Let's do usage. In this section, I'm going to give you some tips and strategies on how to best use this idiom. Let's get started. All right, with this idiom live beyond your means, we need to match the pronoun to fit the sentence. So, you're in this idiom, this is the pronoun, you're okay, so we need to match that pronoun to fit the sentence. Here are some examples.

When we're talking about making it match and fit the sentence, it needs to match the subject of the sentence. So in this sentence, I live beyond my means. The subject is I, we're talking about my situation. So we need to have I and my if it's you live beyond your means. We need to match up your and you the subject and the pronoun in the idiom need to match? Let's go down the list.

He lives beyond his means. She lives beyond her means. We live beyond our means. They live beyond their means. The organization lives beyond its means. Hmm.

This idiom can be used as its own sentence, if it's a command, if you're telling someone to do something. So for example, let's say you're an evil credit card company, and you're giving out credit cards to everyone, and you say to them, live beyond your means. And you're just evil, but you're not very smart. So you're just telling people what you think they should do? live beyond your means. Don't be financially irresponsible.

So this is the only scenario in which this idiom can be a sentence all by itself. If it's a command We need to make sure the verb live matches the context and situation. We're talking about the past, present and future. Let's see this idiom being used in the past, present and future. Let's start with the past. We used to live beyond our means and almost went bankrupt.

We sure learned our lesson. bankrupt means when you don't have any more money, you can't pay your bills. You can't pay your debt. So they almost went bankrupt. They were in a situation where they almost didn't have the ability to pay their debt and pay and keep their lifestyle. So I guess it freaked them out.

Because we sure learned our lesson. I imagine they're living in a way that's much more responsible, and more fiscally sound. fiscally sound means financially responsive Simple and stable. President right now Henry is living beyond his means. He must be worried about what will happen in a few weeks. Maybe Henry is going crazy.

He's using this credit card to pay for everything trips, cruises, expensive dinners. Who knows. But he has a certain a certain level of income from his job or whatever his income is, but his expenses are much, much higher. So he's living beyond his means. And we think he must be worried about what will happen in a few weeks when the credit card company calls and says, hey, you're not making your payments, credit card declined. Future.

Next month, I plan to live beyond my means and go crazy partying, drinking and gambling. Hope Really a lot of people don't say this, but this is an example of how the ATM can be used in the future. So this person plans to go nuts go crazy, and suddenly become very irresponsible and live beyond their means. So they're gonna have a crazy lifestyle, very expensive lifestyle that costs much more than they're able to afford. Once again, the word afford means the ability to pay for things. You have a certain amount of income and you use that income to pay for things or a portion or a part of that income.

You don't go overboard and try to buy things which are way outside your ability to pay for them. We just did usage All right.