3-Word Phrasal Verbs: put up with, get around to, make up for...

"Hey."

"Yeah."

"So, have you gotten around to talking to your neighbour about the noise upstairs?"

"No, you really shouldn't have to put up with that."

"Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Take care of it.

Okay?"

"Alright.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing you, too."

"Alright.

Bye.

Talk to you soon.

Bye."

Huh.

Noisy neighbours.

Hey, everyone.

I'm Alex.

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And welcome to this video on three-word phrasal verbs.

So, we are only looking at phrasal verbs with three words in them in this video.

And we're going to look at ten of them.

What is great about all these phrasal verbs is they are all transitive, which means they

all need some type of object at the end of them.

So, you don't have to ask, "Is it transitive?

Is it intransitive?"

These are all transitive.

They all need an object.

And if you enjoy learning about phrasal verbs, or if you don't enjoy learning about phrasal

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So, for the main meaning of a phrasal verb, you have four examples per phrasal verb.

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So, let's start with the 10 three-word phrasal verbs in this video.

Number one, "come up with something".

So, if you come up with something, you invent or you create something.

This can be a plan, a strategy, an excuse, a story, an idea.

For example, "We need to come up with a strategy to attract more clients."

"David is always coming up with excuses."

"You need to come up with a plan."

So, to create a plan or to think of a plan, invent a plan.

So, if you come up with something, you invent it, you create it, you think of it.

You need to use your creativity to come up with something.

Next, "to get along with someone".

If you get along with someone or don't get along with someone, well, first, let's do

get along with someone.

You have a good relationship with them or you are on friendly terms with them.

If you don't get along with someone, you don't have a good relationship with them, you are

not on friendly terms with them.

For example, "Do you get along with your brother?"

Do you?

I don't know.

Do you have a good relationship with your brother?

Are you on friendly terms with your brother?

Maybe at work, you get along with your boss and say, "Yeah, my boss is great.

We get along very well."

Or, "My job is okay, but I don't really get along with my boss.

We have different philosophies about what we should be doing in the company or what

the company should be focusing on, so we don't really get along.

We're not on super friendly terms, but maybe you can still be professional."

Next, get around to something.

So, if you get around to something, this relates to procrastination.

So, when you don't get around to something, it's because you have been avoiding it.

You haven't been wanting to do it.

So, to finally do something you have been avoiding or to finally do something that you

need to do, for example, "I finally got around to renewing my passport."

So, imagine your boyfriend or your girlfriend says, "You need to renew your passport."

"Yeah, yeah.

I know.

I know.

I will get around to it."

And you keep avoiding it, and you keep avoiding it, and eventually you said, "Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Fine.

I finally got around to renewing my passport.

I finally did what I needed to do."

And again, if you live with a roommate, and your roommate is responsible for washing the

dishes today, and you look in the sink, and the dishes are still there, and it's 3 o'clock,

it's 5 o'clock, it's 8 o'clock, 8 o'clock at night, you ask your roommate, "Hey, are

you going to get around to washing the dishes tonight?

Are you going to eventually do them?"

Okay?

So, if you get around to something, you finally do what you need it to do.

And all of these, by the way, if you follow them with an activity, it must be a verb plus

-ing.

So, "get around to washing the dishes".

Okay.

Put up with someone or something, so this means to tolerate someone or something.

So, it's unpleasant, but you will survive.

You have to deal with them because maybe you work with them or something like that.

So, for example, "I have to put up with traffic every day."

Imagine that you drive a car to work every day, and you have no other choice.

That is how you get to work every day.

So, you know you have to tolerate the traffic, so you have to put up with the traffic.

Now, you can also put up with a person.

It's like, "Do you like her?"

"No, I just put up with her."

It's a terrible thing to say.

Maybe, you know, you have a roommate and you're sharing a space together because it's a really

expensive apartment and you needed two people.

So, you can put up with people, meaning that you tolerate them, you don't really like them.

Maybe you know what I'm talking about, yeah.

Alright.

Next, "look forward to something".

So, this means to anticipate something in the future or to be excited about something

that is coming in the future.

So, think, "look forward", "forward", the future is forward, the future is ahead.

So, "I'm looking forward to seeing you."

Now, you can look forward to a birthday party, so say, "Oh, I'm looking forward to my birthday

party."

Oh, Deborah is really looking forward to her vacation, for example.

So, if you're anticipating, like, "I can't wait", you have a day on your calendar when

something is going to happen and you keep looking at that date and say, "It's almost

here.

