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verb that's hard to say hi everybody my
name is Alicia welcome back to know your
verbs in this episode we're going to
talk about the verb work let's get
started
the basic definition of the verb work is
to fulfill duties for money or for
compensation compensation means payment
so for example salary or an hourly wage
so compensation so to do things in
exchange for money is work this is a
basic definition of the verb work now
let's look at the different conjugations
of this verb present tense work works
past tense
worked past participle tense worked
progressive tense working
now let's talk about some additional
meanings of the verb work meaning 1 the
first additional meaning is to function
correctly to function correctly means an
object is behaving is functioning in the
proper way so let's look at some
examples my computer isn't working today
what happened the mechanic fixed my car
and now it works perfectly meaning -
yeah yeah ok the second definition is to
produce a desired effect or result or to
succeed at something so some examples of
this meaning his plan is crazy but I
think it might work I don't think
that'll work fun fact I took that
example sentence I don't think that'll
work from a video game called
Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis I
don't think that'll work next one is to
control or to cause to labor to cause to
labor so labor means like to fulfill
your duties to work as in the first the
original basic meaning of this word so
let's look at some examples
management worked the team way too hard
last year today we're working the
computer remotely
now let's look at some variations the
first variation is work on work on work
on means to try to affect or like to try
to influence to try to persuade someone
some examples of this politicians often
work on voters fears so to work on
someone's fears it's like they're
affecting that they are trying to
persuade people by focusing on their
fears in this example sentence the movie
works on viewers sympathy so here work
works on the movie works on means the
movie kind of is affecting is affecting
the sympathy of the viewer and then as a
result influence happens so a change in
emotion happens in this way to work on
the second variation is work out work
out so work out means to exercise work
out can mean to lift weights to jog to
do sports so whatever work out just
means exercise examples of this I never
work out she's been working out three
days a week for the last year over to
the third variation for this lesson is
work up work up so work up means to
gradually make progress but with
difficulty examples of this
he worked up to asking the girl on a
date she worked her way up to becoming
CEO of a company so to work up to
something is like slowly and with
difficulty making progress so we can
split this phrasal verb like she worked
her way up or he worked up to asking the
girl on a date
so we pair work with the preposition up
in this example okay do you know a
little bit more about the verb work if
you have any other variations or if you
know a different meaning of the verb
work or if you just want to practice
making a sentence with this verb please
feel free to do so in
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verbs we'll see you again soon bye we
can work it out we're working now live
to work work to live which will you be
her pen works it's true she just drew a
picture of me
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