9 Most Common Phrasal Verbs with BRING

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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this

lesson I’m going to talk about some

phrasal verbs that use the word bring

this is a list of verbs that I think is

good for maybe intermediate or maybe

upper intermediate to getting to

advanced students the aim of this lesson

is to help you level up your use of the

verb bring this is not a complete list

but I’ve chosen a few that I feel are

common and that I hope can help you kind

of improve how you use this verb so

let’s get started let’s look at the

first phrasal verb the first phrasal

verb is the expression bring forward to

bring forward has a couple of different

meanings first we can use bring forward

to mean to introduce an idea so you

might hear this use to talk about

concepts like in meetings or in

presentations when someone wants to

bring something forward it’s used to

talk about introducing an idea for

something we also use bring forward to

talk about carrying something from the

back to the front of a room this is an

expression that’s used again like in

presentations for example if I’m

presenting at the front of a room and I

have something prepared at the back of a

room I might ask someone to bring that

item forward so you might hear this for

example in like legal situations if you

like to watch like police shows for

example a lawyer who has prepared

something might ask for that item to be

brought forward someone to bring that

thing forward to the front of the room

let’s look at another example we brought

forward an idea for a new product

this means we introduced an idea for a

new product so this might be in a

meeting situation so there are these two

kinds of uses for the expression bring

forward to bring something forward okay

let’s take a look at the next phrasal

verb the next phrasal verb is bring home

to bring home to bring something home

or to bring home means to carry

something back to one’s home so we use

this for shopping and we also use this

in sports actually we use it to talk

about like trophies in sports if you win

a championship or you win some contests

we say they’re going to bring it home or

I’m going to bring it home where it is

like the trophy or the prize from the

contest so you’ll hear this about

shopping or just items in general you

want to carry home an example of this

can you please bring some milk home very

simple request so bring some milk home

in this case so you can put the item

between bring and home to use this

expression okay let’s go along to the

next phrasal verb the next phrasal verb

is bring to light to bring to light to

bring something to light means to cause

something to become clear to cause

something to become clear so it’s like

you can imagine you are bringing a light

on to something and then because of that

light you can now see everything very

clearly that might be a helpful way to

remember the meaning of this one let’s

look at an example his lies were brought

to light when important evidence was

discovered so this is a fairly typical

example of how we use bring to light so

here what became clear his lies his lies

were brought to light so that means his

lies became clear or the fact that he

lied became clear at this point in time

when important evidence was discovered

so another way to say this is when

important evidence was discovered or

when we found some important information

we realized or it became clear he lied

multiple times in the past so this is a

common example so what became clear and

why or at what point in time okay let’s

continue to the next expression the next

expression is bring to mind to bring to

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this means to cause to remember to cause

to remember to cause to think of

something as well to bring something to

mind let’s look at an example this song

brings to mind I’m sorry this song

brings my high school dance to mind my

high school dance so hear this song it

brings and then this is the actual

phrase my high school dance so this song

causes me to remember my high school

dance this song makes me remember my

high school dance or it brings it to my

mind brings it into my mind so this is

an expression we use for memories a lot

ok let’s go on to the next one which is

bring up the rear bring up the rear this

means to be last to be at the end of

something we use this a lot for contests

especially like sports a marathon for

example or a horse race for example

where there’s a clear lineup of people

participating or animals participating

the person or whoever or whatever animal

is at the last the final position we say

that that person or that participant

whatever is bringing up the rear they

are last their final an example an

injured athlete is bringing up the rear

in the marathon so in this case it’s a

sporting event a marathon and in this

case we’re using the progressive an

injured athlete is bringing up the rear

so we might use this sentence when we’re

watching a marathon on TV for example so

this is happening now an injured athlete

is last in the marathon essentially so

saying he or she is last sounds quite

direct but bringing up the rear it

sounds kind of more like that person is

still continuing like they’re still

working they’re still making efforts but

they are in the last position the final

position so here this is in the

progressive tense the injured athlete is

bringing up the rear all right let’s

continue to the next one

the next expression is to bring

something about to bring something

about means to cause something to happen

to cause something to occur so we use

this one we’re talking about

cause-and-effect situations let’s look

at a very common example pollution has

brought about climate change so in other

words pollution has caused climate

change to happen has caused climate

change to occur so this shows a cause

and this shows an effect has brought

about shows us this relationship so

pollution caused climate change though

using brought about I think kind of

shows that over time it resulted in

something it’s a little bit more like

time sensitive I think so to bring

something about will help you show

causes and effects especially over over

a period of time that could be like

months or years in this case years over

a long period of time so to bring

something about ok let’s continue to the

next expression the next expression is

bring something back to bring something

back there are two common uses for this

they are first to cause someone to

remember something I’ll show you an

example of this and to return an item to

a store to return an item to a store is

like I want to bring this back or I need

to bring this back to a store with this

meaning you might also here to take

something back I need to take this shirt

back to this store so that’s an example

sentence I need to bring this shirt back

to the store to look at the first

meaning though about causing someone to

remember something

these cookies bring me back to childhood

so this means the cookies here the

cookies have some like nostalgia factor

the cookies are something the speaker

enjoyed in his or her childhood

so these cookies may be smelling or

eating or making these cookies causes

the speaker to remember the experience

of his or her childhood

these cookies bring me back to childhood

so I

feel like I’m in my childhood again

that’s the feeling of this expression

brings me back to something is a common

way to use this phrase over okay

let’s continue to the next expression

next is bring somebody down to bring

somebody down this means to cause

someone to lose confidence it has a

negative meaning so an example of this

don’t bring your classmates down you

could kind of imagine this as being like

don’t bully your classmates or don’t be

mean don’t be unkind to your classmates

don’t bring your classmates down another

thing that you might hear is don’t let

someone and get you down like don’t let

your boss get you down or don’t let your

grades get you down so don’t let

something cause you to lose confidence

that’s another common way that we use

this expression so to bring someone down

is this loss of confidence okay let’s

move along to the next expression the

last expression actually to bring

something up please be careful this is

different from to bring someone up to

bring someone up like bringing up

someone’s children that means to raise I

think some of you probably know that one

to bring someone up to bring something

up however is quite different to bring

something up means to introduce or to

mention a topic often an unpleasant one

so it’s typically used for something we

don’t really want to talk about or it’s

kind of an uncomfortable topic or it’s

difficult to talk about for some reason

but someone mentions it in a

conversation an example management

brought up our projects delay in the

meeting so here management a managing

team or a managing person brought up so

mentioned our project delay our project

delay so this is the topic for

discussion and this is probably

something the speaker feels nervous

about or is uncomfortable about we know

that because this use brought up that

sounds like it’s kind of uncomfortable

we tend to use this for uncomfortable

topics

so in this case a project delay there’s

some like delay there’s some reason a

project has not finished and the speaker

probably does not want to talk about it

so they feel nervous that might be why

you could use brought up or to bring to

something up okay so these are a few

phrasal verbs that use bring there are

others there are lots of others so if

you want to know more about how to use

bring in phrasal verbs like these I

recommend checking out a dictionary of

course if you have any questions or

comments or want to practice making a

sentence with one of these phrasal verbs

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