Archive for December 3rd, 2009

#28-38: Useful English Verbs

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Lesson 4:

28. Belong (Who does this car belong to?) (I’m going to leave this party; I feel like I don’t belong here).

29. Bite  (I am afraid that the spider is going to bite me).

30. Bleed (Help! This person is hurt! Their leg is bleeding.)(My newspaper got wet from the rain and now the ink is bleeding.)

31. Blow (The wind blew my paper off of my desk.) (I need to blow my nose; do you have a tissue?) (I was blown away by how amazing that movie was!) (The car crashed into a wall and then blew up.) (Can you blow up this balloon?) (You shouldn’t have blown all of your money by gambling. You really blew it this time!) As you can see, this word has many different meanings in English, particularly in spoken English. So use this word carefully.

32. Boil (Let’s boil some water so we can have hot tea.)

33. Bomb (During the war, their house was bombed and now there is nothing there.)

34. Borrow (Can I borrow your book? I will give it back to you tomorrow.)

35. Break (I dropped the glass and it broke into many pieces. ) (He ran so fast that he broke the world record!)  (Someone broke into our house and stole the Television!) (The couple was not happy, so they decided to break up.)

36. Breathe (She was so nervous that I couldn’t breathe.)

37. Bring (Don’t forget to bring your passport to the airport!) (I brought a present for you from my hometown.)

38. Brush (He brushes his teeth 5 times a day!)

Hope that helpful. I’m going to go brush my teeth now. See you next time, for Lesson 5!

-A.Z.