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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
post let’s get started
the basic definition of the verb post is
to publish
or announce something on a sign or
something
similar to a sign examples he posted an
advertisement
on the community bulletin board let’s
post signs around town
now let’s look at the conjugations for
this verb present
post posts passed
posted past participle posted
progressive posting
now let’s talk about some additional
meanings for this verb
the first additional meaning is to share
something on social
media examples i saw that photo you
posted on instagram yesterday
did you see that message she posted on
facebook so when we upload information
like
photos or messages tweets whatever we
can use the verb
post to talk about that for twitter i
suppose we can use
tweet as a verb to you can say i posted
on twitter or i
tweeted as well but post is the kind of
the general verb we can use for all
social media when we share anything on
social media we can say
i posted something on facebook or on
instagram or on twitter or on snapchat
or
on what else is there youtube posted on
youtube i uploaded it to youtube i
supposed to
but post is the general verb used for
social media sharing
so i think actually that this use of
post
comes from the original like definition
which is like to put something in a
community sign or like to put something
in a community place where many people
can see it
because that’s the purpose of social
media is to share something so many
people will see it
so i think that use of post comes from
that basic definition of the verb
post like sharing something in a
community space because we want other
people to see it and respond
to it the second additional meaning is
to send something
by mail this is more commonly used in
british english actually
in american english we tend to use the
verb mail more often but in british
english you might hear
post used examples can you post me the
documents
i posted a few letters today so here
post refers to
mailing something like can you post me
the documents means can you send me the
documents by mail like
physically by mail the second sentence i
posted some letters
refers to mailing some letters sending
some letters
via mail so this is kind of more
commonly used in british english post is
more commonly used to mean
male in british english in american
english we tend to use the verb
male more commonly so depending on the
type of english you are studying or you
prefer to use
you might make a decision here with this
verb so post or
mail post british male american the
third additional meaning
is to send someone somewhere for work
examples he’s been posted outside the
white house
there’s security posted around the
building so you can see in these example
sentences it’s kind of
work relating to security or to military
to guarding of some kind
we don’t really use it for like a
regular office job like i wouldn’t say
like i’ve been
posted to my company’s like branch in
beijing it sounds a little bit weird we
would say maybe
transfer or i’ve been like i’ve been
transferred or i’ve been moved
to my company’s office when we’re
talking about like a specific place
uh like a job where we need to stand and
wait
somewhere um and it tends to be for like
security military purposes that kind of
thing we can use the
verb post to talk about that it might
sound a little out of place if you use
post for a different job so these are a
couple examples
of ways that you can use post to refer
to being sent
somewhere to do this kind of work
now let’s move on to some variations for
this verb the first variation is to keep
someone posted to keep someone posted
this means to provide
regular updates to someone examples
keep me posted about your project i’ll
try to keep you posted about my schedule
so to keep someone posted means to give
them regular updates like you can think
back to the original definition of the
verb like post like sharing information
in a community way
to keep someone posted is sort of like
to continue to share
information so as you’re working on a
project or as you’re making progress
with something
you share your updates you share your
information you keep
someone posted so we see that in these
sentences
so in the first one keep me posted about
your project it means please send me
updates about your project i want to
know
the second example sentence i’ll try to
keep you posted about my schedule means
i will try to keep you updated i will
try to send you regular
updates about my schedule let’s go on to
another variation for this verb
the second variation is to post bail to
post bail
this means to offer money in exchange
for
freedom from prison examples
he posted bail and got out of jail
immediately
many people aren’t able to post bail
even for minor crimes
this is a very specific variation in the
u.s
criminal system there’s this thing
called bail so if
someone is convicted if someone is
arrested and has to go to prison because
of a crime they committed
there’s this thing called bail if the
person
can pay this amount of money they can be
released from prison they don’t have to
stay in prison
we refer to paying that money so that
the name of that money is bail but we
use the verb
post here so we say post bail to post
bail means to pay the required amount of
money
to get out of jail so this is a specific
phrase that we use
only for this type of money to post bail
we don’t use this
in another like financial transaction at
all
to post bail refers only to paying this
amount of money to get out of jail so
this is a very specific one
i don’t know if you have bail in your
country but this is something that
exists in the u.s so those are a few new
ways i hope that you can use the verb
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