Name: CALL - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T09:13:15.000Z
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To-infinitive

Future simple

My name is Alicia, and in this lesson, we're going to talk about the verb call.

Let's look at the basic definition for this burb.

The basic definition of the verb call is to use a phone or other device to communicate with someone like an iPhone or maybe video call with your computer example Sentences Call me.

Maybe I tried calling, but nobody answered.

Now let's look at the congregations for this burb present call calls past called past participle called Progressive calling.

So now let's talk about some additional meetings for this firm.

So the first additional meaning is to give someone a name or to address someone with that name.

Let's go to that new restaurant called T G I Thursdays, so we use call to refer to people's names or two names of like restaurants, locations, whatever you can say, a place called a person called or he's called.

She's called to refer to the name or to refer to, like a nickname as well.

Let's go on to the second additional meaning for this, which is to think of someone or something as something else.

So this is sort of a vague, hard to understand definition.

He's smart, but I wouldn't call him a genius.

So here we're thinking of someone as something else in the first example.

So when the person speaking uses the verb call, they mean that's what I consider a friend.

So I consider a person like that to be a friend, but we used call to make that a shorter expression.

I wouldn't call him a genius we're seeing.

I would not consider him to be a genius, so that doesn't seem appropriate to me.

So we shorten this by saying I wouldn't call him ingenious.

The third additional meaning for the verb call is to use a loud voice like to get someone's attention, the attention of a person, the attention of an animal, maybe a crowd.

You're calling something you're calling out for something you might hear.

She called her son's name as she searched the crowd.

So in both of these were using a big voice to get someone's attention.

So call the dog over here means, like use your voice like call the dog's name, for example, or do something to get the dog's attention and make the dog come over here in the second example.

Ah, woman is may be searching for her son, and she's calling his name as she searches through a crowd.

So using a loud voice in the hopes of getting someone's attention, let's go on to the next additional meaning, which is to request an event or an action.

So this is when we want something to happen, and it usually sounds a little bit formal.

We call for new parks regulations in our neighborhood.

The CEO called A board meeting means the CEO demanded or strongly requested a board meeting.

So it's like the CEO made this request and everybody came to the meeting.

So in the second example sentence we call for new parks regulations in our neighborhood.

There, we see the demand is for a regulation.

The people we want something in the neighborhood.

We call for something so you can use both of these.

Ah, an event like to call a meeting, to call a board meeting to call a conference.

Or you can call for something to happen or some kind of change to happen.

Let's move on to some variations for this, for the 1st 1 is actually sort of two expressions.

This is an expression we use when we are ready to finish working or finish, like enjoying ourselves.

Children don't really use these expressions we use.

Call it a day at the end of a working day.

We use call it a night when we're ready to be finished, like spending time with friends, are ready to come home after being out late at night for example.

It's been fun, but I'm gonna call it a night.

So in both of these, you can see I'm gonna call it a night.

Means I'm gonna say that I'm ready to be done for the day is essentially what this means.

So I am finished to say that's very, very quickly.

Means I'm calling today Finished or I'm calling tonight.

Call it a day for work and call it a night for fun activities.

OK, let's go on to these second variation.

The second variation is to call someone or something off.

This expression means to cancel something like an event or to stop someone's behavior.

This can be for well, a person or a supposed for an animal as well.

So in both of these situations, there's something that must be canceled.

So in the first example, call your dog off.

It means your dog is maybe too aggressive.

Maybe so, Call your dog off means stop your dog's behavior in the second example sentence we're gonna have to call off the barbecue means we're going to have to cancel the barbecue because of rain in this case.

So to call off an event or to call off a person to call off an animal, it means to stop or to cancel that thing.

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