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hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome
back to know your verbs today we’re
going to talk about the verb by let’s go
all right let’s begin with the basic
definition of the verb by so the basic
definition is to pay money for goods or
a service to buy something examples I
bought a puppy
he buys flowers for his wife every month
ok now let’s look at the conjugations of
this verb present buy buys past bought
past participle but progressive buying
ok so now let’s look at some additional
meanings for this verb first one the
first additional meaning for today’s
lesson of the verb by is to give someone
money so they do what you want them to
do or so they don’t do something that
you don’t want them to do so this is
different from the original definition
in the original definition I said to pay
for like goods or to pay for a service
in this case you’re giving someone money
in exchange for like an agreement so we
can understand this meaning of the verb
by as like bribing someone we can think
of it the same way to bribe someone for
something examples the judges have been
bought the scandal stated that the
Parliament representatives had been
bought by an electric company you might
also hear it as in like to buy someone’s
silence that’s specifically you’re
giving them money to not say anything so
to buy someone means it’s very general
like to give them money in exchange for
an agreement of behavior of some kind to
buy someone silence is a specific kind
of agreement you’re specifically giving
them money to say nothing we often use
it in the passive voice like the judges
were bought in that case there’s no like
we’re not saying who we’re not saying
who bought the judges we’re just saying
the judges were fought but the judges
had been bought someone gave the judges
money to do or not do something so bribe
is one is one way to understand the verb
by the second additional meaning is to
believe to believe something examples I
don’t buy that for a second
they’re never gonna buy your story about
getting lost on the way to the airport
so in both of these by means believe in
the first example sentence I used
actually a really common expression
which is I don’t buy that for a second I
don’t buy that for a second so this by
means believe it doesn’t mean give money
for something so I don’t believe that
for a second
means even for a one-second period of
time I don’t believe that thing that’s
totally not believable I can’t believe
that so I don’t buy that for a second
that’s a really common expression in the
second example sentence I said they’re
never gonna buy your story about getting
lost on the way to the airport in this
example I said they’re never gonna buy
your story so here again buy your story
doesn’t mean give you money for a story
it means believe your story so they some
people they’re never going to believe
your story so this story that is fake
about getting lost on the way to the
airport or maybe the story isn’t
actually fake but it’s just not a
believable story in other words so by
means believe in these cases um will
often the use by like I don’t buy that I
don’t buy it
I don’t buy your story I don’t buy your
lies something like that relating to
speech or communication or storytelling
that’s a pretty good hint for this
meaning of the verb ba so maybe in a
little extra hint here this is often
used in negative statements like we saw
in these examples we’ll also see this
used with the preposition in to like
don’t buy into her lies so meaning don’t
believe her lies so to buy into
something can also mean to believe
something that someone else is saying
but we use buy into that faith as well
let’s move along to some variations of
this verb the first variation for this
lesson is to buy time to buy time this
means to stall so to stall means like to
delay an activity or to try not to do an
activity you’re like trying not to do
that for some reason so we used the
expression to buy time examples I called
in sick today and bought myself some
time to finish the project
he’s just buying time and waiting for
the company to make a decision all right
so on both of these we see that someone
is stalling or someone is trying to
delay something where someone is trying
to get extra time to do something in the
first example sentence I said I called
in sick today and bought myself some
time to finish my project meaning I gave
myself some extra time but we use the
verb by because it’s like it’s not free
really so I bought myself some time yes
but I had to use a sick day at work for
example so I bought some time in the
second example sentence he’s just buying
time it’s like we don’t know how but
somehow he’s stalling he’s delaying
doing something until a company makes a
decision maybe about his work so these
just mean giving yourself extra time
like you’re stalling or delaying
something else we use to buy time to
talk about that so let’s go on to the
next variation then the next variation
is to buy out to buy out to buy out
means to purchase all or part of a
company so that you are the owner of
that company examples company a was
bought out by Company B last year so
this means that to buy something out
means a company company a who does not
control yet company B purchases part of
that company or purchases a majority of
that company just enough sometimes so
that they can control the company so
that means that essentially Company A
purchases Company B and controls that
company then to so to buy out to buy out
all right the next variation for to buy
is the expression to buy the farm to buy
the farm is kind of a strange expression
which
means to die to die so as you can
imagine it’s kind of a casual expression
for to die it’s used in like light
situations even though death is kind of
a heavy topic I think but examples of
this if you keep riding that motorcycle
you’re gonna buy the farm the old man
bought the farm last week so both of
these expressions bought the farm just
mean to die so in the first example it’s
a warning like if you keep riding that
motorcycle you’re gonna buy the farm
means you’re gonna die so it’s dangerous
in other words in the second example
sentence the old man bought the farm it
doesn’t actually mean I suppose it could
mean in some specific situations that
yes an old man did buy a farm in fact
somewhere but in very kind of casual
informal settings we could say also the
old man died last week as well
so bought the farm means died yeah and
so how do you know which one
just from context just pay attention to
the conversation if it’s about a farm if
the conversation is about a farm and
living on a farm it’s probably about a
farm buying a farm if the conversation
is totally unrelated to farms it
probably means die or it could so just
pay attention to the conversation in the
context there so those are a few
different meanings and a few variations
of the verb bye I hope that you picked
up something new from this lesson and I
hope that you can use it in your
everyday life of course if you have any
questions or comments or if you want to
try to make a sentence with a use of
this verb by that we talked about in
this lesson please feel free in the
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and we’ll see you again next time bye
Mike to some variation yeah I was a
Barbie fan when I was a little girl
honey Barbies in one can you needed to
buy another Ken doll that’s for sure
you need another can in that group
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