MOST COMMON Phrasal Verbs with PULL, TAKE, GET (With QUIZZES)

Would you like to add the most common  phrasal verbs to your vocabulary? Well,  

that's what you'll do in this video.  Welcome back to JForrest English,  

I'm Jennifer. And today you're going to learn  the most common phrasal verbs with pull,  

take and get. Plus, you'll complete  quizzes along the way. Let's get started.

First, let's review the most common  phrasal verbs with pull and at the end,  

you'll complete a quiz to pull off  a task. When you pull off a task,  

it means that you successfully completed a  difficult task. For example, let's say that  

your boss asks your team to double their sales  by the end of the month. That's a difficult task.

So you might say, I don't  know how we'll pull this off,  

how will accomplish complete this difficult  task. I don't know how we'll pull this off.  

But let's say you do double your sales after  you can say, I can't believe we pulled it off,  

I can't believe we did it. We  completed this difficult task.

And often to reassure someone when  they're completing a difficult task,  

you can say don't worry, I know you'll  pull it off, you'll pull it off,  

you'll achieve, you'll complete this  difficult task to pull up a document.

This is a must know phrasal verb because when  you pull up a document, you make that document  

visible on your device. It could be a computer,  laptop, phone, tablet, it doesn't matter. But it  

has to be a device. So if you're in a meeting, you  might say give me a second to pull up that report.

Give me a second to make that report visible on  the screen. Now you can also use this with social  

situations. You might be having coffee with  a friend and then you pull up some vacation  

photos. You make those photos visible on your  screen and you share them with your friends.

And it's very common to hear this when  you're calling any sort of customer  

support or client support. Let's say  you're making a dentist appointment.

They're going to first say can I have your  name please? And then they'll say give me a  

second to pull up your file because on your  file it's all the important information,  

but they need to make that file visible on  their screen. Pull up. Now we also use pull  

up with vehicles, so if you're driving  and you want to pull up to a store.

It means you're going to slowly  approach that store. Now you may  

or may not stop. You may just  slowly approach that store.

Read their hours of operation and then keep  driving. Or you may pull up to that store,  

slowly approach the store, and stop your  car. Here's an example of me pulling up to  

my mailbox. So notice how I slowly approach  my mailbox. I'm seeing if there's any mail,  

but notice I don't stop. I keep going.

Don't confuse this with pull over because  you can also pull your vehicle over. Now  

when you pull over, it means you're  driving and you bring your vehicle to  

the side of the road and you stop.  So you always stop when you pull.

Over. So if you're in a taxi or an Uber,  you might say, oh, you can pull over by  

the greenhouse. You can take the car to the side  of the road and stop by the greenhouse. Now we  

also use this with the police, because if you're  driving and you hear a siren behind you, well.

You have to pull over. You have to  bring your car to the side of the  

road and come to a complete stop. So  here you can see me pulling over next  

to the mailbox. I'm coming to a complete  stop. Now you can also pull in and out of.

A parking spot or a garage or some enclosed  space for your vehicle. So when you enter  

the parking spot or garage you're pulling in.  I'm pulling into my garage and when you exit,  

you're pulling out. You're pulling out  of the parking spot or pulling out of  

the garage. So you might say, make sure  you look both ways before you pull out.

Or this is a tight space. Make sure you  pull in slowly or carefully. So here you  

can see I'm pulling into my driveway  which is a confined space and now you  

can see I'm pulling out of my driveway.  We also use pull in and out for a chair.

So when you bring the chair closer to  the table, you're pulling the chair in.  

When you bring your chair farther away from  the table, you're pulling your chair out.

So if you're in a busy restaurant  and you're trying to pass by someone,  

you might say, oh, excuse me, can you  pull in your chair so I can pass by?  

Can you bring your chair closer to  the table so there's more room for  

me to pass by? Or if you're too close to the  table, then you need to pull your chair out,  

and traditionally men will pull out the  chair for a woman to have a seat. Maybe.

Maybe that's a little oldfashioned these  days. Now you can also pull out of an event,  

and that means you withdraw from that event, so  you no longer participate. And that event can be  

a race, a competition, or even an election. So  let's say there's a competition for a position.

At your company and there are five people  competing for this one position. Now maybe  

Sarah decides to pull out. She pulls out of  the competition, which means she's no longer.

Trying to get that position, she withdraws from  the competition. Or maybe you're competing in  

a marathon, but you hurt your leg the week  before, so you have to pull out of the race.

