Phrasal Verbs - "turn"

Hi. James from EngVid. I've been looking for this and it finally turned up. You know? What

can I say? What I'm going to say is actually I'm going to teach you about phrasal verbs.

Today's phrasal verb will be with the verb "turn." People have a problem with the verb...

Well, people have problems with phrasal verbs. Why? Because there are prepositions and verbs.

Usually the problem comes with the preposition. Well, I'm going to help you by going about

it in a different way. We're going to look at the actual verb, understand what the verb

means, and from that we're going to try and figure out what the phrasal verb means with

the preposition. Okay? Let's go to the board. Take a look. Now this is turned up. We can

actually do some work. Ready? So, phrasal verb. We're going to use "turn" to help us

figure out what the phrasal verb, any phrasal verb with "turn" means. "Turn" usually means

change position. Alright? Turn. Turn. Turn around. Okay. Turn. Turn. See? Turn around. Another one. Okay? So change position.

Now number two is when we turn something, we have an effect on it. Okay? Or an effect.

So to change something to get different effects on it. Okay? So keeping these in mind, let's

look at different phrasal verbs and we'll try and keep in mind these two. Okay? Now,

depending on the preposition, the preposition is actually usually to indicate movement.

So we're going to look at turn up, turn down, turn back, and turn around. Okay? We'll see

how that works. So, "turn" we've already got, which means change. We know it's change in

some way. We've got two. Right? We're looking at the effect. Like that? Yeah, I know you

do. Okay? Change. We're looking at the effect. Or we're looking at position. I'm off the

board. Watch. Magic. Turn around and here I am, back on the other side. Okay. So we're

looking at that. So let's look at some prepositions that would go with this. Now we have the possibility

of the preposition up, down, around, back, and even over. Okay? Some of these you would

have heard of, some maybe not. So let's take a look at turn up. Now, turn up is an easy

one. Up usually means to increase. Okay? So a lot of times when people say turn up, like

turn up the volume, they mean to increase the volume. Increase. Okay? So when you hear

turn up, one means up. Turn up can mean increase. What about another one for turn up? Well,

do you remember when I was talking about my brush? I said it turned up. Well, what do

I mean by turned up? Well, found it or arrived. Usually when we ask did he turn up or did

she turn up, we mean did they arrive or did they come? Okay? We use up. Did they turn

up? Or find, when you find something, it turned up. Right? Turned up. You found it. Okay?

So with up, we have three possibilities. Turn up, turn up the heat, turn up the volume.

Make it louder, make it warmer because I'm cold. Number two, who turned up? Right? Who

arrived at the party? Did he turn up? Did he come after all? And finally, found. Look

what turned up. Look what I found. Right? Cool? Alright. So we've got these three for

turn up. Now, why don't we look at turn down? Now remember, I spoke earlier and I said up

is movement. It means up, as you know, up, increase. So if we look at down, right, it's

going to be a decrease to go down. So we can say turn down, decrease. Now another one,

whoops, got to change these arrows here. I was drinking too much last night. I forgot.

So we can decrease when we do turn down. What about turn down? Well, there's another meaning

for turn down and that means to say no. Because a decrease we usually consider to be negative,

right? You're going down. It's not positive going up. It's negative. So we can actually

say turn down is to say no. Or another D word, decline. There's one word for vocabulary

for you, eh? Decline. Decline means say no. If you got bad credit, they will decline you.

Say no. Anyway, or if you're ugly, girls always decline you for dates. Anyway, one more joke,

no, one more joke. Back to work. So, decline. So when we say turn down, we can say decrease.

We can say turn down and it means to be declined or someone says no to you, right? Or we can

say turn down and just change the position. Can we do that? Yeah, we can do that. Turn

it down, move it over. But we usually put subject inside, right? So let's move into

another one. We've got this. Let's go to turn around. What does turn around mean? Well,

turn around, I did it before. I'm not that graceful, but turn around, change position,

right? So we say turn around, turn, like literally turn, change position. Turn around can also

mean a situation going from good to bad or bad to good. If things have turned around

in your relationship, perhaps you weren't getting along, you weren't friendly, but now

you are, they have turned around. So we say change position, but literally turn is in

movement, right? Move. And the other one is change for better or worse. Turn around. Now,

right now we want the economy to turn around, to go from bad to good. Yeah, we do. Okay,

so how about back? Turn back. There's a singer named Cher. Cher, she's really old. She loves

young guys. In fact, if you're under the age of 16, hide. She's probably looking for you

right now. Anyway, Cher has a song. Excuse me. If I can turn back time. Okay? Yeah, I

didn't say I could sing and you're not paying for this, so leave me alone. All right, turn

back. Turn back means to go back from where you came. You turn and face back. So it's

reversing direction. Okay? And we usually use it like turn back time, turn back, you

know, I don't know, time's the best one I can go with, but turn back to go back to reverse

your direction, right? When you're driving, you can turn back, go back to where you came

from, right? Turn back down the road. So they mean here, turn around, drive that way, okay?

Turn back time or direction. Reverse. Now how about turn over? Turn over. Well, when

I was a little kid, McDonald's had apple turnovers. They were really good. Food, apple. I'm hungry.

Can you tell? Apple turnover. It was food. Dessert. That's not important. Turn over means

to change from one side to literally flip it over. When you sleep at night, you might

turn over to the other side, right? Switch sides. So to switch to the other side. Okay?

So look, we've got apple turnover. That's my favorite. Go to McDonald's. I'm promoting

you McDonald's. Send me free apple pie. Okay. And to switch to the other side, okay? As

usually you change your location from one to the other one, okay? So we've looked at

turn and we've looked at how we can use this verb turn to talk about change in position

or effect. And we've talked about how you can actually use it for one, two, three, four,

five different prepositions, but also how you can use it for, what, ten different ways,

ten different meanings. Cool, huh? Well, I'm going to turn over a new leaf. You like that?

See, that's me. Turn over a new leaf and actually leave you a little bit early. But I'm leaving,

but it doesn't mean you can't turn back the video and check out where I'm going to send

you, right? See? Yeah. If you don't use it, people, how will you ever learn it, huh? Okay.

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