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Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to know your verbs.

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

Let's get started.

Yeah, let's start with the basic definition of the verb raise.

The basic definition is to lift something toe a higher position.

Examples.

Raise your hand.

Let's raise the shelf a little higher.

Yeah.

Now let's look at the congregations of this Ferb present.

Tense raise raises past tense raised past participle raised progressive raising.

So now let's move on to some additional meanings for this for OK, the 1st 1 is to cause an increase in something.

So this doesn't mean necessarily to physically move something up, but rather to cause an increase in like an amount or a number.

For example, So examples of this the government is raising taxes next year.

My landlord raised the rent so in these cases, were talking about taxes and rent.

The government raised taxes means they increased the amount of taxes people have to pay.

In the second example, sentence my landlord raised the rent means my rent costs were increased.

My rent costs went up.

They were raised.

My landlord raised the rent.

Let's go on to the second additional meaning for this burg to cause to exist, to cause to exist like this is used for concepts.

Some examples.

This change raises a lot of questions.

Her behavior raised red flags.

Okay, so here we're seeing concepts.

We're seeing, um, sort of ideas.

It's not a physical item that comes into existence.

It's a concept.

In the first example sentence.

This change raises a lot of questions.

It means from this change a lot of questions come into existence.

So some change happened.

And now I have lots of different questions we use the verb raise to mean came into existence like something conceptually came into existence.

In the second example sentence.

Her behavior raises red flags.

I've used the expression red flags here, so red flags means a hint or some kind of indicator of something negative negative quality about that person.

So this is a kind of ah, this is a sentence and as a negative feeling about it.

But I've used the verb raised s o the sentences.

Her behavior raised red flags, which means her behavior caused me to think that there was something negative about her.

So her behavior was may be strange or kind of dangerous.

And so I thought, maybe this person there's something kind of not quite right about this person.

There were red flags, So I used the verb raised to say that, uh, her behavior introduced that her behavior caused those red flags to exist.

Okay, let's move on to the 3rd 1 The 3rd 1 is to take care of someone or something.

Examples.

My parents decided to raise chickens.

Where were you raised?

So in these sentences, we see someone taking care of something else.

The first sentence my parents decided to raise chickens means to take care of like like from when they're babies, until they're full grown adults.

My parents decided to raise chickens, so as they grow up, they're being taken care of.

In the second example, it's a question.

Where were you raised?

A passive question.

Where were you raised?

Means Where were you taken care of until you grew up Essentially is the meaning, but we use raised to communicate that?

Where were you raised?

I was raised on the West Coast.

California?

Where were you raised?

Masters.

It's Massachusetts, Massachusetts are.

So this verb is used for parenting, For sure, it's used to went.

So when you're talking about where you grew up, you can say I grew up in or I was raised in So parents can use this.

I want to raise my kids in place or in environment.

Just be careful.

We don't use the word row for people.

We can use it for plants like I like to grow plants is fine.

We can't say I want to grow.

My kids doesn't work.

We can't use that raise instant.

The 4th 1 is to increase another person's bet.

This is a very specific use of the word raise.

We use this in gambling like it casinos, for example.

Examples.

I'll raise you $20.

She raised him $3000 so this means Ah, there's an existing bet in the first example, I'll raise you $20.

There's a bet that exists somewhere.

So let's say, for example, the bet is $10 that my opponent plate.

I, however, want to increase the risk in the game.

So I say, I'll raise you $20 which means from this original $10 I'm going toe add $20.

That means the total bet is now $30.

If the other person still wants to play the game, they now have to put in $20 more to match my bet.

So to raise means to add additional risk to a vet.

In the second example sentence, we see the same thing.

She raised him $3000 so there's an existing that she increased the amount of the bet by $3000.

So this is a very specific use of rays.

But if you like card games or casinos, air gambling, it could be useful for you.

Okay, let's talk about the next additional meaning of the verb raise.

It means to collect money, to gather money, to get money from different sources.

Uh, examples of this.

Let's raise money in a fund raiser.

How were we going to raise money for this project?

So in these examples were talking about money.

This is very commonly used to talk about money, so we tend to use this expression.

This, uh, this use of Ray's eyes used to talk about money like financial resource is that we need for some project or some charity or some volunteer activity.

So we say, Let's raise money or let's raise funds to support this group.

For example, eso This can be used to talk about gathering funds, gathering.

Okay, The variation.

Let's talk about some variations of this for the 1st 1 is to raise eyebrows to raise eyebrows.

So the image of this is literally your eyebrows go up like Why?

Because we're experiencing mild suspicion or surprise.

So when you hear something and you kind of have this like a reaction to its like what?

That's the raising eyebrows, expression examples of this.

Her weekend plans raised some eyebrows at the office.

If you confront management, you might raise some eyebrows.

So that means if you do that thing in the first example, sentence her weekend plans raise some eyebrows at the office.

It means something about her plans for the weekend cause suspicion, or maybe surprise among the other people in the office in the second example sentence.

If you confront management, you might raise some eyebrows.

It means if you do this thing if you talk to management, they might be surprised when they might be suspicious of you.

So raise eyebrows means to be suspicious or to be a little bit surprised of something.

The next variation is to raise the bar to raise the bar.

This expression means like to set a higher standard than previously, or to determine a higher standard than was previously set.

Examples.

We need to raise the bar for our work.

They've raised the bar at that restaurant in the first example, we need to raise the bar for our work.

It means we need to set a higher standard for our work.

So it's quite long to say, But we say raise the bar.

You can actually imagine this in terms of sports.

Like if you've seen gymnastics.

When um, there's like like we could imagine the pole vault, for example, if the bar to jump over the I think to jump over is at this level, Maybe it's easy, but if we raise the bar, it becomes more difficult and requires more skill to do that same task.

So when we say we need to raise the bar for our work or that restaurant has raised the bar.

It means their standards have improved, or maybe their skills have improved as well.

So it's a positive thing, all right, the last one.

The last variation is to raise hell to raise hell, so this means, like to behave in a way that can cause other people trouble.

It often means like to be louder, to be drinking, to be noisy, to be like out in society, causing like disruptions.

Often, young people are known for raising hell.

Examples.

A bunch of college kids were raising hell at the beach.

Let's raise healthy Zehr examples of like kids.

Usually kids are like young people that are just kind of out to cause trouble, like usually it's because they're having a good time and they're trying to do it.

Like to noise earlier.

They're just having too much fun and causing problems in their community.

But sometimes people actually planned to go out and cause problems for others.

So to describe that activity, we can say raise hell to raise hell.

All right, so I hope that you found a few new ways to use the verb raise.

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