You can also pull something apart,  which means something is a hole,  

and then you separate it into individual pieces,  which is to pull apart. So something simple like  

an orange or a grapefruit that has individual  pieces, you can pull it apart. You can also pull  

apart electronics or more complicated things  as well to pull oneself together. This is a.

A great one. This means to regain  your composure after you're upset,  

worried, anxious, or in a extreme emotional state.

And to regain your composure just simply means  to calm down. So if you're really agitated,  

maybe you got pulled over by the police and  your heart is beating so fast and you're really  

anxious. Your friend in the passenger  seat might say pull yourself together,  

pull yourself together. Which is another way  to say calm down, regain your composure. So go.

From really anxious to pull yourself together, to  pull through means to survive or to successfully  

recover from an illness. So we use this in a  health context. So let's say that Greg had a  

major heart attack, but thankfully he pulled  through. He survived that major heart attack.

Now let's say Greg has that major  heart attack and then he's in the  

hospital. You talk to the doctor and  the first thing you're going to say is,  

is Greg going to pull through? Is  he going to pull through? Is he  

going to survive? Is he going to recover? The  doctor might say, I think he'll pull through.

Or maybe it's too soon to tell if  he'll pull through. And finally to  

pull together. This is when  you work together as a team.

So remember that team had to double their sales by  the end of the month. Will they pulled together to  

pull it off to complete that difficult challenge?  And after the boss might say I'm really impressed  

by how your team pulled together. It's  amazing that everyone pulled together  

to pull it off. Now you know the most common  phrasal verbs with pull Are you ready for your?

Quiz. Here are your questions. So now hit  pause and take as much time as you need  

to complete the quiz. And when you're  ready, hit play to see the answers.  

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So how did you do with that quiz? Share your score  in the comments. And what was your favorite poll?  

Phrasal verb? Share that as well. And now  let's move on and talk about phrasal verbs  

with take to take off. This is used when  a flight leaves the ground. For example,  

tomorrow my flight takes off at 7:00 AM.  Or What time did your flight take off?

So this is another way of simply  saying, what time did your flight leave?  

Now, we also use this phrasal verb to  talk about a person leaving a location.  

So you might be at a party and it's getting  late, you have an early meeting, and you say  

thanks for the party. I'm going  to take off, I'm going to leave.

Or someone might ask you, what time did you  take off last night? What time did you leave  

now? Take off is also used to remove an item of  

clothing. So at night before you  get into your pajamas, you take.

Off your.

Clothes. Right before you get into the shower,  

you take off your clothes. I can also take  off my makeup, which means to remove or if.

It's really hot in the room, you  might say. Oh, it's so hot in here,  

I need to take off my sweater. Or when  you come into the house and it's cold out,  

you take off your jacket, you take off your shoes,  you take off your hat, you take off your gloves,  

take off your sunglasses. So you  can take off an item of clothing,  

but you can also take off accessories  like rings, makeup, glasses as well.

Take off can also mean to become successful.  For example, after I improved my English  

speaking skills, my career really took off. My  career became successful, my career took off.

Or I could say overnight my  YouTube channel took off. My  

YouTube channel became successful. So many  different phrasal verbs would take off,  

but they're all commonly used, so make sure  you learn all these individual meanings.

To take after someone. When you take after  someone, you resemble them in either personality  

or appearance, and this is most commonly  used with family members. For example,  

it's very common for a son to take after  his dad, which means he looks like him.  

They look very similar. But you might  also say Julie is so funny, she really.

Really takes after Uncle Frank. So maybe  Uncle Frank is really funny. He's always  

telling these hilarious jokes. And  then Julie is also really funny.  

She takes after Uncle Frank. So you can  use this with personality or appearance.

To take apart. When you take something apart, you  disassemble it so it goes from being whole, one  

complete item, and then you disassemble it into  individual parts. So if your car isn't working,  

you might take apart the motor or take apart the  engine to try to figure out what the problem is.

You might also take apart a desk or  take apart a bed when you're getting  

rid of it when you're removing it from your home,  

because it's easier to move when it's in  individual parts rather than one big structure.

To take back. When you take something back,  it means that you return a purchased item to  

the store for a refund. So let's  say you bought a pair of shoes.

At the store, you come home and you  realize they don't fit very well or  

you just don't really like them well, you  can take them back. So you go to the store,  

you return the shoes and you get your  money back. Now, we only use this when  

you physically go to the store. So with online  purchases, we actually don't use the phrasal  

verb take back. So if you order something  from Amazon and you don't like it and you.

Want a refund? We simply say I returned the shoes  I bought from Amazon or I sent back. I sent back  

the shoes. So just keep that in mind. We only use  take back when you physically go to the store.  

