Hi everybody, welcome back to Know Your Verbs.

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

Let's get started.

Let's begin with the basic definition of the verb, give.

The basic definition of give is to provide someone with something, or to offer someone something.

Some examples.

My boss gave me a raise.

Please give her this letter.

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

Present.

Give.

Gives.

Past.

Gave. Past participle. Given. Progressive. Giving.

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

to cause something or create something. Let's look at some examples.

Scary movies give him nightmares. You just gave me a great idea. So this use of give

give doesn't refer to providing someone with something. It refers to causing

something or producing, creating something.

In the first example sentence, we see scary movies give him nightmares.

Another way to say this is scary movies cause him to have nightmares, or rather watching scary movies causes him to have nightmares. So there's this thing,

in this case scary movies, which causes this other thing or produces this other thing. So we use

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