Can you put a couple of extra pencils in my backpack? If you put a couple of strawberries on top, the kids will gobble up the fruit salad! "Put a couple of signs around the neighborhood, and the yard...
I put the envelope on the table 10 minutes ago. Where did he put his coat?Did they put it back where it belongs?After he took what he needed he put it back in it's original position and left.
The construction worker carefully put the finishing brick piece to complete the building project. OR, in another sense of "put": "He decided to put his answer in the most diplomatic way he could."
"You are coming with me,"said the teacher angrily to the naughty student. -- there's also the old joke from the 1960s, mocking anti-Communist hysteria: "Everyone's a Communist except you and me......