Sit Down, Get Up, Take Out ✨Most Common Phrasal Verbs (22-24)

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English with Jennifer


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Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English with  Jennifer. As an online teacher, I sit a lot. I  
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teach lessons, I edit, and I create content -- all  at my computer. But there are times when I do lots  
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of chores around the house. As soon as I get up in  the morning, I'm on my feet doing one thing after  
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the other. I water the flowers, do the laundry,  clean the floor, and a dozen other things.  
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Thankfully, my kids help a bit. They  clean the bathroom and take out the trash,  
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for example. Usually sometime after dinner, I  can sit down and relax. What is your day like?  
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Are you busy from the time you get  up until you go to bed? Hopefully,  
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this lesson will give you confidence using three  common phrasal verbs: sit down, get up, take out.
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"Sit down" is easy to understand. You move from  a standing position to a sitting position. This  
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is an intransitive phrasal verb. No object. But  we often combine "sit down" with another verb.
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Sit down and relax. Sit down and talk.  Sit down and chat. Sit down and think.  
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Can we just sit down and talk? A very rude  command is, "Sit down and shut up!" Hopefully,  
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you won't have to order anyone to do that. Now  sit down and shut up! Note how a polite invitation  
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will almost always use this phrasal verb and not  the verb "sit" all by itself. Please. Sit down.  
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Won't you sit down? Would you like to sit down?
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More casually, by the way,  you could say, "Have a seat."  
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Or you could use the idiom  "take a load off your feet."  
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You could use that idiom with the phrasal verb:  Come here. Sit down. Take a load off your fee.
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Sit down. Take a load off your feet, huh?  "Get up" is another common phrasal verb  
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that's easy to understand. It means to rise  from a lying, sitting, or kneeling position.
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"Get up" can also mean to rise after sleeping.  
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Technically, there's a difference between  getting up and waking up. Right? I wake up,  
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but then I need 5 or 10 more minutes  before I get up and start my day.  
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In conversation, the two verbs often overlap  in meaning. What time did you get up today?
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What time do we have to get up tomorrow?
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I have to get up early for school,  but on weekends I sleep late.
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All right. I got to get up early.  "Get up" is often intransitive,  
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but it's possible to wake someone up and get them  out of bed. Right? So, you can get somebody up.  
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Can you get me up at eight tomorrow?  Can you wake me up at eight tomorrow?  
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I think these requests are the same.
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"Take out" means to remove something. This  phrasal verb is transitive and separable. My  
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children take out the trash every Thursday.  They take the trash out on Thursdays.
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Question: What do some TV channels do before  they show a movie with lots of swearing?
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They censor the movie for a general audience. In  other words, they take out all the swear words.  
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There's either silence or substitutions. A second  meaning of "take out" is only for people. When  
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you take someone out, you treat them to dinner, or  you take them to some kind of event, like a movie.
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When was the last time you took someone  out or when someone took you out?
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Let me take you out tomorrow. A third meaning of  "take out" is to obtain. If you take out money  
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from the bank, you're withdrawing money from your  account. If you take out books from the library,  
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you're borrowing those books. And in a legal  sense, you may be obtaining a service of some  
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kind. For example, some people choose  to take out a life insurance policy  
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after they get married or once they have children.  Is this a common practice in your country?  
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On American TV, we often see  commercials for life insurance policies.
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He should take some insurance out  on himself. But first we take out,  
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like a hundred-thousand-dollar life insurance  policy. There are other meanings of "take out,"  
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but we'll stop there. Here are three questions  for you to answer in the comments. When you have  
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a problem with someone, do you sit down and  talk or is there another way you handle it?
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What time do you get up on a weekday?  Is it easy for you to get up early?
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Do you think it's difficult to take out a loan?  
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How about a quick quiz on some of the  other phrasal verbs from earlier lessons?
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Answers. 1. I hate to point out the  obvious, but if you had listened to my  
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advice, you wouldn't be in this situation.  Never take on more than you can handle.  
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Now you have to come up with a plan to finish  all this work. 2. Our Spanish teacher set  
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up afterschool tutoring for anyone who needs  more practice. It's helpful because sometimes  
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I can't pick up all the vocabulary on my  own, and I need someone to help me review.
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Answers. 3. At first, I didn't like our new coach.  He was tough and demanded a lot. I thought I  
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just might give up. But then I made up my mind to  keep going. I'm glad I did. Now I actually look up  
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to the man. He models strength. 4. It took me half  an hour to figure out that last math problem. Then  
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it turned out that we didn't have to do that last  one! Oh well. I'm glad I rose to the challenge.
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That's all for now. Please like the video if you  found it useful. I thank you for sitting down and  
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watching this lesson. Now it's time to get up and  stretch your legs. Go out and breathe some fresh  
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air. Hopefully, you'll be back soon for more. As  always, thanks for watching and happy studies!
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