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Lesson Sixteen
Keep
keep / kept / kept / keeping
The verb "keep" has many meanings: stay,
continue, maintain, prevent. With the addition of a preposition,
the word changes its meaning very easily.
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1. When Sylvia travels, she can keep up with her work by using
a laptop computer.
She keeps in touch with her coworkers
through email.
(idiom: keep in touch = email, write,
call; communicate)
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2. Mother kangaroos keep their babies in a pouch
on their stomach. |
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3. The people in the audience couldn't
keep themselves
from laughing as they listened to the comedian perform his act. |
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4. She keeps going out with her boyfriend even though
he isn't very nice to her.
("Keep" is often followed by a gerund. In this
case, the gerund is "going out.") |
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5. Many Americans keep using credit cards to
make purchases even though this habit can cause financial problems
later. |
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6. This grocery
store needs to keep its shopping carts outside because there's
no room inside the store.
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7. She had been keeping her cell phone in her
purse, but now she keeps it in her front pocket. |
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A: Where does he keep his money?
B: He keeps it in
a piggy bank. It was being kept in a bank, but then he decided
to keep it at home. |
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Keep
present
tense: keep / keeps |
past
tense: kept |
future:
will keep |
present
continuous: am / is / are / keeping |
past
continuous: was / were keeping |
future
continuous: will be keeping |
present
perfect: has / have kept |
past
perfect: had kept |
future
perfect: will have kept |
present
perfect continuous: has / have been keeping |
past
perfect continuous: had been keeping |
future
perfect continuous: will have been keeping |
modal
verbs: ______ keep |
past
tense modal: ______ have kept |
infinitive:
to keep |
gerund:
keeping |
passive:
yes |
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