Know Your Verbs #99 - Verb: "Miss"
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| 0:00.0 | This is the verb to miss, which can just mean to fail to hit something. |
| 0:04.0 | But watch until the end and learn four other ways to use it. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to know your verbs. |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Alicia, and in this episode, we're going to talk about the verb miss. |
| 0:16.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:18.0 | First, let's talk about the basic definition of the verb to miss. |
| 0:24.3 | To miss means to fail to hit or to reach. |
| 0:29.9 | Here are some examples. |
| 0:30.9 | Sorry I missed your call. |
| 0:35.9 | The sales team missed their target for the month. |
| 0:39.3 | Okay, now let's take a look at the conjugations for this verb. |
| 0:44.0 | Present tense. |
| 0:45.4 | Miss. |
| 0:46.6 | Misses. |
| 0:48.0 | Past tense. |
| 0:49.5 | Missed. |
| 0:50.8 | Past participle. |
| 0:51.9 | Missed. |
| 0:57.0 | Progressive, missing. |
| 1:05.0 | Now let's talk about some additional meanings for this verb. The first additional meaning for miss is to feel the absence of someone or something. Here are some examples. |
| 1:16.5 | I miss my family. We missed you at the party last weekend. Okay, in both of these example sentences, |
| 1:25.7 | we see the word miss, the verb miss, being used to express that we notice when something is not there and we want it to be there. |
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