CARRY Basic Verbs Learn English Grammar
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hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome
back to know your verbs in this lesson
we’re going to talk about the verb carry
let’s get started
let’s begin with the basic definition of
this verb the basic definition of carry
is to move while holding or supporting
something examples can you carry this
bag I always carry a pen okay let’s look
at the conjugation for this verb present
carry carries past carried past
participle carried progressive carrying
now let’s talk about some additional
meanings for this verb the first
additional meaning is to move a person
or an object from one place to another
examples veins carry blood throughout
the body the bus carried the children to
school so here we see objects and people
being moved from one place to another
through or via or by something else and
we use the verb carry to describe them
in the first example sentence veins
carry blood throughout the body veins
are the like you can see them on your
arm usually blue colored they’re the
kind of like pipes I guess you could say
like imagine them as pipes that carry
blood so blood travels through the body
through these veins so we can say veins
carry blood through the body so veins
are the method through which blood moves
throughout the body so veins are
carrying the blood we kind of can
imagine in that way they’re caring
they’re responsible for carrying the
blood so we can say that veins are kind
of responsible for moving blood around
the body we can use the verb carry to
explain them in the second example
sentence the bus carried the kids to
school the bus is the method of
transport for the kids so the kids are
moving from one place to another place
the bus is the method of movement so the
bus carried the kids to school we can
use carry to talk about this
transportation the second additional
meaning is to have a gene or illness
examples rodents are known to carry
rabies some people carry diseases they
don’t know about in the first example
sentence we see rodents are known to
carry rabies
so rodents are like small like rats or
mice those kinds of dirty sort of
creatures wild creatures rabies is a
disease a serious illness like causes
you to behave strangely in your body has
really strange problems too I won’t talk
about rabies that much not so important
here but rodents are known to carry
rabies so the
like the biological parts the things
that cause rabies that carry that
illness rodents are known to carry so it
doesn’t mean carry like a backpack
really but carry a gene or carry an
illness carry a sickness inside the body
in this case rodents are known to carry
the sickness that is rabies inside their
bodies in the second example sentence
some people carry diseases they don’t
know about it means some people have
diseases in their body but they don’t
know about the disease so you can
imagine like we carry the disease we
hold it in our body and we move around
but we don’t know about it we use the
verb carry to talk about this let’s move
on to the third meaning the third
additional meaning is to make something
a success to make something a success
examples his leadership carried the team
through a difficult time
her performance carries the show so in
both of these examples we see that
someone carried something so someone
caused something to be successful
because of their actions or because of
their leadership as we see in the first
example sentence so his leadership
carried the team through a difficult
time means the team was successful in a
difficult time because of his leadership
but we used the verb carry to mean that
so we can kind of imagine that this one
person in this case his leadership his
leadership and his abilities to be a
good leader in other words were kind of
the thing that carried the team so we
can imagine the whole team is on top of
this one guide leadership skill so he is
responsible for making the team a
success in a difficult time so we use
carry to explain that in the second
example sentence her performance carried
the show it means her performance was so
good it was so important that the show
was a success because of it so without
her performance maybe the show would not
have been successful but her performance
was really really good
her performance made the show a success
her performance carried the show
the fourth meaning of this verb is to
reach a distance to reach a distance
this can be like sound or it can be
something physical some examples of this
the sound of the Thunder carried 20
kilometers ash from the volcano carried
into the air so here we’re not actually
carrying a physical object in the first
example sentence it’s sound traveling so
the sound of thunder carried 20
kilometers it means we were able to hear
the sound of thunder 20 kilometers away
from the source so the sound carried in
other words we use carry to refer to
sound traveling a distance in the second
example sentence ash from the volcano
carried into the air it means the ash
from the volcano moved into the air we
could even say like the ash from the
volcano carried into the next city for
example so it travelled into the next
city it traveled some distance but we
can use carry to talk about that as well
let’s move on to some variations for
this verb so the first variation is to
get carried away to get carried away
this means to get too excited or too
involved in something usually it has
like a positive meaning we get carried
away because we’re excited about
something but let’s look at some
examples first I got a little carried
away baking last night he got carried
away listening to music both of these
examples are pretty innocent in the
first example sentence we see I got a
little carried away baking last night
it’s like I baked too much last night
the idea is that I was too excited about
my baking and I baked too much or maybe
I stayed up too late
baking something I got carried away with
it I did too much of it because I was so
interested in this thing in the second
example sentence he got carried away
listening to music it maybe means he
spent too much time listening to music
maybe he forgot to do his homework or he
forgot to go to work or he was late for
work or something because he was carried
away he was so interested in listening
to music he forgot something or he did
too much of it in other words so this
generally just means that you’re too
excited about something or too involved
in something so it can have a positive
meaning the next variation is to carry
over to carry over means to continue
into the next period to continue into
the next period examples unused data
will carry over into the next month
my airline miles carried over into this
year so these two expressions both use
like points or miles or some kind of
data in the first example sentence it’s
like a mobile phone contract unused data
will carry over into the next month if
for example I have one gig of data
available on my mobile phone every month
but I only use 500 megabytes I have 500
megabytes remaining
that’s my unused data that amount
carries over to the next month that
means I have one gigabyte plus 500
megabytes of data to use in the next
month so carry over means that amount
continues to the next period we see the
same thing in the second example
sentence my airline miles carried over
into this year meaning my airline miles
from the previous year
carried over or continued into this year
so maybe I didn’t use those miles last
year but they continued into this year
and I can still use them so carrying
over means continuing something we see
it a lot in like credit card contracts
or like mileage plans or data plans
anything with data points numbers we
might see that sort of thing all right
so those are a few different ways to use
the verb carry I hope that you found a
new way to use it of course if you have
any questions or comments want to try to
make an example sentence or know some
different ways of using the verb carry
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I might carry ya mommies and you have
done additional meanings addition of
meanings why do I do these things
oh my goodness getting silly okay data
usage and I only use 500 megabytes what
okay so for example sorry okay
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