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hi everybody welcome back to know your
verbs my name is alicia and in this
episode we’re going to talk about the
verb
roll let’s get started
the basic definition of the verb roll is
to move
something by making it turn over
on itself in this motion to roll
examples roll that ball over here
the kids are rolling down the hill at
the park
let’s look at the conjugations for this
verb present
roll rolls past rolled
past participle rolled progressive
rolling
now let’s talk about some additional
meanings for this verb
the first additional meaning is to wrap
something
around itself usually in like a ball
formation or it can be in this formation
examples i rolled the dough into a ball
she rolls her hair up in the mornings
we use it in this way to mean putting
something
onto itself and kind of wrapping it so
if you imagine like a piece of paper
like a tissue or something we wrap it
onto itself but we use
roll when we want to form like a tube
sort of thing yeah like a tube or
a ball as well so we can we can roll
something into a ball
too but it’s this motion to roll
something or this
like i just did with this tissue to roll
something into
a tube or to roll a tissue to roll a
newspaper to roll a magazine to hit
a fly on the wall in the second example
sentence she rolls her hair up in the
mornings
it sounds like she’s actually wrapping
or rolling the hair
around itself and putting it up so we
use
roll to talk about this it’s usually
some kind of
circular or like a tube shape that’s
formed
okay let’s go to the second additional
meaning
the second additional meaning is to move
something
on wheels so that means wheels are
attached to the object like a chair
or a table and we move it we use the
verb
roll to talk about that movement
examples
he rolled across the office in his chair
the medical team rolled the patient into
the operating room
so in these example sentences we’re
talking about movement
with some kind of furniture item like a
bed or a chair
that has wheels attached in the first
example sentence
his chair has wheels attached he rolled
across his
office in the chair so sitting in the
chair he rolled
he moved across the office because of
the wheels on his
chair in the second example sentence
it’s a patient probably on a hospital
bed
with wheels attached to the bed so the
patient
was rolled into the operating room so
that means the patient was
moved via this bed with wheels
the third additional meaning for this
verb is to make something
even or to make something smooth using a
roller
examples they rolled paint onto the
walls
let’s roll the dough out flat so these
sentences are quite specific
to a kind of tool that we call a
roller a roller so i’ve used it to talk
about paint
and dough for baking so it’s a kind of
circular object
for paint it’s usually attached to a
handle
and the roller part is where the paint
collects
so we dip it into paint pick it up and
use this motion
to roll paint onto wall so the roller
rolls it moves in this sort of motion
and the paint is smoothly distributed so
the paint
goes on to the wall because of the
rolling motion
it becomes smooth because we roll it in
the second example sentence
it’s about a baking tool called a roller
so it’s like a wooden maybe plastic
tool that’s like a cylinder a long tube
sort of thing and we use it in this
motion again this sort of rolling motion
back and forth to make smooth dough
let’s go to the fourth additional
meaning for this verb it is
to make a trilling sound to make a
trilling sound
examples the drum rolls alone in the
hall
she rolls her r’s when she speaks so the
first one
might be difficult to imagine but we
have this expression called a drum roll
so it’s like before there’s a big
announcement there’s like this
sound that comes from a drum so that’s a
drum roll so the drum
rolled alone in the hall refers to a
drum
or a drummer making that sound on a drum
in the second example sentence we talk
about the r
sound so this is common among i know
like spanish speakers for example
to roll your r’s is to make that same
sound when you pronounce your r
that sound is called rolling your
r’s sound is called rolling your r’s or
a rolled
r that’s the word we use to talk about
that trill
so it’s called a trill we can use it as
a noun trill
but we also use the expression rolled r
to talk about that sound
let’s go on to some variations of this
verb
the first variation is the expression to
roll up your sleeves to roll up your
sleeves
to roll up your sleeves means to prepare
for work
the image here is that you’re wearing
long sleeves
however if you’re going to do hard work
you might sweat
or you might get dirty so by rolling up
your sleeves
your long sleeves you are better
prepared or you are more
prepared to do hard work so this is sort
of the image like oh i’m getting ready
to do some hard work examples let’s roll
up our sleeves and get started
she rolled up her sleeves and began her
work so in both of these it’s about
preparing to begin something to prepare
like to start your work
to roll up your sleeves the second
variation is actually a
pair i put these two together it is to
roll up
and to roll down so to roll up and to
roll down
refer to moving something or causing
something to move
up or down by turning
a lever or a crank of some kind so it’s
usually like a crank
so i know lots of young people might not
remember this but or might not have
experienced it even
but a great example of this is in cars
so cars before
buttons were used there was an actual
crank
to roll down and to roll up the window
in cars
so examples roll down your window
we roll down the curtains every day so
roll down
just means that something comes down as
a result of this motion
and roll up means something goes up as a
result of the same motion that’s all so
we can use it anytime
we have to use a lever or something else
to roll
another object let’s go to the last
bonus one
which is the expression roll out to roll
out i didn’t include any example
sentences here
because it’s not used in a sentence it’s
used as like an
like an exclamation it means to leave
roll out
it’s like super casual it’s used usually
among young
people like maybe college age people i
suppose
roll out means leave like let’s go let’s
leave roll out
so it has kind of like a rough image i
suppose
i don’t know if it’s used that much
anymore but i don’t really use it but
now you know if you see it in a movie
roll out means leave or let’s go
great so i hope that you found a new way
of using the verb role of course if you
know a different way of using the verb
role or if you have any questions or
comments or if you want to practice
making an example sentence with this
verb
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let’s get rolling like this is how i
roll
that’s how i roll like this
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