You can also take someone back, which means  you reunite a previous romantic relationship.

So let's say that Rob and Julie were a  couple last year, but then they broke up,  

they ended their relationship. But then Rob,  he begs Julie, please take me back please.

Accept me again as your romantic partner. Please  take me back. But Julie's friend might say,  

don't take Rob back. Why would you  take Rob back? You shouldn't take  

Rob back to take on When you  take on a project or a task,  

it simply means that you accept that project  or task. For example, your boss might ask.

Team who has time to take this on?  Who has time to take on this new  

project or this new client? And  you might say I can take it on.

I can take it on. So you accept  that responsibility for that job.  

You can also take over a responsibility,  a project, a task, which means that you  

assume responsibility from another person.  So let's say Julie took on the project,  

but then Julie decided to  go on a three-week vacation.

So your boss might ask you to take over, so  the responsibility goes from Julie to you.  

Hey Maria, can you take over this project  while Julie's on vacation? Or it can be  

can you just take over this project so it can be  permanent, it becomes your project permanently,  

or it can just be a temporary situation  while someone is sick or on vacation.

To take someone out. When you take someone  out, it means you invite them for an activity,  

such as having a meal together  or going to the movies together,  

but you pay for that activity.  For example, let's say it's.

Your birthday. Well, your husband, your best  friend, your mother, your sister might take  

you out for dinner, which means they invite you  for dinner and they also pay for dinner. That's  

the important part. Or they might take  you out for a nice night at the movies,  

and you go to the movies together, or maybe  to the amusement park so you can do other.

Activities, But it's mainly used with meals.  So maybe your friend says, why would you  

take Rob back? Why would you take Rob back? He  didn't even take you out for your birthday. Oh,  

he didn't invite you out for dinner and then pay  for that meal. You can take up a new hobby or  

activity, which means you start that new hobby  or activity so you could tell your friends I.

Decided to take up karate, which means you  decided to start karate lessons as a new  

hobby or activity. Or your friend might  say I didn't know you took up dancing.

I didn't know you started dancing as a  hobby or activity, so now you know the  

most common phrasal verbs would take Are you  ready for your quiz? Here are the questions,  

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Amazing job. Now let's review the common  phrasal verbs with get and you'll complete  

a quiz at the end to get ahead. This means to  progress, so to make progress towards something,  

and we most commonly use this in a career  setting or academic setting. For example,  

if you want to get ahead, you need fluent English.

Would you?

Agree with that. Put that.

But in the comments, if you want to get ahead,  you need fluent English. Now notice how I didn't  

specify get ahead in. What if you want to get  ahead at work in your career, So don't forget  

that. But you can also just say if you want to  get ahead to get along with. Most students know  

this one. Do you know this one? When you get  along with someone, it means you have a good.

Relationship with that person.  I really get along with my boss,  

but we commonly use this in the negative. I  don't get along with my boss, so you can use  

it in both the positive or the negative. So which  describes you? I get along with my boss, I don't.

Get along with my boss.

To get away, this means to escape. So you can  use this in two contexts. The criminal got away,  

so that means he escaped, The robber  got away, he stole my car and he got  

away. He escaped. But we also use this  more in the sense of to escape from.

Your daily life. The difficulties of your daily  life. Oh, I really need to get away. Work has been  

so busy. I don't get along with my boss. I need to  get away. Another common phrasal verb with getaway  

is to get away with something, and that something  is negative. For example, she got away with.

The crime. This means she wasn't punished  for the crime, so she did something wrong,  

but she got away with it. She got away with  stealing the car. Notice that verb ING with  

stealing the car to get off lightly. This  is when you are punished for something,  

but you're punished less severely than you and.

Anticipated. So maybe you forgot to submit a  report at work, but you got off lightly. Your  

boss didn't fire you, but they did remove you  from the account. So you were punished. But you  

were punished less severely than you expected.  We also use this more in a criminal context.

She stole the car, but she got off  lightly, so maybe she didn't go to prison,  

She only had to do community service to get  back. This is used to say that you return to  

your original starting point. So let's say  you're at home, but then you go to the store  

and then you return back home.  So now you can say I got back.

At 7:00. O'clock. What time did you get back?  Now you can specify the place. What time did  

you get back home? Back to the office? Oh,  I got back around 7:00. We commonly use  

this with your vacations. What time did you  get back from your trip to Italy? Oh, I got  

back on Tuesday. You returned home from Italy.  There is also the phrasal verb to get back to.

Someone you might say, oh, I  really need to get back to John.  

