4 Phrasal Verbs with PUT - put up, put on, put away, put together

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Hi, guys. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on four phrasal verbs
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with "put". If you'd like to check out more information on phrasal verbs with "put", we
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have another lesson made by myself that you can check on the website, and it's linked
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to this video. Today, we're going to look at four different phrasal verbs with "put".
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The first one is to "put up with something/someone". So any time you see "ST", it means "something"
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in this video, and "SO" means "someone", so to "put up with something or someone". Let's
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look at this sentence and see if we can identify the meaning. So I have, "I hate traffic."
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"I hate traffic, but I have to put up with it." So imagine every day you go to work,
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you must take the metro or your car, and you have to drive. You have to drive through the
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traffic. You hate the traffic, but you have to use it. So in this situation, in this context,
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to "put up with something", to "put up" with traffic means to "tolerate" it. You don't
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like it, but you have to do it, okay? So this means, "to tolerate", okay? Those of you who
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don't know what "tolerate" means, again, it means that you don't like it, but you still
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have to deal with it in some way. And, again, you don't only have to "put up" with things,
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like I "put up" with traffic every day. You can "put up" with people in your life. So
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maybe at work or in your school, university, there are people you don't like, but you see
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them every day and you have to tolerate them, you have to "put up" with them, okay?
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All right, guys, so No. 2, we have to "put something on". This is a separable phrasal
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verb, so this means the (ST) can actually go in the middle of the phrasal verb or at
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the end of the phrasal verb. So the sentence is, "Put on your jacket." It's also possible
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to say, "Put your jacket on." Based on the context of this sentence, I think it's easy
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to see that to "put on" means to, you know, "cover yourself" with clothing. And it's not
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only clothing - basically, anything that you can put on your body, like jewelry -- "to
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cover your body with clothing or jewelry". So the most common context is to put on clothing,
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so, "Put on your socks." "Put on your shirt." "Put on your pants." Whatever it is. Okay.
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No. 3, to "put something away." Just like "put on", to "put away" is a separable phrasal
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verb, which means you can put the object, the (ST), in the middle of the phrasal verb
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or at the end of the phrasal verb. So, "Put away your books. It's time for the test."
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So the context here is: You're in class. The teacher says, "Put away your books. It's time
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for the test." You can't look at your books, right? So where do you put your book? Well,
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most students put them in a backpack, right? Your bag. So to "put something away" means
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you have to "put it in an appropriate place". So the appropriate place for your books is
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your school bag. So "to put in an appropriate place", so a place where that is expected
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that you would put that thing or whatever it is, okay?
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And finally, we have to "put something together". And once more, this is a separable phrasal
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verb, so you can put the object in the middle or at the end. Let's look at the sentence.
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"I hate putting together new furniture." So if you go to IKEA, which is a really popular
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furniture store, when you go home, you have to put the furniture together. It doesn't
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come as one piece. You have to work with it. And to "put it together" means to "assemble
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it", "complete it". So this means, "to assemble", okay? So kids can "put things together" if
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they play with Legos, or if you are good with computers, you can "put together" a new computer,
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or in this case -- this is something that I'm very familiar with -- you "put together"
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new furniture.
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Okay, guys. So once more, those four phrasal verbs are to "put up with something or someone".
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You don't like it, but you have to do it, okay? So you "put up" with traffic -- "put
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up" with people. "Put something on": to cover your body with clothing or jewelry. "Put something
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away": to put it in an appropriate place. And to "put something together" means to "assemble" something.
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And if you'd like to test your knowledge of this material, as always, you can check out the quiz on www.engvid.com.
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Good luck, and take care.
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