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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 raised let’s get started
with the basic definition of the verb
raised the basic definition is to lift
something to a higher position examples
raise your hand let’s raise the shelf a
little higher now let’s look at the
conjugations of this verb present tense
raised raises past tense raised past
participle raised progressive raising so
now let’s move on to some additional
meanings for this verb okay the first
one is to cause an increase in something
so this doesn’t mean necessarily to
physically move something up but rather
to cause an increase in unlike an amount
or a number for example so examples of
this the government is raising taxes
next year my landlord raised the rent so
in these cases we’re talking about taxes
and rent the government raised taxes
means they increased the amount of taxes
people have to pay in the second example
sentence my landlord raised the rent
means my rent costs were increased my
rent costs went up they were raised my
landlord raised the rent let’s go on to
the second additional meaning for this
verb to cause to exist
to cause to exist like this is used for
concepts some examples this change
raises a lot of questions her behavior
raised red flags okay so here we’re
seeing concepts we’re seeing sort of
ideas it’s not a physical item that
comes into existence it’s a concept in
the first example sentence this change
raises a lot of questions it means from
this change a lot of questions come into
existence so some change happened and
now I have lots of different questions
we use the verb raised to mean came into
existence like something conceptually
came into existence in the second
example sentence her behavior raises red
flags I’ve used the expression red flags
here so red flags means a hint or some
kind of indicator of something negative
and
negative quality about that person so
this is a kind of this is a sentence
that has a negative feeling about it but
I’ve used the verb raised so the
sentence is her behavior raised red
flags which means her behavior caused me
to think that there was something
negative about her so her behavior was
maybe strange or kind of dangerous and
so I thought maybe this person there’s
something kind of not quite right about
this person there were red flags so I
used the verb raised to say that her
behavior introduced that her behavior
caused those red flags to exist okay
let’s move on to the third one the third
one is to take care of someone or
something examples my parents decided to
raise chickens where were you raised
so in these sentences we see someone
taking care of something else the first
sentence my parents decided to raise
chickens means to take care of like like
from when they’re babies until they’re
full-grown adults my parents decided to
raise chickens so as they grow up
they’re being taken care of in the
second example it’s a question where
were you raised a passive question where
were you raised means where were you
taken care of until you grew up
essentially is the meaning but we use
raised to communicate that where were
you raised I was raised on the west
coast California where were you raised
Massachusetts Massachusetts all right so
this verb is used for parenting for sure
it’s used to so when you’re talking
about where you grew up you can say I
grew up in or I was raised in so parents
can use this I want to raise my kids in
place or in environment just be careful
we don’t use the word grow for people we
can use it for plants like I like to
grow plants is fine we can’t say I want
to grow my kids doesn’t work we can’t
use them raised instead the fourth one
is to increase another person’s bet this
is a very specific use of the word raise
we use this in gambling like at casinos
for example examples I’ll raise you $20
she raised him $3,000
this means there’s an existing bet in
the first example I’ll raise you $20
there’s a bet that exists somewhere so
let’s say for example the bet is $10
that my opponent played I however want
to increase the risk in the game so I
say I’ll raise you $20 which means from
this original $10 I’m going to add $20
that means the total bet is now $30 if
the other person still wants to play the
game they now have to put in $20 more to
match my bet so to raise means to add
additional risk to a bet in the second
example sentence we see the same thing
she raised him $3,000 so there’s an
existing bet she increased the amount of
the bet by $3,000 so this is a very
specific use of raise but if you like
card games or casinos or gambling it
could be useful for you okay
let’s talk about the next additional
meaning of the verb raise it means to
collect money to gather money to get
money from different sources examples of
this let’s raise money in a fund raiser
how are we going to raise money for this
project so in these examples we’re
talking about money this is very
commonly used to talk about money so we
tend to use this expression this this
use of raise is used to talk about money
like financial resources that we need
for some project or some charity or some
volunteer activity so we say let’s raise
money or let’s raise funds to support
this group for example so this can be
used to talk about gathering funds
gathering money okay
the variations let’s talk about some
variations of this verb the first one is
to raise eyebrows to raise eyebrows so
the image of this is literally your
eyebrows go up like why because we’re
experiencing mild suspicion or surprise
so when you hear something and you you
kind of have this like mmm reaction to
it’s like what
that’s the raising eyebrows expression
examples of this her weekend plans
raised some eyebrows at the office if
you confront management you might raise
some eyebrows so that means if you do
that thing in the first example sentence
her weekend plans raise some eyebrows at
the office it means something about her
plans for the weekend cause suspicion or
maybe surprise among the other people in
the office in the second example
sentence if you confront management you
might raise some eyebrows it means if
you do this thing if you talk to
management they might be surprised when
they might be suspicious of you so raise
eyebrows means to be suspicious or to be
a little bit surprised of something the
next variation is to raise the bar to
raise the bar this expression means like
to set a higher standard than previously
or to determine a higher standard than
was previously set examples we need to
raise the bar for our work they’ve
raised the bar at that restaurant in the
first example we need to raise the bar
for our work it means we need to set a
higher standard for our work so it’s
quite long to say but we say raise the
bar you can actually imagine this in
terms of sports like if you’ve seen
gymnastics when there’s like like we can
imagine the pole vaults for example if
the bar to jump over the optic to jump
over is at this level
maybe it’s easy but if we raise the bar
it becomes more difficult and requires
more skill to do that same task so when
we say we need to raise the bar for our
work or that restaurant has raised the
bar it means their standards have
improved or maybe their skills have
improved as well so it’s a positive
thing all right the last one the last
variation is to raise hell to raise
so this means like to behave in a way
that can cause other people trouble it
often means like to be loud to be
drinking to be noisy to be like out in
society causing like disruptions often
young people are known for raising hell
examples a bunch of college kids are
raising hell at the beach let’s raise
hell these are examples of like kids
usually kids are like young people that
are just kind of out to cause trouble
like usually it’s because they’re having
a good time and they’re trying to do it
like too noisily or they’re just having
too much fun and causing problems in
their community but sometimes people
actually plan to go out and cause
problems for others so to describe that
activity we can say raise hell to raise
hell all right so I hope that you found
a few new ways to use the verb raised of
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episode of know your verbs and we’ll see
you again soon bye Mike alright so
that’s a recap on sauna recap I’m tired
okay so so that’s an overview of a few
different uses of the verb raised oh my
god I’m out of it today
okay
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