Today, we practice the words “give” and “to”.
- Please give your pen to me.
- Please give your pen to Sarah.
In English, we like to make things short. We could say:
- Please give Sarah your pen.
- Please give me your pen.
More sentences like “give me”, “give her”, “give us”:
- Will your mother give us some cake?
- Give me all your money!!! <<< that is not nice to say!
If it happened yesterday, the word is “gave”
- Yesterday, you gave me a pen. I will give it to you tomorrow.
- Why do you need money? I gave you a lot of money yesterday.
It can also be used for nouns (things) you can’t really touch:
- I will give you a job.
- Can you give me a hand? <<< not your real hand! This means “Can you help me”, like, “I need some more hands.”
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You will read the words “give me”, but we usually say “gimme”.
Try saying them. It’s a lot easier to say “gimme”!
- Can you gimme a drink?
- “Gimme Shelter” is the name of a famous song.
- If you need to pick up a big box, you might say “Hey, gimme a hand.”
