ORDER Basic Verbs Learn English Grammar
hi everybody welcome back to know your
verbs my name is alicia and in this
episode we’re going to talk about the
verb order
let’s begin
let’s start with the basic definition of
the verb order
the basic definition is to request
something to request food at a
restaurant
or cafe to request items from a catalog
or from the internet for example to
order
okay some examples i ordered a pizza
did you order new office supplies
all right now let’s look at the
conjugations of this verb
present order orders
passed ordered past participle
ordered progressive ordering
now let’s talk about some additional
meanings for this verb
the first additional meaning is to
command
to command so to command means to
ask someone but very very strongly
could be a military situation could be a
school situation
your parents could be really strict with
you
let’s look at some examples okay
the general ordered everyone to clean
we were ordered to return to our homes
so in both of these example situations
someone
or some entity some group some
organization
is commanding someone else to do
something in the first example sentence
the general
ordered everyone to clean it means
the general in this situation commanded
so strongly asked everyone in the
situation to clean
so this could be like a military
situation
everyone in the group has to clean
the cafeteria for example so it’s a
strong
command a strong order another important
point about the idea of a command
is that if you don’t listen if you don’t
do
the thing you’re ordered to do if you
don’t do the thing
you are requested to do there might be a
bad
outcome a bad results bad consequences
so you should probably
do that thing so the general ordered
everyone to clean
if you don’t clean you could get in
trouble
the second example sentence was we were
ordered to return to our homes here
we’re using the passive voice
we were ordered by whom we don’t know
we don’t know who gave the order
but we were ordered to return to our
homes
so again this is a command if we do not
return to our
homes there might be some bad result
some bad
outcome so we should do that so ordered
means command in these cases okay let’s
go on to the second
additional meaning for this verb the
second additional meaning for this verb
is to arrange or to organize
something examples i ordered everything
according to color
the files are alphabetically ordered
so in the first example sentence i
ordered everything
according to color means i
arranged or i organized everything for
example
clothes or maybe pens or supplies
according to color which means probably
things of the same color are grouped
together or are organized are arranged
together
so but i used the verb ordered i ordered
everything according to color means i
arranged or i prepared everything
according to color
we just use ordered instead here the
second example sentence uses a very
common expression
alphabetically ordered alphabetically
ordered
means according to the letters of the
alphabet
the material is arranged so this could
be for example a list of
names or a list of books or a list of
movies
but they are alphabetically ordered
meaning the top of the list
begins with a or the letter closest to a
maybe b
and then the bottom of the list is z so
everything follows the order so the
sequence of letters in the alphabet
everything is alphabetically ordered
alphabetically arranged
okay so now let’s talk about some
variations on this verb
the first variation is the expression
out of
order out of order so out of order means
broken
or suspended from use we cannot use that
thing
it’s somehow not safe to use or it’s not
working
not functioning correctly examples
the vending machine is out of order
the company printer is out of order so
both of these mean
that the machine in the subject of the
sentence is broken
or there’s some other reason why we
cannot
use that thing so the company printer is
out of order maybe it’s broken maybe
it’s missing a piece
maybe there’s no ink maybe there’s some
other problem
related to it out of order is kind of a
vague
open reason it can mean
a few different things but in general it
just means this thing
cannot be used right now it is out of
order the second variation is a pair
actually of phrasal verbs which can mean
the same thing
it is order in and order out uh
depending on who you talk to
these can actually mean the same thing
but it’s just personal preference
order in and order out just mean getting
take
out or delivery food so you might hear
say
oh i’ll just read the example sentences
do you want to order in tonight
let’s order out for lunch so you might
hear
diff i don’t know depending on the
person people might choose order in or
order out i know i definitely say order
in
when i mean delivery because it sounds
like i order something
i request something as in the basic
definition of the verb
and the food comes into my house that’s
my logical thinking order out is also
used
but it means like to get takeout or to
get delivery
in other words not to cook but not to go
sit down at a restaurant either
there’s some kind of delivery or pickup
happening to order in or to order out
just depends on the situation let’s talk
about one more
variation the variation is to order
around to order someone around
so to order someone around means to
command
them unnecessarily so it’s like you ask
someone to do small tasks lots and lots
and lots of things
you could do them yourself but you make
the other person you
force the other person to do these small
things for you it’s like just because
you want some power over that person
it’s typically not a good thing to order
someone around
examples i’m tired of my boss ordering
me around
he kept being ordered around by his
friends
so in the first example sentence i’m
tired of my boss
ordering me around it means the
speaker’s boss
asks them to do lots of small things
that
really aren’t that necessary or they’re
time-consuming very tedious so like lots
of small details to take care of
so the speaker is frustrated the speaker
is unhappy
that the boss figure is asking so much
and
maybe for no reason so they use the
expression
order around i’m tired of my boss
ordering me around
in the second example sentence he kept
being ordered around by his
friends ordered around here refers to
the behavior
his friends are abusing so
we’ve included friends in quotation
marks there
because uh the idea is that
friends true friends do not
unnecessarily
you know ask people to do things for
them like
true friends aren’t going to force tasks
on their other friends that’s not very
nice
so to order a friend around is probably
pretty rude or it’s like there’s like a
power
thing a power situation happening there
so
to be ordered around by your friends is
probably not a
good thing and not a good sign okay so
that’s one more variation
so i hope that you got a few new ways of
using the verb order and you learned a
few variations that include this verb
so if you have any questions or comments
or if you want to try to use this word
in a sentence please feel free to do so
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