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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 walk let’s get started
let’s look at the basic definition of
this verb the basic definition is to
make progress on foot examples I walked
around the neighborhood yesterday he
walks around the office to stretch his
legs now let’s look at the conjugations
of each verb present walk walks past
walked past participle walked
progressive walking
now let’s talk about some other meanings
for this verb first additional meaning
for this lesson is to cause an animal to
walk let’s look at some example make
sure to walk the dog later have you
walked the dogs today so here you’ll see
walk the dog so this is quite common for
dogs we don’t really walk meaning we
don’t really take the animal out and let
go for a walk with the animal so like we
usually just use this expression with
dogs we don’t usually say like walk the
cat or like walk the bird or walk the
Sheep I don’t know we usually use it
with dogs so walk the dog so it’s part
of the animals exercise the necessary
exercise so we use walk before dog in
this case so make sure to walk the dog
have you walked the dog means caused the
dog to walk the second meaning I want to
talk about for this lesson is to
accompany someone on foot so you’re
traveling with someone on foot examples
of this she walked her friend to the
station will you walk me home alright
first example sentence says she walked
me to the station she walked me to the
station so we’re following the past
tense walked with the person being
accompanied in this case me she my
friend made me she walked me she
accompanied me to the station on foot is
what this means but we use walked to
make it nice and short and easy to
understand she walked me to the station
in the second example sentence will you
walk me home
it’s a request meaning will you please
accompany me home on foot so you’re
within walking distance you can walk to
your home you’re asking another person
will you please walk with me to my house
so to accompany someone on foot we can
use walk to do that third meaning for
this is actually more of an advanced
meaning this meaning is to avoid as in
like to avoid criminal punishment let’s
look at some examples of this the
defendant walked despite a lot of
evidence I don’t think he’ll walk the
judges tough so here walk means avoiding
punishment but we use it in like legal
situations
I think the reason is because when a
criminal or someone who has been accused
of criminal behavior is not convicted
meaning they’re not guilty or they are
allowed to be free they are not taken to
jail they can walk out of the courthouse
or they can walk out of the you know
prison or wherever they’re being kept
wherever they are being held they can
walk so we use the verb walk to mean
avoiding punishment but it’s usually
just used in criminal or legal
situations so this is a more advanced
use of this verb but to walk like I
don’t think he’ll walk means I don’t
think he’ll be allowed to go free so I
don’t think he’ll get away I don’t think
he’ll avoid punishment I don’t think
he’ll walk
now let’s talk about a few variations on
the verb walk to walk on eggshells to
walk on eggshells super interesting so
to walk on eggshells means to exercise
great caution so in other words be
really really careful to be super
careful so the image eggshells are very
fragile it’s easy to break them so to
walk on eggshells means you have to be
very very careful otherwise you’ll break
the eggshell so to walk on eggshells
means you have to be very careful let’s
look at some examples of when we might
use this expression my manager is in a
really bad mood today
everyone is walking on eggshells I had
to walk on eggshells at that dinner last
night so if you don’t know this
expression walking on eggshells you
might think what is this person talking
about when you hear this expression like
everyone is walking on eggshells today
what but it just means everyone is being
really really careful everyone is being
really cautious in the first example my
manager is in a bad mood everyone is
walking on eggshells today means
everyone is being very very careful
because the manager is in a bad mood and
people don’t want to make him or her
unhappy in the second example I was
walking on eggshells at dinner last
night means I was being very careful at
dinner last night maybe it was a
high-pressure dinner situation so
walking on eggshells means being very
careful okay let’s go to the second
variation so I prepared two variations
that are very similar here they are to
walk into and to walk in on so very
similar to walk into what as one word
into into to walk into and to walk in on
let’s look at to walk into first so to
walk into means to crash into something
when walking so you’re walking walking
walking and crash into something
examples of this I walked into a wall
this morning have you ever walked into a
glass door yes I have I’ve walked into a
screen doors who has not who has not
walked into a door seriously and do it
all the time so it means you’re you’re
walking and you I hope accident
you crash into something as you’re
walking of course if you want to upgrade
this you can say I ran into a door that
means your speed is different so walk
into a door and run into a door just the
speed is different there but you can
change the motion verb if you like but
now let’s take a look at to walk in on
so different very different meaning
actually to walk in on so to walk in on
something means to enter a situation
accidentally it’s usually something like
kind of scandalous or kind of
embarrassing you walk in on something
accidentally maybe you don’t want to see
or you’re surprised to see that so let’s
look at some fairly mild examples of
this first she walked in on us gossiping
they walked in on us watching YouTube
videos at the office that’s done you’re
watching YouTube okay so to walk in on
past tense is my first example she
walked in on us gossiping so what was
the situation she walked in on
accidentally us so us meanings some
group of people we were gossiping and
someone entered that situation
accidentally it was very uncomfortable
oh no we were gossiping maybe about that
person we don’t know but some kind of
awkward or uncomfortable situation she
walked in on us gossiping on us
gossiping in the second example sentence
they walked in on us watching YouTube
videos at the office so again they
walked in on us in this case we’re
watching YouTube videos in the office we
could of course change the sentence like
I walked in on my co-workers watching
youtube videos in the office we could
change that around
it means accidentally entering a
situation that’s a little bit
uncomfortable in some way so you can
find many different examples of how this
is used but I’ll leave that up to you
alright so those are a few different
ways perhaps for you to use the verb
walk I hope that it was helpful for you
if you have any questions if you know of
some other ways to use the verb walk or
if you just want to try to make an
example sentence please feel free to do
so
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