Phrasal Verbs with "Through" | Essential English for Everyday Conversations

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The word “THROUGH”

means from one side of something to another.

Not OVER it

Not UNDER it. Not AROUND it! But in the MIDDLE of it

But if you add a verb before the word “THROUGH”

Now this explains HOW you got from one side to the other.

For example,

you're on a date.

You see a park.

You don't want to walk around it! No!

You want to go in the MIDDLE of it!

So you say, “Let's walk through the park!”

you can change this verb.

This shows how you went from one side of something to the other.

So maybe you don't want to walk through the park.

Maybe you want to run through the park.

If you feel energetic, or maybe you feel a bit sexy.

So you want to

dance through the park.

If you've watched the other phrasal web videos now,

you know this word shows what happened.

This word shows how it happened.

Similar to one side of something.

To the other side is from the start of something till the end of it.

For example, you are very busy at work

and it's your lunch break, but you don't have time to have lunch.

You need to work from the start of your lunch

break to the end of it.

I'm going to have to work through my lunch break.

again “THROUGH” shows from start to end of something.

In this case, your lunch break and the verb shows

what you're going to do from the start to the end of it.

also notice with these phrasal verbs.

You cannot separate the verb and through.

I'm going to have to work my lunch, break through.

No, that's illegal. Don't do it.

Now you know how this works.

Imagine you're watching a movie with your friends,

and they're really annoying because they were couple and... Ugh!

You want to say: From the start of the movie

until the end, they were talking.

What is that sentence?

I was trying to enjoy the movie and eat my popcorn.

But no, they talked through the movie.

Yes, you could also say they were talking through the movie.

Of course, that's fine too.

I hate people who do this.

Like, why!?

Also, “THROUGH” can mean doing something

from beginning to end with care and consideration.

If you've watched my video on “OVER”

Yes, kind of in the same way as that

for example, this poor guy who worked through his lunch break.

Now his boss gives him a box of documents that she wants him to check.

She wants him to check them carefully

so she could say, I know you're busy,

but can you look through these documents, Check them for errors.

If she says look through something.

Yes. It means from start to finish.

But now it has that feeling of doing something carefully and completely.

and yes, we can change that verb.

Can you just check through these documents?

It means the same thing.

Sure.

Yeah, I'll read them through very carefully.

Do you notice something strange about this?

Yeah.

Earlier I said you can't separate the verb

and through you have to put this at the end.

However, here, read them through carefully.

Huh? HUH!?

Well very specifically when you use “THROUGH”

to mean “WITH CARE”

then it's okay to separate the verb and through.

That's fine.

So with this meaning you have the option, you could have it often,

you could have it in the middle.

Doesn't matter if you're talking about doing it carefully.

And like that.

You just learned 10,000 new English words.

Wait, how?

Well, that's how phrasal verbs work.

If you understand the common meanings of this word, then

you know what happened in any context.

But also the verb shows how this happened.

That's how you learn millions of new words instantly.

and to have a growing playlist of these phrasal verbs,

you can learn the common meanings of these words

to learn millions of new English words instantly.

So we're back with this poor guy.

He probably has to work through his weekend, work through dinner.

Poor guy.

But actually, he's not sure what he has to do with the documents

Check them?

But how?

So he asks his boss.

Sorry, can you explain this?

a very useful phrasal verb to ask someone to explain

something like a process or anything to you is:

Can you run me through this quickly Now don't worry.

This quickly isn't like quickly.

Do it now. It's not demanding.

This quickly is more like, Don't worry about the long explanation.

Just give me the short explanation.

It's fine to use.

It doesn't sound demanding.

as a reply, she could say

Yeah, don't worry,

I'll run through everything with you so you understand.

notice here that the person who receives the explanation

can be here, in the middle.

or here, after.

If you put it after, make sure you use “WITH”

Phrasal verbs are so difficult, right?

But don't worry, I'm going to go through all of them with you so you understand

“GO THROUGH”? Shouldn't it be run through?

Well, actually you can use “GO THROUGH”

to mean “Explain” in the same way as “RUN THROUGH”

but “GO THROUGH” is more general.

You can use this very generally in different ways.

it can actually mean that something bad

happened to you or is happening depending on the tense.

so you're experiencing something difficult, maybe a sickness, maybe

you lost your job, maybe you broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend,

something bad happened or is happening to you.

this poor guy, his wife left him.

