Name: PLAY - Basic Verbs - Learn English Grammar
Uploaded: 2020-03-26T02:46:29.000Z
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To-infinitive

Future simple

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

Let's begin with the basic definition of this firm.

It's to engage in a game, sport or activity.

Now let's look at the congregations for this purpose.

Present play plays past played past participle played progressive playing.

Okay, so now let's talk about some additional meanings for this for the first additional meeting to spend time doing something fun.

This use of the verb is typically used among Children.

We use this for Children and to talk about the activities of Children.

Examples We used to play with the kids in our neighborhood.

Sentences were talking about the activities that kids do, things that kids do like playing with their friends, playing with dolls, playing with trucks, playing with cars.

So when we use playing with, it's like there's some kind of enjoyable AC activity going on, and it has a very youthful sound to it.

A mistake that I hear adult learners make.

Sometimes, as they say, I played with my friends last weekend as adults, we don't use the verb play.

We'll use it to refer to a sport or to a game.

But we do not use it to talk about spending time with friends as adults, especially American English speakers.

We can say, for example, I hung out with my friends last weekend or I got together with my friends last weekend.

We do not use the verb play as adults for kids.

I played with my friends when I was little.

Okay, let's go on to these second additional meeting.

The second additional meaning is to perform as a character.

It can mean movies that can mean any kind of performance.

Janna Reeves played neo in the Matrix series.

So here in my first example sentence I've got Chiana Reeves is my example.

He, Ana Reeves played neo in the Matrix series, so he performed in the role of neo he performed in the role of is shortened to played there in the second example sentence.

I want to perform in a dramatic role, something so this means perform to play.

Okay, let's move on to the third additional meaning for the sperm.

It is to pretend to be a certain way or to pretend to exhibit a certain behavior.

A key here is pretending, pretending examples.

Okay, so here we see play in the first example sentence.

Playing dumb isn't quite a common phrase like Don't play dumb means Don't pretend not to know something.

Ah, in the second example sentence I talked.

My dog to play dead means I talk my dog to pretend to be dead, or I taught my dog to act like he or she is dead.

So the fourth additional meaning here is to perform music to perform music Examples.

The deejay played a lot of great music last night.

You cause music to be heard by other people so a deejay can play music through a sound system.

We can play instruments like playing the piano or playing the heart, playing the flute so we can use play to me performing music or like sharing music some way.

All right, let's talk about some variations for this word.

No, there are a lot of variations for the verb play these air.

Of course, if you want to know more, I highly recommend checking in dictionary.

OK, let's take a look at the 1st 1 for this lesson.

To play something by ear to play something by year.

This means to do something without a plan.

It means to make decisions in the moment, so examples we have no plans for the day.

I don't want to plan my travels too much.

So both of these used the expression, play it by ear, play things by ear, meaning, I don't want to make plans like, I just want to see how things go.

If things are feeling one way, I'll do that.

If you If things were feeling another way, I'll make a different decision.

Imagine that if you play an instrument, maybe this is useful for you.

But imagine you're trying to play the piano and you're trying to play a melody.

You don't know it, but you listen to each note as you play, and gradually you confined the melody you're looking for.

So we call that playing physically playing, performing a song by ear.

So using your here toe, listen to the melody and find the correct melody.

That way we use the same idea for our activities.

So playing an activity by here according to our feelings, we make decisions for the next step to play it by ear.

Let's go on to these second variation for the sperm it is to play with fire.

To play with fire means to do something dangerous or to do something that's a bit risky.

For example, examples you want to confront the CEO about her mistakes.

He's trying to date three people at the same time.

Okay, so both of these share maybe a risky or possibly dangerous situation in the first example sentence confronting a CEO about her mistakes.

That sounds like it could be dangerous for someone, potentially if they don't want to lose their job at the company.

So the speaker recommends, Don't play with fire.

In other words, don't do something risky.