Give, keep, break, catch, see
These conan serhs have many different meanings (ome of them ia other parte fis
tool), Thic ont looks at some inporcane matings of these verbs, and in some case they
bine wih speiie nous, eg give somone 8 i reak the fete. You ca ear
Hee as expressions
Give
give sou a eng his evening. (= phone you this evening)
‘Gould you give mea hand? (= help me}
Please give my eqards to Fs. (= plese sy hella wo hi Irom ie
1 yuu see Pal, please ve hon my toga
Keep
The coat wll esp yu dys the gloves will hep yout hands warm, [=the oavglves will
Telp you ro stay devwaem) [keep + doun/pronoun + acectve|
kee losing my gases | hosp eeting backache, (=I lose my glass / gt hacheche agin
and again [keep + ing]
Please keepin touch. (= dont Forget to stay in contact £6 phone oe write to me
he schoo! Keeps a recon { clea weiten information) of the numberof tins that
‘suds are absent.
Break
He broke the world record agin. (= created a new recor, 4 He ram the 100 meres ia
9.85 sconds, which # 0.1 seconds faster chan anyone che]
Most peuple break she law at some pon in their fe I= do something wrong / asst te
aw)
lnm fis lesson with a new class, 1 usually do something co break the ie, (co make
people fel more ria when they Fist met strangers]
catch
We can catch a us davon sho road, rake s huvtravel by has)
iow dd you catch chat cold? (= ge shat colds)
(Cate the ball and throw et James
See
1 This par ofthe pictus docs lok eight Lsinpased with the ote par
Yes, Fae what yo mean. (~ Lundecstnd what you are sane)
a Du you tink we sed to hive eae?
{1 doa't hao. 1 see (= (a and find out) shar the thers sy.
1 dowveat se the point of practising six hours a day.
‘racing si boas day Tihish Ws crazy
dant omerstand he veason for