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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Hey everybody ! I need your help because I've a work to do in english and I want to know what are the different meanings of "Actually you bought that !" because I heard it in 90210 show and I wanted to know if I can say that like "hey you thought that what i was saying was true ?! " Sorry for my english ,I'm french so I do the best I can to speak well :-) Thanks to answer me quickly please
  

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To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it. But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you. (This is the meaning of your example: "Hey!

  • To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it.
  • But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you.
  • (This is the meaning of your example: "Hey!
  • ") Your version would be okay with a capital and a comma: "Hey, you .
  • .
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To buy something means to go to the store and purchase it.

But there's also an idiom, "to buy something," which means to accept, or believe something which a person tells you. (This is the meaning of your example: "Hey! Did you actually think that what I said was true?"
"Did you actually buy what I said?")

Your version would be okay with a capital and a comma: "Hey, you .
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Thanks for your answer and I'm sorry for the lack of punctuation and capitalization...

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