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

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Hi Jason. Hmmm? I'm your surgeon. My surgeon? And this is your appendix. My appendix?
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We had to take it out.
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We're making smoothies with our blender. We've
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put pineapple in. And strawberries. Another strawberry? Yes,
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put it in. And banana. Banana's fattening. Now we're going to turn on the blender and
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make a smoothie. Wait. Don't turn it on yet. I'm going to put
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in some spinach. Spinach! Take it out. No, it's good for you. OK. Turn it on. Spinach?
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I'll turn it on. I think you can turn it off.
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OK, Jay. It's a green smoothie. What do you think? Mmmm. It's not bad. And it's
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good for us. Another strawberry? Yes, put it in. I'm going
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to put in some spinach. Spinach! Take it out. Spinach? I'll turn it on. I think you can
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turn it off. Many English verbs have two parts: a verb
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and another small word. We can say 'put the strawberry in' and 'put
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in the strawberry.' But notice what happens if we sat 'it'.
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Put it in. We can't say 'put in it'. This is wrong.
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We can say 'turn the blender on', 'turn on the blender', 'turn it on'. But we can't say
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'turn on it.' There are lots more verbs like this. Let's
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look at some. We're going out tonight. I'll wear my new
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bow tie. I'll put it on. What are you wearing? That's my new bow tie.
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Don't you like it? Take it off and put a proper tie on.
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Here's that video. Can you hear it? No. I'll turn it up.
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Ahhh. Yeah, turn this up. Turning it down.
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Is that your jacket on the floor? Yes. Well, pick it up.
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Where's my hairspray. I thought I put it down here.
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