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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 stop let’s go
so the basic definition is to finish
doing something to stop example
sentences stop hitting me I need to stop
laughing so much now let’s look at the
conjugations of this verb present stop
stops past stopped past participle
stopped progressive stopping
now let’s talk about some additional
meanings of this verb the first meaning
here is to pause during an activity
examples let’s stop for lunch they’re
stopping at the supermarket on their way
to the party so each of these example
sentences shows some pause in an
activity
the first example sentence let’s stop
for lunch could mean like maybe people
are working let’s stop meaning let’s
take a break
eat lunch and come back to the activity
so let’s pause do this thing come back
later
let’s pause let’s stop for lunch the
second example sentence they’re stopping
at the supermarket on their way here
means they the people here are coming to
some location coming to a party maybe
and on the way in the act of coming
they’re going to stop at the supermarket
so pause the activity of coming and go
to the supermarket to get something and
then continue coming to the party or
continue coming to the event so there’s
some pause we can use stop to mean pause
in some other activity the next meaning
is to block something to block something
we often use this for like a hole or a
leak or we need to keep something out of
something else like rushing liquid like
water for example examples we stopped
the leaky pipe with special glue we
stopped up the hole with old fabric so
you’ll see in the second sentence there
I use the preposition up to stop up
something when you’re using stop to
refer to fixing a hole so meaning
putting things into a hole to fix a hole
we typically use the preposition up step
up a hole stop up a leak stop up a crack
I suppose mostly for hole though so when
you want to talk about blocking
something else out we can say to stop
something like to stop the water as well
means you block the water but if you’re
talking about like filling a hole like
to stop something from coming in you can
use stop up the hole so it means to
block something so we could say stop the
water from coming into the river or like
stop the bugs from
coming into the house by putting a
screen on the door for example you’re
blocking them from coming in the third
meaning for this lesson is to cause not
to move to cause not to move examples
can you stop the car I feel sick
stop moving I’m trying to take your
picture so to cause not to move means to
maybe cease the operation cease means
stop but cease means to make something
come to an end so like in the first
example sentence stop the car it means I
want the car not to move I feel sick so
to cause something not to move is to
stop that thing
the fourth meaning of this verb for this
lesson is to not operate to not operate
this is especially used for like
machines examples uh-oh my computer has
stopped working they’re stopping work at
the factory early today so this means
some operation is not happening so some
something is not operating it’s not
continuing so in the first example my
computer has stopped working I used the
past-tense
stopped stopped my computer has stopped
working means like oh it’s not working
so it was working now it’s not it
stopped it is no longer operational
in the second sentence it’s about a
factory in the second sentence I’m using
the progressive form they’re stopping
work at the factory early today so this
sentence means there’s a plan at the
factory to stop work early today so we
use the progressive form they’re
stopping work early to refer to a
determined plan a plan that’s been
determined prior to the conversation
they’re stopping work today so that
means operations will cease they’re not
going to continue
let’s continue on to some variations now
the first variation of the verb stop is
to stop by to stop by it means to visit
for a short time so to stop by the house
to stop by the store to stop by the
supermarket other examples stop by the
house sometime and say hello we’re gonna
stop by the bar later it just means to
make a short visit we’ll stop by a place
or you can just say we’ll stop by later
it means if the if the place is
understood by the listener you can drop
the place we’ll stop by later it’s fine
the next variation is stop at nothing
stop at nothing interesting phrase this
expression means someone is willing to
do anything in order to achieve
something willing to do anything so
we’ll stop will will cease for no reason
we’ll stop at nothing
in order to achieve something examples
I’ll stop at nothing to get a date with
that movie star he’ll stop at nothing to
get that boat he wants so meaning these
people will do anything to achieve their
goal they will stop at nothing to
achieve their goal all right so those
are a few maybe new ways to use the verb
stop before you I hope you got something
new out of this lesson if you have any
questions comments or if you’d like to
try to make a sentence using the verb
stop please feel free to do so in the
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