Name: Pay and Prepositions: Learn English With Simple English Videos
Uploaded: 2017-02-13T22:48:33.000Z
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This lesson’s about the verb 'pay' and the prepositions that go with it.

You know, I paid the pizza guy last week too.

So we can pay an amount, we can pay a person and we can just pay.

But notice we pay for something that we buy.

So we pay someone an amount but we pay for something that we buy.

When we’re talking about a currency, we say pay in.

So in dollars, in pesos, in rubles, in euros.

And when we’re talking about a method of payment, we say by.

So it’s by credit card, by cheque, by phone, by PayPal…

You can say ‘by cash’ or ‘in cash'.

And you can also skip the preposition and just say cash.

Imagine you’re in a pub and you’re offering to get some drinks.

Would you say 'I’ll pay for the drinks' or 'I’ll pay the drinks.'

So now you know the prepositions to use with pay!

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