8 common English phrasal verbs like 'turn it on' (separable)

Hi Jason. Hmmm? I'm your surgeon. My surgeon? And this is your appendix. My appendix?

We had to take it out.

We're making smoothies with our blender. We've

put pineapple in. And strawberries. Another strawberry? Yes,

put it in. And banana. Banana's fattening. Now we're going to turn on the blender and

make a smoothie. Wait. Don't turn it on yet. I'm going to put

in some spinach. Spinach! Take it out. No, it's good for you. OK. Turn it on. Spinach?

I'll turn it on. I think you can turn it off.

OK, Jay. It's a green smoothie. What do you think? Mmmm. It's not bad. And it's

good for us. Another strawberry? Yes, put it in. I'm going

to put in some spinach. Spinach! Take it out. Spinach? I'll turn it on. I think you can

turn it off. Many English verbs have two parts: a verb

and another small word. We can say 'put the strawberry in' and 'put

in the strawberry.' But notice what happens if we sat 'it'.

Put it in. We can't say 'put in it'. This is wrong.

We can say 'turn the blender on', 'turn on the blender', 'turn it on'. But we can't say

'turn on it.' There are lots more verbs like this. Let's

look at some. We're going out tonight. I'll wear my new

bow tie. I'll put it on. What are you wearing? That's my new bow tie.

Don't you like it? Take it off and put a proper tie on.

Here's that video. Can you hear it? No. I'll turn it up.

Ahhh. Yeah, turn this up. Turning it down.

Is that your jacket on the floor? Yes. Well, pick it up.

Where's my hairspray. I thought I put it down here.