20 HighFrequency Phrasal Verbs in English

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we’re going to talk about 20

high-frequency phrasal verbs this means

20 very common phrasal verbs today’s

lesson is based on some research into

phrasal verbs I chose these 20 verbs

from a list of very often used verbs and

I chose the verbs that I feel like are

maybe difficult to understand quickly or

that I’ve noticed many learners make

mistakes with so I hope that these 20

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today we’re going to talk about 20

high-frequency phrasal verbs I’m going

to introduce each verb I’m going to

explain the definition or the meaning

sometimes there are two and share some

example sentences so please feel free to

send your example sentences as well

let’s get started though because we have

a lot to talk about

I’m going to share the lesson and then

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this part of the board you’ll notice in

today’s lesson a lot of the phrasal

verbs will use up I think this is the

most common one the most common

preposition for today so please note

that up and out are some very very

commonly confused ones so let’s get

started with pick up pick up pick up is

our first phrasal verb to pick up and I

think yeah we’ll zoom in it’s hard to

see there’s a lot today pick up to pick

up there are two meanings

for to pick up first to pick up can mean

to take something from a low place and

move it to a high place so we use this a

lot with the phone for example to pick

up the phone right so the phone is in a

lower place you take it from the low

place and move it to the high place to

pick up so as in pick up the phone or

please pick up the phone the second

meaning for pick up is to collect

someone or to collect something so this

is very commonly used in a sentence like

this can you pick me up from the airport

can you pick me up from the airport so

this means please collect me from the

airport so I arrive at the airport I

want you to collect me like in your car

or some other mode of transportation so

there are two ways to use pick up pick

up

second phrasal verb is come back so I

want to talk about come back and go back

together these two they have they share

very similar meanings but what’s

important here with come back and go

back is the perspective of the speaker

perspective means the point of view of

the speaker so let’s look at come back

first to come back means to return to a

place yes to return to a place but from

the point of view of a person who

remains in that place so for example

let’s say I’m here in front of the

camera and our control desk person

suddenly leaves and I’m like oh no like

I’m in a live lesson no please come back

please come back I need your help please

don’t go right

please come back I need your help I say

come back because I am still here I

don’t say go back I don’t say go back

I’m remaining I’m still in this place so

I say please come back please don’t go

away

however go back go back is from the

perspective of the other person so again

to go back means to return to a place

you were just in but from the point of

view of the person who moved away so for

example again if I’m here and the

control desk person decides suddenly to

leave the studio and I’m like no come

back and the control desk person decides

to enter the room again he might say I’m

going to go back into the studio I’m

going to go back into the studio so to

come back and to go back yes they mean

to return to a place but your

perspective your point of view is very

important here so these two are very

commonly confused so some other examples

with come back and go back are please

come back to visit soon please come back

to visit soon and I’m gonna go back to

my college I’m gonna go back to my

college yes okay some examples I’m

looking for your examples on Facebook

10th at Jung says I will come back soon

I will come back soon

so like I’ll come back to a place here

in maybe hmm okay I don’t see any other

so let’s continue on we have two more in

this first group the next one turn out

to turn out to turn out means to end or

to finish we use this typically at like

the end of an event or when we want to

talk about the way in which something

finished an event finished a party

finished maybe like a livestream

finished so when we want to talk about

how something finished we can use turn

out for example our event turned out

this is past tense our event turned out

great our event turned out that means

our event ended great our event finished

great

so to turn out means to end in some way

to end okay and finally it’s very

similar sounding end up to end up so it

might seem similar to turnout but end up

means to finally be in a situation or to

finally be in a place so we usually use

end up when there’s been some kind of

struggle or some kind of challenge and

we tried many many different things and

finally we finish in this situation or

in this condition for example last night

we ended up taking a taxi home last

night we ended up taking a taxi home so

maybe in this situation the speaker was

out late at night with friends or the

speakers in this case they were out late

at night and the train the train stopped

running or the subway stopped so that

was maybe a challenge or a struggle they

could say last night we ended up so it’s

like saying eventually or in the end

after some struggles we took a taxi home

or we ended up taking a taxi home okay

let’s see I’m looking for your examples

other a few um Almeida says on YouTube

the party turned out great

exactly good Edgard says my birthday

party turned out just fine

perfect very nice Suri’s matt says hello

Alicia please come back tomorrow to

teach me about English perfect very nice

so digitally come back please come back

I cannot come back tomorrow but please

join us next week okay some other

examples Khan Walid says he spent all

his money and ended up with no money in

the middle of the month perfect very

nice example life says they end they end

up or they ended up loving each other

okay good good

Deva Lehren says I ended up in the

friend zone

nice example okay on Facebook masya I

ended the project so we use end up when

we want to talk about like something

that happens after a struggle so we

follow end up usually with some verb

this is taking in this case we ended up

taking so we’re talking about some

action we eventually did okay if you

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today so let’s take one quick break and

