How To Use Phrasal Verbs | Secrets Revealed!!!

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Do you know how to use phrasal verbs? Do you know important phrasal verbs are in English?
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They are a fantastic way to make your English sound more informal and natural. But they
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are not that easy to use so get ready for a lesson that's going to show you the secrets
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about how we use them properly.
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Welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English, if you haven't met me before I'm Tom and I teach
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fresh modern British English so that you can take your English to the next level and achieve
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your life goals.
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Today we're looking at phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb is a verb, for example give or take plus
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a particle, in, on, under things like that. Now when they go together they create a special
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meaning that is separate from the individual verb itself. For example 'I'm going to take
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off this jumper' Three, two, one. Alright, it worked! I took off my jumper. That means
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to remove, so to take something off is to remove it. I'm going to put my jumper back
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on, if that's ok. So take off means to remove. Now the only grammar that we are going to
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need here is to change the verb depending on the tense. So for example I used the present
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tense so to take off but in the past tense I would say took off. Or in the present perfect
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I have taken off. So you are changing the verb depending on the tense that you want.
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So why do we use phrasal verbs? Well, they are much more colloquial and informal than
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single word verbs. And we use them all the time particularly in spoken English. So for
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example take off, the single word would be to remove and now you have a choice. You can
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use the more informal take off or the slightly more neutral or formal version to remove.
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So I think it's really important to learn phrasal verbs and to give yourself the choice
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to use an informal phrase or a neutral or formal phrase. If you have both you can adapt
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to any situation you want. Especially important in business situations or in exams things
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like that. You can choose now which type of English you want to use informal or formal.
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Another example maybe you'll see a sign saying 'To extinguish fire, use this fire extinguisher.'
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Now extinguish is the more formal word but maybe in every day spoken English I would
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say to put out. So to put out a fire, use this fire extinguisher. So you have extinguish
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and put out, one is formal one is informal, one is used in written English mostly the
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other one is used in spoken. And that's a kind of pattern we see throughout phrasal
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verbs. So if you are someone that wants to use spoken British English in informal situations
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maybe to meet people or for television series or films, this is the kind of English that
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you are going to want to learn.
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So that's what they are and why we use them. Now let's look at how we use phrasal verbs.
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Ok, now there are a few patterns we need to know to use phrasal verbs correctly. So let's
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have a look at them now. Some phrasal verbs don't take a direct object and these are called
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intransitive verbs. For example 'I get up at 7 a.m.' There is no object in that sentence.
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So that's the first set of phrasal verbs, intransitive verbs with no object. Now a lot
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of phrasal verbs do have objects and these are called transitive verbs. Now there are
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different patterns for transitive verbs that we will look at right now. The first pattern
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is when the object goes after the verb and the particle. For example 'My girlfriend cheated
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on me'. So to cheat on someone is to have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
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else other than your partner. To cheat on someone. So my girlfriend is the noun, cheated
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on is the phrasal verb and me is the object. And that's coming after the verb and the particle.
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Here are some other examples of that same pattern.
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Another pattern is for some transitive verbs to have the object separate the verb and the
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particle. For example 'Turn on the TV'. So turn on is the phrasal verb, the TV is the
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object. Now we can put the object, the TV, in between the verb and the particle. So 'Turn
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the TV on'. The meaning is exactly the same, no change. But we can decide whether we want
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to put the object after the verb and particle or in between. It's up to us, it's our choice.
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Here are a few more examples of that same pattern.
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Now a really important thing to remember when using this pattern is that if the object is
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a personal pronoun, for example you, me, it then it must go in between the verb and the
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particle. For example the phrasal verb give back. It means to return. I would have to
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say 'Give me back my phone'. Me is the personal pronoun and it's going in between the verb
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and the particle. I cannot say 'Give back me my phone' ok? I can't put the personal
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pronoun after the particle. It has to go in between, Ok? So that's a really important
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thing to remember, the personal pronoun goes in between the verb and the particle.
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Ok, so those are the essential patterns of phrasal verbs. Now I think one of the trickiest
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things for most students when learning phrasal verbs is that the same phrasal verb can have
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different meanings. If we go back to what we were looking at earlier, take off. Take
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off means to remove, ok? So I took off my jumper, in a different situation it means
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that an airplane leaves the ground, it goes into the air, into the sky. So the airplane
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takes off. It goes along the runway and goes up into the sky. So that's another meaning,
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same phrasal verb, take off but a different meaning. Another meaning would be to become
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successful. So 'Her acting career took off' and that means her acting career became successful.
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So now we have three different meanings of the same phrasal verb and there are other
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ones. Now what we have to do as learners is to learn them of course, the different situations.
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And then to think about the context, ok? Because that will tell us which meaning we are talking
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about. If we are talking about an airplane it's likely that it'll be take off as in leave
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the ground. If I'm talking about an item of clothing, probably it's to remove. But you
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have to check the situation, ok? Context is really important here. But yes, don't see
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this as a problem, see this as an easy way to learn more vocabulary. I have one phrase,
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take off, but there are different meanings and now I have three meanings for the same
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word. So it's kind of good, it's kind of useful. You can build your vocabulary quicker by learning
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the different meanings.
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Now guys, I don't know if you can tell, but I love phrasal verbs and I think they are
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so so useful for you guys to learn. So what I'm going to do is do another video teaching
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you the top ten essential phrasal verbs to learn. So these are going to be phrasal verbs
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that you can use in your every day conversation that I think are just essential, that you
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have to know them. And hopefully once you learn those, you'll then be able to learn
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so many more. Now I hope you've found this video useful. If you did, please give it a
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massive thumbs up. Of course subscribe and remember I release new videos every Tuesday
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and every Friday. So yep, thank you so much for joining me, this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer,
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saying goodbye.
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