When you get back to someone it means you  respond to that person. So if I say I need  

to get back to John, it means that John contacted  me. But I have not replied. So maybe he asked me  

a question and I have not answered his  question. I need to get back to John.

Or you, John, might say, when are you  going to get back to me? When are you  

going to respond to my question?  When you get back into something,  

it means you continue doing something  that you stopped for a period of time.

So let's say you decided to learn  how to play guitar or piano,  

and you play guitar every week for months  and months and months. And then you stop  

playing guitar. You get very busy at work,  but then work is no longer busy. So you say.

I need to get back into guitar. I need  to get back into my guitar lessons. So  

maybe you could use this with your  language lessons. I need to get back  

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let's continue on with our next get phrasal  verb. To get back at someone, this is used.

For revenge.

So if you didn't get back to John,  

which means you didn't reply to John  and you didn't answer his question.

Maybe John will try to get back  at you. He'll try to get revenge  

on you. So maybe he'll tell everyone that  you're not very helpful and that's how he  

gets back at you to get behind someone  or something. This is when you support  

someone or something. So let's say  your company has a new policy on.

Their.

Dress code and you like the policy, you can say.

I can really get behind that policy. You support  that policy to get by. This is when you have just  

enough resources to survive. We most commonly  use this with financial resources, so you might  

say with inflation, I can barely get by. So it  means you can pay your bills, pay your mortgage.

Buy groceries, but just enough.  At the end of the month you have  

one or $2.00 left in your account. I'm.

Getting by.

To get into trouble. I'm sure you do this all  

the time. When you get into  trouble, it just means you.

Enter that situation where you're doing  something you're not supposed to be doing,  

which is the trouble. So kids get into  trouble all the time. That's why you don't  

leave your kids at home without an adult to  supervise them, because they're going to get.

Into.

Trouble. They're going to write on all  the walls with crayon or eat all the.

Cookies in the fridge, They're  going to get into trouble.

To get on this is when you board,  which means to enter certain vessels,  

certain methods of transportation. So you can  get on a plane, a train, a boat or a bus. I  

got on the plane you entered the plane you  boarded. The plane to get on is also used.

As an expression to say that someone is  old or has become very old. So you might  

say my grandma is getting on, which means  my grandma is now quite old. She's become  

very old. My grandma's getting on, so she has  difficulty getting on a plane. Now what's the  

opposite of on? I'm on the plane, I got  on the plane, so now I need to get off.

The plane.

And remember, you only get off certain  methods of transportation. Planes,  

trains, boats and buses. This is my stop.  I need to get off the bus, get off the.

Train.

For vehicles, cars, vans or trucks, you get in.

And get out of.

I got in my car.

I got out of my car so don't confuse those two.  We also use get in when you enter a room in a  

building or enter a house or a location, so  this is very common at work. A coworker could  

ask you oh what time did you get in? They  mean what time did you enter the office?

So you can also use it to mean what time did  you start your work day. Because when you enter  

the office building, technically you've started  work. So what time did you get in is another way  

of saying what time did you start work now. In  this case, although the opposite of in is out,  

we have an expression to get off  which means to end work for the day.

So someone could ask you, oh, what time do you get  off today? What time do you usually get off? What  

time are you getting off tomorrow? This means what  time do you finish work? Do you end work just for  

the day to get out is also used as an expression  of disbelief. So let's say your friend tells you.

I won.

The lottery. Get out.

Get out. Get out of here. Get out of town. So  you can add get out of here. Or less commonly,  

but still common, get out of town. It's  just to show that I can't believe it.  

What? Get out. Get out. So if your friend  says something very shocking or surprising,  

I'm moving to Antarctica. Get out. Get  out of town. Why? Why are you doing that?

When you get out of something or get out of  doing something, it means you avoid doing  

something unpleasant. So I could say I need  to get out of cleaning the garage because  

that's unpleasant and I don't want to do  it to get together. This is when people.

Organize socially. They join each  other socially. So I might ask,  

what time are we getting together tonight?  So what time are we going to meet each other,  

Join each other and have dinner? Have a cup of  coffee? Go for a walk? Do something social. Now,  

if you specify the noun you need with, what  time are you getting together with your friends?

Tonight. You probably know this one to get  up. What time do you get up? This is when you  

leave your bed in the morning. First thing in the  morning. So what time do you wake up? This is when  

you open your eyes. But then get up is when you  actually leave your bed. So I wake up at 6:00 AM,  

but I don't get up until 6:30. But how  about this one? Get up to what did you get?

Up to last night. This is a common way of simply  asking what someone did. Oh, what did you get up  

to last night? Oh, not much. I watched a movie.  We also use this one though, to imply that  

someone is doing something wrong. My kids are  always getting up to no good. This is the same  

thing as getting into trouble, but in a general  context. Oh, what did you get up to last night?

