PHRASAL VERB BANG

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This is the Rachel’s English 30-day challenge: Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days: jumpstart
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your vocabulary in 2017.
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Today is day 2, and we’re studying ‘bang’ phrasal verbs.
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I used the phrasal verb “bang out” not long ago, and so when I started thinking of
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what verbs to use for the 30-day challenge, I immediately thought of ‘bang’.
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When we bang something out, we do it quickly, without nuance, without being totally careful
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or precise about what you’re doing.
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The sentence I used it in is, “I can bang it out on the piano.”
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I can’t play well, but I can get through it.
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I can bang it out.
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Probably playing loudly.
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You can also bang out something like a report.
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Oh, I don’t have much time, I’m just going to bang out the report.
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Quickly, without as much attention to detail as you would like to take or as you could
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take.
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You can bang out something you write like an article, a book.
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Bang it out.
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Actually just the other day, I found someone banging something out on the piano.
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>> Stoney, are you banging out a tune?
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Banging away can mean the same thing: she banged away at the piano.
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She played without much skill.
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But it can also mean something opposite, to really work on something over time, to work
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hard.
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That’s the opposite of quickly banging out a report.
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He banged away at the speech for days.
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Bang down: we tend to use this a lot with ‘fist’.
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You might bang your fist down on the table.
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Loud, forceful.
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If you bang into someone or something, you hit it with your body.
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You might bang into a desk or bang into someone as you’re rushing down the street.
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Bang. Ow!
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If you bang into something, you might get banged up.
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If you get banged up, you’re injured, hurt.
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It can range from something small to something serious: He was in a car accident and was
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banged up pretty badly.
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The word ‘bang’ is pronounced with the B sound, and then the AA vowel followed by
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the NG nasal consonant.
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When the AA vowel is followed by NG, it’s no longer the pure AA vowel, but something
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more like the diphthong AY.
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So not baa- baang, but bay-, ay-, bang.
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Jaw drops at the beginning, bang, then comes up as the back of the tongue reaches up for
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the soft palate.
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Bang, bang.
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To review, ‘bang out’ and ‘bang away’ can both mean the same thing: to do something
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quickly, crudely, without great skill.
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She’s banging away on the piano, I’m going to bang out a piece on the piano.
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But ‘bang away’ can also mean to spend a lot of time working on one thing: He’s
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been banging away at that project all week.
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You can also bang down your fist, bang into something or someone (ow!
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I banged up my arm!).
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And you can also bang something up.
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I banged up the car, I banged up my knee.
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This 30-day challenge is leading up to a phrasal verbs course that will be available in my
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online school on February 1.
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Rachel’s English Academy is a collection of online courses focusing on English conversation,
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