ORDER Basic Verbs Learn English Grammar

hi everybody welcome back to know your

verbs my name is alicia and in this

episode we’re going to talk about the

verb order

let’s begin

let’s start with the basic definition of

the verb order

the basic definition is to request

something to request food at a

restaurant

or cafe to request items from a catalog

or from the internet for example to

order

okay some examples i ordered a pizza

did you order new office supplies

all right now let’s look at the

conjugations of this verb

present order orders

passed ordered past participle

ordered progressive ordering

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings for this verb

the first additional meaning is to

command

to command so to command means to

ask someone but very very strongly

could be a military situation could be a

school situation

your parents could be really strict with

you

let’s look at some examples okay

the general ordered everyone to clean

we were ordered to return to our homes

so in both of these example situations

someone

or some entity some group some

organization

is commanding someone else to do

something in the first example sentence

the general

ordered everyone to clean it means

the general in this situation commanded

so strongly asked everyone in the

situation to clean

so this could be like a military

situation

everyone in the group has to clean

the cafeteria for example so it’s a

strong

command a strong order another important

point about the idea of a command

is that if you don’t listen if you don’t

do

the thing you’re ordered to do if you

don’t do the thing

you are requested to do there might be a

bad

outcome a bad results bad consequences

so you should probably

do that thing so the general ordered

everyone to clean

if you don’t clean you could get in

trouble

the second example sentence was we were

ordered to return to our homes here

we’re using the passive voice

we were ordered by whom we don’t know

we don’t know who gave the order

but we were ordered to return to our

homes

so again this is a command if we do not

return to our

homes there might be some bad result

some bad

outcome so we should do that so ordered

means command in these cases okay let’s

go on to the second

additional meaning for this verb the

second additional meaning for this verb

is to arrange or to organize

something examples i ordered everything

according to color

the files are alphabetically ordered

so in the first example sentence i

ordered everything

according to color means i

arranged or i organized everything for

example

clothes or maybe pens or supplies

according to color which means probably

things of the same color are grouped

together or are organized are arranged

together

so but i used the verb ordered i ordered

everything according to color means i

arranged or i prepared everything

according to color

we just use ordered instead here the

second example sentence uses a very

common expression

alphabetically ordered alphabetically

ordered

means according to the letters of the

alphabet

the material is arranged so this could

be for example a list of

names or a list of books or a list of

movies

but they are alphabetically ordered

meaning the top of the list

begins with a or the letter closest to a

maybe b

and then the bottom of the list is z so

everything follows the order so the

sequence of letters in the alphabet

everything is alphabetically ordered

alphabetically arranged

okay so now let’s talk about some

variations on this verb

the first variation is the expression

out of

order out of order so out of order means

broken

or suspended from use we cannot use that

thing

it’s somehow not safe to use or it’s not

working

not functioning correctly examples

the vending machine is out of order

the company printer is out of order so

both of these mean

that the machine in the subject of the

sentence is broken

or there’s some other reason why we

cannot

use that thing so the company printer is

out of order maybe it’s broken maybe

it’s missing a piece

maybe there’s no ink maybe there’s some

other problem

related to it out of order is kind of a

vague

open reason it can mean

a few different things but in general it

just means this thing

cannot be used right now it is out of

order the second variation is a pair

actually of phrasal verbs which can mean

the same thing

it is order in and order out uh

depending on who you talk to

these can actually mean the same thing

but it’s just personal preference

order in and order out just mean getting

take

out or delivery food so you might hear

say

oh i’ll just read the example sentences

do you want to order in tonight

let’s order out for lunch so you might

hear

diff i don’t know depending on the

person people might choose order in or

order out i know i definitely say order

in

when i mean delivery because it sounds

like i order something

i request something as in the basic

definition of the verb

and the food comes into my house that’s

my logical thinking order out is also

used

but it means like to get takeout or to

get delivery

in other words not to cook but not to go

sit down at a restaurant either

there’s some kind of delivery or pickup

happening to order in or to order out

just depends on the situation let’s talk

about one more

variation the variation is to order

around to order someone around

so to order someone around means to

command

them unnecessarily so it’s like you ask

someone to do small tasks lots and lots

and lots of things

you could do them yourself but you make

the other person you

force the other person to do these small

things for you it’s like just because

you want some power over that person

it’s typically not a good thing to order

someone around

examples i’m tired of my boss ordering

me around

he kept being ordered around by his

friends

so in the first example sentence i’m

tired of my boss

ordering me around it means the

speaker’s boss

asks them to do lots of small things

that

really aren’t that necessary or they’re

time-consuming very tedious so like lots

of small details to take care of

so the speaker is frustrated the speaker

is unhappy

that the boss figure is asking so much

and

maybe for no reason so they use the

expression

order around i’m tired of my boss

ordering me around

in the second example sentence he kept

being ordered around by his

friends ordered around here refers to

the behavior

his friends are abusing so

we’ve included friends in quotation

marks there

because uh the idea is that

friends true friends do not

unnecessarily

you know ask people to do things for

them like

true friends aren’t going to force tasks

on their other friends that’s not very

nice

so to order a friend around is probably

pretty rude or it’s like there’s like a

power

thing a power situation happening there

so

to be ordered around by your friends is

probably not a

good thing and not a good sign okay so

that’s one more variation

so i hope that you got a few new ways of

using the verb order and you learned a

few variations that include this verb

so if you have any questions or comments

or if you want to try to use this word

in a sentence please feel free to do so

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