Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adverb Phrase 5. The adverb phrase today is sight-unseen. Okay. So let's take a look at the note here. If something is sight-unseen, it is without inspection. So you don't get to look at it or at least you don't get to look at it very closely or appraisal. You don't have anybody going to appraise it or judge it , to let you know maybe the true value of it. So that's what we mean if you buy something sight unseen or if you get something sight unseen. Buy is probably the most common verb used with this or we could definitely use other verbs that also have something to do with buy. You could purchase something sight unseen, or get something or bargain for something sight unseen. So you can use other verbs with it but buy is probably the main one. All right. Anyway, let's take a look at some examples here. Never buy any property sight unseen. You know I remember years ago when I was a kid, I think at that time they sold it through like magazines or something in there I remember they had like a commercial where they they showed you on TV that people bought some land sight unseen and then they found out the land was like in the desert or something like that. But today of course you know if somebody was buying some land far away they may get to see some photos of it but just just like anything else was like a house or something you know those photos are probably always taken from the best angles and you're getting the best possible picture of the best possible look of it. So it still may not be what you what you think or what you imagine. So it's still kind of sight unseen because you haven't physically seen it you haven't physically been able to really inspect it so they always say they definitely like with property or a house. Never buy any sight unseen in that sort of sense. All right number two. Even though you can see photos of items on the Internet some people still feel uncomfortable buying items sight unseen. Even though to be honest with you know, many people have gotten great deals on the Internet and sometimes the item does look exactly like the photos. But there is still some risk. Sometimes it's not exactly like the photo or the material was it's not what you thought it was or was made of or maybe didn't look the same in real life as it looked in the photo. So we still say this. Or number three I never liked the idea of buying a grab-bag. Yeah. Sometimes I've seen this like in flea markets or other places they'll just have a brown paper bag and they'll just have the price on the bag. So a grab bag is kind of like a surprise bag. Usually they're generally pretty cheap but you really don't know what's inside of it. That's I guess that's part of the novelty of it. That it's that it's a surprise . It's a grab bag , so they'll just throw a bunch of probably cheaper items in there and you get what you get. Hopefully you're satisfied with it. But that's what they mean by a grab bag. It's supposed to be a little bit of a surprise and they put a little price on it. But still you don't know what's inside. Who knows what's there ? Maybe you'll be very unhappy and say " this isn't worth it. So let's read it again I never liked the idea of buying a grab bag because all the items contained inside are sight unseen. So you don't get to see them before time. It's meant to be like a surprise bag. Okay anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
A2 US unseen bag buy adverb buying surprise English Tutor Nick P AdVerb Phrase (5) Sight Unseen 66 2 Altium Hang posted on 2019/04/19 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary