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  • Rawr.

  • Yeah, I'm jumping a lot.

  • So, in English we have a verb called "make", and probably in your language you also have

  • a verb that you use as "make", but maybe it's the same verb; like in Portuguese: "fazer".

  • Oh, I hope I said that right.

  • So, it's very, very, very, very, very, very confusing about, in English, when to use the

  • verb "make" and when to not use the verb "make".

  • So, I've made-oo-a lesson for you with some really easy examples of when not to use the

  • verb "make" and when to use the verb "make".

  • Johnny, this is for you.

  • Thanks for your help.

  • Let's do when not to use it, okay?

  • So, we don't say: "I made a boyfriend" or "a girlfriend", or: "I want to make a boyfriend"

  • or "a girlfriend".

  • This would be the dream of everyone because if you could make a boyfriend or a girlfriend,

  • that means that I would create the perfect specimen of a man.

  • So, I would make a boyfriend and he would be perfect.

  • So, unfortunately, we cannot do this, but we use the verb "get".

  • So, in your language, maybe naturally you want to say: "I made a boyfriend."

  • In English, you'd have to say: "I got a boyfriend", in the past tense, or: "I will get a boyfriend"

  • or "girlfriend" - maybe both.

  • Good.

  • Do whatever you do.

  • So, don't use "make"; use "get".

  • When you are doing exercise, you do not need to say: "I will make exercise" or "I made

  • exercise".

  • "Exercise" is actually a verb - yay.

  • So, you can say, past tense: "I exercised yesterday" or "I will exercise".

  • An example of one kind of exercise is called a "push-up".

  • A "push-up" is when: "Oh, I... no...

  • I'm going to do one."

  • I just did a hundred.

  • Yay.

  • Did you see them?

  • Yeah, you did.

  • Okay.

  • So, "push-ups" are when you push yourself up off the ground.

  • So, we don't say: "I made a push-up"; we can use the verb "do".

  • So: "I do push-ups", or past tense: "I did push-ups".

  • You can say: "I do exercise" or "I did exercise", but again, it's not necessary because "exercise"

  • is a verb.

  • A "push-up" is a noun, so we definitely need a verb with that, so: "I do" or "I did push-ups".

  • Every year on your birthday you become older.

  • We do not say, for example: "I made 21."

  • I'm going to be 22 next year.

  • Yay.

  • See, that makes more sense, though, doesn't it?

  • Because you didn't die so you actually made the year - yeah!

  • But we don't say that; English is more confusing.

  • We say: "I will turn 22".

  • Or, past tense: "I turned 22."

  • We don't say: "I make 22".

  • Next one: "Makeup".

  • Now, "makeup" is a noun.

  • "Makeup" is cosmetics.

  • Okay?

  • So, I hear a lot of people say: "Today I makeup."

  • You make up what?

  • What did you make up?

  • So, if you said: "I made something up" it means in your brain it was a fantasy.

  • So, if you're talking about cosmetics, you need to use the phrasal verb: "put on".

  • You could say: "applied", but that's very formal.

  • So, you... you guys need to say: "I put on makeup."

  • You can't just say: "I makeup."

  • You are makeup?

  • Oh my God.

  • What are you?

  • Next one: "homework".

  • Oh, do you like homework?

  • Yeah, do it.

  • Okay?

  • And a test.

  • You cannot make homework.

  • You cannot make a test.

  • If you are a student, you do homework or you do a test.

  • Now, because I get to be a teacher, I make homework and I make the tests.

  • So, this means that I create the homework and I tell you to do it, or I make the test

  • and you do the test.

  • You can substitute the verb "write" also for a test; but in North America, we say: "I do

  • a test" or "I do homework".

  • So, your teacher makes the homework or makes the test, and you do it.

  • Did you do your homework?

  • Don't do your homework; it's boring.

  • Sex - woo-hoo.

  • Maybe in your language you say: "I made sex".

  • Well, that's weird.

  • We say: "I have" or "I had sex".

  • "Make", sure.

  • English, you say: "I made a baby" because you actually created it, but we don't just

  • say "sex"; we actually say: "have sex".

  • And we don't say: "do sex"; that's funny.

  • "I want to do sex" - no, don't say that.

  • So, we say: "I want to have sex".

  • Next one: "Luggage".

  • So, "luggage" means you put all your crap into a suitcase or a bag, and this becomes

  • your luggage.

