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verbs my name is alicia and in this

episode we’re going to talk about the

verb

post let’s get started

the basic definition of the verb post is

to publish

or announce something on a sign or

something

similar to a sign examples he posted an

on the community bulletin board let’s

post signs around town

now let’s look at the conjugations for

this verb present

post posts passed

posted past participle posted

progressive posting

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings for this verb

the first additional meaning is to share

something on social

media examples i saw that photo you

posted on instagram yesterday

did you see that message she posted on

facebook so when we upload information

photos or messages tweets whatever we

can use the verb

post to talk about that for twitter i

suppose we can use

tweet as a verb to you can say i posted

on twitter or i

tweeted as well but post is the kind of

the general verb we can use for all

social media when we share anything on

social media we can say

i posted something on facebook or on

instagram or on twitter or on snapchat

on what else is there youtube posted on

youtube i uploaded it to youtube i

supposed to

but post is the general verb used for

social media sharing

so i think actually that this use of

post

comes from the original like definition

which is like to put something in a

community sign or like to put something

in a community place where many people

can see it

because that’s the purpose of social

media is to share something so many

people will see it

so i think that use of post comes from

that basic definition of the verb

post like sharing something in a

community space because we want other

people to see it and respond

to it the second additional meaning is

to send something

by mail this is more commonly used in

british english actually

in american english we tend to use the

verb mail more often but in british

english you might hear

post used examples can you post me the

documents

i posted a few letters today so here

post refers to

mailing something like can you post me

the documents means can you send me the

documents by mail like

physically by mail the second sentence i

posted some letters

refers to mailing some letters sending

some letters

via mail so this is kind of more

commonly used in british english post is

more commonly used to mean

male in british english in american

english we tend to use the verb

male more commonly so depending on the

type of english you are studying or you

prefer to use

you might make a decision here with this

verb so post or

mail post british male american the

third additional meaning

is to send someone somewhere for work

examples he’s been posted outside the

white house

there’s security posted around the

building so you can see in these example

sentences it’s kind of

work relating to security or to military

to guarding of some kind

we don’t really use it for like a

regular office job like i wouldn’t say

like i’ve been

posted to my company’s like branch in

beijing it sounds a little bit weird we

would say maybe

transfer or i’ve been like i’ve been

transferred or i’ve been moved

to my company’s office when we’re

talking about like a specific place

uh like a job where we need to stand and

wait

somewhere um and it tends to be for like

security military purposes that kind of

thing we can use the

verb post to talk about that it might

sound a little out of place if you use

post for a different job so these are a

couple examples

of ways that you can use post to refer

to being sent

somewhere to do this kind of work

now let’s move on to some variations for

this verb the first variation is to keep

someone posted to keep someone posted

this means to provide

regular updates to someone examples

keep me posted about your project i’ll

try to keep you posted about my schedule

so to keep someone posted means to give

them regular updates like you can think

back to the original definition of the

verb like post like sharing information

in a community way

to keep someone posted is sort of like

to continue to share

information so as you’re working on a

project or as you’re making progress

with something

you share your updates you share your

information you keep

someone posted so we see that in these

sentences

so in the first one keep me posted about

your project it means please send me

updates about your project i want to

know

the second example sentence i’ll try to

keep you posted about my schedule means

i will try to keep you updated i will

try to send you regular

updates about my schedule let’s go on to

another variation for this verb

the second variation is to post bail to

post bail

this means to offer money in exchange

for

freedom from prison examples

he posted bail and got out of jail

immediately

many people aren’t able to post bail

even for minor crimes

this is a very specific variation in the

u.s

criminal system there’s this thing

called bail so if

someone is convicted if someone is

arrested and has to go to prison because

of a crime they committed

there’s this thing called bail if the

person

can pay this amount of money they can be

released from prison they don’t have to

stay in prison

we refer to paying that money so that

the name of that money is bail but we

use the verb

post here so we say post bail to post

bail means to pay the required amount of

money

to get out of jail so this is a specific

phrase that we use

only for this type of money to post bail

we don’t use this

in another like financial transaction at

all

to post bail refers only to paying this

amount of money to get out of jail so

this is a very specific one

i don’t know if you have bail in your

country but this is something that

exists in the u.s so those are a few new

ways i hope that you can use the verb

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