicion or

maybe surprise among the other people in

the office in the second example

sentence if you confront management you

might raise some eyebrows it means if

you do this thing if you talk to

management they might be surprised when

they might be suspicious of you so raise

eyebrows means to be suspicious or to be

a little bit surprised of something the

next variation is to raise the bar to

raise the bar this expression means like

to set a higher standard than previously

or to determine a higher standard than

was previously set examples we need to

raise the bar for our work they’ve

raised the bar at that restaurant in the

first example we need to raise the bar

for our work it means we need to set a

higher standard for our work so it’s

quite long to say but we say raise the

bar you can actually imagine this in

terms of sports like if you’ve seen

gymnastics when there’s like like we can

imagine the pole vaults for example if

the bar to jump over the optic to jump

over is at this level

maybe it’s easy but if we raise the bar

it becomes more difficult and requires

more skill to do that same task so when

we say we need to raise the bar for our

work or that restaurant has raised the

bar it means their standards have

improved or maybe their skills have

improved as well so it’s a positive

thing all right the last one the last

variation is to raise hell to raise

so this means like to behave in a way

that can cause other people trouble it

often means like to be loud to be

drinking to be noisy to be like out in

society causing like disruptions often

young people are known for raising hell

examples a bunch of college kids are

raising hell at the beach let’s raise

hell these are examples of like kids

usually kids are like young people that

are just kind of out to cause trouble

like usually it’s because they’re having

a good time and they’re trying to do it

like too noisily or they’re just having

too much fun and causing problems in

their community but sometimes people

actually plan to go out and cause

problems for others so to describe that

activity we can say raise hell to raise

hell all right so I hope that you found

a few new ways to use the verb raised of

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episode of know your verbs and we’ll see

you again soon bye Mike alright so

that’s a recap on sauna recap I’m tired

okay so so that’s an overview of a few

different uses of the verb raised oh my

god I’m out of it today

okay

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