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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 meet let’s begin
the basic definition of the verb meet is
to see and speak to someone for the
first time some examples we haven’t met
I want to meet a famous person someday
okay now let’s look at the conjugations
of the verb present meet meets past
meant past participle met progressive
meeting
okay now let’s look at some additional
meanings for the verb the first
additional meaning for today is to
fulfill or achieve something examples
this apartment meets all my requirements
we met our company’s sales goal for last
month so in both of these examples we
see the verb meet being used to mean
fulfilling or achieving something so
like this apartment needs all of my
requirements this apartment fulfills all
of my requirements everything I need is
in this apartment everything I require
is in this apartment this apartment
meets my requirements in the second
example sentence we met our sales goal
for the month means we achieved our
sales goal for the month we did the
things we needed to do we achieved our
goal we met our goal in past tense okay
let’s go to the second meaning of this
verb the second meaning is to wait for
someone or something so example
sentences of this can you meet my mom at
the station I’ll meet you in front of
the restaurant so in both of these
sentences the idea is you’re going to
meet someone yes so maybe you knows the
meaning of the verb as in like regularly
meeting someone like I meet my mom for
coffee once a week or I meet my friends
for lunch once a week that’s fine this
is slightly different because the
feeling here is you’re going to a
location to wait for someone like to
wait kind of like to pick them up to
wait to get together with them and go
somewhere with them you’re going there
to wait meet and then go but we just use
the verb meet in this case so can you
meet my mom at the station means can you
go to the station wait there for my mom
to arrive and then go to another place
like maybe come home with my mom in the
second example sentence I’ll meet you in
front of the restaurant it sounds like
the speaker is going to go to the front
of the restaurant wait there for the
listener and then proceed to you know
their meal for example so we can use
meat to mean waiting for someone or
something at a specific place before
they go to the next thing the third
meaning for this
verb is to join things together so two
things or two or more things come
together examples of this the river
meets the ocean here the paths met in
the forest so the river meets the ocean
here so the space where the two things
come together that’s the place where
they meet so thing a and thing B come
together and meet right here so they’re
joining together they’re the same thing
with the second sentence so the two
paths met in the forest so maybe two
different paths there’s one point where
they come together they join together we
can say the two paths met in the forest
so things coming together like this we
can use the verb meat to describe that
relationship
let’s talk about some variations of this
verb the first variation is to meet
halfway to meet halfway to meet halfway
means to make a compromise or just to
compromise let’s look at some examples
of this can we meet halfway regarding
this issue
I want to go hiking and you want to have
a picnic
let’s meet halfway and have lunch in the
park so these are expressions we can use
to refer to a compromise in my first
example sentence I used a question can
we meet halfway regarding this issue
means can we make a compromise regarding
this issue but meet halfway means make a
compromise it’s just a shorter way kind
of a little bit more friendly to meet
halfway sounds like maybe the speaker
wants to compromise a little bit the
speaker is willing to let go a little
bit of their opinion or their side in
the second example sentence I gave a
pretty clear situation one person wanted
to go hiking another person wanted to
have a picnic and so the compromise was
having lunch in the park
so that’s meeting halfway let’s meet
halfway let’s compromise let’s make a
compromise and have lunch in the park so
we can use meet halfway to refer to
compromising between a couple of
different ideas so why do we say meet
halfway because it’s like if there are
two opinions and they’re completely
different from each other like imagine
on a line opinion a and opinion B and
right here halfway is the compromise
point so they’re saying let’s meet
halfway let’s meet at this compromise
point and continue further so meet
halfway
that means compromise okay let’s go to
the next variation the next variation is
to meet one’s maker or to meet your
maker to meet someone’s maker means to
die it’s an expression that means to die
but we tend to use it a little bit this
is sort of a strange thing to say but we
use it in sort of a funny way so we
don’t really use this expression to talk
seriously about death so example
sentences of this I sent that spider to
meet his maker
I’m afraid of the day I have to meet my
maker okay so in the first example I
said I sent that spider to meet his
maker this is an interesting way of
saying I killed a spider so I sent that
spider to meet his maker first let’s
talk about maker here why do we say meet
his maker or meet your maker
this refers to a belief in God or a
belief in a higher power
so the maker being a person or questions
a person so the maker would be the being
that created you that created this
person that created this thing so to
meet one’s maker is to meet the person
or to meet the thing or to meet the
entity whatever your belief is that
created you or that created the thing
that you’re talking about so when I say
I sent that spider to meet his maker
so I’m saying I sent I sent meaning I
caused the spider to go so I sent the
spider I didn’t actually like mail a
spider somewhere but I caused the spider
to go to meet his maker in other words I
caused the spider to die
I killed the spider that’s what happened
there in the second sentence I’m afraid
to meet my maker means I’m afraid to die
but it has kind of a casual feel to it
meet my maker or meet one’s maker has
sort of a not so serious
feeling about death but it means to die
so those are a few different perhaps
ways to use the verb meet I hope that
that was helpful for you and you picked
up some new vocabulary words you can use
of course if you know some other
meanings of the verb meet if you want to
try to make an example sentence or if
you have a question please feel free to
do so in the comment section of course
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