  • So, you can say: "luggage" or "baggage".

  • You don't say: "I made my luggage".

  • We have a special verb only for "luggage" and other things; we can say: "pack".

  • So, maybe you are going to go on a trip and you say: "Oh, I have to pack my luggage";

  • you don't make the luggage, you don't do the luggage.

  • Do you know what it means if you say: "I do my luggage"?

  • It means that you have sex with your luggage.

  • Do you do that?

  • If you have sex with your luggage, then that's fine but it's kind of strange; and don't tell

  • people, okay?

  • So, we pack our bags or we pack our luggage; we don't make it.

  • Everyone clear now?

  • We have to be careful with the verb "do" because "do" implies sex.

  • If you do some strange things, that's fine.

  • Okay?

  • Then we have in your language, maybe you don't use the verb "make", but we do.

  • English just gets more and more confusing the more you learn it - that's why I'm here

  • to help you.

  • So, when we should use "make" or "made" in English.

  • Now, in Portuguese, you guys might say: "I take a choice.

  • I take a decision."

  • I like that; that's cute, but we don't say that.

  • Portuguese makes more sense.

  • In English, we make a choice, we make a decision, and we can also make mistakes or a mistake.

  • This is how English confuses you because I just told you that you don't make a boyfriend

  • or a girlfriend, but for a friend somehow we are able to make friends.

  • Thank you, English, for being super-confusing.

  • So, you can make a friend, you can make a new friend, but you cannot actually make a

  • boyfriend or girlfriend.

  • I don't know.

  • I don't know.

  • We "make a commitment".

  • If you make a commitment, it's like you're making a promise to someone, like: "I promise

  • to love you forever."

  • So, we make this; we create this.

  • We can also make your bed.

  • This doesn't make sense to me.

  • When you look at the base of the word... the verb "make", it basically means to create

  • something.

  • So, logically, you make a cake.

  • Okay?

  • You have eggs and flour - put it together-magic; dunh-dunh-dunh-you have made or created a

  • cake.

  • But we have to say: "I'm going to make my bed."

  • Now, you are not constructing a bed.

  • To make your bed you're actually taking the covers and putting them back straight.

  • Personally, waste of time I think; I'm not going to make my bed in the morning - I'm

  • just going to get back into that thing and make it messy again, but it looks nice.

  • So, we don't do your bed because that would mean you would have sex with your bed; not

  • in, but with your bed.

  • So, you actually have to make your bed.

  • So, you make the sheets all nice and beautiful and... okay.

  • We can also "make food"; "prepare" and "make".

  • We prepare food, but more naturally we would say: "I make food".

  • "I will make dinner" - this means: I will prepare it or cook it.

  • And then when we eat it, we use the verb "have": "I will have dinner" or "have lunch".

  • So, first we make it, or cook it, or prepare it, and then we eat it - that's the best part.

  • You can "make a presentation".

  • This means you are collecting the information and you're actually writing a presentation.

  • So, maybe your friend says: "Hey.

  • Hey, let's do something tonight", and you say: "No, I can't.

  • I have to make a presentation."

  • Then the next day you are going to "do the presentation".

  • "Do the presentation" means you actually stand up in front of all those people who are staring

  • at you and you - blah; and you speak.

  • You talk about the presentation that you have made.

  • So: "Make a presentation" means to prepare something; "do the presentation" means to

  • actually speak.

  • So, in this for English we can use two verbs.

  • And the last one is a phrasal verb: "make out".

  • Do you know what "make out" means?

  • "Out".

  • Out, leave - go; bye.

  • "Make in", "make out".

  • So, "make out" basically means you kiss someone for a long time.

  • Hopefully not your mother or your father.

  • Okay?

  • That's kind of gross.

  • But, again, whatever you do, that's fine.

  • If you "make out with someone", it means you kiss someone, you touch them for a prolonged

  • period of time.

  • And then maybe, maybe, maybe after that you can have sex.

  • I don't know.

  • That's your choice, again.

  • But please don't have sex with your bed.

  • Okay?

  • Don't do your bed, and don't do other things because that's weird.

  • "Make" - sometimes we use; sometimes we don't.

  • If you're confused about it, welcome to English language.

  • But I want to help you, so if you have questions about when to use "make", when not to use

  • "make", please write them in the comments, subscribe to my channel, and I'll help you

  • as long as you make a donation.

  • Bye.

Rawr.

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