then we’ll go to the next group of

phrasal verbs so I introduced this at

the beginning of today’s lesson very

briefly but as always we have free stuff

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go over here yeah I usually show the

business one of course I know many of

you are studying for work on the back

here you will find some expressions for

meetings which I often talk about and

these often today’s lesson we can use

some of these phrasal verbs in meetings

so this is another good one to review

also another time when you’re using

phrasal verbs a lot is when shopping

this says clothes yes but in general

when you are shopping for things phrasal

verbs come up a lot so these are a

couple of examples of situations where

phrasal verbs like these are very useful

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one show up to show up is our next

phrasal verb to show up means to appear

to appear especially when not expected

so we typically use show up for people

so it’s like we’re surprised to see

someone and like where we want to

express that surprise for example I was

surprised the CEO showed up at the

meeting so showed up showed up is the

past tense form of show up I was

surprised the CEO showed up at the

meeting like this we could replace

showed up with appeared or we could say

came to but showed up is like it

communicates the feeling of surprise or

something unexpected happening the CEO

showed up in the meeting oh my gosh so

show up communicates this feeling of

surprise

better than appear or come in this case

so we use this for people generally

occasionally it’s used for like objects

I suppose but we’ll talk about another

one that we typically use for objects

instead okay uh Leah says nice of you to

show up haha great example nice of you

to show up is like you weren’t expecting

someone to come this has kind of a

negative feel about it nice example yeah

okay let’s continue on to hold up hold

up so to hold up has two different uses

that I’ll talk about here first is to

raise something high so to hold we have

the simple just a verb to hold something

like I hold my phone like to hold my

phone and then I could say I hold up my

phone so this one is very easy to

understand I think to hold something up

to hold something up but the second

meaning is probably

less clear the second meaning is to

cause a delay to cause a delay so in an

example sentence a mistake held up the

project a mistake held up the project so

held up is the past tense of hold up a

mistake caused a delay in the project a

mistake held up the project that’s what

this means so we can say caused a delay

in that’s also okay but this one is a

bit shorter it’s easier to say a mistake

held up the project or an accident held

up the Train so something that caused a

delay can Bri can be expressed with hold

up hold up

okay I will check to see if there are

any examples really really quickly uh uh

human who mom young hang on Facebook

says hold up there hold up there that’s

another use of hold up which isn’t

really in a sentence but as a command

hold up can also mean wait wait like

hold up can also mean to wait to wait

we’ll also see this with hold on later

but yes hold up can also mean please

wait

or casually to wait so it’s less it’s

not really used in a sentence just as it

is okay

yes many people are using the first

meaning to hold something up like to

hold up an object okay attempt Amara

tomorrow hope I said that right the

hurricane hold up the flight make sure

the hurricane held up past tense yeah

the hurricane held up the flight caused

past tense caused a delay in the flight

uh okay other example

I don’t see okay let’s continue on then

next is check out check out so this one

again there are two meanings I’m going

to talk about in this lesson to check

out number one is to pay for items at a

store to pay for items at a store so

you’ve gone shopping like you’re at the

bookstore or whatever you collected your

items you take them to the cash register

and you pay so we use checkout to

describe that I’m gonna check out I

would like to check out please that

means I would like to pay for my stuff

I’m done I’m done shopping to check out

the other meaning though means to look

at something so we usually use this for

something new something that is new I

want to check out a new thing for

example let’s check out that new

restaurant

so I’ve here I’ve used to look at

something but so we can use it for

something new we physically look at it

can also mean like to experience as in

this case let’s check out that new

restaurant means like let’s go and look

around and try that new restaurant so we

usually use this for something new so

check that out or let’s check out this

thing to check out to check out someone

says check out the PDF cheat sheet now

yeah check it out check out there are

lots of them I think they’re like 25

maybe we have new ones I don’t know if

I’ve shown all of them but yes please do

check these up please do check these out

okay

ah nanny on Facebook has another good

example of check out so I talked about

check out at a store when you’re ready

to pay for something you can also use it

at a hotel when you leave the hotel to

check out of the hotel life says is

check out similar to confirm know check

out is different to check is similar to

confirm to check yes I’m going to check

some information I’m going to confirm

information yes

all right so let’s move on to move on so

to move on perfect segue I didn’t even

plan that so move on to move on means to

go to the next thing I use this all the

time I just used this in the live lesson

so it means like to go to the next thing

usually in a list or usually in a

sequence so in this case I have a big

list of vocabulary words I want to go to

the next thing I say I’m going to move

on I’m going to move on to something so

