Name: FALL - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar
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My name is Alicia, and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb fall.

The basic definition of the verb fall is to move towards the ground by accidents, though.

So, like your body or an object moves towards the ground.

Let's look at the congregations of this burg.

Present Tense fall falls past tense Phil past participle tents fallen, progressive, falling.

Okay, so now let's talk about some additional meanings for this Ferb.

The first additional meaning is to decrease, like to decrease in size to decrease in the amount of something.

The number of something, ah, the capacity of something.

So to get smaller in some way examples, temperatures fell to freezing overnight.

Wages have fallen over the last 10 years, so in these example sentences, the subject of the verb has reduced in some way.

So temperatures fell, meaning the temperatures.

In this case, we're using the plural temperatures.

But we're talking about like the range of temperatures, um, overnight.

So temperatures fell or temperatures decreased to freezing, so freezing was the lowest point for the temperature, so temperatures fell to freezing overnight.

That was the reduced like the most reduced point in the second example sentence wages have fallen over the last 10 years.

It means over a 10 year time period, wages have continued to fall.

So I'm using the I'm using the present perfect tense.

Their wages have fallen, which means that something started in the past and continues to the present.

So wages have fallen, which means starting from like 10 years ago.

Wages have continued to fall over the last 10 years.

So how fallen shows us that they have reduced um, in like so?

In other words, people are getting less and less pay Gradually.

Let's go on to this second meaning for this for meeting to to move from a higher position to a lower position.

Okay, so in the first example sentence a leaf fell on my shoulder.

It's like the leaf was attached to a tree and it just fell to my shoulder.

So it was kind of just naturally falling.

Here in the second example sentence, though I've used the expression, she fell to her knees and beg.

So the images that a person moves from a standing position to a position This is begging like doing this, but on your knees, so meaning you're not standing on your feet.

Your your body becomes much smaller on your knees, like in this motion.

We use this expression to fall to your knees as like to refer to someone.

Taking this position is like a sign of respect or as a way to sincerely ask for something.

We don't say like fall to your stomach or fall to your arms or anything like that on Lee.

We can, however, say fall on your face, so that's slightly different to fall on your face means to move from a standing position and fall, and your face touches the ground so the fall is very extreme.

This is very hard, so walking, walking, walking, you fall on your face or your face.

Touches the ground, however, in fall to your knees its own purpose.

So you drop to your knees from a standing position slightly different, so fall to your knees is a set expression for a request, a sincere request.

Okay, let's go to the third, meaning the third meaning is to belong to a group or to a category.

So we use this for, like a responsibilities for maybe, um, like analysis.

This task falls outside my job description.

So in the first example sentence, this task falls outside my job description.

We can imagine that the person's job description is here in one circle, but the task belongs to something that's not in this person's job description.

The task is something outside of the person's job description, so we can say the task falls outside the job description.

The task, in other words, the task belongs to a different category.

The task is a different group from this person's job description.

It falls outside my job description in the second example sentence.

Means our work belongs to two categories are basically there are two styles of things we do are two types of things we do so their style, A and style be so our work falls into one of two categories.

So our work belongs to one of two categories.

Category A category B We used false for that.

The fourth meaning for this verb is to happen to happen.

So we use this a lot for, like, holidays.

Okay, In the first example sentence, my birthday fell on a Sunday.

It means my birthday happened on a Sunday.

The word fell in this case past tense to talk about that, because the birthday ah has finished the birthday was in the past.

So my birthday fell on a Sunday this year in the second example sentence.

Our meetings keep falling on Fridays were using the pattern keep plus the i N g form of the verb, which means that repeatedly, something is happening.

Our meetings continue to fall, so our meetings continue toe happen on Fridays.

Okay, so it just means happen in this way.

Let's move along to some variations of this bird.

The first variation is to fall behind to fall behind.

To fall behind means to have a delayed schedule or to take longer than you expect to take.

I've been so busy, I'm falling behind on my studies.

Be careful not to fall behind on the housework.

So in the first example, I'm falling behind on my studies means there are things I should do.

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