I know he's sick right now and the boss hates him.

She always gives him extra work, even at the weekend. Wow.

He's really going through a lot.

Okay, this sentence we know that to go through

can mean experience a difficult or bad time.

So yeah! You could say “He's going through a lot!”

There's a lot of bad things his life right now.

Or if you want to say the moment is very difficult,

you could say, oh, he's going through a tough time.

If you don't know, tough means difficult.

So you can use this if you're studying so hard

that you don't have time for friends, you're working so hard,

you don't have time for your family, you're going through a tough time.

It's very difficult.

or to be more specific, you could say what

that bad situation is! “He's going through....

Okay. His wife left him.

“He's going through a divorce”

if he was sick,

it won't be for something small like the flu.

“He's going through the flu”?

No, that's too small.

This is for something more serious.

Like “He's going through cancer”

“He's going through chemotherapy” that works for this phrasal verb.

Don't use go through for something small!

No, it's something serious.

Now if you change the verb, “GO” in “GO THROUGH” to “GET”

If you “GET THROUGH” something, it means that bad experience is finished

and it was successful and everything is fine.

Now it's finished.

So this is very useful.

If you want to encourage someone, if you want to say don't worry,

you will finish this bad situation successfully, you'll be fine.

Everything's great.

“Hey, don't worry.

I know you're going through a tough time right now, but

you'll get through this!”

With this, we cannot separate the verb and through.

Don't separate it.

It's very illegal.

You will go to prison if you do.

And this means, yes, it's a bad situation.

But don't worry, it will finish successfully.

Let's look at some other examples

Okay, let's make this a nice story.

Let's imagine the boss wants to apologise to the employee.

She says I'm the reason you're in this bad situation.

I put you in this bad situation.

What can she say say?

I'm sorry.

I put you in a bad situation.

You already know that to say

in a bad situation, a bad experience, use “THROUGH”!

But now this.

This is not a full sentence

“I'm sorry I put you through this”

She wants to say that she gave him that bad experience.

That bad time.

of course there are other phrasal verbs

with “THROUGH” which have no logical sense.

They don't have that common meaning.

They don't mean from one side to another from start to end

or put you in a bad experience.

For example, the phrasal verb to “follow through”

It doesn't mean that! This one is very different, but very, very useful.

For example, are you one of those people

who, on January 1st you're, like,

okay, this year I'm going to do yoga every day!

We all know that you're going to do two classes and give up.

That yoga mat is going to live in your closet forever. why?

Because you never follow through on your promises or commitments.

we could also change this into a noun.

We can say you have no follow through.

or let's imagine you accidentally spill your drink.

Lisa from Blackpink

I can't believe you spilled your drink on me, Aly!

You're so handsome.

But I'm so angry.

I'm going to get a lawyer and sue you.

okay. I'm worried.

But my friend Rick says

Don't worry! She doesn't have any follow through!

But what if she is someone who makes a promise

or a commitment and actually does it?

What if she follows through with this?

Oh, no.

This is my lawyer, a**hole!

Let's imagine Lisa actually sues you.

You want to say Oh, my God.

She actually went through with it.

To “GO THROUGH” has that other meaning when you're surprised that

they actually did it, like you doubted that they were actually going to do it!

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another random

phrasal verb with through is to fall through.

When something falls through, that means you had a plan

or a business deal and it stops suddenly and it fails.

For example.

Imagine that your friend

had a plan to go to work in America for Google.

So you ask, Are you still going to America to work?

But she wants to say no.

That plan absolutely failed.

But for some reason, your friend couldn't get the visa.

So she says that plan failed because I couldn't get a visa.

Remember, this is for plans or deals like business deals.

They stop suddenly and they fail.

They fall through.

I plan to go work in Canada for a year.

A while ago.

But I didn't have any money.

So yeah, that plan totally fell through.

Has anything like that happened to you?

Let me know in the comments.

This is my lawyer as well.

This is my lawyer, Ethel.

This is my lawyer. As all My lawyer.

All. I can't believe you spilled your drink on me, Ali.

You're so handsome. But I'm so angry.

I'm going to get a lawyer and I'm going to see you.