this is the preposition we use for

example I’m going to move on to the next

part of the lesson I’m going to move on

to noun phrase you’ll hear this used in

presentations so I’m going to move on to

the next slide I’m going to move on to

my next topic this is very good for

meetings and presentations on to break

down break down to two things I want to

talk about here to break down means to

make something smaller to make something

smaller for example like if you have

like a stick you need to make it smaller

we can say to break it down meaning to

break it into smaller pieces like this

kind of so one thing becomes smaller to

break something down but this one the

second meaning is one we use in our

lessons from time to time

to break something down can mean to

explain something in detail to give

small details about something

for example let’s break down the grammar

of this sentence let’s break down the

grammar of this sentence that means

let’s look at the details let’s explain

in detail the small points of something

so let’s break it down let’s

break this down this is also very common

in meetings in classes in lectures and

so on to explain something in detail as

a question you could say could you

please break this down for me that means

can you please explain to me in detail

can you please break this down okay

whew let’s continue on to column three

because time is going quickly and we

have lots to cover I’m looking for your

your examples but let’s get to the next

one put down put down so we talked about

to pick up at the beginning of the

lesson to pick something up is to take

something from a low place and move it

to a high place yeah to put down as the

opposite put down the phone that’s what

it means so to move something from a

high place or to move something you are

holding to a resting position so we pick

up the phone we put down the phone I

often hear students say pick the phone

no we can’t use pick the phone pick up

the phone and put down the phone this is

the first meaning the second meaning

though is maybe a little more difficult

it means to discourage to discourage or

to bully someone so to discourage or to

bully someone means to say mean things

to say rude things to someone to make

them feel bad that’s called

putting someone down to put someone down

in a sentence don’t put down your

classmates don’t put down your

classmates so that means like trying to

move them to like a lower social

position you can kind of think of it as

that okay on to turn up turn up I talked

about this one show up earlier we use

show up for unexpected appearances a lot

turn up has the same thing the same

feeling but we use turn up for objects

objects so we use this when we’re

looking for something

like a marker if I’m looking for my red

marker I can’t find it but finally I do

find it I can say ah my marker it turned

up on the desk or in this example

sentence my keys turned up in my

bathroom so we use turn up and it gives

the listener the feeling that we were

looking for something for a long time or

something was really hard for us to find

and at last we found it finally we found

that thing it turned up past tense

turned my marker turned up over there so

something we wanted to find that’s

meaning one meeting two is to raise the

volume of music or to raise the volume

of TV so that just means to make

something louder turn it up I love this

song so you can use of course the

opposite to turn something down like to

turn the volume of a TV or music program

down into alrighty

onward to hold on I mentioned hold on

briefly when we talked about hold up

hold on means to wait to wait so as a

command we use hold on to mean wait yes

so you will very commonly hear people

say hold on or hold on a minute or hold

on a moment it means please wait so it

doesn’t mean hold anything no holding

here but part two meaning to you might

hear in movies and TV especially like

action movies meaning to is to hold

something yes but usually for safety

purposes usually like in a character in

an action movie will say hold on to

something like before an airplane

crashes I don’t so to hold on to

something is usually used for safety

reasons for example with a beautiful

drawing hold on to the ladder when

climbing so if this is my beautiful

letter so when you’re climbing for

safety reasons you should hold on to the

ladder so

that means like physically holding

something and like continuing to hold

that thing to hold on usually for safety

reasons uh yes many people are using the

weight version of hold on

great great I see lots of these all

right onward to catch up to catch up to

catch up not to catch up common food

that we have with french fries to catch

up means to get the latest information

and it means to get to the same place as

someone like especially in a competition

like in a race for example let’s get a

coffee and ketchup let’s get a coffee

and ketchup so that means let’s get a

coffee and share our latest news let’s

share our latest information for meaning

to though we might hear this in sports

so if you like to watch sports you might

hear like a team a caught up to team B

the preposition is to their team a

caught up to team b like they were at

ten points now they’re at fifteen points

they caught up to team v so they got to

the same place as someone or another

team all right

takeover is the last one for this group

a to takeover means to completely

control something you might hear this in

business news so like company a took

over past tense of take is took company

a took over Company B so company a

completely has control of Company B to

completely take over something to take

control of something now they are they

have the power example my job is taking

over my life that’s not sure my job is

taking over my life but that means my

