Learn the English Phrases I'M TORN UP and I'M TORN

In this English lesson

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, I'm torn up.

If you say in English, I'm torn up or I'm torn up

about something, it means that you are emotionally sad.

That you're upset

that you're just feeling really, really bad about something.

If someone was to say to me I just broke up

with my boyfriend and I'm really torn up.

If they said I'm torn up,

it means that they're sad about it.

They're not sure what to think about it.

They might even be crying a little bit

because they're just emotionally not feeling very happy.

So when you say I'm torn up it means that you're sad

and just not feeling very happy about something

that's happened in your life.

Usually we use this phrase when two people break up,

sometimes the one person wanted to break up

and the other person didn't

and the person who didn't might be

a little bit torn up about it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase I'm torn.

So when we remove the up

from the end of this verb.

If I say I'm torn, it means I'm having trouble deciding

what I think.

And I'll tell you what I'm torn about right now.

They might open schools, they might not.

And some people have said to me, Bob,

do you want schools to open again?

And I'm torn.

I'm torn about it because there's only two or three weeks,

I think two and a half weeks left in the school year.

So I feel like going back to in-person learning

for about nine or 10 days doesn't make a lot of sense.

But at the same time I feel like it might be good

for the students.

So I'm torn.

I don't have an opinion one way or the other.

So to review, if you say to someone I'm torn up,

if you say, oh, I'm really torn up about this.

It means that you're feeling sad and emotional about it.

And if you say I'm torn, it's simply means

you're having trouble deciding how you feel about something.

So yes, I'm very much torn

about whether schools should go back

to in-person learning just for a couple of weeks, we'll see.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from Paolo and Paolo says,

would it be possible to say, where are you at?

This is from the lesson the other day

on the slang phrase where you at.

And my response was, yes, for sure.

This is also very common.

People might say, where you at,

where are you at,

where you're at,

I made a little contraction out of it there.

All of those are correct in informal speech.

Great question Paolo.

So again, I do wanna remind you that those were examples

of phrases we use that are very informal.

They are almost slang,

they would be considered slang.

So just be a little bit careful when you use those

in written English, you wouldn't use those.

You wouldn't say where you at

unless you're writing a story

or something very interesting that someone could read.

And you wanted the character in your story

to use a little bit of English slang.

Anyways, I'm walking out here and I'm showing you this piece

of ground right here.

We just recently worked this up with the rototiller.

So I drove on this with the tractor

with the rototiller behind.

I should have probably made a little video of it.

That would have been quite interesting

but this is where

we will probably be growing dahlias next year.

We're currently growing the dahlias way over there.

I'll show you that later.

They're they're not out of the ground yet.

We just put the tubers in a couple of weeks ago

but next year we will plant them there

because we practice what's called crop rotation.

We like to grow things in different places every year

because otherwise you get diseases

and other things in the ground.

So this is this'll be a brand new place

to grow dahlias next year.

Anyways, thanks for watching this little English lesson.

I'll see you in a couple of days with another one, bye.