20 common PHRASAL VERBS that are EASY to learn!

Hey, sweetie.

Yeah?

Did you clean up your room?

Good.

And did you help out Mama?

Good, too.

Okay, I have to record a video now, so Daddy has to go, okay?

All right.

I love you, too.

Bye.

Mwah.

All right.

Okay.

Hey, everyone.

I'm Alex, thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on 20 Intense Phrasal Verbs.

So, these phrasal verbs are actually quite simple when compared to a lot of other phrasal

verbs, because all you have to do with them is take the main verb and add the preposition

or add the particle, basically, and you intensify the main verb with these phrasal verbs.

So, let me show you what I mean by starting at the top.

So, "call", "call up".

So, "to call someone", "to call someone up", they both mean "to call someone".

"Call up" just sounds a little cooler, a little bit more intense, a little bit more informal

in a way.

So, for example, if you say, "Hey, I'll call you tomorrow."

or "Hey, I'll call you up tomorrow."

Both are fine, both mean almost the exact same thing, just "call up" sounds a little

bit more emphasized when you call someone.

Next, "clean" and "clean up".

So, if I tell you to "clean your room" or "clean up your room", now, "clean up" means

to organize, to tidy, to make it as clean as possible, put everything away, and also

maybe, you know, wash your tables and things like that.

"Clean" is very general, so if you say, you know, "I need to clean the floor", this is

a little different than if you say, "I need to clean up the floor".

So, "clean the floor" could mean that you need to, like, wet wash it with a mop or something

like that.

If you "clean up the floor", it could mean there are things on the floor.

But if you just tell someone to "clean their room", "clean up their room", or "clean their

mess", or "clean up their mess", "clean up" gives it a little bit more intensity.

So, if I say, "Hey, clean up your mess", if I, you know, I was talking with my daughter,

I asked her if she cleaned up her room, yes, she did, so that's a bit more intense, a bit

more casual, like most phrasal verbs, or all phrasal verbs are definitely a bit more casual.

So, "continue", "continue on".

So, if I say, "Ah, he continued talking for another 30 minutes", because you had a long

conversation with someone, and you didn't want to be rude and interrupt your friend,

and your friend wouldn't stop talking.

So, if I want to emphasize that even more, I could say, instead of, "He continued talking

for another 30 minutes", "He continued on talking for another 30 minutes".

Like you're saying "continue" and "continue on", "continue on".

There's a little bit of extra emphasis when you add "on" to this one.

"Fall", "fall down".

So, this one is a little redundant, because "to fall" does mean to, you know, do this.

Ah.

Okay.

So, "I fell", or "I fell down".

When you fall, you naturally go down.

I hurt myself a little bit.

I'll be okay, though.

Is there a hospital near here?

I hope so.

All right.

Not necessary.

It's okay.

So, yeah.

You can say, "I fell down", or "I fell", for example.

So, this is the intransitive form.

You can fall down and add the thing that you fell down on.

So, for example, "I fell down the stairs".

So, if you have a group of stairs, and you fall down the stairs, you can't say, "I fell

the stairs".

It doesn't work.

You have to say, "I fell down the stairs" in that case.

Okay.

Just falling took my breath away.

"Fill" and "fill up".

So, you can fill your gas tank of your car, and you can also say, "I need to fill up my

gas tank".

Now, "fill up", it can mean to, like, fill completely, but you can tell someone to fill

something up halfway.

But typically, it means to fill completely.

So, as you can see, "fill up" does add a little bit more emphasis to "fill".

Next, "freeze" and "freeze up".

So, if you put something in your freezer, you know, above your fridge, or maybe you

have a separate freezer, like you put meat in there or something, it will freeze or it

will freeze up.

The thing is, this one, you can also have an idiomatic meaning.

So, if a person becomes really shy, and they don't know what to say, and they are speaking

in front of other people, and suddenly, "I am so nervous right now because I'm not comfortable

speaking in front of others", perfectly natural, perfectly normal reaction, if you, you know,

if you have some kind of anxious behaviors, you freeze.

So, if I say, "So, I started my speech, and then I saw everyone in front of me, and I

just froze", or "and I just froze up".

So, if you say, "I froze up", you're really emphasizing and intensifying the idea that

you froze, and you didn't know what to do and what to say.

Help and help out.

So, in this case, "help out" just sounds a little bit more casual, a little bit cooler

than "help".

So, if someone says, if you offer to help someone, and you say, "Oh, hey, I can help

you", or you can say, "I can help you out", so it sounds a little bit more casual, there's

a little bit more oomph at the end of the "help" in that case.

All right, next, "hide" and "hideaway".

This is another case where it's a little redundant, because when you hide something, you put it

away from the eyesight of other people where they can't find it.

So, if I say, "Hey, where did you put that bag?", and you say, "Oh, I hid it", or "Oh,

I hid it away", "hideaway" is very redundant in that case.

Now, "Why did you hide that bag?", "Oh, I didn't want", you know, if it's my wife and

me talking, then maybe we want to hide something, like a gift from our daughter or something

like that.

So, "I hid it away" or "I hid it", "hid" is the past of "hide".

Okay, next, "hurry" and "hurry up".

So, again, "hurry up" just emphasizes "hurry".

So, if I say, "Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry", or "Come on, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up",

the "up" really emphasizes "hurry" two times, right?

Like, "Hurry, hurry, hurry up", "Hurry as much as you can".