job has total control over my life to

take over something

take over something all right we have

five left oh my gosh we might make it in

time I’m trying to check your examples

really quickly people are using hold up

yeah please hold up a minute great job

with using hold up yes some people are

asking about the expression broke down

yes to break down means to have usually

a mechanical problem to break down or to

have an emotional problem I broke down

last night I lost my job some of you are

asking about break down there are those

two meanings all right let’s go to our

final group for this lesson again lots

that use up up up up up first one is

look up look up so the easy want to

understand the easy meaning to

understand here is to like use your eyes

and look in an upward direction like

look up at the sky that’s easy to

understand

I think but someone mentioned it earlier

in this lesson to look up means to

research something to check information

to research something so like if I don’t

know a vocabulary word I might check it

like I’m going to look up the meaning of

this vocabulary word I’m going to

research the vocabulary word like what

does the word

what does Inauguration mean I don’t know

I’m going to look up this word means

research or to check or try to confirm

something okay my example here was

please look up the definition so this is

a great word for learners of languages

to look up something or two it sounds a

little more casual a lot more casual

actually than research research sounds

very heavy like very detailed look up is

like just a quick check okay on to put

up put up again two meanings for put up

the first is to tolerate to tolerate so

to tolerate something means to stand

something usually there’s some negative

thing and you try not to let it affect

you

that’s called tolerating something so

even if something bad

happen someone says rude things or

something is unpleasant you continue to

do your best you tolerate something we

use put up to mean this for example I

don’t put up with rude behavior

so the preposition we use is with I

don’t put up with noun phrase I don’t

put up with rude behavior that means I

don’t tolerate rude behavior that’s not

okay for me I don’t tolerate so put up

and in this meaning we follow with the

preposition with with I don’t put up

with your behavior second is to decorate

to decorate these are very different

meanings yeah to decorate this

physically means to put an object to put

something like up high so we use it a

lot like on the holidays like we want to

hang lights for example it actually

means putting something odds too heavy

we put it’s very hard to see we put an

object up somewhere for the purpose of

decoration to put up noun phrase so no

with in that case to put up decorations

okay some good examples with put up

someone Raul says I put up with pain

yeah so many people if you have a

medical issue you might say I put up

with this problem all the time or this

pain is difficult for me to put up with

yes great example great example ok mmm

don’t see other ones we’re almost done

we’re almost done huh I hope ok three

more many more are bring up first one

bring up this is great for business

meetings to bring up means to introduce

a topic for discussion to introduce a

topic for discussion for example our

manager brought up past tense our

manager brought up our new product

performance at the meeting so this means

our manager introduced the topic of our

new product performance at the me

so to bring up means to introduce

alright last two last two are almost

there I’m a bit late sorry

I’ll finish quickly pull up to pull up

can mean to open a file on a computer to

open a file on a computer Hey

migaila one of our members has joined hi

there so to open a file on a computer we

use pull up cuz it’s sort of like if you

can imagine when you open a file on your

computer it kind of goes whoosh like

this yeah sort of gonna so that’s we use

the phrasal verb pull up to refer to

this when the file comes up pull up

appears on your screen

so to pull up to pull up and we also use

this when driving it means to drive a

short distance to stop at a point we use

this for like fast-food restaurants when

we go to drive-thru we might say pull up

to the window please so the preposition

in this case is to pull up to the window

pull up to the window and one more

example can you pull up that picture so

on your computer is what this means can

you please pull up that picture that’s

what this request is asking you might

here open as well but pull up also is

commonly used last one few last one

appropriately I chose this for the last

one is shut down to shut down so to shut

down of course is used for computers to

shut down means to turn off usually a

computer or other machine other

mechanical device to shut down to cut

power to something so I need to shut

down my computer or try shutting down

your computer but we also have this very

casual meaning which is to reject to

reject for example I asked my boss for a

raise but she shut me down she shut me

down that means I asked my boss for a

raise

she rejected me she declined so reject

reject or to decline as well it can have

that meaning

so to shut down can mean to be refused

but this is very casual very casual so

we use this one we’re speaking with our

friends if we’re rejected wow so we made

it guys we made it everybody we made it

through 20 phrasal verbs in 35 minutes

this is very close so these are 20 very

very common phrasal verbs that I’ve

noticed might be hard to understand or

are a little bit tricky and there’s a

lot to cover here I’ll step off screen

once really really quickly you can take

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hope that this is helpful for your

studies so I know I couldn’t check a lot

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