It's what did you do last night to get across  this is to communicate your ideas successfully.  

So as a non-native speaker you might say I have a  hard time getting my ideas across. I have a hard  

time communicating successfully and if you  have a hard time getting your ideas across,  

someone might ask you what are you  getting at? What are you getting at?

This is another way of saying, what are you  trying to communicate? What do you mean?  

So if you're trying to explain something  but the other person doesn't understand,  

they can say what are you getting at. Now, to get  at can also mean to successfully reach something  

or find something or obtain something.  So let's say I have a shelf and I have.

A hat on a very high shelf I might  say. I can't get at my hat. I can't  

reach my hat. To get rid of this is  when you throw away so permanently  

remove unwanted items. So remember I said  I wanted to get out of cleaning my garage?

Because there's so many things I need to get  rid of. There's so many unwanted things in  

my garage that I want to permanently  remove. So maybe once a year you can  

go through your entire house and get rid  of things, Get rid of unwanted things To  

get wound up about something is when you get  really angry about something, so let's say.

Your father doesn't like politics in general,  so every time he sees something in the news  

about politicians, he gets wound up. He gets  really angry. But you might say to your dad,  

get over it, get over it. To get over  something is when you tell someone.

They shouldn't have strong  feelings towards something else,  

and those strong feelings are  usually negative feelings. So if.

Your dad gets really.

Wound up about politics? You can say, oh,  just get over it. It's not a big deal.  

You can, of course, get over  someone. Do you know this one?

When you get over someone, it means you  no longer have romantic feelings for that  

person. So after my divorce, it took me  years to get over my husband. It took me  

years to stop having romantic feelings towards  my husband. Now someone could say get over it.

Stop being upset about the  situation that you're no.

Longer.

With your husband, but that might.

Be a little insensitive.

You can also get over an illness, which  means you recover from an illness. It  

took me weeks to get over my cold. It  took me weeks to recover from my cold.

To get around, this is how you travel  within an area, so if you're a tourist,  

you might Google What's the best  way to get around New York City?

And of course, it's not by car.  You don't want to get around by  

car because the traffic is terrible. So  walking is the best way to get around. Or  

taking the subway is the best way to get  around New York City. When you get around  

to something or to doing something,  it means you finally do something.

After not doing it for a long period  of time. So let's say I was trying  

to get out of cleaning the garage  because I didn't really want to get.

Rid of.

All that unwanted stuff, but I finally  got around to cleaning the garage.

So I finally clean the garage after a long  time of not cleaning the garage to get it  

together is when you take control  of your life or your emotions. So  

let's say your friend is really upset  because she broke up with her husband.

And she has not gotten over him. And you  want to tell your friend to just get over it,  

but instead you tell your friend, get it together,  Get it together. You need to take control of your  

emotions because your friend is crying all  the time or she's really upset. She's really.

Moody, angry, not pleasant to be around, and you  tell your friend you need to get it together,  

which is a little bit of tough love, but  sometimes it's necessary. There are many  

phrasal verbs with that through that have  different meanings. When you get through  

something, it means you endure or  deal with a difficult situation.

It was really difficult for me  to get through my father's death,  

so my father died. Obviously that's  a difficult situation. Hopefully you  

don't say get over it because  that would be very insensitive.

But I had a hard time getting through my  father's death. So you can use this in a  

personal situation. You can use it in  a work situation as well. I don't get  

along with my boss, so I have a hard  time getting through our meetings. I  

have a hard time dealing with our meetings  because I don't get along with my boss.

When you get through something, it can  also mean that you successfully finish  

something that was very difficult or time  consuming. I finally got through the report.

So you finished it, but it took  you a really long time. It was.

Difficult.

When you get through to someone, it  means that you successfully contact  

them after numerous attempts of trying  to contact them. So let's say I needed  

to get back to John. I needed to respond  to John, but every time I called John.

I got his voicemail. I could say I'm  having a hard time getting through to John,  

so I can't get back to John because I can't get  through to him. But we also use to get through to  

someone when you're able to communicate something  to someone in a way that they they understand it.

So I told my friend that she shouldn't quit her  job and I explained all the reasons why and I  

finally got through to her. So I finally made  her understand why she shouldn't quit her job.

Your head is probably spinning right now  with all of these phrasal verbs with get,  

but all you need is some practice, practice,  practice, and repetition. So let's do that  

right now with a quiz so you have a chance to  review and practice these get phrasal verbs.

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