"Lend" and "lend out", so remember, if you give something to someone for a short period

of time because they ask to borrow it, you lend them something.

"Libraries lend books to the public", right?

So, you can say, "Libraries lend books" or "Libraries lend out books".

If you lend something out to a...

You can lend something out to a friend, for example.

Alright, let's continue, "lift" and "lift up".

This is a case where it's, again, redundant.

To "lift" means to elevate something or raise something, like in an up position.

So, "lift" already means move something up.

So, if you say, "Lift it up", it doesn't add too much, it's kind of redundant, but you're

really emphasizing the lifting, right?

You're like, "Lift", "Lift up", "More", "Lift more", kind of.

"Mix" and "mix up", so if you are cooking something, let's say you're making pancakes,

what do you need to make pancakes?

Okay, it depends if they're vegan, okay.

I'll tell you how I make pancakes.

So, you add some flour, you add some milk, and you add an egg, and you mix it.

And if you really want to emphasize the verb "mix" in that case, you "mix it up", right?

So, "mix up flour with egg and milk".

So, yeah, so first, you know, you take the flour, take the egg, take the milk, and then

mix it up, or mix it.

And "mix up" just adds a little bit more emphasis.

"Pack" and "pack up".

So, if you are preparing for a vacation, you have to pack your clothes, pack the things

you need to bring on the vacation, on your trip, and you can say, "I need to pack things",

or "I need to pack everything", or "I need to pack everything up".

Now, the "up", it's almost like a more complete packing in this case, like you want to make

sure you don't miss anything.

So, if I ask my mother-in-law, she likes to go on vacations a lot, on cruises and things

like that, and, you know, I can ask her, "Oh, are you all packed?" or "Are you all packed

up?"

And if I say, "Are you all packed up?", it means, like, have you packed everything, everything.

So, I'm really emphasizing, "Are you all packed?", "Are you all packed up?"

It's almost like a triple redundancy, like "all packed" and "all packed up".

You can see that you can really emphasize the level of packing in that case.

Return to, return back to.

If you really, really want to emphasize return, right, to return does mean to send something

in the back, in the direction where it came from, right?

So, "Hey, can you return this to my mom?", "Can you return this back to my mom?"

This one, it's almost unnecessary to put the "back" in it.

It is a little redundant because "to return" does mean to, you know, give it in the direction

where it came from, to put it back in that direction.

But you can say, in casual situations, "Return it back to someone."

Next, we have "send" and "send out".

So, if you work at a job and your boss asks you to send an email to the entire team, so

your boss might ask you, "Did you send that email I asked you to send?" or "Did you send

out that email I asked you to send?"

So, "to send out", "to send", again, it means to send it away from you, right?

Like, send it out, away to other people.

So, it already means to send out.

So, you can say "send" or to emphasize, to intensify the verb "send", you can say

"send it out" or "Hey, did you send it?"

"Yeah, I sent it out yesterday."

Next, "shake" and "shake up".

So, to shake, like if I have a...

Here we go.

I have a water bottle.

I can shake the water in this bottle, or if I want to really intensify, I can shake it

up.

I'm shaking up the bottle.

This is similar to "mix" and "mix up", "shake" and "shake up".

So, hey, don't forget to shake up the juice, or don't forget to shake up the bottle before

you drink it, for example.

Okay.

"Sit", "sit down", "stand", "stand up".

I'm going to do these together because you have probably asked the question, "Alex, why

do you say'stand up'?"

"Stand" already means, like, elevate yourself, don't sit or don't lie down.

I can't tell you that.

The reason is it just intensifies the standing, or it intensifies the sitting.

If I just say "sit" or "sit down", I'm really, really emphasizing and intensifying that I

want you to sit.

So, these are very common as imperatives, as commands to people.

"Stand" or "stand up".

Now, if you are in a church and, you know, the priest asks you to stand, normally he

says, "Please stand", but if you're in a more casual situation that is not a religious service,

somebody might say, "Hey, stand up, stand up", like if you're in a karate class or something

like that.

And, you know, you're sitting, listening to your sensei, and he says, "Stand up".

Karate's on my mind because I've been watching Cobra Kai on Netflix, which is a pretty amazing

series, but also a ridiculous series, but I kind of love it.

"Wait" and "wait up".

Similar to "hurry" and "hurry up", you can tell someone to, "Hey, wait", like, "Wait

for me", or, "Hey, wait up", like, "Wait up, wait, don't go".

So, you really want to emphasize, you really want to intensify the waiting in this case.

Next, to "wrap", finally, "wrap" and "wrap up".

So, you can wrap a present, wrap a gift, right?

You take the paper around, you know, for a birthday or for a holiday where you give gifts

to other people, you wrap presents or you wrap up presents.

If you hurt yourself and you need to use a bandage, you need to wrap your arm or you

want to, like, emphasize the wrapping, you can say, "Oh, I need to wrap up my arm", like,

every morning with a clean bandage for the next seven days or something if you have had

a bad accident or something.

Okay, that was a long one, but look, I hope you got some amazing, useful phrasal verbs

in this video, and if you want to make sure that you understand everything and test if

you remember which, you know, is it up, is it on, is it down, is it away, if you want

to test your knowledge of the phrasal verbs, go to www.engvid.com, do the quiz that is

under the video, and let me know how you do in the comments.

Until next time, thanks for clicking, and I'll see you next time.

Wait up, yeah, somebody's waiting, well, they're waiting for me, I got to go, bye.