3 Phrasal Verbs: Listen to, Look at, Talk to or with - Go Natural English Online Lessons

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hey guys I'm Gabby Wallace
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and this a quick tip from gonaturalenglish
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I want to remind you to use prepositions after 3 very popular verbs
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in grammar we call verbs plus prepositions Phrasal Verbs
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so you know that when you use these verb you need to include the preposition
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the first verb is listen, I listen... music
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what 's the preposition that we need?
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that's right I listen to music
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always always always I listen to something
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I listen to music every day
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so when you hear people speak at a natural speed, you barely hear the preposition but it's there
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I listen to music it does't sound like to it sounds like T
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very brief but it's there. So it's important to include it, if you want to have really perfect english
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ok the next one is talk, I talk to my friends on the phone
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you could also say I talk with; either one is fine. They have little bit different meaning but there are basically synonyms
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so I talk to my colleagues, I talk to my friends about something
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just remember I talk to, I talk to my friends
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and last look, I heard so many people say "look this"; that is incorrect
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we need the preposition between look and the object
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so what is it? at ,that's right 'look at this'
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or look at me or look at her or look at John
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look at something always look at then the object
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you can also use the verb 'to look at' to mean your thinking about something
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like I'm looking at changing schools or I'm looking at changing majors
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or I'm looking at moving to another city
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so you are thinking about doing something
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so there are 3 verbs that I reminded to you to use prepositions with today
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hope you can remember them listen to, talk to, and look at
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so please remember to use prepositions with these verbs
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so that you can perfect your english
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that is your tip today from gonaturalenglish and I'll see you all next time
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bye
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