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Welcome back to know your verbs.

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

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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.

But it's not on purpose.

It's an accident.

Examples.

I fell on the stairs.

Be careful.

Don't fall down.

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.

In the first example sentence.

It was temperature.

So temperatures fell, meaning the temperatures.

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

So there were many temperatures.

Ah, from maybe like day to night.

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.

Examples.

A leaf fell on my shoulder.

She fell to her knees and begged.

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.

Ah, the leaf fell on my shoulder.

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.

Your knees are like this.

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.

So we on Li Yu's fall to your knees.

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

Fall to your knees.

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.

Perhaps.

So let's look at some examples of this.

This task falls outside my job description.

Our work falls into two categories.

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.

Circle.

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.

So we use fall.

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

Our work falls into two categories.

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.

Birthday celebration.

Um, you'll see.

Let's look at some examples.

My birthday fell on a Sunday this year.

Our meetings keep falling on Fridays.

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

It means my birthday happened on a Sunday.

That's all we just used.

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.

Let's look at some examples.

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.

But I'm so busy I can't take care of it.

I'm delayed or I'm not able to do the things I know I need to do.

I need to study.

I should be at this point, but I'm falling behind.

I'm falling behind my like pace.

I'm falling behind schedule, so I need to fix it somehow.

So fall behind my studies is one common example.

The other sentence was Be careful not to fall behind on housework.

So meaning maybe you're not falling behind now, But just ah, this is like a warning phrase like make sure to always do your housework so don't fall behind on housework.

Otherwise your house will be dirty.

Ah, the next one included two in the next one because they're very similar in terms of the way they sound.

But they're very different in terms of meaning first to fall for someone to fall for someone means to fall in love with someone like to become in a state of love with someone is to fall for someone.

Examples don't fall for him too soon he fell for her right away fell or fall means become in love with that person.

So don't fall in love with him too soon or he fell in love with her right away.

But we removed in love from the expression we can just use fall or past tense fell to explain.

Now let's compare this expression to to fall for something to fall for.

Something has a very different meaning to fall for something means to believe something.

But that thing is not true.

So It's like a lie.

For example, example sentences don't fall for it.

I can't believe you fell for my dumb story.

So this means that someone in the first example sentence don't fall for it means don't believe that story.

It's not true.

So maybe it sounds good or it sounds like a nice idea, but don't believe the story.

Don't fall for it.

In the second example sentence.

I can't believe you fell for my dump story.

It means I can't believe you actually believed my story was true.

I'm shocked that you believed my dumb story.

So, uh, it means something was not true.

In other words, and you fell for it, you believed it was true.

So this has a negative nuance about it.

You fell for that like it sounds like.

How could you fall for that?

How could you believe something that ridiculous?

So kind of a negative expression.

So to fall for someone to fall for something quite different, to fall in love, to believe something that's not true to fall apart is the last variation to fall apart.

To fall apart means to become disconnected or to break apart.

Let's look at some examples of this.

My jacket is falling apart.

She looks like she's about to fall apart in the first example sentence.

I said, My jacket is falling apart.

That means physically.

So like my clothing, my piece of clothing, the fabric is breaking, so it's falling apart.

So it's becoming separated.

The physical items that make up the jacket are becoming separated.

In the second example sentence, I said she looks like she's about to fall apart here.

We're not talking about this person's body.

We're talking about the mental state.

So the person a person who looks like they're about to fall apart means they mentally seem about to break.

So maybe they have a lot of stress and they're really, really tired.

It means their mental state is about to break.

It's gonna be like maybe their life is really tough right now, so they seem like they're about to fall apart.

So those air a few, hopefully new ways to use the verb fall.

I hope you've got something new from this lesson.

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