Hi everybody, welcome back to Know Your Verbs. My name is Alicia and in this episode,

we're going to look at the verb, cook. Let's get started. Okay, first let's look at the basic

definition of this verb. The basic definition is to prepare food for eating using a heating

process.

Here are some examples.

He cooked an amazing meal for dinner.

She's cooking breakfast.

Now let's look at the conjugations for this verb.

Present.

Cook.

Cooks. Past. Cooked. Past participle. Cooked. Progressive, cooking.

Now let's talk about some additional meanings for this verb. The first additional meaning I want to talk about is

to alter or to fabricate. Here are some examples. Rumors are saying that company cooked the books.

He cooked up a good lie to tell his mother. Okay, so in both of these example sentences, we see the verb

cook used to mean to alter a story or to fabricate. So to fabricate means to create something.

In other words, to tell a lie. So you might see this used when people are talking about company

news, especially company

financials.

The first example sentence here uses the expression, cook the books, or the past tense,

cooked the books.

This is a common slang expression, which means the company or the person altered their financial

information or altered their accounting information to make the company look better than it actually is.

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