It's almost here.

I'm looking forward to seeing Michael Buble in concert", for example.

Alright.

So far, we have "come up with", "get along with", "get around to", "put up with", "look

forward to".

Let's do five more.

Next up, we have "look up to someone".

So, if you look up to someone, you admire them, you respect them, you see them as a

role model.

So, a role model is a person you want to emulate in some way because of their character, their

positive characteristics, their personality, or the way they conduct themselves in life.

You want to be like them in some way.

So, when I was a kid, I looked up to my uncle.

Maybe my uncle was a very kind man.

I really liked the way he treated other people.

Maybe he was successful, maybe he was athletic, and I wanted to imitate him in that way.

So, if you look up to someone, you admire them.

You can look up to athletes if you are a young athlete yourself.

Many basketball players today probably look up to LeBron James or Steph Curry in the NBA,

in the United States, for example.

So, let me ask you, who did you look up to when you were a kid?

Hmm.

Next, "look down on".

So, if you look down on someone or something, hmm, you feel superior to someone.

You feel superior to something.

It is lower than you.

It's not nice to look down on someone or something.

So, like I said, to feel superior to someone and see them as lower than you, or to not

respect someone or something.

So, for example, you shouldn't look down on other people.

Maybe you have a musical taste and you feel your musical taste is the greatest musical

taste, and people who don't share the same musical taste are lower than you or less than

you, and you look down on them.

So, when I was a teenager, I was really into heavy metal, actually.

Like for a while, for like three years, maybe four years, Metallica was my favorite band.

And if you didn't like Metallica and you liked pop music and you liked the Backstreet Boys

and Britney Spears, I looked down on you.

Because I was a teenager and Britney Spears is awesome, actually.

I kind of like her songs now.

Same with Backstreet Boys, "You are my fire".

That's terrible singing, but great song.

It's a very good song.

Okay.

So, did you look down on anyone or look down on any type of music when you were younger,

you felt superior?

Maybe you liked reggaeton, and anybody who didn't like reggaeton, you looked down on

them.

Okay.

"Live up to something or someone".

So, if you live up to something, you meet certain expectations that people have.

So, you can live up to expectations, you can live up to hype.

Hype is like the excitement level for a movie or a new album or a new book.

Or to match someone's character or achievements.

So, most sons hope to live up to their fathers or hope to live up to their father's expectations

of them, for example.

Daughters too, maybe to their mother's expectations or their father's expectations.

That movie, it didn't live up to the hype.

This means it didn't meet all of the advertising that said, "This is the greatest movie ever.

It's incredible.

It's going to be amazing.

Wow.

Look at these graphics."

And if it didn't live up to the hype, it didn't meet your expectations.

Maybe the expectations are here for you, like, "Oh, I'm so excited for this movie."

But when you saw the movie, "Eh, it's about here.

It didn't live up to my expectations."

Okay.

"To keep up with someone or something".

So very, you know, practically, to keep up with someone, if someone is running and you

maintain the same pace, the same speed, you stay beside them, you can follow them and

you're not far behind.

If you're at the same level as someone, you are keeping up with them.

Now, you can keep up with people.

You can also keep up with things like the news.

So if you regularly read the news, you keep up with the news.

So here is an example sentence, "I haven't been keeping up with the news."

So if someone tells you, "Oh, did you hear what happened in X, Y, and Z country?"

And you can say, "No, what happened?

Sorry.

I haven't been."

It's like saying, "I haven't been following the news.

I haven't been keeping up with the news", you can say.

You can also keep up with what someone is doing.

So if you have, let's say, a favourite writer and you read all of their books, you can say,

"Oh, yeah.

I keep up with everything they write.

I stay up to date.

Like, I don't miss anything about what they do."

Finally, make up for something.

So if you have to make up for something, it's because you did something bad.

So if you do something bad, you have to compensate for it by doing something good, to balance

the scales of justice.

That's a very dramatic way to think about it, but, "I'm sorry, Diana, I'll make up for

my mistakes.

Like, I promise you, I will make up for it."

Okay?

So this means, "I will do something that will hopefully make you forgive me.

I want you to forgive me.

I'll make up for my mistakes.

I did something bad to Diana in this example.

Not me, the character that I have created."

Okay, so we have, "to look up to someone", "to look down on someone or something", you're

superior and, hmm, it's not nice, "live up to something or someone", "keep up with someone

or something", and "to make up for something".

So, those are 10 three-word phrasal verbs.

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