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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